Comments on: I’m an emotional wreck when I quit. What can I do?

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 07:41:21 +0000

This quit I’m letting myself cry and feel it as long as I need to. I cried 5 hours straight tonight

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 20:36:14 +0000

I am on day 3 off quitting smoking cold turkey the first few days was not much of a struggle I was happy and felt quite easy even though I did have a few cravings I’m 22 and been smoking since 13 it’s now day 3 and I’ve been crying all day just out of the blue and have a major head ache I’m still going but need a bit of help with the emotional side

By: Donna

Donna — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 18:27:47 +0000

So when does the insanity end? How long will I be an emotional mess? I smoked for 42 years. I don’t like being a fruit loop.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 23:40:33 +0000

Ok so here’s my story please comment if you have had any of this happen to you and share what helped you thanks! Well I started vapping 1 and a half years ago cold turkey never worked for me. Starting at 24 mg of nicotine I weened myself to zero in a year. So at 0 nicotine for 9 months but at the 8 month mark I started having problems with my relationship, I’ve always been a jealous person but normally fight or talk about things then I have a few not so good days and things would be fine, but here I am. A month into being upset angry sad about jealous issues from the past hmmm…..1 year ago, 2 years ago, and some issues from 8 years ago. I’m also starting the menopause things also. So in one of the many arguments of this past month my husband says maybe it’s nicotine withdrawal I said no way not after this long, but here I am putting 3mg nicotine in my vape to see if this helps if it does I’m never quitting again. But I also was very hesitant about taking birth control for menopause because I had all the signs of a stroke when I was on it 16 years ago so the doc said back then they had different names but same dose so I did pick up a low dose birth control as suggested but part of me wants to wait until I see if the nicotine will take care of the emotional stress I’ve been going through. Any help on this issue would be appreciated…….thanks in advance

By: Emily Renfroe

Emily Renfroe — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 22:25:38 +0000

I have been smoke free for 31 days and for the most part I am feeling AMAZING! However I have found myself uncontrollably emotional at times, which is very unlike me and it’s even began to put strain on my personal relationships. My cohabitant boyfriend says he has become a little afraid to talk to me about anything for fear of how I will respond. I know that smoking was a coping mechanism for me, in fact I purposefully used cigarettes to self medicate for years. Long story short, I started smoking at 14, then quit for over a year at 21. Then I found myself in some very bad situations, financial issues, divorce from an abusive husband, miscarriages, ect. I had panic attacks during this time and was diagnosed with situational anxiety disorder.Once during a panic attack a friend offered my one of her cigarettes said that it would probably help, because of the slow inhaling blah blah blah, i’m not sure exactly why it worked but it did, better than any medication. So I picked up smoking again. Now that I have quite again (at age 29) it feels as though I’m having to relearn how to deal with emotions(which I sort of expected), but I’m also getting emotional about things that normally wouldn’t matter much. For example I forgot to pay a bill, the bill wasn’t evan past due or anything, I just simply forgot to pay it when I had planned to and that made me cry.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 05:33:49 +0000

Oh, yes, Robert, believe me, people do care. And they do understand – my relationship with nicotine is very strange, too. I also think it’s sad there’s a need for sites like this, because it obviously means that people don’t have the support they need in their own lives. In the last month I gave up twice. I’ve been off and on e-cigs for the last few years, but am using it all the time at the moment. It’s been five days now, but before it was 2 weeks. Each second feels like an hour, each hour like a day. Each day like a year!! I feel as if all the colour’s been drained out of life. Can’t concentrate, and everything is so much of a bloody effort! I cry all the time. I was a very heavy smoker and had been smoking for nearly 30 years. Sometimes I think that if I feel this terrible trying to give up perhaps it’s not worth it. Just keep on and die 10 years earlier! But I have a sort of stubbornness in me and if I relapse I’ll have to go through all this hell again. Whatever dreadful feelings you’ve had, remember you really are not alone. The really terrible time is when you suddenly think: “Oh, I’ll have a cigarette”, and then realise you can’t have one. It’s 5.30 in the morning and I’m sitting her with my patch and murdering my e-cigarette, feeling so dreadful it’s hurting my teeth. If I could stretch a hand of friendship to you, I would…. But, keep trying and above all, be good to yourself.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 16:52:07 +0000

Try not using the patch or any nicotine replacement, why draw out the torture? That never made any sense to me and I think it’s a giant farce. I’m 3 weeks clean of cigs for the first time since I started 15 years ago. I know you can do it too

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 07:09:17 +0000

I managed to quit for 9 months when I was in an environment where I felt welcome. I never feel that in cities yet I am stuck in a city because I have a son in one. I switched to electronic cigs 5 years ago. I am trying to stop. I stopped for two weeks but felt the call, and got high on nicotine for about 5 days. I don’t think most people experience nicotine like I do. Then my system got saturated and I stopped getting high so I forced myself to quit again. Trying to hang on now isn’t so bad because I have learned that nicotine is pretty useless once the body is saturated. However, what I have really noticed is that in the absence of regular nicotine, I am an emotional mess. I think about how it was being high all day. I count down the days till the nicotine is out of my system enough for me to get high off it again. I know that there is a heap of things left over from adolescence that I have to find a way to deal with. I couldn’t figure them out then and I still can’t – that’s why I got addicted in the first place. Shrinks don’t listen for long enough and you wouldn’t want them to anyway. Exercise is good but hard to stick with. I have come to view most relationships as a pointless waste of time – how many people do you know or meet who’ll really be any support? Mostly it’s about massaging one another’s fragile egos, and being “good company”. Frankly, nicotine is more stimulating and less demanding than most people I meet. Told you I was a mess. Only 3 days till system reset. Woohoo! Let’s be honest the original post was 7 years ago! Nobody cares!

By: Maria

Maria — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:13:55 +0000

Hi All,
My husband and I quit smoking cold turkey 11 weeks ago today. I have been smoking since I am 13 and am now 37. This is my first attempt and my husband’s second attempt. I am feeling very emotional this week. I found the first few weeks fine. We did sweat a lot and it did stink, dry throats and insomnia. However I am feeling very low this week and have had a few emotional outbursts and tears. I have read that it is possibly “icky threes” where people struggle approaching day 3,week3 or month3.

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 01:25:25 +0000

Cool site, wow, i am 37 now and i started smoking when i was 13, i was diagnosed with COPD 8 years ago but i have not had the strength to quit. For years now, i keep saying to myself, i am going to quit but when i don’t have a cig i get depressed, sad, angry, i also cry when i don’t have it, the most i went was 1 day without the cig.