nicotine withdrawal symptoms

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per my experience today, include:

- taking a whole minute to figure out what sandwich i want, while a line of people grows restless behind me
- not being able to form the question, "do you have a fork?"
- knocking over my chair several times
- hating my job with an even greater passion than before

― amateur!!!st, Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Hang in there, Amatist. What day are you on?

― Huck, Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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― huck, Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

good luck, a lot of people i know are quitting now & i am contemplating joining them

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

- a strange muddy feeling halfway between total insanity and some sort of ill-advised lowering of inhibitions

― amateur!!!st, Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

are your pants off yet?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

- on the other hand, my jaw isn't that sore anymore

― amateur!!!st, Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

If you don't already, try taking B6 every other day. I found that that helped me ignore my cravings.

― dean? (deangulberry), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I found cookies helped too.

― Huck, Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I meant that, actually.

"If you don't already, try eating everything in sight."

― dean? (deangulberry), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't blood spattered hands a nicotine withdrawl symptom?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

you're thinking of knife withdrawal symptoms

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Just drink a lot of coffee and do that for the rest of your life. that's what I did.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I did this back in January. It was awful. I was cranky and mean and stupid. But it doesn't last. Well, most of it doesn't.

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Remember -- it's never too early to start being a condescending ass to smokers.

― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I would really like a cigar right now.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i figure i might as well go for this while i'm already a pariah. there really isn't anyone to alienate at this point.

― amateur!!!st, Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I quit two months ago. Sure I had one smoke this past weekend and another the weekend before, but aside from that none. And the two I did smoke I didn't feel too good about. I think working in this office made me quit. I'd see the same people go out all the time for cigarettes, and they all either looked like hell or stressed out.

Strangely drinking a lot of juice and tea has helped me, plus hiking every day for five miles for about a month there.

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i quit 4 years ago and found the following helpful during the first weeks:

lots of water and juice to carry out toxins

eating peeled baby carrots (everytime i reached for a cigarrette i ate one of these instead. the upshot is that i can't go a day without baby carrots now)

― Anthony (Plato Guy), Thursday, 19 August 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I sucked on these for 2 weeks. They now remind me of smoking, oddly enough.

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― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 19 August 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

*sits staring at the gigantic bag of baby carrots next to desk*

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 August 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I quit a couple months ago.. but yeah same shit. Intense anger/irritability a handfull of times every day for about a month. good times.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 19 August 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

intense anger/irritability a handfull of times every day for about a month
I've been withdrawing for two years, apparently.

The only withdrawal symptoms I got were tenseness in my back/neck and an inability to sleep as well for a while.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 19 August 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Take an aspirin or similar at breakfast - nicotine withdrawal causes all sorts of pain etc. that the painkiller negates. If you can go for three days without a smoke, taking an aspirin whenever you get The Twinge, you're most of the way towards quitting as the nicotine leaves after three days - the hard part is the cig as prop or psychological need. And you won't feel nearly as disoriented.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 19 August 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: Nicotine Addiction vs. Pain Killer Addiction

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 19 August 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

A week or so of aspirin does not an addiction make.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 19 August 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

that's why i recommend dexedrine. not for quitting smoking... just in general.

― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 19 August 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Go on a lot of long-haul flights, you won't feel so bad about not smoking if you're not allowed to do it anyway.

― dave q, Thursday, 19 August 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

well i have an 8-hour flight chicago-paris coming up. and then a few teensy european flights. so done and done.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 20 August 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

you're going back to paris? cool!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

cos like, no one smokes there, right?
just kidding, good luck

― dave amos, Friday, 20 August 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the buzz of giving up cigarettes. It used to make me feel distracted, but then I did a kind of mental flip that reversed it. It's a bit like suddenly being inflicted with Spider-Sense. If you don't know what's happened, it'll drive you mad, like "Argh what is this terrible buzzing of the head", and you won't be able to function for a while. But if you know it's just Spider-Sense, then it's cool, and you feel super-sharp. I feel as though I'm a Karate Champ when I don't smoke for a day or two. I see things in slow motion. It's beautiful.

Don't know if this makes sense, but it works for me. The trick is not to worry that you're thinking of cigarettes all the time, and instead to make it fun that you do.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 20 August 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i got that reaction when i was really depressed and started on antidepressants (which i quit a month later but anyway).

― amateur!!!st, Friday, 20 August 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

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