Symptoms of quitting smoking

If you are a smoker and thinking of quiting smoking – you’ve got to read this. More importantly you need to understand what it means to your health and wellbeing and what the symtoms of quiting smoking are. You will feel a change in your lifestyle when you stop this dreaded habit and since you have just got used to doing it, your body and all other internal systems will that have got used to your habit will react differently when they realize that they don’t have the nicotine coming into them any longer.

You are bound to have certain symptoms of quitting smoking when you start to live a life of a non smoker.

These symptoms may include:

1. Cravings: First and foremost you are definitely going to have the urge to smoke. They say bad habits die hard and you will witness this feeling of wanting to steal a smoke when you are trying to quit smokingt.
2. Depression: However if your conscience prevails over you and you still don’t go out for a smoke, you will see that you may become offbeat and get into a low or depressed mood. You feel that nothing works for you and you aren’t capable of anything. The key to overcome this is realizing that the reason for your feeling is because you’re depriving your body of the nicotine that it was regularly getting and not because you are not a capable person.
3. Mood changes: You may also feel anxiety, irritability, frustration or anger. This depends on how long you have been a smoker and your daily intake of cigarettes.
4. Sleep Changes: There are some patients who experience difficulty sleeping or sleep disturbances. You won’t feel yourself and might be going through a lot of restlessness no matter wether you are awake or asleep and as a result you will be left with drowsiness or fatigue all or most of the time.
5. Change in appetite: Smokers generally have a very small appetite and hence when you stop smoking you would find an increase in appetite that will be directly proportional to your weight gain.
6. Headaches, colds or coughing: You might also feel that you have a head ache, or cold related disorders like coughing, sneezing, sore throat etc.
7. Digestive disorders: with mouth ulcers and constipation also being major symptoms of people who quit smoking.

In spite of all these withdrawal symptoms that a you may have to go through, aren’t all these symptoms, including feeling off-color or under the weather great to go through? After all the withdrawl symptoms will pass and you will one day be a non-smoker , have great health and more money in your pocket.

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