Day 2

[philli-d]

I am so so tired that I took an hour nap today.  I was just wondering if this is normal.  Keeping busy but really thinking about cigarettes a lot.  It is amazing to me how those little things have such a hold on a person.  Did go to the gym which helped and I am very committed.  Thoughts???

[hwc]

Yeah. I would guess that a few extra naps is pretty normal. Also a couple of restless, sleepless nights.

That's about the worst of the physical symptoms. Not a bad price to pay for freedom from a nicotine drug addiction that controls your life, making you smoke all day, every day, unable to stop.

Here are 15 YouTube videos specifically on the topic of Day 2:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8EB359C247D3FE6C

[kat0225]

I am on day 2 of not smoking.  Yesterday I was extremely tired by about 6:30pm and ended up going to sleep by 8.  I am not tired yet today, but since I am still at work it might just be because I am keeping busy.  I didn't realize I was tired yesterday until I got out of work.  I am struggling today with thinking about cigarettes nonstop.  Are you having that issue as well?

[philli-d]

Am going to youtube now.  Thanks.

[Summer-Rain]

Congrats on day 2 of being smoke free.  I know how you feel.  I was sleepy/tired during the first few days of my quit and I slep as much as I could.  Trust me, it will get better.  Just hang in there.

The journey continues

[YoungAtHeart]

Here is a link to a previous blog on early withdrawal symptoms - not to scare you (!) but to let you know what is normal:

https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/blogs/Youngatheart.7.4.12-blog/2013/06/12/early-withdrawal-sympto...

You didn't say if you are using a quit aid?  Let us know so we can better help you.

Nancy

[Jennifer-Quit]

It will pass - just listen to your body - if you are able to take a nap, then by all means, take one.  Good job!

[Eric_L.]

yea. this is my first day. i felt energized earlier. now, i feel like a nap, too.

[philli-d]

I will honor my body by sleep. I have been so horrible to it by smoking now it is my body's turn to rest from the toxins. It is a process that I am very committed to do.

[djmurray]

I find myself really understanding that when we smoked we actually thought about smoking all the time.  Do we have enough smokes?  When can I have my next smoke? Can I have another one? If we smoked more than five or six cigarettes a day we were thinking about it A LOT.  If you smoked a pack of cigarettes a day that's 20 times the 6 or 7 minutes it takes to smoke.  And that doesn't count the time of the day you're thinking about the next one or out buying more, or wishing you could have one.  Stop and think about how many hours each and every day we thought about smoking or were smoking.  

So, we shouldn't be surprised that we think about smoking all the time when we quit.  There is a huge psychological addiction -- we get our smoking entangled with every emotion and every life event, and we have to disengage from so many triggers.  And I promise you, when you do that -- when you calmly observe the craves and say "I don't do that any more." you will be amazed at how less frequent the craves become.  

You can do this!