Are there times when your body just refuses to adapt as it was doing to the lowering of nicotine? When I was smoking, I dropped from over a pack a day to 15 relatively easy. When I started my gradual quit, I dropped to 4 cigs and lozenges to equal the equivalent and that worked for a few weeks. Now I have dropped to 3 cigs, sometimes less, and it’s like the withdrawl went into overdrive. I get the sweaty feeling intensely. Memory is shot. Don’t want to eat. Even when I have a half cig it doesn’t stop or slow it down. Only a lozenge will make it somewhat bearable. This is a 1mg drop spread thru the day as I don’t smoke whole cigs ever, just a couple drags here and there and I was forgetting one which brought the allotment down. One measly milligram can do this?
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yes your doing good-MY nicotine withdraw was intense at times too as a NEWBIE-i used 50 cigs a day and got down to 3-2 a day-exercising daily-coming here reading blogs and watching Joels videoes at whyquit.com and the intense was triggered by what i was thinking and MY emotional state-i was on this site the first 90 days-12 hours-i would fail and smoked a pack-finally i just surrender to MY Lord Jesus and prayed-dear Jesus if you dont take these cigs from ME i will smoke them until i drop dead in Jesus name amen i woke in morning-jan 6 2011-cold turkey quit-been TRYING to be of love service each day to HELP the next suffering nicotine addict-thank you for blogging i do appreciate your help TODAY-love you and WE-US-OUR-TOGETHER WILL STAY QUIT IN UNITY-at each person at the PROGRESS of their OWN recovery - amen