So, I am quitting smoking, and today is day one. My nervous system feels almost exactly as if little tiny mice wearing spurs are running up and down every receptor. My eyes are throbbing so much; it is like the sun has turned in to a strobe light. Also, I am feeling a little cross.
I wish that I could go back in time to visit myself when I was a 16 year old dumb-ass that thought that it might be a good idea to take up smoking. First, I would bitch-slap him, they I would hire Tammy-Fay Baker with a huge strap on to sodomize him, finally I would employ a molten cheese-whiz catheter. Anything to prevent the agony that I am going through now.
Next, I would move on to the fuckers that advertise and sell this shit. Them I would smear with chum, and drop in to a pit of hungry jackals, just as they were about to give up hope and die, I would pluck them from the pit and have Jerry Springer nurse them back to health, while having the guests for his show sit on their face every day.
I struggled to give up nicotine for the longest time. I tried cold turkey, tried the patch, tried the gum, even tried that thing with needles, you know, morphine?
What finally worked for me was IV nitroglycerine. After I had that, I never touched a nicotine containing product again. Of course, the gave me the IV nitro for my heart attack, not to get me off the nicotine. But hey, it worked.
Good luck. It can be done, and is done by many every day.
I feel your pain. Rather, I felt your pain. I quit January 5th.
It’s much easier now, but then it was a bitch. You know those cravings you’re getting about every 4.35 seconds? The ones you’d rate about a level 10 on the GIMME scale? They actually will lessen. I’d say I get maybe one Level 3 craving per day now. And it only lasts a nanosecond before my conscious mind says Like hell!
have quit 3 times before, still smoking now. But I just wanted to say that I’ve heard the “buddy” system can be helpful, i.e., when you feel the urge, call someone who has already quit and talk thing through with them.
Good luck to you. Wish I could say that I was at the point where I -really- want to quit, but I’m not… yet.
Hey, I know what it’s like. I quit just under a month ago. But here’s what got me through the first hard part: after 3 days nicotene is completely out of your system and after that all you have to deal with is your mind games telling you you need a cigarette. This is, of course, assuming you are not on the patch or using gum, etc. I promise if you don’t cheat and have anything w/ nicotene in it after 3 days the worst is over. Not so bad if you think about it, pretend you have the flu or something and just wait it out. But here’s the sucky part, as soon as you smoke it fires up again and you have to start those withdrawal days all over.
Now when I think it’s not worth it and I still want one I add up all the money I saved…over 100.00 already.
The patch and nic gum companies are such a fraud - they’re selling us the drug that makes you addicted in the first place! No one gives alcoholics a vodka patch to “cut down gradually”. I hate them almost as much as Phillip Morris. I used the gum twice and it was hell the whole time. They tell you it’s not possible to quit cold turkey but FUCK THEM I did it without their help and wasting my money. All the patch does is keep you in withdrawal ALL THE TIME.
By the way, use this time to lash out at everyone you ever wanted to tell off. Just say you just quit smoking and no one will hold it aginst you. You may never get this chance again.