Good morning Bitcoinland.
Still bouncing along in the $9k range I see... currently $9200USD/$11783CAD (Bitcoinaverage).
Ho hum.
How long did the withdrawal symptoms last, and how bad were they?
I was pretty angry and irritable for a solid 6-8 weeks before I started chilling out.
I guess I'm lucky. I quit a 2-pack-a-day habit 33 years ago almost by accident.
I caught such a nasty cold/flu/pneumonia I was in bed for 3 days barely getting up to re-hydrate myself and go to the can.
When my fever broke and my mind cleared, I realized I hadn't had a smoke in 3 days. I didn't need to quit. I just needed to not start smoking again.
Quitting is not an action. Smoking is. All you need to do to quit is to not do anything. To smoke you need to acquire tobacco and fire, light the cigarette and inhale. Unless you're actively smoking, you've already quit. Just don't start again.
I suffered no withdrawal symptoms. Maybe I had them when I was in my feverish delirium and wasn't aware of them.
I also didn't suck out like a whiny little crybaby and totally avoid tobacco smoke. I continued to mix a little tobacco in the occasional hash doob. I chose to sit in the smoking sections of smoking-segregated restaurants and in the smoking cars of trains.
I found that non-smoking sections were full of anti-smoking fussbudgets and I find secondhand stress far more offensive than secondhand smoke. The smoking sections generally have a higher caliber of people. I also found that people take their annoying brats to the non-smoking areas.
Quitting is easy. Just don't smoke.
That's, exactly how I quit too, And I too find the people in the smoking section when it existed to be more interesting, however, for a long time I couldn't stand the smell of cigarette smoke. I was ok with pipe and cigar smoke though.
Today I enjoy the occasional fine cigar without any problems or craving for more tobacco products.
