Question: My quit begins on Thursday (taking Friday off work) and will spend the next 72 hours doing anything but dipping. My wife is planning to leave town with my son for three days while I begin my quit. Is this a good idea or a bad idea? Will I need her around? Will I be so sick that I can't even function?
One of the bad things about this site is that it sometimes makes the quit suck sound like the second coming of the black death. Fricking pansies. A bad case of influencsa (the flu) will make the suck seem like no more than simple heartburn.
You will be able to function just fine. What you can expect is to be in a fog, meaning that you will not be able to think clearly for more than a few seconds at a a time. You will not be able to concentrate. You may get headaches, stomach aches, general body aches, nervousness, shakes, blurred vision, and constipation. People rarely get ALL of the above and your results may vary. For me, it was headaches and constipation.
Plan your 72 hour weekend to work on something that takes lots of manual labor but little concentration. Til the garden, mow, seed and fertilize the yard, wash the cars, dig a koy pond, fill in a koy pond, get the idea? Just make sure you drink lots of water and have lots of nibbly stuff to put in your mouth when your brain tries to tell you that you "need" dip. Just eat a pretzel or some sunflower seeds and the dip crave goes away pretty fast. Keep in mind, the more salty the snack, the more water you need to drink to avoid the worse headaches.
One last thing, keep reminding yourself that tobacco makes EVERYTHING WORSE and it makes you too stupid to realise that it is making EVERYTHING WORSE. The suck you will feel is just your brain starting to wake up from it's stupidity and realizing how much the tobacco was making EVERYTHING WORSE.
