Quit smoking support group

I might be able to help a bit with this, seeing as this has always been my biggest problems in my past attempts to quit and hence what I researched the most this time. I read this online, although it isn't going to be verbatim...
Essentially, smoking screws with your blood sugar levels reaching your brain. They are supplanted with the nicotine, giving your brain a false sense of oxygen and sugars. The first place quitting attacks, then, is your brain, basically because of the nerve endings in your head (mine is itching pretty bad right now, by the way, after 20 days). The next place it goes after is your extremeties because they are the furthest away from your heart. My hands shook, although I never noticed anything in my feet.
The only time I didn't notice it was when I got a really bad cough and chest cold immediately after I quit.

Hope that helps.

Keep it up all.

 

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/38693/

For motivation, in case any of you hasn't read the cancer thread yet.

 

thanks, MU.

one more question, though. does it go away? is there anything i can do about it? whoops, two questions. thanks!

 

You can do a few things to level out your blood sugars. What you are talking about is exactly what I experience when my sugar goes low. When your sugar goes low, don't eat candy or chocolate... my doctor tells me to eat crackers and cheese or peanut butter. It works.

You might go on a cleansing diet. A couple of weeks with no carbs and no fruits (too much natural sugar). I do one once every six months or so. It usually levels out your levels. Not smoking while you're doing the cleansing diet will make it a true cleansing situation.

 

Read "Quitters, Inc." Somebody might be in your closet, watching you.

 

Thing that's worked best (although it's not 100 percent) is to snack on healthy stuff -- grapes, bananas, etc -- about every 2-3 hours. Don't go crazy and eat two stocks of grapes or anything. My fiancee got me hooked on the 100-calorie Wheat Thins packs. They seem to do the trick, especially when I start getting ancy around midnight. Doesn't seem to have me gaining any weight.

 

Thanks again MU, and also thanks spup (I'm not sure the NCAA Tournament will be very cleansing-diet friendly, but I'll certainly keep it in mind for after that...)

hopefully this sugar thing is my problem, although it would seem weird if that's it since i quit five weeks ago.

either way, i'll stay strong and resist the sweet, sweet allure of smokes

 

i've said it before, i'll probably say it again ... manna cleanse. it's a herbal supplement.

 

How's everyone sticking up? Good I hope.

Had a breakthrough moment today. Went out to watch basketball last night and gave my buddy a lift. He left a pack of cigs in the back seat, and when I found them, I didn't even think of smoking one. Didn't even dawn on me about it until I started looking at this thread.

Keep up the good work all.

 

MU, if you haven't already, throw them away somewhere you can't dig them out ... I'm ashamed to say I've dug my own packs of cigarettes out of the trash before ...

Good news is I haven't smoked in a week.

 

I made it through my hiking trip. As soon as I finished, though, I had a brief setback. I was a block from my house when I made the decision to hit a nearby Walgreens for a pack of Joe Camels. I told myself when I got home that I'd just smoke one. It was terrible. I didn't enjoy it at all. But I somehow reasoned that the second one would be better. I ended up smoking four and another 6-10 the following day. I was already feeling like shit after feeling great after the hike. So I tossed the remainder of the pack in the trash Thursday morning before smoking any. I went to the trash bag in the kitchen once in the early afternoon only to discover that something brown and sticky was all over the pack, which was in the bottom of the bag. I havent' smoked since. So I guess that's about 12 smokes in three weeks. I suppose that's better than 12 packs in three weeks.

 

Keep an ashtray full of old butts out on your patio. Fill it up with water and let it putrefy a bit. If you get a serious fix, like the kind where you're pacing around the living room like a Rainman, take a whiff of that shit first. You'll wonder why you ever started in the first place.