Quitting nicotine starting tomorrow.

Anyone have any tips or advice to expedite the withdrawal process?

I have already decided I'm going to start going for morning runs and take probably 3 hot showers a day.

My biggest fear is that I'll get insomnia and I will not be able to keep up with my school work due to fatigue

Breathing excercises help clearing the anxiety sometimes. I used to do that before totally surrendering to nicotine.

I got a really, really bad case of bronchitis, and quit cold turkey. There's nothing like hacking up huge chunks of lung to convince one to quit. I had a four pack a day habit. I guess I was so miserable from the bronchitis, that I didn't notice any of the withdrawal symptoms. Really glad I quit, tho.

I slowly cut down over time until I was bumming 1 smoke a day of a mate at work, then I felt guilty about bumming and stopped. Took like 6 months but it was a easier than going cold tuekey. Good luck with giving up

@runfrodorun he haven't mentioned which cigarrettes though. It's pretty hard to reach that mark with strong cigarrettes, you'd totally have to put an effort for a while. I also have an addictive personality and really, more than two packs of Marlboro Red would make me really sick.

@Axis ask your friends, family, colleagues for help, that they stop you if you fall back

Not that I want to encourage this, but if you feel you might have a relapse, I'd try keeping a vape pen with nicotine-free e-liquid at hand.
I found that smoking is as much an oral fixation as a chemical addiction, and seeing clouds coming out of my mouth completes the illusion of smoking.

Vaping has helped me a lot and already saved me thousands of euros. I'm not completely nicotine-free yet (making my juice at a bare minimum nic %), but haven't touched a cigarette in nearly 3 years, and honestly I don't really like the smell nowadays.

... I'm still addicted to vaping though. It's like they say, you never really get rid of an addiction, you just find a replacement 😅

I'm currently a week away form my three month goal! I quit on the 5th of July and haven't looked back since. I'm not gonna lie, it's not gonna be easy. The initial chest pangs, the occasional depression/helplessness and the constant feeling of having lost something.. That is just the beginning. Nicotine has been your best friend for a very long time and now you want to choke it to death with your own hands. Imagine that. You're gonna want to give up trying almost every day, but trust me, one day you'll wake up with absolutely no craving whatsoever. Life will go on and you'll forget you were ever a smoker. Look forward to that day and never lose hope.

And if this isn't motivating enough, think of that one person you cannot imagine spending a day without, whose absence would just break you. You're that person to someone. If not for yourself, do it for them.

Make yourself a tea every time you think about smoking, it's not just the addiction, it's also the ritual.

This may not be helpful to you, depending on your position on stuff, situation and whatnot, but I was pack a day for just short of ten years. Tried everything, patches, medicine, e cigs.

Tried switching to weed, found that a little bit would go a long way, and it was much, much easier to dial back my usage with no real side effects, other than an extreme craving for Indian food. The effects of the weed effectively masked the withdrawal effects from the nicotine as well.

I no longer smoke cigs, or have any desire to. I'll only partake of herb a couple of times a year now. May not work for you, worked for me. In any case, good luck man. Quitting is tough, but doable.

I don't have any experience with nicotine withdrawal.
Just wanted to state something that many people on withdrawal do wrong in my opinion.
If for some reason you get tempted to smoke one cigarette again and you do it. Don't buy a full pack and throw away all of your progress just because you smoked once.
The goal is to minimize the use. Don't give in just because you made one tiny step in the wrong direction.

@biryanisalan what app is this?

@alvaroalves05 Quit tracker.

Chewing gum is supposed to help.

Hey guys thanks for all the advice! I went for a run this morning (felt like death lol) and im still coasting on a runners high for abt 2 hours now.

Ive been chewing gum in excess.

But so far so good! I feel like the hardest part is the thoughts of wanting to do it again but I've been able to get that out of my head by just starting an activity.

About to have my first class in 30 minutes, I'm curious If it will effect my ability to pay attention

@c2wiki Newport and Marlboro Red mostly. When I lived in Germany, I threw HB and Gaulois into the mix, when I ran out and had to buy from a vending machine. In those years, before cigarettes became frowned upon, I could get a carton in the exchange for about $3.00.

@iAmNaN wow :O.