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The aggression

  • 15-10-2008 4:14pm
    #1
    Evil-p
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 130 ✭✭


    Hi folks,

    I gave up the smokes 33 days ago after a 14 year habit starting when i was 12. I used the patches for the first week and then I just stopped them after a week and i was fine (I hate all this anti-NRT stuff - whatever works for you)! Anyway although i do miss the smokes sometimes i'm just wondering does anyone else have these mad flare ups of anger and aggression? I feel like i have totally lost any tolerance i had and i'm not being too nice to people around me at the moment. Not all the time but enough to p*ss my boyf off. Sometimes i'm sitting there with my fists balled and i feel like thumping someone - and i'm really not the thumping type! I don't think this is caused by cravings, i think its caused by the release i had from stress being removed and not having the tools i need to process stressful situations. Does anyone else find this? I don't mind eating more, i don't mind missing the smokes, but i hate feeling so angry and out of control.

    i smoked since the time i was about 13 pretty much full time so my entire teenage/adult life i never dealt with anything without smoking.

    Any feedback on this element would be appreciated cos i feel like i'm going nuts!!


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  • #2
    NewFrockTuesday
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭NewFrockTuesday


    Hi there! I can totally relate to your murderous feelings! I was a smoker from 15 - 32 with only ever a few months off in between if I ever did try to give them up. The feelings of rage that used to well up inside me through sheer desperation for a fag were unreal. I used to literally stand there talking to people and in my head I would be batterring them!

    I never found a way to process the rage but I did find that it lessenned. Hoofing plenty of Vit C and drinking lots of water did help the in between moments and gradually sanity came to reign once again. Ive been naughty a few times and surcumbed when Ive been having a glass of wine, but in general, the psyco bitch from hell has abated.

    I used to find that it hit me at certain times of the day. My worst period is after work when Im heading homme and just miss the bus by 3 seconds or the dart. Tat is full on tantrum bag flinging stranger grabbing by the throat and shaking them till their teeth fall out two min period that Ive yet to learn to live with. It gets better but though.

    One tip, and I knwo we hear it all the time, is to get exercise. Honestly, I think my rage fuels half the distance I run! :) Get out there and pound that pavement and by the time you get home, youll be too tired and high to be mad.

    Hope that helps.

    Love from one psyco hellcat to another. :) xx


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