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I need to quit smoking... Again. Also make some other minor adjustments, like keep the hell away from my 1 year old at night!

Its interesting mate. How did you find the tiredness during the day in terms of anxiety and increased hypervigilence? I'm not as bad as I was 6 months ago, but that for me does still get me rather wired.
 
The sleep deprivation in the beginning necessary to reset your sleep and circadian clocks, was hard. So I felt tired during the day at the beginning and probably for the first month. It may sound like a long time but compared to years of absolutely shitty sleep it was well worth it.

It's best to find a therapist trained in it to help guide you. But if you don't you can probably go it alone. Better with a therapist though.

It's about creating new and better sleeping habits. We all have bad ones, their easy but changing them is hard. Once you do though it's great. I go to bed and get up at about the same time everyday, within about half an hour. I fall asleep quickly and stay asleep. I don't wake as much, a couple times to hit the head and to turn over but then I'm in dreamland again. My extremely bad nightmares have all but gone away. I still have one from time to time but not as bad or severe. And, best of all, I get up and feel rested.

Once in a very great while I have a time when I wake during the night and can't get right back to sleep but it's so infrequent that I don't even think about it at all.

Like all things, changing habits is the tough part. Like quitting smoking. Did that years ago. It was hard but worth it. Again, it was about changing habits; cig after I ate or with coffee or a drink, ect.

All in all very much worth the effort. If you have any other questions Dan let me know.

Jar
 
I know it's another drug, but have a read of this one.

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I am sure you could get it over there too, the drug helps reset your sleep cycle as well as being an antidepressant to boot.

I am going for CBT i soon too, well I am going to give it a go, it can't hurt.
 
I am going for CBT i soon too, well I am going to give it a go, it can't hurt.

Glad to hear it Jimmy. I don't want to sound like a guy that just quit smoking and tries to tell everyone else to quit. But I have to say I was very skeptical that anything could help my sleep. I also felt that way about my therapy for PTSD and was pleasantly surprised. I had the same psychologist for both so there was a trust and belief in place.

It's like anything, you have to work at it. When you've had years of terrible sleep you don't even know what a good nights sleep can be like. It can make a big difference in your life and how you view things. I'm an advocate of it, if you haven't figured that yet. Meds can be helpful but I personally don't like the idea that I have to be on them for life. I have a few that I have to take like that and wish I didn't.

Best of Luck Mate

Jar
 
Just as an update, here's a link to a site that will explain a little about the treatment.

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