24 Nicotine Withdrawal Symptoms…
That are only real if you want them to be.
First, let’s clarify what counts as something you’re abstaining from on a path towards freedom from addiction to nicotine:
- Cigarettes
- Cigars
- Chew
- Snuff
- Snus
- Blunts and blunt wraps
- Hookahs
- Nicotine gum
- Nicotine patches
- Nicotine lozenges
- Nicotine inhalers
- eCigarettes
- Vapes
- Mods
- eCig liquid
- Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS)
If you’ve tried one of these, you probably have or you probably will substitute one for another before you quit entirely. You will definitely stop smoking, but you might die first. Now that we’ve clarified that you will quit smoking, let’s discuss how to voluntarily quit while alive.
Ask how to quit, follow instructions, avoid nicotine in all forms once you have quit.
While quitting, there will be at least 24 symptoms of nicotine withdrawal that you’ll be creating in your own mind:
- Cravings for nicotine
- Irritability
- Depression
- Fear of failure
- Resentment
- Headaches
- Loss of concentration
- Anxiety
- Learned helplessness
- Altered perception of time
- Boredom
- Hunger
- Obsession
- Compulsion
- Irrational thought processes
- Anger
- Guilt
- Feelings of inadequacy
- Loneliness
- Self-obsession
- Tiredness
- Cravings for sugar
- Self-deception
- Rationalizing a future failure that does not have a rational reason to occur.
If you feel any of these symptoms and want them to stop, tell someone how you’re feeling. Following this bit of advice will prevent the disease of addiction from flourishing in the shadows of your mind. It’s doing push-ups getting ready for when it’s alone with you, but it dies in the light. First though, achieving complete abstinence from nicotine is essential. It can be absorbed through every part of your body and will always get to your mind.