Day 4

[nsd_user663_62886]

Hi all! My first proper attempt at giving up the cigs! Its halfway through day 4 for me! Felt a little depressed since I gave up but today I feel a little better. Is that normal?? Oh and please tell me week one is the worst!!!

[nsd_user663_62886]

Hi Titch,

Thanks for the reply. Yeah I'm using the patches. I didn't use one yesterday and all hell broke loose lol! Guess I shouldn't try and run before I can walk. I don't normally suffer with anything like depression or maybe I used too strong a word.....just felt really miserable and down and felt like I couldnt enjoy anything properly again. My willpower is rock solid at the moment but I keep thinking if this horrible feeling is going to stay around as strong and as bad forever I don't know if I can do this for much longer! Hoping it's going to get a little better???

[nsd_user663_62886]

Thanks for the reassurance :). I am ready for a bit more of the same this week but feel much better knowing that nothing will get as bad as the first few days without respite at least!! The cravings aren't too bad. Im worse than anything late afternoon....seems to be a little trend. My appetite is non existent which i find really strange so having to force feed myself with soup. I put that down to feeling miserable. Cant wait to get this first week out of the way!!!!! thanks for the support guys

[nsd_user663_2681]

Hi Dolores, good on you for getting through the first few days, try and use the patches as directed, that way you will lower the dose gradually and ease off nicotine gently, ( thats the theory anyway :D)

sorry you feel a bit low, quitting can cause depression and anxiety in most people it may last a few weeks and seems to be a side effect of quitting but as Titch rightly said if you arent prone to feeling down have a word with GP if it continues.

Look forward to following you on your quit journey, welcome aboard

[nsd_user663_60964]

Welcome to the forum from me too Dolores

Reading your posts was uncanny as it could have been me speaking. That's exactly how I felt when I quit (and it is far from unusual to feel anxious or depressed on quitting- it's a common side-effect as the others have said). Like you, I went right off my food (indeed, I lost half a stone in the first couple of weeks). I was overweight anyway so decided I might as well kill two birds with one stone so contiued to diet even after my appetite returned (so it was a bit of a reult for me all things considered ;))

You'll come out the other side of it soon I am sure- with me, it was a gradual process but I would say the anxiety had gone completely by the end of the first month. Yes, the first week is the worst, and you're already more than half way through it.

Well done Dolores- you're not half doing brilliantly you know. Please stick around, read, post and join in to your heart's content. It really does help and we're all of us on the same journey.

[nsd_user663_62886]

Thanks everyone!!! Always nice to have a lot of support than go it alone! Had a fab day after all. Went and got my hair done and whilst at the hairdressers got talking to another fellow NON smoker who said she had the exact same symptoms as I did...feeling sick, moody, bad appetite etc. She's done 18 months and assures me that nothing matches up to the first week of "hell". Didn't even think about a cigarette much today and the thought of putting one in my mouth.....urghhhhh I seriously would retch!!! What was I thinking all these years!!!!! Maybe Im over the worst bit maybe not but either way I WIN!!!!!

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P.S Cant wait to waltz into that nurses office on friday and give her the good news!!! Am sure she gave me a little grin that said "Yeah yeah I've heard it before....."......she clearly doesn't know me that well!!!

[nsd_user663_62886]

Welcome to the forum from me too Dolores

Reading your posts was uncanny as it could have been me speaking. That's exactly how I felt when I quit (and it is far from unusual to feel anxious or depressed on quitting- it's a common side-effect as the others have said). Like you, I went right off my food (indeed, I lost half a stone in the first couple of weeks). I was overweight anyway so decided I might as well kill two birds with one stone so contiued to diet even after my appetite returned (so it was a bit of a reult for me all things considered ;))

You'll come out the other side of it soon I am sure- with me, it was a gradual process but I would say the anxiety had gone completely by the end of the first month. Yes, the first week is the worst, and you're already more than half way through it.

Well done Dolores- you're not half doing brilliantly you know. Please stick around, read, post and join in to your heart's content. It really does help and we're all of us on the same journey.

Thank you Skiddaw!!!! Means more than you know to feel I'm not going totally crazy. Ive got half a stone to lose so happy days

[nsd_user663_62294]

Hi Dolores, well done for deciding to quit smoking and choosing to join this forum - it's a great place. :)