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Smoking - Going Cold Turkey.

Shayper

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Has anyone else just gone straight cold turkey to try and quit smoking?

If so, do you have any advice? I'm 24 hours in, and I feel all over the place, sweating, tingling, incoherent, disorientated and malaised. Generally not pleasant. I've heard that it's worse on the third day, third week and third month, so really not looking forward to that either.

Last time I did the same, but had someone to look after me. It's a lot harder this time.

So yeah, just generally looking for advice really.
 
I stopped smoking just over a year ago, via the cold turkey method. Providing you actually want to quit, then it should work for you. If deep down you dont want to stop, you're doomed from the start.

Keep your hands busy, i had a "Tangle" that you get with the NHS quit kit, it was invaluable.

It certainly was not worse on the third day, third week, etc. Once past week one, it got easier. The hardest time is going out drinking.

Good luck, I enjoyed smoking, and only quit because it was ludicrously expensive. Now i've been off them for a year, i do actually feel better, although I have put on a stone due to eating more.
 
I did it many years ago , the first week is hard after that the symptoms weren't to bad and you forget about them not long after.

buy loads of chewing gum
 
I do want to quit.

Thankyou for your advice man, greatly appreciated.

I think half the problem is that this isn't the only stuff I've quit this month, and I'm getting symptoms of all 3 things at once. As well as acid relapse.
 
There are no physical symptoms, it's purely mental. I gave up 9 years ago and was smoking about 40 a day at the time. This attempt only worked because I genuinely wanted to stop; the previous attempts had been very half-arsed.

That whole 3rd day, 3rd week thing is nonsense btw so don't worry about that. Get one week under your belt and you will feel a hundred times better, I promise.
 
Um no, there are plenty of physical symptoms and they peak around 24 hours in as the OP is discovering :p They can last up to a week or so and then it's all mental from then on - stick with it!
 
tough times ahead laddy, and it all depends on whether you 'want' to stop.

short term yeah, youve got all this 'cold turkey' going on, and its tough, some peeps do it some dont,

what is important here, is 'dont give up, giving up'

you might fail here, no big shakes, get advice, try patches/gum/sprays etc

everyone is differant in thier method, but the result is the same ;)

good luck matey.

ex-smoker 5 years, after 20 years smoking :eek:
 
Read everything on whyquit.org. That will keep you off fags. Anyone that sparks up whilst reading that is mental. I mean, to slowly kill yourself to smoking is mental anyway, but to remind yourself of the dangers whilst puffing away has that sense of complete bonkers
 
Lethagized said:
Read everything on whyquit.org. That will keep you off fags. Anyone that sparks up whilst reading that is mental. I mean, to slowly kill yourself to smoking is mental anyway, but to remind yourself of the dangers whilst puffing away has that sense of complete bonkers
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Assume this is pretty much the same as Alan Carrs book, keep smoking whilst you read all the well worded bad stuff then the last page put your last one out.

Never had any problems cold turkey, any feelings you have are feelings of not smoking not giving up.. are you smoking now? No well you've stopped crack on.
 
Feeling a lot better after spending the night with my housemate and a couple of others trolling the absolute **** out of people. :D
 
for me I would suggest eating a lot of raw veg. Cut up some carrots and peppers and just munch on em. Give your body loads of good vits and mins to help repair the damage you may have caused your body over the yeras.

I have been off them nearly three years. Have had a smoke when inebriated, but that's bumming off folks and has happened precisely three times in the three years I consider myself stopped.

It helped I had a baby of course ( or at least fathered one ! ) so had a strong reason to stop.
 
i quit smoking cold turkey w hen i moved out and could no longer afford it! found it quite easy, it was all in my head biggest cravings i got was the occasional nervy feeling, several weeks after i quit, when i actually wanted a cigarette, maybe because i didnt smoke more than 5-10 a day at my peak over 10 years anyway so wasnt that addicted. had a few relapses when ive been out drinking here and there but thats it.
 
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