Re: OT: Trip report: Chantix Week 7 (quitting smoking)

On Sep 24 2009 6:44 PM, Abbey Johnsson wrote:

On Sep 24 2009 11:58 AM, BTSinAustin wrote:

On Sep 23 2009 7:56 PM, Abbey Johnsson wrote:

On Sep 23 2009 1:02 PM, BTSinAustin wrote:

If you are not a smoker please just skip now.

At 51 I have smoked cigs for way more years than I care to admit, like
35.
Like most I have tried to quit many times. The wife and I decided
it
was time for both of us. Went to doc and got script for Chantix.
Insurance doesn't cover and it is around 140.00 for a month here in
Texas,
YMMV. The package the doc gives you has a 30 dollar coupon for first
month. The first 3 days it's one pill and then 2 a day. One in AM and
one in PM. The stuff kicks in really fast, you feel a very slight buzz
similar to the one you get after a 5 hour flight and smoke a cig after
running to the exit. The really cool thing about the plan is that
there's no pressure to quit. Take the pill and keep smoking. After
you
get to the 2 pills a day stage something odd starts happening. When
you
do smoke you don't get any satisfaction. I think this is due to the
drug
filling your nicotine receptors. So you think you want one, light it
up
and nothing happens. So over time you start putting them out faster.
At
this point you are fighting the mental habit. All the things
associated
with smoking, after eating, talking on phone, driving etc. You still
fire
one up, it just does nothing for you. What little positive you get
from
them is taken away and the negatives become clearer. After a week or
so
something really odd happened to me. The times I would think are
hardest
to not smoke became the easiest. Like Friday night poker. Have a
regular game, low buy in freeze out we have been playing for years.
Maybe 25% of regulars in that game smoke. Very common when UTG to
head
for porch after hand to take a few puffs and be back in seat before
action
came around. Of course there are many beers and booze, a regular
paradise
for the smoking habit right? This was the first place I went smoke
free,
4 to 6 hours of drinking and no smoking. That is a minor miracle to
me.
The bad thing is work made me want to smoke. I would have not had one
from 5 PM all the way to 8:30 AM, sit down, open email and bam, go out
and
light up. Maybe 5 to 8 times a day. I would re-light the same one so
the numbers went down.

This all takes time, but again there's no pressure to quit. No stress
about it. Around week 5 for me something new kicked in. Since I was
smoking a lot less, down from 1 to 1.5 packs a day to 5 or 10 cigs my
sense of taste started coming back. (Seems I read your taste buds
renew
every 14 days). This did 2 things, made cigs taste really bad and food
taste really really good. So now that they taste really bad I would
light
one up and take 2 puffs and put it out and feel stupid for lighting it
in
the first place.

I didn't plan this but my last smoke was Friday around 5 PM. Didn't
not
smoke all weekend and Monday morning it seemed like a real shame to
break
a streak so I toughed it out and now I am in day 5 of no smoking at
all.

I still want one bad at times but I have a new mental game and that is
breaking the streak. I do not want to start over on smoke free days.

Side Effects: They list a crap load of potentials. Insomnia, nausea,
vivid dreams, suicidal thoughts to name a few. The only one I have had
is
vivid dreams but that is pretty cool. The wife has had some nausea but
nothing major. The other side effects are from not smoking and are
positive for the most part. Sense of smell and taste are back in full
force. Funny how bad smokers smell. And food, holy crap food tastes
so
good, I plan on at least 20 lbs to lose after this is done.

I almost did not mention this one. Sadness. It is the damndest thing,
there is a sadness about not smoking, it is like an old friend died.
My
wife and I both felt it and thought it was too weird to mention. Like
the
back deck where we smoked for years now seems empty.
I told her that if I had known the one on friday was my last smoke I
would
have been nicer to it. You had to be there.

Bottom line, do it. The payback is instant, smoking less pays the
140 a
month.

as an ex-smoker, i truly hope you make it. quitting is probably the best
thing i ever did for myself in my life. but....sad to say...i dont think
you're going to make it. sorry. those last few paragraphs detail too much
pain. its only been five days? waaaaay too early chirpping. i dont
believe in magic pills. you just gotta go cold turkey and NOT MAKE A BIG
DEAL OUT OF IT. bragging and wriitng stories about it only keeps it on
the
front burner.


A: Reading comprehension. Look into it.
B: On Cold turkey, you should try that from being a bitter bitch.


lol. not smoking making you a bit crabby? i give you another week, then
you'll be sucking those cigs down again.

Maybe a bit of over reaction, but not a lot considering your post. But
that is the theme of all you posts, slam people, pretend you know it all.
It's really kinda sad.

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