i'm nearly day 5 without a ciggarette, i was a heavy smoker, for 8 years, except whilst pg. my mood swings are intense, i'm aggressive and have no patience, the silliest things are getting me really angry.
was anyone else like this whilst quitting? or am i just a moody biatch?
i was the same for the first few weeks hun....i smoked 40 a day....quit using champix...pm me if you want someone to talk to....good luck and your doing a great job....rach xox
oh god, my kids and dp will be hoping this doesn't last a few weeks, i'm going cold turkey.. i didn't think i was doing too bad until i screamed blue murder at dp for something really trivial..
My DP has tried to quit several times and no you are not the only one with mood swings!!!
I love him dearly but we have both nearly killed each other each time. But I would rather have a couple of weeks with him being an evil monster than to have him die at 40 of lung cancer.
So in short if DP gets the cranks with your crankiness, just ask him, "WOULD YOU RATHER I WAS CRANKY OR DEAD?"
Ok read the book Allen carrs easy way to quit smoking. My partrtner and I smoked. I casually he heavy. He tried and tried to quit making my life hell with the mood swings untill someone gave him this book to read ( he is not a reader!!) he read it we both chucked our smokes away ( it says to smoke while reading but you have already stoped). He never had 1 mood swing. I couldnt believe it!!! he was amazing. Good luck though it is hard but just tell youself you are a happy non smoker.
You're so not the only one on this!! DH and I just redid out budget and realised how much we were spending on cigarettes... it was unbelievable. So we decided to quit.
I cracked the first time - DH smoked the last ciggie and I'm the type of person who, in order to quit something, has to go on one last binge to prepare myself... so I lost my MIND when I realised I hadn't had the opportunity to sit down and savour every last puff of my last smoke...
DH cracked the s**** and bought more ciggies, swearing he wasn't going to try to quit ever again if I was going to act like that. Then we sat down, talked about it and made a plan, and tried again (after I'd had my 'last hoorah' lol). This time, I was mentally in the right place, and went all day without needing to even crack open the pack of Nicabate Minis he'd bought in anticipation of quitting. I was fine all day, then he got home from work, freaked out that I hadn't taken one of the lozenges ('YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO IT BY YOURSELF! TAKE THE DAMN LOZENGE!!!'), and started pacing around having a cow about how DD1 was annoying him.
After about half an hour of practically tearing his hair out (over NOTHING - like I said, I'd been dealing with the two kids by myself all day with no problems), he cracked again and went down to the corner store to get ciggies.
*sigh* So now I'm smoking again because I can't watch him go outside for a ciggie, and smell the smoke coming through the window, and NOT have one myself.
B@stard.
You're doing an awesome job!! The mood swings will pass, and so will the damage you've done to your body. I really admire you going cold turkey, I'm looking into hypnotherapy to try and help me quit because my problem isn't so much the physical craving, it's the ordeal of breaking the habit and the mental 'need' for a cigarette. I wish you the best of luck, you're making the right decision for you and your family!!
I have had a friend who has quit both ways( i no that sounds weird but she stopped when she was 21 then started again 10 years later), reading the allan cars book the first time and the second time she got hipnotised(sp?) both of them worked for her she is still not smoking 3 years later but she did say that for the money of hipnosis she would rather read the book. good luck to you all well done
one week tomorrow, i'm actually chilling out a fair bit now, as donna said, it's more the mental need for a smoke, the habit more than the physical craving. that being said, my floors have been vacuumed about 3 times a day to keep me busy... but i'm happy i made the decision.. i noticed a spider vein on my cheek, which can be caused by smoking and cringed. plus, i've been trying to get into cardio excercise again and i was losing my breath really fast. damn addictions.
I'd also definitely recommend Allan Carr's Book - "The easy way to stop smoking" - It's completely different to anything else and the only thing that worked for me... Just so 'common sensical' you just can't not quit after reading it... Give it a go, it will expel alot of the myths we've all heard about/experienced quitting, I promise it will make it easier, even the mood swings, you'll understand after you've read the book
I knew I had to stop and tried patches but my mood was really antsy and I was constantly thinking about smoking, so I started again.
Then I was reading my DD a book called 'Why I Love My Mummy', and each page is a baby animal saying "I love my mummy because..." When I read the giraffe saying "I love my mummy because she smells nice" I just kind of went 'oh', and had a massive case of the guilts because DD didn't have a mummy that smells nice!
I went cold turkey and was thinking of it as my not having to do a bad thing anymore, rather than giving up a good thing.
Apart from the need for a Chuppa Chup in my mouth the first couple of days, it's been all good for 6 weeks.
Uh, my rambling point is, focussing on DD rather than me helped to make it almost easy.
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You're doing an awesome job!! The mood swings will pass, and so will the damage you've done to your body. I really admire you going cold turkey, I'm looking into hypnotherapy to try and help me quit because my problem isn't so much the physical craving, it's the ordeal of breaking the habit and the mental 'need' for a cigarette. I wish you the best of luck, you're making the right decision for you and your family!!
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