Smoking experience a number of stop smoking symptoms when they give up smoking. These symptoms are both physical and psychological. Some of the physical stop smoking symptoms are:

• The withdrawal symptom usually begin with what is commonly called as the ‘quitter’s flu’ and is marked with headaches, coughing, sore throat, nasal congestion and tightness of the chest.
• The stomach also gets affected and you may experience pains, constipation, nausea and gas.
• You will have a sudden attack of halitosis and are likely to suffer with bad breath for a few days.
• You are also likely to feel very fatigues and listless and are also likely to feel light headed or dizzy because of the fatigue.
• You may have difficulty in concentrating on any particular task and focusing your attention on anything for long spans of time.
• It is possible that you may sleep too much due to fatigue or you may have trouble sleeping because of restlessness and cravings.
• Your appetite is also likely to increase and you may eat voraciously.

On the other hand, you are also likely to feel angry, irritated, anxious and even depressed.

The craving for nicotine is both physical and psychological. While the physical symptoms will last for a period of a week or ten days, psychological dependence on cigarette smoking can last for weeks and even months. It is important that you break your psychological dependence on cigarettes because if you don’t, it will eventually lead to back to smoking, no matter how long you have been able to refrain from it. Smoking is a habit and the best way to break a habit is to replace it with another one. In the absence of another habit, the psychological gap that is left by quitting smoking does not get filled with any other activity and could lead you back to smoking.