Fibromyalgia Support Group

the last time i quit smoking i was on a scale 10 in pain for over 5 weeks.i stardet back smoking plus medication and my painlevel went down.

this morning i had my last cigarett and just got up hurting like crazy again.anybody think that smoking has something to do with fibro?my doc said after the nicotine gets out off my system i should feel much better with everything but i am not about to go through that again.....

A very interesting question. Because my symptoms, most of which was SOB, cropped up pretty quickly right after I quit smoking. Like within three months! I had had very minor and sporadic symptoms prior to that, looking back. But my huge episode, what finally drove me to the doctor, was after I had quit smoking.

Even at the time, way before anyone said the word fibro, I often wondered if it was because I no longer had my number one stress reducer.

Now you can see why I think it's an interesting question. Personally, for me, I think smoking HELPS my fibro! LOL! I did even go back to it, thinking it might help. To be quite honest, though, I couldn't see a difference, so I put them down again.

I quit smoking 2 years after my fibro began. I don't think we hurt anymore when we crave cigarettes, I just think any anxiety increases our pain in general. So if you're feeling anxious for a cigarette...

Post edited by: raynedae, at: 11/27/2009 03:15 PM

i have my nicotrol inhaler i am using at least for the beginning can't do it cold turkey.not anymore.can anyone tell me what the describtion for SOB is and no i am not talking about a curse word but i always see it in discussions and don't know what it stands for.i bet you once you tell me i be like dahhh......

I am seriously thinking of quitting after the first of the year. I attempted it earlier this year and make it a week and thought the world was coming to an end. I want to try one of those electronic cigarettes just to see if it help.

i seen those advertised,but heard a lot of people got addicted to them.i mean my nicotrol inhaler aint no different then a cigarett just that it don't smoke.so i still will have the withdrawl syndroms.

LOL! Sure, Sybille! It's a medical abbreviation, "shortness of breath." I know what it is, yet it always takes me aback a bit! LOL!

When I quit, it took me a solid year. I stopped smoking and went to the commit lozenges. And those are really, really yummy, so I got addicted to those. Then I went to the gum after a few months. Then after a few more months on the gum, I went to the patch. Then I went down the steps of the patch.

Then I had one of those fibro spells where you sleep for days? So when I woke up, I almost put the patch on, but thought, why? I haven't had one in three or four days. Then I was done. It was expensive and time consuming, but it worked.

The strange thing is, I don't know why I stopped. I always swore I would never stop, because I loved smoking. And I smoked about four packs a day.

I STILL get the urge, and sometimes I don't really understand the rhyme or reason of why. In fact, I've been fight that craving this week really bad.

I use to work with a lady that smoked so much i couldn't stand to be at the nurses' station at the same time with her. I saw her and her husband at a Wal-mart after I had to retire and they had bothe quit smoking. But she said she was now addicted to Nicorette gum. I remember when Nicorette gum first came out a placebo gum was developed to get people off of it. I quit smoking 11 years ago but I don't think I hurt worse when I did smoke.

wow four packs a day you deserve a thumb up for that one.i love smoking too and i wouldn't quit but i just can't affort it anymore even the cheapest once are to much for me now with all them health issues.

ok lets stop talking about it before everybody that already quit start back,lol.

I don't think smoking has anything to fibromyalga,I don't smoke but i have fibromyalga.never smoked ever.