When you quit smoking is it normal to get depressed?

January 25, 2010 by · 9 Comments
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I recently quit smoking (stopped cold turkey) and have been depressed for about a week. Is this common when people quit smoking?

I’d be depressed if I had to quit smoking.

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9 Responses to “When you quit smoking is it normal to get depressed?”
  1. vylet says:

    yes its common, keep busy but not too stressed and you’ll get over it
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  2. el_train_73 says:

    very normal. one may also feel anger, annoyance, nervousness
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  3. Jason says:

    Only if your weak minded,
    now tell me are u getting depressed???
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  4. Me Fang You says:

    my doc put me on a low dosage of antidepressant when i quit. its pretty normal. keep going; it gets easier.
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  5. Vainglorious says:

    It happened to me. But that always happens when we force control on ourselves. But hang on a few more days and you will start feeling the opposite!
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    I went cold turkey too and I can taste and breathe so much better now that I quit.

  6. moiya says:

    Yes, so you should constantly remind yourself that it is the nicotine exiting your system and nothing else. It isn’t you. The depression is the bad stuff leaving your body. Well done!
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    Ex smoker (3 years)

  7. Frankie V says:

    I’d be depressed if I had to quit smoking.
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  8. Martin I says:

    I think that is pretty normal.
    You trained your brain to see cigarettes as a panacea (a cure-all) for any kind of situation (boredom, stress, sadness, happiness).
    Now that you don’t smoke your brain thinks it is missing something. You really need to train your brain again and make it realize how much better everything is without cigarettes. There are so many benefits to quitting smoking, this shouldn’t be all that hard
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    http://quitting-smoking-benefits.com

  9. Angelina says:

    yeah ..this is very much common….and u wl face same situations whenever u pull urself out of an addiction..coz u force ur system to reduce the dependence on the chemicals like caffeine or nicotine or nething similar…
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