Hey, guys! I really need your help.

Can nicotine withdrawal cause a sudden major vision disturbance?

I recently cut back from 4-5 packs a day to one pack a day, a major reduction while I wait for my current cache of cigarettes to run out. I decided I would better acclimate myself to completely quitting by seriously reducing the amount I smoke. I now wait until I'm ready to kill someone for a cigarette before I will smoke one. Though I have not technically quit (I will do that once I have no more cigarettes left), I have cut down so much that I'm in a near constant state of withdrawal.

Shortly after I started doing this, something odd happened with my vision.

I was outside walking and everything was fine, then all of a sudden out of nowhere, the sun seemed blinding. I was not even looking at the sun, just the sidewalk, when this occurred. I blinked a few times, seeing nothing but an explosion of bright red light under my eyelids. Afterwards, there was a dramatic shift in my vision.

My eyesight has become blurrier, hazier, and dimmer. It really did come out of nowhere, and coincided exactly with the major nicotine reduction program I had undergone.

Nothing like this has ever happened to me before. Is this normal, or do I need to see an ophthalmologist?