I need your support
Hi everyone,
I haven't smoked in 60 days (quit cold turkey).
Honestly, since then, everything that could go wrong has gone wrong. I’ve gained 5 kilos, I had to go on sick leave due to a severe burnout, and I just lost my grandmother in a really bad way. To be brief, I am psychologically not doing well at all right now.
My doctor prescribed Xanax, but for some reason, it does absolutely nothing for me. The worse my stress gets, the worse this intense physical need to smoke becomes.
I was actually doing okay for the first several weeks, but for the past week, it’s like a switch flipped. All I can think about, 24/7, is smoking. I feel it constantly in my gums and my lungs, and the mental chatter won't shut up. I'm hitting a wall and feeling like the permanent stress isn't worth fighting.
Has anyone else dealt with a massive crisis right around the 2-month mark? Does this psychological nightmare actually end, or am I just white-knuckling a permanent state of misery? Could really use some brutal honesty or advice right now.