Stopped Smoking 6 months ago still having problems? -
Stopped Smoking 6 months ago still having problems? -
I stopped smoking 6 months ago, well Im been getting colds, cant breath and I get sooo irrattied. And my other problem is now I have a issure. Like I cant be in a large group of people my mind keeps wondering I keep freaking out about things I get all worked up. I have ADD I was thinking maybe its that I dont know but I have never felt like this before and Its driving me crazy.. I cant really explain like what goes on in my head and what I think I just get all worked up about things and start freaking out and I start feelign werid like Im gonna pass out or something.. When I am home I m fine but once I leave my house then I start freaking and its ever since I stopped smoking.. I have a doctors apointment but I was thinking about going back to smoking cause I cant take this no more but Im not gonna. But I wanna know is that has anyone else gone threw this before because my sister stopped and she not going threw this or is my husband he stopped to..Your experiencing withdrawals.Addiction and Withdrawal
Billions of dollars have been spent in the United States fighting over whether or not nicotine is addictive. The position of the medical and scientific communities is that nicotine is most definitely addictive. Nicotine meets both the psychological and physiological measures of addiction:
Psychological - People who are addicted to something will use it compulsively, without regard for its negative effects on their health or their life. A good example would be someone who continues to smoke, even as they use an oxygen tank to breathe because of the damage smoking has done to their lungs.
Physiological - Neuroscientists call anything that turns on the reward pathway in the brain addictive. Because stimulating this neural circuitry makes you feel so good, you will continue to do it again and again to get those feelings back.
Nicotine-s effects are short-lived, lasting only 40 minutes to a couple of hours. This leads people to smoke or chew tobacco periodically throughout the day to dose themselves with nicotine. Add to this the fact that you can become tolerant to nicotine-s effects -- you need to use more and more nicotine to reach the same degree of stimulation or relaxation -- and you can see how people would quickly move from smoking one cigarette to a pack a day habit.
What happens when smokers abruptly stop using nicotine? While you-re using nicotine-containing products, your body adapts the way it works to compensate for the effects of the nicotine. For example, neurons in your brain might increase or decrease the number of receptors or the amount of different neurotransmitters affected by the presence of nicotine. When you no longer have nicotine in your body, these physiological adaptations for nicotine remain. The net result is that your body can-t function the same way in the absence of the drug as it did before, at least in the short term. People trying to quit nicotine experience this as:
Irritability
Anxiety
Depression
Craving for nicotine
Over a period of about a month, these symptoms and the physiological changes subside. But for many smokers, even a day without nicotine is excruciating. Every year, millions of people try to break the nicotine habit; only 10 percent of them succeed. Most people throw in the towel after less than a week of trying, because the way that nicotine rewires the reward system in the brain makes nicotine-s pull irresistible.it is a great change for your brain not to get the usual drug, nicotine, any longer. It will take time for your nerve cells to adapt to the new situation. But rest assured, you will not feel like this all the rest of your life. Give your system time to heal, and it will heal. I never smoked myself, but I have lots of friends that have been smoking, and some of them also quit smoking. To some it was very easy, to others it was almost impossibly difficult and took a long time. But believe me, if you persist, if you fight to the end of the problems, the day will come when you will feel normal again. If you have been smoking for many years your brain is sick and need time to get well again. Please, don-t give up.
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