Hello Shannon,
Ditto to Working On It, mine do too!
There can be lots of explanations for various physical symptoms we get when we quit. Maybe they are related to our quit, maybe not, but I do understand your interest to see if anyone else had the same problems. Maybe the muscles around your knees are just a bit more tense.
The thing is, every quit is individual and the symptoms will be too. One day, in the first 3 weeks of my quit, my gums began to bleed...just like Dracula!!!
What a shock! Of course, all the blood vessels in my body were recovering from the previous lack of oxygen, so opened up, but, at the time, I had such a fright. That was just one of the physical symptoms I had.
What these things showed was just how much damage I had done to my body while I smoked for 40 years! It just reinforced my determination to stay strong with my quit! The damage was a slow process, and the healing is also slow, though I'm happy to say it did not take quite so long to heal!
I imagined my body giving a huge sigh of relief.
We are all intelligent, and at the back of our minds we knew all those things, yet we continued to smoke. Now, thinking back, how insane is that?! It just showed the strength of Nicotine Addiction.
You are doing well in Hell Week.
Stay strong, and whatever it takes, just don't smoke!
Love Lolly.
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