The most commonly felt effects of physical withdrawal from tobacco smoking are feelings of anger, depression, anxiety and restlessness. A chain smoker’s body experiences sharply rising and falling levels of nicotine on a daily basis. In the withdrawal stage, these cycles are coming to an end. Over years, the nicotine literally takes control of about 200 neurochemicals in the brain. The brain is slowly regaining control of these. This causes the intense emotional effects mentioned above.

Within the first 72 hours of withdrawal, if a user abstains totally from nicotine, they will begin to feel the gradual effects of recovery. The brain is now getting used to being lavished with nicotine-free oxygen.

During the early stages of withdrawal, time seems to drag endlessly. The first few weeks are interminable. It is important not to let this overshadow the greater purpose and really keep going with a positive attitude. One may experience an unbearable craving to grab a cigarette. During such an episode, it helps to take a look at the clock and actually time the duration of the ‘attack’. It will likely last no longer that 3 minutes, although it may seem endless this helps to gain perspective.

Most nicotine addicts complain of not being able to concentrate like before during the first few days of withdrawal. However, concentration levels begin to return to normal within two weeks.

In their smoking days, most nicotine addicts could skip a meal without feeling the hunger pangs. This was because nicotine triggered the process of releasing stored fats and sugars in our blood stream. This ends when nicotine intake stops. Hence, in order to prevent falling blood sugar levels, it is important not to skip meals.

Nicotine is a powerful stimulant. Our body needs time and a great deal of effort to learn to live without it. It is natural to feel tired, drained out and fatigued during the first few days.

Normal sleep patterns get disrupted during withdrawal. One might find oneself sleeping comparatively less. It takes a couple of weeks for regular sleep patterns to establish.

Other common symptoms of physical withdrawal are tightness in the chest, slight sore throat, coughing with mucus, bad breath and headaches.

With every puff of cigarette that you take in, you are lessening the hours of your life. Why are you throwing up your life in smoke? Life is precious, safeguard it; do not blow it away like that. If you really value your life and do not want to waste it away like that then you had better give up smoking. Smoking is not just harmful to your health but it also affects those around you. A new product, the electronic cigarette, promises to help you in your efforts to kick this habit out of your life.

Many have tried to give up smoking and have been unsuccessful. Common substitutes to smoking are gum, nicotine patches and so on but smokers that wish to quite often switch back to smoking as those products don’t give them the feel that smoking a cigarette could. So the electronic cigarette endeavors to give you the feel and taste of smoking a cigarette while removing the ill effects of it.

The electronic cigarette could at any time be mistaken for a cigarette as it is shaped just like one. It is battery operated and can be used as many times as you wish. The use of this e cigarette curbs your nicotine craving and soon lets you get out of the habit of smoking. While you inhale through its mouthpiece the liquid nicotine in it gets converted into harmless vapor giving you the feel and taste of actually inhaling smoke and then exhaling it. You could even try making those smoke rings that you indulge in your free time. This is harmless mist unlike the toxic smoke of real cigarettes. This lends it the other names like smokeless cigarettes or personal vaporizer.

But in order for this device to help you kick the habit, the will to quit smoking is essential. Unless you develop a will, you will never be able to get rid of the habit. Nobody can force or coax you into giving it up. But once you develop a strong will then the electronic cigarette will help you in getting out of this habit. Slowly you can reduce the nicotine level in your e cigarette and finally quit it completely.

Even if you do not quit, at least smoking an electronic cigarette is harmless when compared to smoking your actual cigarette or cigar; harmless not just for you, but for others too as with a cigarette you subject them to passive smoking by exposing them to the toxins in the cigarette smoke. The smokeless cigarettes give out only vapor which gets evaporated in the air and so is harmless for people around you as well. So now you have the freedom to smoke anywhere at will and nobody will pose any restrictions on you nor will you get fined for smoking in public places.