Anyone Had This Experience? Posted: 06-10-06 02:35am
Hello everyone,
I want to share this experience with you
guys and I would like to know if anybody
had it? I didn’t smoke one day because
of a special reason. Next day lit one and
I got to know how my body get used to
nicotine I felt how nicotine enter into my
body. I wasn’t able to stand at that
time had to sit to finish that cigarette.
It was like scanning my body while I
smoke.
Anyone had this experience?
Marvin
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Raene
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Joined: 19 Jan 2007 Posts: 37 Location: ON, Canada
Posted: 01-24-07 01:36am
I had a similar experience after being
without smokes for two days.
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Raene
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Joined: 19 Jan 2007 Posts: 37 Location: ON, Canada
Posted: 01-24-07 01:37am
I had a similar experience after being
without smokes for two days.
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AbsentMinded20
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Joined: 13 Feb 2007 Posts: 24 Location: Canada
Posted: 02-24-07 17:41pm
Thats why smoking is so bad for you...its
low doses of poison! ive smoked for 4
years- Iquit two days ago....
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UCanQuit
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Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 109 Location: SEATTLE
Posted: 02-25-07 11:19am
This has probably happened to any smoker
that stopped smoking for a day or more and
then smoked a cigarette.
This just goes to show the illusion of
smoking. People that start smoking again
after quitting are looking for that
AAHHHHHhhhh sensation.
The problem is they won't find it. What
they usually feel is shaky, an elevated
heart beat, dizzy, a feeling of depression
and other symptoms.
The same symptoms that we most likely got
the first time we smoked.
That AAHHHhhh sensation only comes from
relieving withdrawal. It is not some
pleasure that smokers get to indulge in
that non smokers are being deprived of.
Sure nicotine releases large amounts of
dopamine. It does this by mimicing the
neurotransmitter acetylcholine. This gives
it the ability to reach the brain's reward
pathways.
The problem though is that the brain needs
to keep its balance. It tries to regulate
how much dopamine is being released. It
can't regulate nicotine as it is a foreign
substance(poison), so it has no other
choice but to turn down it's own
sensitivity to acetylcholine. This in turn
makes the smoker rely a lot more on
cigarettes to "feel good" or more
accurately, feel nicotine normal.
Some of the other symptoms of smoking
after not smoking for a while. Symptoms
such as raised heart beat, shakiness.
The reason this happens is because
nicotine also has the ability to fit the
smoker's adrenaline locks.
When nicotine metabolizes and it's effects
start to dissipate, this leaves the smoker
with a fight or flight feeling. The
edginess a smoker feels when craving. The
heightened anxiety feeling.
The smoker smokes then feels "better".
They focus on the cigarette relieving this
uncomfortable feeling and quckly forget
that it was the previous cigarette that
created this problem in the first place.
This is the cycle of addiction.
As Absent said. Nicotine is a poison. Drop
for drop it's more lethal than strychnine
and three times deadlier than arsenic.
60mg can kill a person. To put that in
perspective. It takes 100 mg of Diamond
Back Rattlesnake poison to kill a person.
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Marvin123
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 27 May 2006 Posts: 48 Location: Tampa
Posted: 04-23-07 06:23am
Hello UCanQuit,
Very good information about what I had
gone through...thanks for sharing...
Marvin.
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dj12
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 31 Location: , New Zealand
Posted: 08-10-07 22:30pm
this just happened to me yesterday! i went
on a short family holiday trip and no
smoking there... when i came back i lit
one up and my heartbeat was off the roof
and my hands were shaking.
they say all traces of nicotine leaves ur
body after 8 hours of no smoking.
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jennay7188
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 08 Aug 2007 Posts: 12 Location: alabama
Posted: 08-19-07 01:46am
No. At 8 hours the levels of nicotine and
carbon monoxide in the blood are halved.
At 24 hours carbon monoxide is completely
out of your bloodstream. At 48
hours nicotine is finally completely out
of your bloodstream.
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jennay7188
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Joined: 08 Aug 2007 Posts: 12 Location: alabama
This Is Informative, Good Deal. Posted: 08-19-07 01:55am
8 HOURS
-The levels of nicotine and carbon
monoxide in the blood are halved.
-Oxygen levels increase and return to
normal.
24 HOURS
-Lungs start to work more efficiently and
clear out mucus left by cigarette smoke.
-Carbon monoxide is completely out of your
bloodstream.
48 HOURS
-Nicotine is completely out of your
bloodstream.
-Sense of taste and sense sharpen.
ONE WEEK
-Most of the nicotine withdrawal symptoms
are completely gone..
WITHIN TWO TO TWELVE WEEKS
-Circulation is improving – blood flow
improves to hands and feet. Skin looks
fresher.
-Overall energy level increases.
WITHIN THREE MONTHS
-The tiny hairs (cilia) in the lungs that
were paralysed by the tar start to work
again and are able to remove the mucus so
you can cough it up. In fact, when this
happens you might find that you are
coughing even more than usual, don't worry
this is a good thing and it will soon
pass.
THREE TO NINE MONTHS
-Lung function has increased by 10%.
-Less breathing problems.
-Less coughing, wheezing, shortness of
breath and sinus congestion.
AFTER FIVE YEARS
-Risk of having a heart attack half that
of a smoker.
-Risk of cancer of the mouth and throat
half that of a smoker.
-Risk of having a stroke the same as a
non-smoker (5 – 15 years after
quitting).
AFTER TEN YEARS…
-Risk of lung cancer half that of a
smoker
-Risks of having a heart attack are the
same as if you'd never smoked a single
cigarette!
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Ani_stasia
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Posted: 04-17-08 08:17am
jennay-that was great info, I printed it
out and gave it to my husband, who I'm
encouraging to quit.
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StopSmoking
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Nicotine reacts different with everyone Posted: 05-29-08 10:08am
I was never a heavy smoker, but I found
the nicotine issue not as hard of the
habit to break over the actual having a
cigarette to hold and have in my mouth,
sort of like a pacifier, which helped calm
nerves and stress. I found the nicotine
not to be the most missed aspect of
smoking, so I wonder how many would enjoy
smoking without nicotine?
I am using new electronic cigarettes with
no carcinogens and within two months I was
able to eliminate nicotine and find I
don't miss it at all, but I still enjoy
the act of smoking, so this was my perfect
solution, as it is for everyone I shared
technology with. It tastes like a tobacco
cigarette, looks like one, inhales smoke
like one, but it is a FAUX cigarette,
amazing new technology which everyone asks
about when they see it.
