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- My digestion is still not totally normal and I’m often a bit bloated, body is more puffy than usual as well
- Haven’t been able to touch my art since I quit (i used to be hyper motivated)
- Extreme brain fog, i feel like my brain has become a vegetable (the brain fog is the worse for me)
- derealization
- skin hasn’t improved
- nervous system is insanely braced and on edge and i became even too sensitive for coffee (😭)
- i look worse since i quit
- emotionally flatlined, still dealing depression, anxiety, and being overly emotionally touchy
- don’t have much desire to do much by way of ambitions kind of just floating through life now
- doesn’t feel much like my body is moving or processing- almost like it got frozen or in shock after i quit smoking
- nose still kind of stuffy everyday
- miss it :/

Context: I eat healthy, walk a lot and do a bit of yoga, do some breathing exercises, take herbal supplements and don’t do any drugs.

Yay! Fun 😔 WHEN DOES IT GET BETTER ? 😅

I’m curious if you have any stimulant recommendations to season 2? I found myself really liking it, the layers of the plotline, the fever dream almost surrealist moments, the quirkiness. I think i liked it because it didn’t remind me of anything i’ve seen… 😅

I’ve also heard that it’s similar to white lotus? but i’ve read that that show is basically just a country club gossiping amongst itself and tedious and dull…. ?

I fell in love with season 2. Now i’m trying to relive the enjoyment by watching season 1, and i am struggling. I feel like every episode is the same, spinning in circles. So hopelessly boring… Does it get any better ?

I’m amazed that season 2 caught slack and season 1 is so praised. it will never cease to blow my mind but i’m assuming it’s because a lot of people like mind numbing material? Or maybe i’ve just yet to hit the part that makes season 1 noteworthy …

this is my second attempt at watching s1, for the record 😅

Question is the same as the title ! i keep seeing this show pop up on my algorithm on instagram and im curious to watch this season in particular , but haven’t watched seasons 1 + 2- can i watch this season or do i need to start at square one ? thanks !

Curious if you used Wellbutrin after quitting smoking? I see a lot of such comments on this thread, and I’m starting to wonder about it as I think I have naturally low dopamine levels, and after quitting I’m just a wreck and my brain isn’t functioning (or so it feels).

However, I’ve always been highly sensitive to meds/pharmaceuticals so I usually avoid them. I tried an antidepressant once briefly years ago and I could’ve sworn it was Wellbutrin but I’m not sure… I remember I had horrible restless leg syndrome and aches, insomnia, and I felt even more anxious and catastrophic than without them, ha.

Just curious if anyone sensitive on here had side effects ?

Hey guys I was a smoker for 23 years and quit cold turkey 5 weeks ago. I’ve been having terrible derealization, anxiety, depression, brain fog. Im not interested in taking anti depressants and am trying to do all the natural things (meditation, exercise in the ways I can with certain limitations, healthy food and herbs etc), but I feel like nothings moving. It’s like my body and brain forgot how to work as soon as I ripped the nicotine away and I’m wondering if I maybe went a bit more hardcore than my body and kind could handle rightnow and I’ve been seriously considering miniscule doses of nicotine gum to see if it helps…. I can’t tell if I’m in too deep to turn back now but I don’t know. I really get the impression by brain and body were highly dependent on nicotine and maybe I shocked it too intensely by going from being a long term chain smoker to just nothing overnight 🤕

I’m a month into quitting. It’s not my first rodeo. But even after month, the cravings are constant and especially at night or in moments of joy and pleasure- I just feel this deep sense of lack. I miss going out at night and smoking one. I miss making art or having a crush and smoking one. I feel this deep sense of lack and emptiness without the cigs, and nothing seems to fill the void of the cigarettes now gone. I often get so restless by it at night I just stay up all night going for walks to try and fill the void and restless cravings - yes, even after a month.