View Poll Results: Has giving up nicotine ever caused serious problems for you in any activities of daily living?

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  • No, nothing major

    28 15.73%
  • Performing job duties or school assignments accurately and on time

    86 48.31%
  • Performing household duties (e.g. balancing checkbook)

    65 36.52%
  • Remembering important things such as appointments, paying bills

    76 42.70%
  • Driving a motor vehicle safely

    32 17.98%
  • Operating machinery/using tools safely

    17 9.55%
  • Getting along with people

    135 75.84%
  • Participating in social activities

    103 57.87%
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Does nicotine abstinence screw up your life? in Health and Medical Issues; Originally Posted by frankie1 YES Indeed!!! I wish your poll were not so limited. Curtailed, not abstinence, resulted in: heart ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by frankie1 View Post
    YES Indeed!!! I wish your poll were not so limited. Curtailed, not abstinence, resulted in:
    heart palpitations
    dizziness
    nausea
    urgent bowel
    restless legs
    spasmodic jerking

    Smoked a cig and got immediate relief. Went to doc, he said may be tobacco withdrawal. Have had several more episodes, but less severe. Am currently undergoing a heart study including 3 weeks heart monitor, several EKGs, nuclear stress test and an echo. All studies so far are fine. All blood work is fine. Will see cardiologist on 11/25 so will talk to him again about tobacco withdrawal.
    That would be a different poll, asking about the physical symptoms. This one was on the effect upon your ability to carry on with the normal activities of daily living.
    Last edited by Vocalek; 11-18-2009 at 05:01 PM.


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    During withdrawal, my brain is in a fog and I'm tense. These symptoms subside over about 72 hours and then I'm fine. I suppose this makes me one of the lucky ones.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Kurt View Post
    Thanks for the choline-related links, vocalek! This is all totally related to the long and very detailed thread

    So - are we getting it or are we not - nicotine

    IMHO, one needs to consider the MAOIs in analogs too. But yes, nic is my friend and mental fuel. Without it, my brain becomes my worst enemy. I do a LOT of programming, and if I didn't have my e-juice, NOTHING would get done! Losing friends would be the least of my worries...
    Additionally, the damaged nerves in my arms would be in agony without nicotine. Given the amount of work I've been doing these last two months I should be almost crippled, but I think nicotine is allowing me to get doen what needs to get done, which is 99% keyboard...finger/wrist fine motor activity. I am doing better now than I was when smoking, which I didn't think was possible. But when I quit nicotine, the nerves are one of the first things to let me know. And it will likely be that way for the rest of my life. I guess that could make me a candidate for prescription vaping! Western medicine is in general worse than useless for chronic nerve pain.

    Funny. Seems the PV has been working so well that I almost forgot about what the nicotine had been treating in me originally! Guess they work. For me Vocalek's OP question about nicotine abstinence would be like asking me if not wearing my eye glasses would cause withdrawal or negatively impact my life.

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    Don to This: Performing household duties

    Actually it cause problem on performing some task on daily bases...

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    I stopped smoking once for 30 days in the military while living on base. Started again because I couldn`t get any sleep due to smoking in my dreams would wake me up. Which ended up bothering my roommates. I`d rip my bedding apart looking for the cig I thought I dropped till they would remind me i stopped and did not even have any to smoke.



    After 3 day of no cigs I would be very grumpy and figured I was going to get hurt by others or myself if I ever tried again. Lack of sleep more then likely did effect my working ability which I`m thinking of now so actually I should have checked that box on the pole. Another thing I've noticed is if I cut back on cigs I was finding myself very sleepy. Could be my mind saying go to sleep we will smoke there.



    I also found since the e-cig that I was feeling sleepy again. Then I was only hitting the PV every so often. Now I mixed a flavor with the juice I liked and hit it more often and found it weakened that sleepy feeling. Hitting the PV a bunch now keeps me up. I can for sure see what amount is good for me would change for another.



    Once again this group has become a great source of knoleadge for me I thank you all once again.

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    I would vote on this poll, but the absense of nicotine in my life affects all of these aspects in my life.

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    Admin: Could you please move this into the new Polls subforum? Thanks!


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    Quote Originally Posted by DarKm4773r View Post
    I would vote on this poll, but the absense of nicotine in my life affects all of these aspects in my life.
    Please do vote. You may select as many checkboxes as you like.


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    I have stopped smoking for 15 days for illness...
    I didn't feel the need to smoke, but I have taken back for game...
    if I returned back not riprenderie to smoke

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    Wow all I can say, me without my vitamin N is a bad thing. One of the few pleasures that I have anywhere that I go.

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