Really? It's been 3 days since I quit smoking? It doesn't feel like it at all! It still feels like the first day, but I'm at work. So it is my first day not smoking at work.
I'm feeling so lost and confused today. I don't know what to do on my breaks and lunch. I'm passing the time on lunch now with writing this.
The hardest part of this whole quitting thing isn't the not smoking part it's the doing it cold turkey route. Anyone know what cold turkey is anyway?
I've talked to many people that have tried to quit. They have tried patches, gum, or other things prescribed by their doctor. And all of them went right back to smoking in no time.
Those nicotine gums and patches don't really fix the problem. Yeah sure, no more ciggies, but you are still a slave to the nicotine. You're still losing to the addiction.
Let's look at the drugs my doc always wanted to give me. The two popular ones, Wellbutrin and Chantix.
First, Wellbutrin, it's basically and anti depressant. I was on that already. Let me tell you, never give and anti depressant to an already happy person, it doesn't work out too good. Imagine mr Rogers but 100x happier. Oh and don't forget it kills the sex drive too. No thank you!
Now Chantix. If anyone has actually seen the commercial and listened to it, they would have heard a little side effect of night terrors. The other goodie, blood clots! Oh boy, where do I sign? Don't forget about mood swings and other psychotic stuff it does.
That drug does not work for me either. Besides, taking one drug to kill an addiction to another one seems silly and pointless to me. And for someone like me that has had health problems in the past that required large amounts of pills to control, more pills isn't the answer. I'm free from pills except for the occasional excedrin for a headache.
So that's that.
My blood/nicotine/caffeine levels are still adjusting.
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