Today is my Quit day - am I too late?!
Have only just discovered your really good site and am only mad I did
not find you two weeks ago!
Today is the first day of my quit, is it too late to learn anything to
help? I have been smoking 48 years too long and would like any help I
can get, especially at this early stage and also any help with further
down the track (last time I quit for 78 days) when I just felt so
unreal and only wanted to get back to “normal”, has anyone else felt
that way?
Thanking you in hopes!
Jen
March 27th, 2007 at 8:29 am
Hi Jen,
How did yesterday go? How is today going?
Have you managed to read through any of the material on the Getting Started
link?
Can we help?
Steve
April 1st, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Hi Jannine…
Please don’t give up…..
A little over 2 years ago I was in the exact same place you are now…
I didn’t want to smoke, but I couldn’t understand why I didn’t feel any
better…. why it was still so hard…. and I remember saying almost what
you did…. I was ready to go back to smoking just to feel normal again….
I really thought I had used the cogquit method…. well I understood the
theory, and used some of the techniques… I thought that was enough…
I remember crying to Steve about this, and he explained to me that while I
was no longer addicted to nicotine… my body was still adapting to my
nicotine free state..
In a broad sense, I will attempt to tell you what he told me… When you
smoke cigarettes, the nicotine replaces the acetylcholine in the nerve
synapses through your body…while it only take 3 days for the nicotine to
be gone, it takes considerably longer for the acetylcholine to return to
normal levels….
I also did some further research into this… and discovered the nicotine
also effected the calcium channels in the nerve exitation process, and as I
was taking calcium channel blockers, giving up nicotine also changed the
effective dosage of my medication and that wasn’t helping me feel better
either…
Believe me though, eventually your body will come back into balance, and
you will feel so much better, in fact, eventually you will wonder why you
thought the way you felt while you were smoking.. was normal..
Go back to your timer exercise, which will help you discover what your body
really needs to help you feel better, be patient, and very soon you will
comfortably quit like us…..
Hugz
Ozipam.
Over 2 years quit, thanks to ddsteve and cogquit