Today marks my first full day nicotine-free, and I am not feeling good!

Everything makes me irrationally angry. I've been able to hold myself back from having any sort of outburst, but I'm starting to feel like its only a matter of time before I snap on someone without meaning to.

I already quit drinking cold turkey (I am a recovered alcoholic), but I don't remember the alcohol withdrawals being this bad. I was physically ill for a long stretch, but I don't remember being this anxious and twitchy. I feel like I could crawl out of my own skin!

Anyone else whose quit cold turkey, how did you deal with the anxiety?

I tried a few times to quit cold turkey and it always ended in me angrily buying another pack. After my grandmother passed away from lung cancer, I knew I needed to do something different. What finally worked for me was gradually cutting down. I had a cute cigarette case and would only put 5 a day in it at first, then reduced the amount every few days. I kept the case on my kitchen counter when I was home and put a bowl with gum and candy beside it...I found that A LOT of times, I could satisfy the desire to smoke by satisfying that "oral fixation" with something other than a cigarette.

Don't give up! Even if you have to try again and again, from personal experience you WILL feel better. Sending you all the luck!

Thankyou!! I think I'm going to try sunflower seeds for the oral fixation. I'm probably going to ask my doctor about nicotine patches or something. I dont think cold turkey is going to work out for me, but I definitely still want to kick the habit. :)