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What are the Side Effects When You Stop Smoking?


When you prepare to quit smoking cigarettes, it is normal to want to know what are the side effects when you stop smoking will be.

Side effects are kind of a collection of things that your body and your mind especially, are going through when you stop smoking, because of the nicotine.

Chances are that your body has grown dependent on nicotine for many different purposes - to relax, to focus, to get ready, to calm down, etc.


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It’s not that you need it to live, and not that it lasts a long time in your system when you stop smoking. However, there will be some period of adjustment time, when you will have to deal with some withdrawal symptoms.

There's also a mental addiction which I always talk about. The fact that you just mentally believe that you need a cigarette. This is a whole lot easier to control than it is to actually control a chemical addiction, such as nicotine.

But the mental addiction can last longer. Nicotine is generally out of your system in a day or so, but old habits - such as those associated with smoking - can take longer to break.

So to review some of the side effects that you may have to deal with, I will actually take the side effects right off the websites from cancer.gov and the CDC Government website. This is too important to go by one person’s opinions.

The first thing they talk about with side effects is Nicotine Cravings.

Obviously, nicotine has probably helped you through many situations as it did for me because when a smoker is under pressure, they feel anxious. The nicotine made me feel that it was the best way to help me relax.

Again, experts say Nicotine Cravings generally go away in about a day for most people about 24 hours.

In addition, another troublesome side effect is a feeling of anger, frustration, and irritability.

If you don't feel like yourself, it’s because you're not being calmed by that nicotine anymore. You have to deal with things for yourself now without nicotine to help “cushion the blow”. You really have to feel, what you feel.

You may have to take a look at your emotions and think through things, as opposed to just depending on the cigarettes to help steady you and plow you or push you through things that some people find troublesome.

I am not a healthcare professional and this is not professional advice. If you have any questions or concerns about this change, or about quitting smoking, then please consult a healthcare professional.

As a smoker, I smoked cigarettes to relax, as well as if I had to work out a problem, I might pick up a cup of coffee, take a sip, and then light up a cigarette.

As a non-smoker, you can do everything the same but skip the cigarette. Try to make your first 24 hours without smoking as stress-free as possible - it will help reduce some of the urges. Even sleeping more during that time will help get the nicotine out of your system without adding stress to your first day.

Without nicotine, you might have some difficulty concentrating, and some people may find a bout of insomnia. Difficulty sleeping can happen because that nicotine had helped with the calming of your system, and now your body is looking for it and It’s not there.

Quitting smoking can go hand in hand with irritability too, along with some restlessness. It may just be uncomfortable, and you may want to get up and move around. If you can't seem to get comfortable watching a show, and or you're thinking of cigarettes, it can also make you anxious. Just be prepared.

It just kind of makes sense to me that the anxiousness is probably partly caused by the chemical addiction from nicotine, and the part is likely caused by that mindset - that mental addiction - that you want to have a cigarette. You think you need a cigarette.

Let me tell you that you don't need that cigarette!

Then there is hunger or increased appetite. It’s not unusual for a person to just start to eat more. This is something I myself have difficulty with, and there's no doubt in my mind I gained weight over the years after I quit smoking. It is one of my demons, and I actually hope to address it in the upcoming year.

I'm kind of making a New Year's resolution to lose weight. But I would never go back to smoking cigarettes!






Now, 15 years later, as I get near retirement I've decided to put this all together as a program and make it available to help other people quit smoking. It will sell for less than the cost of one carton of cigarettes in many places around the country right now, so if you are interested and you'd like to learn a little bit more, click the link now.


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