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Is amnesia and slight cognitive deficit possible from acute nicotine withdrawl

d1nach

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I was working outside and normally i use tobacco buccally and sublingually like dry leaves >15-30 mg a day and so i didnt have any for like 7 hours and i notice i had some issues focusing and thinking and remembering. I had no problems pulling weed but i felt kinda like a vegetable brain like nothing was going on. And i did a ton of weeds but i dont remember much it was just kinda like o wow a few hours past. Is this possibly from nicotine withdrawl? It seemed to go away after taking 5 mg of nicotine
 
I chew non stop all damn day long. If I try to stop suddenly I feel very off. It's hard to explain but I feel foggy headed, a bit distant from my thoughts, difficulty concentrating, difficulty with memory and a werid sort of sedation/anxiety mix... And not to mention the intense cravings.

It's an odd feeling. Sorta reminds me the feeling from a low dose anticholinergic... Sorta but not really. Hard to describe.

It's strange too because I was a smoker years ago. I don't really remember feeling much beyond irritability and cravings when I tried to quit smoking. Stopping chew suddenly seems to be in a whole new ballpark experience wise.
 
I felt like my skin was bone dry i couldnt get erections or use my pelvic floor muscles , also i felt very agitated and had trouble processing complex thoughts but my motor skills where fine but everything touching me hurt so bad that painful sensations felt good. Like it felt like pain from the abscence sensation if that makes sense. Also i kept wanting to put nonfood items in my mouth and i keppt licking my lips like i was being electrocuted Normally im drooling and flush and my veins relaxed. But now my skin had no color it was like pale. And now i drank some black coffee .

Thank you for your responses. Sorry if this is written sloppy im still trying to repair the damage from nicotine withdrawl. But i alsomost immediately came back after using some anf i was abke to play the guitar again
 
The human mind is an impossibly complex puzzle. Many of us have lives, whether we like it or not, that are well-defined by ritual. The morning coffee, the first cigarette of the day, putting your headphones on and listening to music on the way to work... etc. When we disrupt some of these seemingly innane rituals, it can really cause a major backfire in our ability to function throughout the day.

On several occasions, I've woken to find that we don't have coffee in the cupboard. I make my coffee very strong, very specifically and every single morning. 4 cups of water, 4 scoops of coffee, drink and go. If I don't have this precise combination, my mind begins spinning wondering what is supposed to come next in my day. I'll find myself thinking about it hours later; how I could be functioning better if I had had my morning coffee.

So, to answer your question, when trying to quit something as inherently addictive and habituating as Nicotine, it should not come as a surprise that you're having trouble piecing together the rest of your day. What you're describing is actually quite common, I just feel that people often have trouble defining it or putting it into words. I'm sure it will pass.
 
O no i am not trying to quit when i hey effects that make me think of like alzheimers or parkinsons. I dont think its just tobacco and i thought something was wrong i just withdrawl more and more and im trying to find the problem .

I had delusions and was con


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I just took nicotine 60 seconds ago. It already feels like such a night and day contrast. The best way I could describe it as dissociative hallucinations. I was actually convinced the open bleach was some how forming chloroform vapor and collecting on my floor killing me. Therefore, i spent hours scrubbing the floor and walls. I guess I wasnt delusional but not totally psychotic because what i was sensing was probably the nicotinic acetylcholinergic receptors lacking their constant extremelly high saturation. My delusions where self reaffirmed by watching youtube videos of people on anesthesia and my past dissociative use. However, by constantly cleaning I couldnt use my dip my normal 16 hours a day.

The scariest part was the best way i could describe it was i was dead or this wasnt reality. Very similar to capgras delusion id see me but wasnt me id see my dog but id feel like it might not really be my dog. Id put down my keys and find that i have no memory of where i put them. Or id try to play speed metal on guitar of songs i new easily and couldnt move my fingers fast enough. It was like i was seeing the world in mindcraft 64bit and it was moving like a cartoon frame by frame instead of a coherent fluent video. Like when the computer has lag and your playing a videogame.
 
So, d1, hope you didn't seize up there, it's not THAT bad, you're still typing.

Well, ask a heavy smoker who gets arrested, and he can tell you about some good 24 hour withdrawal experiences.

Haven't noticed amnesia, but cognitive function is definitely destroyed. You will not be doing even basic arithmetic while in withdrawal, or make any kind of "plan" or decision. It's one of the worst parts of quitting, imo. You want a drag just to be able to plan your way from the coffee to the shower to the door.

And the GI issues. It feels like you have the most enormous fart the world ever faced, like Krakatoa-level gas, and just can't pass it.

That and a desire to murder everyone and destroy anything in front of you, and not much else. Oh yeah, "very agitated and had trouble processing complex thoughts but my motor skills where fine" is a good way to describe it. And some drool, definitely more wet in the oral area.

But pain and pale skin? and I never thought to check my pelvic floor muscles. Could it be all the stims and porn?

ETA: didn't see your followup. No, I've never experienced any kind of delusion like that, and wouldn't have been able/willing to clean a floor. Something else is up with you.

ETAmore: and just from the gum and lozenges I consume now without cigarettes, I know my consumption was well over 40mg/day.
 
Soo im sitting on the toliet right now biting into a cloth taking the biggest never ending bowel movement of my life. And ya i wokeup today feeling like someone was i couldnt pee poop or orgasm and i was blasting cannibal corpse f*** with a knife and frsntiv disemboeelnebt playing guitat angerly and i couldnt stop snarling and haf a glst look of discust hate. At one point i was punching myself tobdustrsct from the pain and anger i had over my stomsch and i coukdnt stop making a fist. Then aftrr i had nicotine all my pain went away and i started crying uncontrollable but i was trying to not to then i spent the past like 6 hours holding a pillow licking my lips and feeling my insides again.
 
Errr, sorry im still under partial anesthesia to num the pain. At one point the pain was so bad I couldnt play guitar but i was able to numb my awareness and force my own carbondioxide downfast and hard as possible keeping rthymn to a simple song i knew.
 
Never tried a title before, what does it look like?

cannibal corpse f*** with a knife and frsntiv disemboeelnebt playing guitat angerly and i couldnt stop snarling and haf a glst look of discust hate . . . and i coukdnt stop making a fist.

So now when people ask what nicotine withdrawal feels like, you have the perfect quote.
 
Actually i normally fractionally seperate coffees lipids do you think maybe u just never noticed the dry mouth or blisters or dry painful skin because i was so used to chewing and exposed to and feeling and touching various plant molecules from coffee and sorting plant oils and hot water vapor that my atmosphere had wayyy more sensations i was feeling
 
Well you do live in an alternate dimension of substances and sensations, I will give you that. Just your taste in pornography is more than I can handle.

Do you sort the plant oils before or after your goon sessions? Because steam distillation might be an effective cure for your masturbation problem.
 
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