Not much time for writing these past two weeks, though I've been processing a lot of thoughts and feelings around addiction and recovery. But I wanted to at least check in and say: yes, I'm still quit!
I haven't copped a buzz from Chantix for at least a week now. We have gone down to just 1 tablet per day, but we are planning to stay on it for at least another month. No unbearable side effects: occasional nausea within an hour of dosing that passes within ten minutes or so, and more annoying but still bearable, considerable sleep disturbance. I've more or less quit caffeine, also, so I'm pretty sure it's the Chantix that's waking me up a few times a night and kicking me out of bed for good right around sunrise.
But oh, man, the summer air is so sweet. I had completely forgotten how sweet the world can smell.
5 comments:
Awesome to hear, Ellie! Nothing sweeter than summer air as a new non-smoker who knows how to appreciate it.
Hi ellie.....glad your still quit....I knew we could do it.
yes the smells of everything is so different now. and food taste so different too. Glad your doing good. KEep up the great work!
You go, Ellie! It is great to smell again, isn't it? Except, of course, when you pass those folks that still smoke and you realize how stinky we were. Shudder.
Each days, it gets a little easier and there will come a morning when you wake up and your first thought will not have anything to do with a cigarette.
Thanks, all of you!
Truly, I am not craving a cigarette first thing after waking up. Strange, because I used to be quite capable of going through half a pack on a leisurely morning. Not the nicest way to greet the day.
However, I am having smoking dreams a few times a week. After one of those, I wake up with a sense of crushing guilt, and it takes a few minutes to clear my head and realize that it was only a dream!
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