The short answer is “yes.” However, smoking itself is causing that. Non-smokers do not have smoke-related anxiety. Although you may get anxiety, overcoming that for a short run is well worth it.
I smoked for twenty years. Before I gave up smoking, I was up to two packs a day, and the intake of nicotine was extremely high. I used to have the anxiety of running out of cigarettes, not getting time to smoke before any task, planning my whole life around smoking. Every task, every work, every meeting needed planning around smoking. I used to get anxious in the middle of the meeting.
Every addictive drug will trigger anxiety due to cravings. The additional withdrawal symptoms will worsen in the first week, especially the first three days; after that, it will subside. After few weeks, almost all the withdrawal symptoms will be gone.
Please remember that it’s easy to quit. Everyone can do it. However, once the novelty wears
off, people tend to go back. This is because they haven’t worked on how to deal with it and
want to bridge the void they feel. Can you blame them?
There are different techniques to give yourself the best chance of success and give you less anxiety. Finding triggers and a good image is one of them. Every time a trigger happens, you start to feel good about yourself. To see more about this technique, please download the book and give it a read. You can return the book if you don’t like, and full money will be refunded. I really believe that this technique works which helped me improve all areas of my life.
From Chain-Smoker to Non-Smoker 