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