Community Experience · Baidu Tieba (Quit Smoking bar)
Day 3: Poor Sleep, Dizziness, and Thigh Muscle Twitching
An 18-year smoker with less than two weeks of total smoke-free time reports the third-day picture: difficulty falling asleep, waking through the night, dizziness and blurred vision, and thigh muscle twitching.
Experience snapshot
- Recovery day
- Day 3
- Recovery stage
- First Week
- Quit method
- Cold Turkey
- Years smoking
- 18 years (since age 15)
- Cigarettes per day
- Not reported
- Quit attempt number
- Not reported
- Age group
- Not reported
- Gender
- Not reported
Main challenge
Difficulty falling asleep, Waking repeatedly through the night, Dizziness, Blurred vision, Thigh muscle twitching
Reported outcome
Still smoke-free at day 3.
What can be learned
The person resolved not to repeat the first three days — a common frame for protecting an early quit.
Evidence status
This is a single community report (community-report). It describes one person's experience. It does not constitute medical advice or scientific evidence.
This page summarizes a community-reported personal experience. It does not constitute medical advice or scientific evidence. Identifying details have been removed.