Re: Ahem, I have returned ... or something

Welcome back Ian.


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Wayne Baker
Cold Turkey Quit Date: August 4, 2007
Nicotine Free: 8M 2d 8h 19m
Not Smoked: 7,149
Money Better Spent: $1,179.59



sum1@xxxxxxxxxx (Ian) wrote in news:20080406.1241.4002snz@xxxxxxxxxx:


Don't know if anyone remembers me - I tried to stop breathing smoke
about mid January and did go one week without. I used Chancix to
kill
the need for nicotine but after three weeks I found I was suffering
black melancholy, insomnia and took myself off the Chancix. I was
back
to my old self in three days or so, but alas, I was also consuming
40
cigarettes a day.
One benefit of the week off smoking was that I got rid of the
bronchitis I'd had for three months.
Well, just over a week my blood pressure went mad and on Sunday 30
last month, It reached a memorable 191 over 102.
The emergency hospital people found no sign of damage however.
Then on Tuesday 1st, I was due to be at my GP at 11 but at 8:30 am
I
wondered if I could really last that long. I felt awful -dizzy,
unsteady, slight headache, and extreme difficulty in breathing. A
neighbor got me to the doctor at nine thirty and he immediately put
me on oxygen and I had an injection of steroid for the chest.
But the oxygen level in the blood remained too low, and I went on to
the hospital. There, after waiting to be seen for an hour, the
oxygen
level had risen to an acceptable 96. The doctor said he would
expect
a patient with emphysema to be around 90, so 96 is good.

"Are you still smoking?" he asked: he'd seen me before.
"Not any more.'
"Oh, when did you qui?"
"This morning."
That got a laugh.
Well, while at the GP that morning, I'd taken out my packet of
twenty,
and dropped it in his wastepaper bin. "That's it man, no more for
me." I thought.
I felt I'd been given a Final Warning.
So, I'm n my sixth day and still desperately long for a smoke
several
times a day. I found a thing nicotrol lying around, it's a kind of
plastic tube that comes apart to let you insert a little cartridge
and
when you suck in, you get a nicotine fix but no smoke.
So there it is folks - I'm again giving the things up, not this time
because I was spending about 3500 dollars a year but to avoid again
reaching the lamentable state I was in on Tuesday last.
Chest and breathing are great now, not as when I was 19 I suppose
but
then I'm not 19 I'm 69! Appetite is back with a rush and a general
improvement all round. The gP and the clinic nurse were clearly
pleased and surprised when I went back on Friday, walking unaided,
breathing much better, and blood pressure good.
Yesterday it dropped to an amazing 91 over 60! I may be able to
drop
the bp medicine level before long.

I hope none of you have not gone through anything as ghastly in
the
last couple of months since I left the group, md are all
successfully
resisting the siren call of the cigarette!
Doesn't seem to be as many contributing as I remember from last
time.
I wonder if this signifies a number of failures like the one Ihad2
months ago. But maybe it's just a quiet day for messages.
--
Ian


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