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Me either. This is powerful sh*t ! How would any of you like to live your life with these God Awful afflictions? Come on lurkers ............ Jump on the Train RIGHT NOW! Not a moment to lose.

Sorry about your recent "incident" GITW ? I hope you are well on the mend at this point I'm also happy you posted the thoughts and feelings you experienced in the aftermath! This helps others understand just how this addiction works. Even with a long quit under our belt, this bloody addiction lies in wait for us! Dormant for a while it takes the first unusual, and usually stressful, event to bring back all the false thinking about how our lovely smokes solved all our stress in life, Ha, ha ....... what a lie! Smoking solves only addiction stress NOT life stress See MQ's post about this on the Quit Smoking Discussions page - Is Smoking Stopping you from ............................ If you were a never smoker you would still have been very stressed about your injuries of course. Anyone would be. BUT, if you were a smoker still you would have had 2 kinds of stress after your accident. Normal life stress due to the accident and the uncertainty of your injuries then on top of that you would have been going crazy not being able to go outside and have a smoke while they were accessing you. We all fooled ourselves early on in our addiction into thinking that our smoking had a calming effect on us when we were stressed but we now know as quitters that it really just adds a whole other level of stress to our daily lives. You are in a better position NOT being a smoker after this mishap Givi! It's a little disturbing though how even after a fairly long time of abstinence our subconscious mind still goes straight to, light up a smoke as the solution to every stressful situation! I'm just happy we have been members of these boards which are rich with educational information about this addiction. It has helped me understand just what this addiction is and how it tries to control us when ever we are vulnerable. I say NOPE to that. F-U smoking

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As Jillar said. It's part of the package unfortunately in the early days. Your brain is in turmoil because of quitting so it seems to go into hyper-activity mode, flip-flopping all over the place.. Sleep for any length of time while this is happening is tough. Try some deep breathing exercises before you lay yourself down - just to relax at least your body. If you are into Yoga or meditation then try that. I never tried sleep medication (other than the occasional whisky) so I can't comment on if that would help or not. I remember the early days being very tiring too. I was so exhausted at the end of each day from fighting the addiction, I would just fall into bed and go to sleep almost immediately. The problem was, I didn't sleep for long. The sleep pattern interruption was difficult but I was able to get through it as it didn't last that long for me anyway. I was often pretty exhausted at work the next day for awhile though.

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Congrats on making it smoke free to the 1/4 year mark Opah! Check in with us when you get back from the hunting refuge

Hey Jules; Congratulations on 7 months quit! Hope you are doing fine and just busy with life. Stop by and update us on how you're doing.

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It's wonderful you are having some of those days already. Feels great doesn't it? It's the ah ha moment when you know you finally have the upper hand on the Nicodemon

Good job Tammy! Remember., each battle you win with that Nico-monster, you get stronger and it gets weaker! It really does work that way.

What! Vile and toxic you say?

Thanks for the responses on this. I find it interesting the different methods people use to be successful in their quits. There's those who swear by cold turkey and there's the NRT peeps (gum, patches and spray), the there's the Chantix/Champix crowd as well! As Jo pointed out there's the physical addiction then there's the mental part or the habit part as she called it I think. They say the flushing of the nicotine from your body takes about 3 days, which isn't a lot of time in the grand scheme of things but that mental reconditioning part is the real issue that we all struggle with and this is also the issue that takes so long for us to become comfortable with. I can well see wanting to tackle only one issue at a time in the beginning because things can be pretty intense for most people early on. Wrestling with the most intense symptoms of the mental quit while still supplying the body with nicotine makes sense. Get rid of the nicotine later, once you are more mentally prepared to deal with an additional struggle from weening off the nicotine. The Chantix thing is a whole other issue I suppose. I know a lot have used this method successfully. Again, I don't know much about it but I guess it works on the brain to eliminate the urge to smoke somehow while you work on reconditioning your smoker's brain part. The nicotine is out of your system pretty quick like cold turkey unless you combine the Chantix with another NRT product. Myself; I sort of fell into cold turkey. I started out the first couple of days using the 21 mg NRT patch then forgot to put one on day 3. Mid-day I decided; let's just see how bad this gets. I really couldn't tell if things were worse than when I had the patch on or not so I just stuck with no more NRT. It wasn't pretty those first days and weeks but it obviously worked for me. The thing that we all seem to have in common here is that we all at some point made an unbreakable personal commitment to ourselves to kick this crazy addition in the ass! That and the educational material available at places like this plus the association with others who truly know your struggles is what in the end really makes the difference. No matter what method or combination of methods you think will work for you, it really doesn't matter as long as you have that unbreakable personal commitment and a group like this to help keep you on the straight & narrow!

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When you get up in the morning and realize it;s gonna take a while to brush off your car before going to work! When you get home at night and realize, there's no place you'd rather be