first off give ya some history ,, I do have a CPAP achine for my sleep apnea .. and i do have a small hyeatal hernia which i recently found out about ..and have had a stress test . and ekgs .. taht all say im fine .. that being said .. I quit 2 months ago after smoking for over 25 years a half a pack a day .. and i suffer most of the symptoms you all do .. andi know how it feels when my hernia is acting up .. i do wake up severla times a night like most of you But have any of you expereinced waking up with your heart racing ??? yes i do have dreams but i wouldnt call them nightmares.. i feel good and bad at the same time .. part of feeling bad is my hernia . but i feel like ican breathe better . i can smell and tatse things better , i have actually lost alot of weight so far.. mostly because i have changed my eating habits .. .however i feel bad because of the anxiety and because of this lack of energy and lack of sleep .. and this racing heart issue when i wake up .. just wondering if my machine is broke (which it doesnt apear to be ) or is it some side affect of my dreams that are bad but not horrific? (of course who can recall everydream they have) now my doctor said it could be a combination of my hernia and non smoking .. but doctors are rareley smokers themselves .
Jus relax ,heart racnig and palpitation is very common withdrawal symptom, hang in there and it will fade away with time
To all that are trying to quit but don't want to give up the habit of smoking, have you tried Electronic Cigarettes? I just quit Feb 4 and I have been Tobacco free for a month, I have never looked back. Many Cigarette withdrawls are from things other than the nicotine cigarettes have hundreds of different MUIs and hundreds upon thousands of other chemicals your body is addicted to. Why not take it one step at a time, cut the other chemicals out, then step your nicotine level down to 0 nicotine with an ecig (Personal vaporizer) and finally you can break the oral fixation. Best part is Electronic Cigarettes produce no tar or carcinogens that you breath into your lungs!
Your not alone either. There are thousands of people who have quit this way and have a huge support group
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I wonder if three years on you are recovered? Same has happened to me, quit smoking OCTOBER 2010 as I needed a skin graft for skin cancer so was advises to by the Doctors.Since quitting I have suffered from really bad chest problems and sleeping problems as well I am now two half years later totally exhausted. I'm on sterid tablets to help my breathing and seeing an immunologist in Newcastle RVI. I had never been ill before I quit now my life is terrible .
I quit smoking 7 days ago and have just had the shock of my life i have copd and have just got over a chest infection i thought now is the time and done it i feel awfull i have just tried t go to the shops my legs are shaking so are my hands and head i feel so weak i have pains in my chest and feel that i am stamering when i talk. Now i confess i have just had a cigerette the shaking is stopping the pains have gone and i feel that a heavy weight is being lifted off me has anyone else felt this bad.
i smoked 40 a day for 35 years,i have been off smoking now for fifteen months. i gave up cold turky,my god the pain my body as gone through. i am still going through it today,does it ever get better,i dont know its effected my memory also,i wont take it back up but wow its not a fun time,weight went up 25kilos,thats starting to slowly come off,but pain still there through my body,and it is all caused by quitting
Hello everyone couldnt help but reply .. every on ehas to decide fro themselfs when to quit and fro alot i'm sur eit works well with no side effects however in my own experience and why i started again ... im in my 40's and smoked about 20 to 30 fags aday i decided to quit i followed all the guidelines and had aptach on i felt great ! pleased and proud of myself.. then suddenly one night i woke in great pain ill spare you the details but went straight to doctors and said i have given up smoking its been 5 years why am i now ill ? Turns out i have colititus condition of bowl i have flare ups etc only once needed to go into hospital the private hospital and a nhs told me that beause id given up it was still a shock to the body and the hairs in the bowl lay flatter i was advised to start again and i did and although dont smoke so much and colititus is for life my bowl is behaving much better ...AFTER THAT my dad was adviced to quit and he did he went to gp and was on tablets four months later he had two strokes !! he ok NA NOW SMOKES AGAIN hes 76 and a friend of mine who quit 2 years later had a massive heart attack he had a by pass but unfortunaly within5 years had passed away i hear these storys all the time from friends work on here etc be very careful Smoking is a drug like no other and ther eis no rehab for us who want to quit but have no way of knowing what will happen if we do .. the advic to children about starting should be start if you wnat but remember if you do YOU CAN NEVER QUIT ! if there is away and you can prove it id be very interested to read it tahnk you ..8-|
I stopped smoking over a month ago and its not been very fun. I'm not talking about the smoking part. That's the easy part. I realized that it dropped my testosterone level significantly.
Depression, quick to anger, mood swings, weight gain....
It took me about three weeks to realise that this was not going to be easy. I've always been in good shape in spite of smoking. The smoking part was n't all that hard compared to this.
I do not want to go onto steroids if I can help it. Anyone have any ideas on how to get my system to restart or something?
Great, you quit smoking. Just so you know, that your hacking cough may be there even for 1 year or longer after you quit smoking. Your body will continue to rid itself of uneccessary exposure to what it does not need. Coughing up the phlegm and garbage is nature's way of ridding the body of toxins. Dont worry about it. Be glad you quit!
I quit smoking 4 weeks ago. I was a casual smoking and sometimes heavy for a night or two for about 13 years on and off. I am now 32 and freaking out. I've been praying like crazy. I have horrible anxiety and I am afraid of everything now. I have completely changed my diet for the better and stepped up my workout regimine. Everything that happens I am looking up symptoms. Just got back from Floriday and my allergies have been acting up wit ha running and stuffy nose. I haven't really had a cough or anything come up, but I have been forcing myself to cough as I feel like my throat is dry. This morning I did that and I say a little bit of blood streaks in the spit. Now I am freaking out about that even though no one seems to think it is a big deal. I blew my nose and there was some blood in that as well. Am I crazy!!!
i used to have bad anxiety and sometimes panic attacks. i sought out numerous help and they teach you breathing exercises because people that have anxiety are holding their breath. Guess What??? the breathing exercises are exactly the same as smoking!
also, i smoked for 15 years and switched to e cig. it was easy. there's no need to suffer so much quitting cold turkey. i think our bodies are smart and we need nicotine in some ways, whether it is for the maoi inhibitors for depression or the breathing routines for anxiety. hopefully someday scientists will find a better way to get us our medicine. regular tobacco cigarettes are deadly, i hope everyone can get off them any way they can.
I won't take Chantex, but I've thought about trying the gum to help with some of the withdrawal symptoms. I quit just after Christmas 2012 -- I'm tired of being tired. I'm tired of being sick. I'm tired of being in a size 14 when I was a 10 (I can fix that though).
What I hate is the brain fog and being tired for no reason. I catch every cold that someone brings into my office. This is horrible!
But I don't want to start again!! Just need some help over the hump!
Age: 53
Type 2 Diabetic without a Thyroid
well done..i was 11 stone 2 when i stopped smoking after my heart attack i went to 13 stone.. i went swimming after 12 month rehab and light jym and now im back to 11.6.. your right i get colds easy, plus i get voice fatige.. where just talking i get out of breath ,but can walk and swim for miles and not out of breath .mad i know..and you do get tired.yes you do get the fog brain..like its cloudy, and a slight tinginling.i know how your feeling..ive been stopped 24 month after my heart attack.. and you feel while you was smoking you was ok..well the sh*t or drugs that are in the fags made you feel you was ok..because have you notic passing someone who is smoking and you get a wiff catches your breath...well i would never start again.....unless i was told i only had weeks to live..im sure that would get you smoking again...and it would not matter....stick with it ...x
I quit 9 months ago.The first 6 months were hell.Sever pain in the lungs, chest and really bad depression. I had a couple panic attacks also.Around month 7 it started to change and be less sever. Every day I got alittle better. Not worse.Im at month 9 and I feel so good .stronger ,healthier ,and free. I was a addict. I actually loved to smoke. It was who I was.Part of my life style.I got the flu back in December and one day I couldn't breath.It lasted 3 days.I was so scared and made a promise that if I got better then I would give up the smokes.I am so glad I stopped.As GOD as my witness.I will never smoke again.If I can,so can all of you.Trust me.It will get better.Time away from the cigs is the medicine you need.Take care and GOD BLESS all of you .