I've heard that people who've been smoking for forty and fifty plus years can experience very deleterious effects from going cold turkey.
Specifically, I know someone's parents who ended up stopping tobacco abruptly, from one day to the next, and ended up going into something akin to toxic shock syndrome, but in reverse. They were bed-ridden for weeks, the mom for months actually, on respirators, and all that.
I'm not worried about this for myself I've not been smoking anywhere near that long, but I do know from just stopping (or from switching back to Canadian cigarettes after a few weeks of smoking Americans, which have more tar) that you wake up hacking and hawking every morning for a couple weeks.
But has anyone heard of that "reverse toxic shock" effect on long-time smokers quitting cold? I'm sure there's a word for it...
Specifically, I know someone's parents who ended up stopping tobacco abruptly, from one day to the next, and ended up going into something akin to toxic shock syndrome, but in reverse. They were bed-ridden for weeks, the mom for months actually, on respirators, and all that.
I'm not worried about this for myself I've not been smoking anywhere near that long, but I do know from just stopping (or from switching back to Canadian cigarettes after a few weeks of smoking Americans, which have more tar) that you wake up hacking and hawking every morning for a couple weeks.
But has anyone heard of that "reverse toxic shock" effect on long-time smokers quitting cold? I'm sure there's a word for it...