[Onward2wards]

Day Three of Quit number ... ah, I lost count a long time ago.

I didn't know it was possible for your brain/spinal cord to threaten to detach itself from your spinal column and throttle you to death very slowly, unless you give it a cigarette in the next twenty seconds. That's exactly what I feel like today though. Even with the max dose patch on, I think I am going to lose my last tenuous grip on sanity! (LOL)

But no, I am not going to give up. SHUT UP, BRAIN!!!!

[LaborIntensive]

lol...I quit recently too. This Christmas it was a gift to myself!

Hang in there, eat lots of carrots and broccoli, snow peas too. After 2 weeks you won't care. Are you using any nicotine item to aid you in this effort?

[Onward2wards]

I am using the nicotine patch. It seems to help a little. I have my fridge packed with veggies and all the filtered water on hand I can drink. I can do this.

[LaborIntensive]

I used Camel suns on the bad days. In case you need em.

[mycatsmokes]

I could never smoke when I got upper respiratory infections (colds, flu etc). Wouldn't even want to until the illness passed. So I figured I'd wait until I became ill; pretty much every winter I get a cold or something.

I got a case of sinusitis. As usual, I couldn't/didn't want to smoke. So no smoking and no withdrawal symptoms at all for the first week.

Once the first week was out of the way, it became 10 days with no nicotine, then two weeks, then a month and now 5 weeks, with the cravings all but gone.

Probably not the most usual way to quit, but I had tried probably a dozen times using nicotine gum, patches and sprays, and it was always hell.