Hi-
I plan to go cold turkey myself come May 2. I've tried tapering and using Replacement nicotine, but if there is any drug in me, I just give in to the desire to smoke just one more. So. I've been studying what helps with withdrawal and found that deep breathing helps. I tried it while I have been "practicing" my quit and it feels almost miraculous when I am doing it. If you have time, take about 5 minutes, (set a timer) and just breathe in and out to steady your head and body and unify them. I've been practicing this some to build confidence and experience that it works.
If it doesn't work for you, at least you have spent 5 minutes doing something other than wanting nicotine.
Your pleasure neurons are just feeling cranky. They don't know any other way yet. Yet. We are going to train our brains to find that source of "feeling OK" in a non-harming, and wholesome way, instead of slowing damaging our bodies so a big corporation can make a lot of money off our habit. Using nicotine isn't "normal." We just have trained our brains to think so.
Hang in there. You've got courage. Wish me luck as I get ready for Tuesday. Throw out the stuff that supports the habit, get outdoors and really focus on breathing the fresh spring air. We are all so lucky to have the air the planet provides us so we can live. Without air, well. . .we just don't have our life at all. Nothing lives without oxygen, not plants, animals, fish, the planet herself.
May you be safe from danger. May you be healthy. May you be happy. May you live with ease.
-ahimsa
