What happens when you try to give up tobacco or cigarettes?
When you try to quit smoking, you will get withdrawal symptoms.
These include:
- irritability
- anger
- hostility
- anxiety
- nervousness
- panic
- poor concentration
- disorientation
- lightheadedness
- sleep disturbances
- constipation
- mouth ulcers
- dry mouth
- sore throat
- gums or tongue
- pain in limbs
- sweating
- depression
- fatigue
- fearfulness
- sense of loss
- craving tobacco
- hunger
- and coughing (body getting rid of the mucus clogging the lungs).
Symptoms may last from a few weeks to several months. After withdrawal subsides… urges for nicotine (for the effects of the drug) occur in response to all kinds of cues to smoke or chew.