I'm off the patch entirely now - for more than a week!!
Yes, there is a lot of attention to food (including the habit of baking a tray of chocolate chip & walnut cookies with my coffee after work in the evening...). Managing to hold the exact same weight, but only through food journaling and regular walking - concerned that food is becoming unusually important to me. But - I'm remaining kind, engaged at work (always my big concern), & hopeful...
I'm not in a romantic relationship right now, which offers less emotional challenges than is typical for me. I also just started chemo, so I feel like crap anyway, and so the non-smoking & end of nicotine patches is just rolling into my general flulike symptoms.
I feel good about quitting before I started flooding my body with medical chemicals; I imagine that there are limits to the amount of toxins I can handle at once, even if I a a toxicity master (as are we all).
It hurts behind my eyes - I think that is nicotine withdrawal, but it could be the other stuff...