Nicotine Withdrawal

Your quit smoking phase is a risky period in your life for the reason that the moment you get started to leave the habit of smoking, you might be influenced by one or several of the below given symptoms. And this is why this particular period that arrives in the life of the smoker at one point or the other is termed as “quitter's flu.”

Nicotine Withdrawal Symtoms

While giving up smoking and other tobacco containing products, you are likely to experience a plethora of withdrawal symptoms such as

• Excessive cravings for smoke
• Restlessness, anger, irritability, anxiety, depression, sadness and similar discomforts
• Feeling of loneliness
• Dryness in the mouth
• Sore throat
• Nausea
• Inability to concentrate
• Cough problems
• Increase in appetite and weight gain
• Tightness or stiffness in the chest
• Headache
• Drowsiness
• Insomnia
• Tiredness
• Postnasal drip
• Bleeding in the gums
• Stomach pain
• Constipation and
• Hunger pangs.

All the aforementioned symptoms are nicotine withdrawal symptoms and the extent to which these symptoms can adversely affect an individual's health depends on the frequency of smoking. Most specifically, increase in appetite, weight gain, tension, irritability, insomnia, headache and other minor nicotine withdrawal symptoms occur when a person stops smoking cigarettes with high nicotine content.