They are not to be underestimated. It’s making me have symptoms. Practically psychotic. Should be another 24 hours until the worst is over.
No drinking, no NyQuil, one cigarette a day. No fun. Much pain. Very suffer. Such madness. Wow
I have faith in Doge. He will make me wow again.
Oh man I’m sorry, that’s why I don’t want to quit smoking… Hope it gets better for you!
Can’t quit, I can make it about six hours, then there is a thought of smoking I can control, then the thought starts to get harder to control, then it’s one more wont hurt, then it’s fighting against it and caving in to how hard the thought is to stop. One more isn’t going to happen. Never happens. You have one more then realize a week later you didn’t quit a week before.
it will get easier as time goes on, you will find things taste better and breathing gets easier with less coughing and no smells, plenty of cash saved on cigs as well, good luck 
It’s actually the patch I quit- I still smoke a cig with my coffee every morning. The patch is actually worse, its main lined nicotine.
The first day and a half was literally insane, I feel better now. I noticed my heart rate is more stable and my blood pressure is lower- even when I worked out today my heart didn’t feel whack like it usually does.
So there’s my reason for quitting- heart complications.
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somehow your dog 
looks ’ less '… ’ shifty ’ today… 
more kind and gentle… 
" good dogey "
take care 
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I’m on day one right now. I use nicotine gum. It’s a real bitch kitty stopping smoking. I wish you the best.
After working out today, I feel back to normal. I guess that’s a quick recovery from cutting my nicotine consumption in half. I will give it a day and see if I feel this well tomorrow, and if so, I’ll go ahead and cut the nicotine off completely (but I get one cig a day with my coffee as a reward for managing sleeping and nightmares and getting out of bed).
I feel like that was as bad as I thought it would be but that I have nothing else to do and I should go for round two after tomorrow. The last round, hopefully. I managed the withdrawals by listening to music and locking myself in my room. I just stared at the wall listening to mostly metal as I was experiencing typical withdrawals from a stimulant- couldn’t focus or think straight, felt irritated as possible, felt cold and was shaking.
But I can do it again, it only lasts two days.
The benefits is being healthy and solving my blood pressure and heart rate problem, and not having to buy patches. The cons is that the withdrawal is very challenging and lasts about two days.
I cut down by using the patch as exactly as directed with no cigarettes, except I stayed at each level twice as long as it said to. The whole process was relatively painless even when I came to the final step of cutting down to no nicotine - I had gotten used to having so little nicotine in my system
I have not smoked for greater than a year. I have COPD, too.
Jayster