well ive reached day 22 which im very proud of, the prob is that my mind and body and even my senses are feeling like ive just smoked, when i breathe it feels like im tasting cigs as tho ive just had 1, i wouldnt mind but it has awoken my cravings as though its like im back at day 1, anybody else had this or am i going mad?????:eek:
Sian xx
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Sian I had that too, please hang in there - I felt it was the fumes from the crap I had put in my lungs over 20 years, basically cause I was not masking it from a smoke I was able to taste, smell the tarry smell from the crap in my lungs...
It get's less but I'll be honest I have the odd day where a funny taste or smell from within takes me by surprise :eek:
I just think of it as my body doing what it was meant to do and heal me...
Yes, I experienced that too. I would smell and taste cigarettes often in the early days of quitting. I think it was a combination of my body purging itself of the toxins and I could smell and taste those toxins, and my brain playing tricks on me to get me smoking again.
I look on all the symptoms as a sign of healing. It would be very disconcerting if I quit and nothing at all happened after putting that muck in my lungs for 20 years.
Every symptom is a little present telling you your body knows something is changed and is trying to reconcile it... It's a positive.
I had a similarly weird week 3 then on or around day 30 it all just seemed to fall into place; hopefully this will be the case for you but you're not going mad as you've read already. I still get the odd cigarette taste, just for a second and rarely but it means nothing now, probably my imagination more than anything else; I don't miss it after four months, I can tell you that much
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