<p>I recently quit smoking and all the withdrawals are killing me.
I can't concentrate, I'm always sleepy, I'm tense, etc.
It's hard for me to focus in class.
Has anybody gone through what I'm going through, and if you have, what are your advices.
I completely bombed my first math quiz, an easy quiz, because of the insane headache I was having.
I need help.....</p>
<p>Maybe it would be a better idea to quit over winter break…when you can better focus on your health and less on schoolwork.</p>
<p>I take it you’re not using a nicotine patch/gum?</p>
<p>If you made it this far then you are past the difficult part and success is yours if you just keep a positive mindset!</p>
<p>If you need a little help…Go get yourself a B complex vitamin that includes at least 50 mg of Niacin. Also drink lots of cranberry juice which flushes the toxins out of your system (or buy cranberry pills). And don’t forget about drinking several glasses of water. It really works!</p>
<p>^The whole “cranberry juice gets rid of toxins” thing is more or less a myth. It will flush out bacteria in your urinary tract and make you pee a lot, but that’s mainly it. It is good for you, though.</p>
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Even if it is a myth, it can create a placebo effect where the consumer thinks it’s working when it’s actually not, and helping as if it actually was working lolol.</p>
<p>I’d just wear 20 nicotine patches at once until thanksgiving or christmas. Or do some Gaylord Falker and chew 30 pieces of gum at the same time :)</p>
<p>And I also don’t believe in any of that drink water or each such and such plant/berry/fruit. Zchryevns is right about cranberries…they only make your urine slightly acidic which is only useful for preventing bladder or UT infections. The cranberry-urine connection is probably how the “flush toxins” myth got started.</p>
<p>If you’re hooked enough that you’re having withdrawal then start using a patch or nicotine gum.</p>
<p>This is why quitting smoking’s a bad idea :O</p>
<p>I took two advils and slept a little, it helped a little.
So should I wait to quit, or just continue on…?</p>
<p>Quit but take nicotine patches/gum
Weed may help too</p>
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<p>Haha people shouldn’t start smoking weed because they quit smoking cigarettes, that’s just transferring the addiction from one substance to another. I do agree with using nicotine patches/gum, though.</p>
<p>^^Hahahaha, what?! That’s an awful idea lol that just creates a new addiction. </p>
<p>OP you’ve already started so you might as well see it through. Get yourself a patch or some gum and slowly over time you can let go of the stuff.</p>
<p>^^Except you can’t get addicted to marijuana…</p>
<p>Dude you’re gonna need patches you can’t really quit nicotine cold turkey… especially not under the huge stress of college</p>
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<p>Lol wut? [Marijuana</a> - InfoFacts - NIDA](<a href=“http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofacts/marijuana.html]Marijuana”>Cannabis (Marijuana) DrugFacts | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA))</p>
<p>^^Lolwut indeed. Also, the addiction potential for a substance relative to an individual is not dependent on the substance itself when the individual is already an addict, so your (false) claim is a moot point.</p>
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<p>Because cocaine doesn’t cause addiction…it’s because of the person. You’re not very bright and hence not worth arguing with. [ignore]</p>
<p>Not solely dependent*, pardon me. What I meant was that when a person is already an addict, the addiction potential for any substance increases significantly. There’s no need for condescension.</p>
<p>Bottom line: Doing weed to get over cigarettes is an AWFUL idea ■■■■■ that still cracks me up hours later.</p>
<p>It really isnt if you look at the facts</p>
<p>Marijuana is not physically addictive. Period. End of story.</p>