I've always had a problem going to sleep. But I have slept better since I quit smoking. I never ever smoked bed though. Anybody else going to sleep these days clutching their PV more often than their spouse?
6 days off analogs strange dreams!!!
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I had wild dreams the first couple of weeks. But it was similar to when I'd been on high dose patch. I cut down to a lower nicotine level later in the day and no more wild dreams.
My guess is that it is nicotine related. One of the possible side-effects of the nicotine patches and gums is that you may have "vivid" dreams.
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I have really, really interesting dreams so that has never bothered me. The last nightmare I remember having must have been at least 25-30 years ago.
Nicotine Patches, Gum, and Inhalers for Quitting Smoking
I have really, really interesting dreams so that has never bothered me. The last nightmare I remember having must have been at least 25-30 years ago.
Strange dreams the first week. Now I vape in my dreams. I don't think I ever remember smoking in my dreams.
Sounds like a few years ago when I tried the patch to quit analogs. If i wore the patch to bed I would have some very vivid dreams. I hated them.
Like others said, try lowering nic levels before bed.
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I've also been having very strange and very vivid dreams. Never even associated it with quitting analogs. But come to think of it, it started happeneing right after I quit analogs 7 weeks ago. Hmmm
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I never had strange dreams when I switched to ecigs. I did when I took Wellbutrin though. Crazy bad dreams, vivid. In one of them I dreamed that a team of doctors was in my house and they were going to perform surgery on my knee. They put me up on the kitchen island and cut my knee open. Then, they got confused about something and had to look it up in a book. They still were confused and all left to go figure out what they needed to know, leaving me on the table with my knee all cut open. I kept calling for my husband to come help me, but he would only yell from upstairs that he was late for work and didn't have time to help me. Then I woke up. That was a terrible dream. Another on involved my Ph.D. Advisor trying to kill me. I was trying to hide, and he was stalking me with a huge cleaver.
Anyway, that was maybe 10 years ago that I took Wellbutrin, and I still remember the vivid nightmares. Lol.
Anyway, that was maybe 10 years ago that I took Wellbutrin, and I still remember the vivid nightmares. Lol.
I also experience this and a few people are right about the high nic levels. Patches are infomous for this. I had a dream there was a huge dear trying to get in my apartment then relized I live on the 4th floor. Damn that was a big buck!!!!
From Bob Dylan--" If my mind dreams could be seen, they'd put my head in a guillotine" So it goes but nighttime is now very entertaining. I now have material that Stephen King could use. LOL.--Bo
I had more vivid dreams after 3 days of not smoking. They stopped after about a week for me.
You know, quitting smoking is different for everyone. Some people in here just seem to fly right through the experience with next to no issues at all. I had hard core quit smoking withdrawal problems. Pretty much the same as with any other quit smoking attempt. Except this time I actually stayed quit.
You all probably know by now that this isn't just about the nicotine. Your body and brain chemistry has to get adjusted to not getting all that other crap that you get from smoking. Including MAOI's (antidepressants), reduced amounts of nicotine, ammonia, carbon monoxide and on and on.
The two hardest things for me were the insomnia and my brain being a complete fried out zero attention span mess. The insomnia lasted about a month, the fried brain lasted only two weeks. About 10 days into quitting I lost a credit card. In my own apartment. Ironically, about 20 minutes after placing an order for more e-cig stuff. To this day I never found that credit card. I sat at the computer... I ordered stuff with it... I... not a frickin' clue what happened to it after that. For all I know I put it in a tuna melt and ate it. After two days of searching the apartment for it I gave up, declared it lost, had a conversation with the credit card lady about why I lost it - quitting with e-cigs, referred her to ECF, got a new card.
But honest, for those who have hard core quit smoking symptoms it does pass. And it's worth it.
Other than some weird dreams, a slightly different sleep pattern, but nothing I would call insomnia. (Been there, done that.)
But years ago, I lost a credit card. I called the bank and they asked the basic questions. Do I remember my last purchase? No. Do I remember when I last saw it? No. I felt like an idiot. They sent a new card. THREE YEARS LATER, I'm cleaning the front hallway and decide to vacuum under the rug. And there it is.
I've had the opposite effect... I'm usually able to remember all my dreams, and even induce myself into lucid dreaming, but that's been completely removed since i've quit smoking analogs. Hopefully that changes as time goes on.
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