Insomnia

[nsd_user663_3916]

I just can't get to sleep!!! How's everyone else coping getting to sleep? The snookers just finished, good one Ronnie! and by no means am I ready for bed!!!

[nsd_user663_3911]

Find I can get to sleep OK (reading always helps me) but then am awake from 02:00 on and off and feel bushed at alarm call

[nsd_user663_3816]

Hi Paul

This seems to be a common side effect of quitting, most of us on here have suffered or are suffering with sleeping difficulty. Me included, it was gone 2 am before i got to sleep then back up at 6am.

Seems to me that it is my mind wont switch off.:mad:

Denise

xx

[nsd_user663_3881]

I have always struggled with sleep, only need 5 hours at the most but since quitting I've had weird dreams every night and wake up feeling like I've been dragged through a hedge backwards! Took 2 Nytol last night and for the first time managed to drop off straight away and through to 5.15 am which is a first for me!!

[nsd_user663_3728]

hi there

i also struggle going to sleep but after that ok mostly as biddy says try nytol i use kalms myself when needed both are herbal and ono addictive

best wishes margaret

[austinlegro 11 Years Smoke Free]

Whether it’s increased oxygen levels or just your brain reawaking from a duvet of nicotine it’s pretty much par for the course to have these disturbances. It seems to affect the CT quitters a lot more so it must have a good deal to do with the nicotine.

It’s not just sleeping either.

Many tend to find a detached woozy feeling during the day too, almost like a low level intoxication.

These “side-effects” seem to pretty much dissipate by the end of the second week.

Look at it as part of the healing process..

[nsd_user663_3849]

I certainly had trouble getting to sleep in my first week and that is unheard of for me, usually I'm asleep as soon as my head touches the pillow!

I also had some REALLY wierd dreams when I did get to sleep.

Now, day 15, I have my normal sleep pattern back EXCEPT I find it much easier to get up in the morning. I have always been a morning person and getting up before 6 to go and feed and muck out the horse has been normal but for the last couple of years I have struggled to get out of bed.

Now I am back to jumping out of bed in the morning!!

[nsd_user663_3925]

I'm sleeping fine, but I am having some really strange dreams.

I've put the dreams down to the patches. I don't always keep one on at night but as I work shifts I've worked out when it's best for me to leave one on or to take it off to suit my sleeping patterns.

[nsd_user663_3925]

I spoke too soon, I had an awful night last night.

Strange thing is I took my patch of at 10pm, went to bed about 1.30am.

Tonight I'll leave the patch on, have a few few strange but enjoyable dreams and hopefully a good nights sleep.

[nsd_user663_3914]

im no scientist but i wanted to add something to this and say, i had a really wierd dream last night and the night before, to be really honest it makes me want to go to bed sooner although i have been finding myself waking up half way through the night im sure it wil get better and that all my wierd dreams will be a thing of the past

[nsd_user663_3988]

It's rotten isn't it. For the first week after I stopped I struggled to get to sleep at night and when I did I found I was waking up in the middle of the night sweating. It only lasted about a week or so and then settled down again.

Keep going, it's worth it in the end.

[nsd_user663_3894]

I was struggling with my sleep so i went to boots and got some Bacs rescue remedy and have been sleeping like a baby ever since.

[nsd_user663_3738]

dont have to much trouble slepping,might have that to come,but at the mo sleeping like a baby,,keep the faith tony

[nsd_user663_3894]

Ive been taking it just over a week.Ive heard that before that you can get immune to these but so far so good.

[nsd_user663_4026]

Just seen this thread. This is an odd one but I too have been having insomnia. Last night I used my husbands 'snore cure'. It consists of two jars. One with marjoram in and one with lavender. You open them up and the smell cures the snore. It really does work I have to say! I thought it was all a load of hocus pocus but its like magic! Anyway, I wondered if it would help my sleep troubles. And it did! I slept a dreamless sleep from 10 - 7 though I now have a too much sleep headache! Maybe worth a go?