If you are ADDICTED to nicotine (and you probably are, if you smoke every day) you will get sick when you try to quit.
You just have to recognize it for what it is- withdrawal symptoms.
The good news is, its over in less than a week (usually 2-3 days) - if you quit cold-turkey.
The best plan is to quit on a Friday and plan on sleeping the weekend away. Get some Xanax or Valium, and a couple of sleeping pills and sleep it off. Drink lots of liquids, no coffee.
When you quit you will have the following SYMPTOMS: Insomnia, heavy cravings for a cigarette, a headache and want to throw up. THIS GOES AWAY IN 24-48 hours!
IF you go a week straight with nothing, you've done it.
If you have so much as ONE PUFF during this time, you have to start over...
Unfortunately having no coffee may set off another withdrawal (caffeine) if you also have coffee every day. But this is also gone in 24-48 hours. Sleep it off.
I had tried to quit several times before I quit for good.
For example, people told me “The good news is, its over in less than a week (usually 2-3 days) - if you quit cold-turkey.”
Well, it wasn't over after a week. So I waited two weeks, then three, then four, then I decided they were either jerks or lying to me in their zeal to get me to quit, so I gave up and started smoking again.
When I finally quit smoking for good, it wasn't over after a month. It wasn't over after a year.
It's been twenty years since I quit and I still would love a cigarette.
That all sounds great in theory, but in reality smokes become such an ingrained part of life the craving never really goes away. Yeah you don’t have the withdrawal symptom, but you have the holes in your life habits, all those times when you would have had a smoke: first thing in the morning, after a meal, driving to work, after an annoying meeting at work, anything bad or annoying in life. I knew a guy that had quit all kinds of stuff, 25 years later the one thing on his list he still wanted every single day was a cig.