No, you will not. The tension will go away. Smoking tobacco makes you feel less tense and more energized. You may find you are using caffeine to regain the energy boost effect, but you have nothing to replace the tranquilizing action of nicotine on the brain. The smoking habit involves more than just nicotine. It takes some time to eliminate all tensions involved with quitting. Of course, it is well worth the effort.
Addiction and Habits
Nicotine is a highly addictive drug, but cigarette smoking is far more than a drug addiction. Habits are involved with smoking. Habits take about three weeks to break; ending addictions take much longer. If you always stop at the same store to buy cigarettes, that stop is a smoking-related habit. Reaching for a cigarette, reaching for a lighter or matches, lighting the cigarette, smoking it, locating ashtrays and putting the cigarette out are all habits. Working to break habits increases your withdrawal tension. You may be more successful if you break the habits first and then deal with the addiction.
Patches, Lozenges and Gum
You may replace the nicotine in your system while you are breaking the other habits of smoking. Patches deliver a specific amount of nicotine steadily. They may reduce sudden cravings and help you get to sleep without thinking of cigarettes. You can use lozenges instead if you only need help during the day and have the worst cravings at specific times, such as after meals. Gum helps reduce tension in social situations as well as after meals. Use only one of these products at a time and carefully follow the directions.
Prescription Drugs
Prescription drugs are useful for some smokers. Rather than replace the nicotine, they work in other ways. Chantix is started a week before you quit smoking. It reduces the pleasure you get from smoking, so makes it easier to stop. Zyban is also started before you stop smoking. It works by reducing the craving for cigarettes and reducing the tension from withdrawal, according to Drugs.com. Your doctor may want to include behavior modification or group support with these medications to help you quit.
Tension
Tension will begin to wear off when you break the physical habits related to smoking. It is an individual thing, but after a few months of freedom from cigarettes, your tension from withdrawal should begin to fade. Brief cravings may be experienced for a year or more, but they will be fewer and milder with time. As you go through various seasons, situations and life stresses, you'll see that you can succeed without smoking. This in itself helps reduce tension.
Substitute Habits
If you are able to replace the bad habits associated with smoking with healthy habits, you will find the tension leaves you more quickly. Exercise has a tranquilizing effect. A brisk walk is a healthy substitute for a cigarette when you feel tense. MayoClinic.com recommends controlled breathing, visualization and other relaxation techniques to reduce stress and tension. Even figuring out the healthy substitutes that will work best for you will help occupy your mind and relieve tension.
