Sideways
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Looking for insight from others & supportive comments...
I quit smoking and increased my anti-depressant (pristiq) in August. My mood has improved substantially (albeit gradually) over those months.
Tbh, staying quit is still a daily struggle. My physical health has improved, but I still miss the anxiety relief I used to get from having a smoke.
My pdoc obviously wants to put the improved mood down to the combination of quitting and the increased meds and keeps encouraging me to stay quit. But it’s bloody hard work. My addicted-brain keeps telling me “Nah, it’s the just the meds that helped, you should keep using smoking to relieve your anxiety...”
Has anyone else found their mood increased substantially from quitting smoking? In theory, quitting should have been an opportunity to increase my exercise as an alternative anxiety regulator, but because of spinal issues my exercise is increasingly limited, so anxiety is still a big problem.
Thoughts? Words of encouragement? Or has anyone found that going back to smoking actually did make things easier?
I quit smoking and increased my anti-depressant (pristiq) in August. My mood has improved substantially (albeit gradually) over those months.
Tbh, staying quit is still a daily struggle. My physical health has improved, but I still miss the anxiety relief I used to get from having a smoke.
My pdoc obviously wants to put the improved mood down to the combination of quitting and the increased meds and keeps encouraging me to stay quit. But it’s bloody hard work. My addicted-brain keeps telling me “Nah, it’s the just the meds that helped, you should keep using smoking to relieve your anxiety...”
Has anyone else found their mood increased substantially from quitting smoking? In theory, quitting should have been an opportunity to increase my exercise as an alternative anxiety regulator, but because of spinal issues my exercise is increasingly limited, so anxiety is still a big problem.
Thoughts? Words of encouragement? Or has anyone found that going back to smoking actually did make things easier?