Withdrawal is a damn rough ride...

jimintoronto said:
I quit smoking this way. I wrote the time when I smoked one, on the package. Made myself wait a full hour, until the next one. On day two, I increased the waiting period to two hours. Next day, increased the waiting period to 4 hours. By the end of the week, I could go six hours without smoking one. BY week 2, I was able to go eight hours. BY week 3, I had quit smoking. That was ten years ago. I quit drinking at the same time as I quit smoking. The harder one to quit? Tobacco, by a country mile.

It helped that my Wife was never a smoker, and she was a great source of support , telling me how much better I smelled, after quitting smoking. Now I cannot STAND the smell of tobacco. I have one drink per year, on New Year's Eve. A single glass of white wine. JIMB>
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My husband smoked cigarettes. He finally quit smoking . He used the nicotine patches, plus went from real cigarettes to a vape. He gradually lessened the nicotine that he vaped to zero nicotine. Then one day he just stopped altogether.

Like you he now canā€™t stand the smell of tobacco and he smells really nice all the time now.
 
outlander said:
I get a fix 3 times a day, been doing it for years. I finally decided enough was enough, this addiction was surely affecting my health.

Cold turkey it is, damn the symptoms!

Dizziness, light head, shakiness, it comes in waves sometimes becoming quite intense. This is day 3 and it isn't getting any easier...

I have been able to get some relief after meal times.

It's taking all my self discipline to endure this misery:( I sure miss those semi-sweet dark chocolate morsels:ROFLMAO:
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You are a stronger person than I am.....I've tried, and I can't do it.

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outlander said:
I'm making fun of the topic, but I really am suffering from withdrawal. 35 years ago I went through a similar experience when I quit drinking soda, going cold turkey and never drinking them again.
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I did that with coffee, back in the 80's.

For some reason that I don't remember (sick maybe?), I didn't have coffee for several days, and I went through the whole caffeine withdrawal thing. Once I got through it, I got to thinking that "this can't be good for me", and decided that I never wanted to experience that again! So since I was already over it, I switched to decaf and drank that for many, many years.
Then, decades later, I was out somewhere and really dragging. I decided to add just a little bit of regular coffee to my decaf. OK, I'm not going to go through all of the details, but you see where this is headed. I completely fell off the wagon, and today I am a 100% coffee-holic!
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I quit smoking cold turkey, it wasn't easy, but easier than I imagined it.
Everybody tells me I cheated because I had a heart attack and was in the hospital for 5 days. By the time I got out, the hard part was over with.
My brother went through everything and got rid of all the ashtrays, lighters, matches, cigs, chewing tobacco, and made the house smoke free.
The biggest incentive was when the doctors told me I had a choice, stop smoking or die.
That was almost 26 years ago.
I had to quit sweets a few years later, so I feel ya on the chocolate.
 
What are you withdrawing from? I may have an interesting option for you.

Withdrawing from any narcotic can be hell and in some instances, very dangerous.
 
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