how long does nicotine withdrawal last?

Question

okay ive gone cold turkey, how long til im off the smokes and i can stop feeling dizzy and pissed off?

Answer 1

like two weeks

Answer 2

The actual withdrawl due to nicotine dependancy usually only lasts about 48-72 hours. After that...it's all a case of craving due to habit & mental dependancy. You will always get these craving flareups...even if you haven't touched a cigarette in 10 years! To help curve the urge to smoke...whenever you get a craving to pick up a cigarette, take 3 deep breaths & tell yourself NO. Try it...I swear it will work. Another thing is to quit drinking ANYTHING other than water. Add a little lemon...it helps. Take vitamin B-12 & calcium. The calcium will actually help to obsorb the nicotine from your body. I quit smoking cold turkey after 25 years of being a heavy smoker. I was given a plan from a bioligist friend who travels nationally and gives "Cold Turkey Seminars". The advice I gave above is a small part of the plan, but the most important part, believe it or not. I'm going on my 4th month without a cigarette...and have no desire to start smoking again. I just do the breathing whenever the urge flares up. I feel great being a member of the non-smoking world.

Answer 3

The actual withdrawl due to nicotine dependancy usually only lasts about 48-72 hours. After that...it's all a case of craving due to habit & mental dependancy. You will always get these craving flareups...even if you haven't touched a cigarette in 10 years!

To help curve the urge to smoke...whenever you get a craving to pick up a cigarette, take 3 deep breaths & tell yourself NO. Try it...I swear it will work. Another thing is to quit drinking ANYTHING other than water. Add a little lemon...it helps. Take vitamin B-12 & calcium. The calcium will actually help to obsorb the nicotine from your body.

I quit smoking cold turkey after 25 years of being a heavy smoker. I was given a plan from a bioligist friend who travels nationally and gives "Cold Turkey Seminars". The advice I gave above is a small part of the plan, but the most important part, believe it or not. I'm going on my 4th month without a cigarette...and have no desire to start smoking again. I just do the breathing whenever the urge flares up. I feel great being a member of the non-smoking world.

Answer 4

Hey Ashley H,

If anyone in the world is qualified to answer this - it's me.
I was a heavy smoker for 51 years.

Yep - that's fifty one years.
Gave it up, also cold turkey, 3 years ago.
Who needs patches?
Just don't put anything in your mouth and set fire to it again.

It doesn't take too long for the nicotine withdrawal to go.
What does take a long time to go is the THINKING you need a smoke.

I can go maybe a couple of weeks without even thinking about smoking and then, usually when you concentrating very hard on something, all of a sudden you get the old urge back.

It only lasts a few seconds but I know some people who couldn't get through those few seconds and lit up.

This is why it is so important NOT to have any smokes laying around the place.

Some people who have given up recommend that you DO keep a packet in a drawer. Don't you believe it.

The most important thing to remember is to remind yourself how hard the first few week were. It really was a battle, wasn't it? But you did it. And good for you. If you started to smoke again, you struggled for nothing.

You owe it to yourself not to start again.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Personally, I found approx 72 hours or so, I ached all over in places I did not even have!

Hang in there, it will be worth it, food tastes wonderful if not too good. Still hanker after a ciggy now and then, and that's 2O years down the line1 But would never start cos I could not face going through that again!

Saved a fortune and my life!!!

Answer 7

in 3 days it is all out of your system. As for the emotional things, you have to realize that you have been smoking as a means of 'soothing'. Now that you are no longer being soothed, the anger that has been covered up is coming to the surface.

Look at it from a distance, just watch/observe it and you will realize that it is not you. You are the part that is watching it. You have an "energy intelligence" living in your head that is not you. It's contamination, a stain, from reacting emotionally to past and present stresses.

Fascinating

Answer 8

The symptoms go away in about 10 days, but the craving lasts forever. You just have to be strong. I have not smoked since February 1986 but I still can't go into a room where there are smokers without wanting to light up. Keep up the good work, think of all the money you will be saving and all the terrible health problems you will be avoiding in the future by not smoking. Be strong.

Answer 9

Nicotine lasts in the system for up to 48 hours.

Dizziness - Migraine headaches - Super tiredness - should go away within 48 hours.

Pissed off --- should go away 3-6 months, and flare up here and there for the rest of your life. Learning to control anger through Yoga, stress relief exercises, is major in quitting.

Answer 10

I'm going through the same thing and am in week 2 now. Apparently its takes about that time to cool but it never completely goes. Drinking lots of water and answering questions on this site helps

Answer 11

I've heard that actual physical addiction is goin in 5-7 days (not sure if I believe that) but unfortunatly, the mental addiction lasts forever.

I quit smoking a year and a half ago, and I still have the smokers dreams.

Sorry.