I can't fucking sleep....one week with no nicotine...it should be out of my system right? I just wake up all the time and get restless..i should be asleep right now but I can't. I used to sleep like a machine. Doing that shit like it was my job son.
During my first couple of weeks I would take a book to bed and read until I fell asleep. It helped get my mind off of it and I was able to relax. Stay strong, it will get better.
Dave,
My first two weeks were absolute hell. I couldn't sleep at night and would fall asleep driving while at work. Angry as a hornet and ready to pounce at the slightest thing. I've come to see that it is all part of the suck. I've seen it written that the harder the original suck, the stronger and more committed the quit. That's what we talk about when we say, "Embrace the suck" , really pull that fucker in, own it, relish in its pain and turmoil. Sadistic, yeah it is, but well worth it when you come out on the other side. I am enjoying life and am seeing my kids and family so much more because I spend no time hiding myself in a far away place with a fucking spit bottle and a pile of cancer in my lip. How fucking selfish and ridiculous was that? What person of high morals, ethics, and integrity would put an inanimate, poisonous carcinogen ahead of their own flesh, blood, and love?
When we look at it how it truly is, not through the rose colored lenses of addiction, we see how an addictive mind set can truly rob us of the lives we work so hard to obtain. I'm here to say, not here, not now, not me.