Day 5 of quitting and right on schedule, my body has gone into complete failure.
The affect and reach of nicotine is astounding. I never really noticed what nicotine was doing to me until a stopped using it. Now every system seems to be out of tune.
This is the point in the quit where the cure is worse than the disease.
I'm coughing all the time. My sinuses are completely congested. I have a low-grade headache, couldn't sleep, and my digestion is... unpredictable. I have zits for the first time in ten - no, twenty years!
Since my major motivation for quitting is getting rid of the puffy eye bags, the nagging cough, and get better looking skin, this is all a bit demoralizing.
I know, it's my body cleaning itself out and getting rid of the myriad toxins I inhaled with the nicotine. I know it's temporary.
It would be nice if I could hibernate for a few weeks until withdrawal was complete. Maybe in my next life.
PT
5 DOF
Hi Pt...I was sick almost two months when I quit smoking...it took about 1 1/2 months and I started with a cough and headaches too...I waited because I thought body cleaning toxins out...ended up at Doctors and had a very bad sinus infection...that went into upper respiratory infection...it made staying quit much easier because I was so sick...I must tell you once I got past that bad sick...my skin is so much healthier, my eyes look better, barely cough...etc., so it does happen...as far as the pimples...I read that cigarettes deplete fluids in our system...keeping us dry causing wrinkles...now your skin is getting oily because all of the the natural oils and fluids coming back to your system therefore causing pimples...you are right, all of this is temporary...and much better then a diagnosis of lung cancer...your body Is healing from all the years of the toxins...hang in there and congratulations on 5 Days of Freedom...Happy Monday ~ Colleen 245 DOF