the cigarettes relaxed me. i was sedate, never on edge, now i am not sleeping great, am tempermental, getting easily triggered, i am actually in worse mental health without cigarettes, i realized yesterday. yesterday was another bad day, that just happened to fall on the weekend like clockwork.
It could quite easily be cigarette withdrawal. Stay off them !
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Nicotine addiction is one damn hard habit to quit. Just take one day at a time and keep up the good work. With time things will get better. I quit 13 years ago and I don’t think about it at all anymore, and I live with 2 heavy smokers.
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I think you are doing amazingly well with your efforts to give up smoking. I gave up six months ago but am now addicted to the Nicotine Replacement Therapy that I used to give up (Nicorette Spray Mist). Still it is far better than cigarettes with its many other harmful chemicals.
Keep up the good work.
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im having a lot more episodes now that i dont smoke, had another one yesterday. this makes 5 weekends in a row, i don’t know why it always hits on the weekend but it does. my weekdays are going smooth though just one hellish day to get through each week it seems. maybe it is nicotine withdrawal, i woke up at 4am after 5 hours of sleep yesterday, today i got a good 9 hours so i think it will be a better day. it’s like one day i sleep 5 hours, the next night i sleep 9 or 10 hours. sleep is erratic.
I noticed the same thing. When I quit I tried the patch and the gum, and they worked with respect to my cravings, but when I took off the patch or stopped chewing the gum the cravings came back. Whatever your source of nicotine is, once you stop it the withdrawal kicks in. In the end I just quit cold turkey. I agree with you though, it’s better to be addicted to the cessation methods than actual cigarettes with all the chemicals they have.
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I think the sleep disturbance is just part and parcel of giving up. I still have erratic sleep patterns too. It’s 5.30 am here, I haven"t been to bed yet. I am sure our pattern will return to some form of normalcy one day. Get sleep when you can.
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Replace it with something healthy, take a multivitamin get some exercise. Spend the money you’d use to buy cigarettes. Being broke till payday could help.
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