Quitting smoking has always carried the burden of dealing with nicotine withdrawal, one of the scariest and most difficult parts of quitting.
Luckily, it can be easier in a few easy ways.
First, you should know exactly what's going to happen.
The symptoms of nicotine withdrawal will tend to pull you back towards smoking.
You will be irritable.
Things will wear your patience thin very, very quickly.
People will probably remark that you're being short tempered.
It won't make you want to smoke, but you'll likely feel cold-like symptoms as well.
Coughing, sniffling, and the like are all the body's response to the poisonous chemicals you've been putting in it by smoking.
You're also going to feel a sense of depression or regret.
I went through three days of feeling like I was going nowhere as I was quitting.
Annoyingly, the conditioned response to being depressed is to smoke a cigarette, which would undermine the entire thing.
The good news? The symptoms go away.
It takes a couple of days, but after the first three days are over you'll notice that they'll drop to a fraction of their intensity, and they should be gone after a full week.
If you know what you're getting into, it becomes more manageable to deal with the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal.
The first time I tried quitting (cold turkey, I might add) I became extremely depressed and confused on the second day, because I had no idea why I was experiencing those symptoms.
I tried several times to quit cold turkey, but never lasted more than two or three days.