When someone quits smoking cold turkey, about how long does it take for the nicotine withdrawal symptoms (esp. irritability) to set in and subside?
If we're talking about my mother, 25 years.
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Cashmere - Jun 07, 2005 4:59:49 pm PDT #237 of 10001
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msbelle - Jun 07, 2005 5:01:28 pm PDT #238 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
DX - zip it. I have met them and they seem sane. They are not all young crazy kids - they are parents and settled type folks. Sure, there will be long hours for deadlines and stuff, but they swear mostly normal work days.
Daisy Jane - Jun 07, 2005 5:02:56 pm PDT #239 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
If you have insurance, they can proscribe drugs for that. A friend of mine was on them when he quit, but he never really got irritable, so they just made him super cheery. He had to get off them because his wife who'd just had a baby couldn't take it.
Emily - Jun 07, 2005 5:03:19 pm PDT #240 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Isn't pleurisy what the sister has in The Glass Menagerie? Cause it sounds like blue roses?
That's it, that's all I got. That and this crippling sense of being a big old faker. Back to Forgotten Calculus I go.
Jesse - Jun 07, 2005 5:04:24 pm PDT #241 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dumb question: When someone quits smoking cold turkey, about how long does it take for the nicotine withdrawal symptoms (esp. irritability) to set in and subside?
Set in? About as long as the person usually goes between cigarettes. Subside? God only knows. I think "they" say four days or a week or something.
msbelle - Jun 07, 2005 5:05:02 pm PDT #242 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Anne - that really depends on the person and how much they smoked. I quit cold turkey and probably was at my most irritable two days in for about 2-3 days, but I was mostly a social smoker and probably only averaged 1/3 pack a day when I quit.
tommyrot - Jun 07, 2005 5:05:18 pm PDT #243 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Consumption is a good one. But my all-time favorite old illness is the screaming shits.
Anne W. - Jun 07, 2005 5:06:25 pm PDT #244 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Thanks for the input. (Goes back to writing, w/ some reasonable sounding info in hand.)
msbelle - Jun 07, 2005 5:09:30 pm PDT #245 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am choosing my quitting outfit! hee. I thought I would quit today, so I had worn one of my favorite dresses. I think tomorrow I will wear a new skirt with lots of embroidery on it - and a bright pink tee and a white cardigan. oh and white slides. also? an imaginary tiara.
in my head I will finish every sentence with "eat it!" hee.
Lilty Cash - Jun 07, 2005 5:14:16 pm PDT #246 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Anne, physical withdrawal symptoms are supposed to be largely over withing a few days- for me, irritability was more mental than physical, though.