Thursday, August 2, 2007
DAY 2
Same breakfast, same routine, different times. Up at 8, smoked, acidophilus at 8:45, ate at work, chantix at 9:30-9:45. No real stomach issues till dinner tonight. Really freakin crabby and keyed up today. Must be in withdrawl. Ya pms is here but this aint pms. And yes that sentence was all slangy, I know, I did it on purpose. I feel like crap. I'm layin down.
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Chantix Day 1
Adventures in quitting...Day 1. I've been wanting to quit again for a while now. I had a strange episode with severe headaches and hard to explain chest pain. I can only say it just felt very weird. So I went to the doctor. Tests came back ok, possibly it was a virus, maybe even west nile. Out of it all he decided to give me chantix.
So here I am on day one of chantix. I woke up around 10 , had a smoke around 10:30. I took an acidophilus pearl, ate a thomas' light multi grain english muffin with low fat peanut butter and milled flax seeds (it's much tastier than it sounds) around 11. Then I smoked again at 11:30 and took my chantix.
Now the only concern I have at the moment is that I also have pms. Who knows, maybe it will help that! I took the chantix with food and acidophilus because there are reports of nausea and that those steps help prevent that. The breakfast that I had is my normal weekday breakfast. I have heard wonderful things about omega 3's helping with many issues including mental health ones. So far so good. I haven't been taking much but some is better than none.
I'm about a half a pack a day smoker. I quit labor day in 2005 for almost one year using patches and zyban. Zyban sucks even though it works but that's a different blog. I started again in the late summer/fall of 2006. It was only 2-5 smokes a day for quite a few months. I was hiding it from everyone so I didn't have much opportunity to smoke. When I finally came clean it jumped right back to 1/2 a pack a day. I guess that isn't too bad because I was smoking a pack a day when I first quit in 2005.
Well it feels like the chantix might be kicking in. It's almost noon now. I think I might go have a smoke. At the moment the mental part of my addiction is wanting me to smoke smoke smoke. Smoke more, never quit, this is fun yadda yadda. Freakin addictions. But I do know that it's all in my head. I use quitsmokingonline.com and highly recommend it. Most people balk when I point them toward that site but honestly it's not a scam, it's completely free, it's just someone that wanted to share knowledge learned the hard way. It gives you a way to redirect your thinking about smoking and actually you can apply it to a lot of things in life if you're the philosophical type.
Anyway, I'm starting to feel a little dizzy-ish. Nothing major. My stomach feels fine at the moment. I had an episode of what I suspect is IBS on monday so I was worried about the gastric side effects but so far it seems ok.
So the next entry I will try to keep it more clear. It's difficult to organize my thoughts at first but I do get better at it the more I write. I guess that's why I'm going back to college for writing ha!!
Hoping to update frequently!!
Ex-smoker to be
So here I am on day one of chantix. I woke up around 10 , had a smoke around 10:30. I took an acidophilus pearl, ate a thomas' light multi grain english muffin with low fat peanut butter and milled flax seeds (it's much tastier than it sounds) around 11. Then I smoked again at 11:30 and took my chantix.
Now the only concern I have at the moment is that I also have pms. Who knows, maybe it will help that! I took the chantix with food and acidophilus because there are reports of nausea and that those steps help prevent that. The breakfast that I had is my normal weekday breakfast. I have heard wonderful things about omega 3's helping with many issues including mental health ones. So far so good. I haven't been taking much but some is better than none.
I'm about a half a pack a day smoker. I quit labor day in 2005 for almost one year using patches and zyban. Zyban sucks even though it works but that's a different blog. I started again in the late summer/fall of 2006. It was only 2-5 smokes a day for quite a few months. I was hiding it from everyone so I didn't have much opportunity to smoke. When I finally came clean it jumped right back to 1/2 a pack a day. I guess that isn't too bad because I was smoking a pack a day when I first quit in 2005.
Well it feels like the chantix might be kicking in. It's almost noon now. I think I might go have a smoke. At the moment the mental part of my addiction is wanting me to smoke smoke smoke. Smoke more, never quit, this is fun yadda yadda. Freakin addictions. But I do know that it's all in my head. I use quitsmokingonline.com and highly recommend it. Most people balk when I point them toward that site but honestly it's not a scam, it's completely free, it's just someone that wanted to share knowledge learned the hard way. It gives you a way to redirect your thinking about smoking and actually you can apply it to a lot of things in life if you're the philosophical type.
Anyway, I'm starting to feel a little dizzy-ish. Nothing major. My stomach feels fine at the moment. I had an episode of what I suspect is IBS on monday so I was worried about the gastric side effects but so far it seems ok.
So the next entry I will try to keep it more clear. It's difficult to organize my thoughts at first but I do get better at it the more I write. I guess that's why I'm going back to college for writing ha!!
Hoping to update frequently!!
Ex-smoker to be
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