Hi everyone, I am new to this forum.
I have decided to quit after nearly 9 years of smoking, as I am sick of coughing my guts up every morning, and to be honest I just don't enjoy it anymore.
I started smoking when I was 14, and I am 23 in a couple of weeks time.
I have a little boy of 4 who has special needs, so life can be quite stressful at times, but I am so determined!
I decided to quit cold turkey as I don't want to give up fags, then get reliant on something else instead.
I have been reading this forum for the last couple of days and I have decided to join. My partner wants to quit too but he gave in yesterday at about 3.20pm, but I stuck through, I think he is going to need a little more help in form of NRT!
Anyway, I am on Day 2, and boy, don't I know it.
I woke up this morning with a banging headache, no cravings as such, just light headed, head hurts, feeling a bit 'monged out' and restless. I don't think I realised the physical aspect of quitting like this! I am just going to keep myself busy today, and try and get rid of this fuzzy feeling I am getting!
I have been told day 3 is the worst day, so I'm not looking forward to tomorrow at all!
Michelle xXx
Good Morning Michelle and welcome, the first couple of weeks can be really rough unfortunately, you feel like a zombie and you either sleep too much or not at all, there's no happy medium I'm afraid, but, it really does get better if you just keep plodding on. Keep yourself distracted, that shouldn't be too difficult with a little boy in the house I would imagine
Don't worry too much about the day three thing, this is just the very first day your body is totally free of nicotine and although it can be tough you've already done the really hard thing and that's deciding to stop! Keep up the brilliant work, you can do this 