Can you physically tell when nicotine is out? - Smoking Cessation Message Board

Jwande · 04-25-2007, 12:56 PM

This is my 3rd day of my quit. Took Chantix for the first week and smoked like the program says. First quit day was a constant reminder not to smoke, and the second day was a little better.

This morning I had the hand-shakes and sweat on my brow and really really wanted to smoke. I went through 6 half liter bottles of water and a bag of sugarfree Jolly Ranchers! It was that way until lunch.

I still get the cravings, but I just tell myself I don't do that anymore. In between the cravings, I feel perfectly normal, and actually good. It seems to have come about very quickly and I wondered if all of the nicotine was out of my system? That is the only thing I can come up with and wonder if anyone else further along in their quit noticed a drastic shift when they felt better.
Jwande

janpo1 · 04-25-2007, 01:51 PM

I'd like to know this answer also.

I too am on the 3rd day of my quit and today has been the worst so far. I really want a cig too but i am not going to do it.

First day was like yours~ had to keep telling myself not to smoke. 2nd day was great. I felt great!

Today~ man it's hard but it's not physical cravings i think.

Hopefully tomorrow will be better for you and I Jwande.

djm310 · 04-25-2007, 01:56 PM

I don't know, but what I've read and heard is that it takes 72 hrs for the nicotine to leave the body...and that the 3rd day is sometimes better and sometimes the worst. But that it is much better starting Day 4.
It seemed like mine was both...sometimes I felt okay, sometimes it was really bad. The weird thing is that I have very few cravings...I feel more like I have the flu, just achy and dizzy, and unlike most who have said stay busy, I've been best watching stupid TV shows that take no brain power.
I haven't gained any weight and I am not hungrier, which always gets me started again.

So today is Day 4 and this morning I felt great...now the weird stuff is back a bit, but not like yesterday. i always wonder how much is psychological. In my mind all I had to do was get through yesterday. And I did!

Jwande · 04-25-2007, 02:06 PM

I agree with you about doing things that don't take brain power! I do have the brain-fog. I haven't gained any weight either and I am starting to think mine will be psychological from now on. Still one day at a time!

Memaw649 · 04-25-2007, 08:59 PM

Hi ya'll,
That is just your body yelling at you for stopping the drug nicotine.
It will get better. I promise!!
I didn't do anything at all but lay on the couch at first. Then get up and go to bed at night. I tried to sleep as much as I could during withdrawals. They say it takes 72 hours for the nicotine to leave the body after the last cigarette is smoked, but withdrawals can last any where from 1 to 3 weeks.

Ya'll hang in there. It will be worth it!! You are going to be so proud of yourself!! You are doing great!!

Memaw