For the past five years I have been a regular ten to twelve cigarettes a day smoker. Starting monday the 7th of June I become a non-smoker. In the past eight days or so I have not had a single cigarette.
The experience of quitting smoking has provided a drastic illustration of how addicted my body had become to smoking and regular nicotine. The removal of this chemical has effected my body significantly and it's rather disturbing how much one chemical which is not natural to the body can affect a person.
Inability to focus, broken sleep, mood swings, random hunger and urges to eat and a constant mental battle with your brain as you convince yourself that you don't need to smoke has been my challenges in the past week. Even now the cravings remain and I find myself irritable and lacking focus.
One thing has come from my past weeks experience. After putting up with what feels like a week of self torture I very much do no want to do it again and thus the notion of smoking again is very unlikely.
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