So its day 4, today isnt too important but marks a few things:
-One week today and I WILL BE A NON SMOKER
-Today the dosage goes up to 0.5mg morning and evening
Fell back a little bit last night, after my last post I went to bed but could not sleep for love nor money. After about an hour of lying in bed I gave in and had another cigarette. I know very bold but atleast my final count was 6 for the whole day which is still a big drop!!
Bit disappointed by that but at the same time the difference in me in the space of 3 or 4 days is pretty good.
While I was sitting there wide awake, I started thinking about what I would talk about today. Alot of ideas were flying around my mind but the one thing that was at the forefront was my mouth.
What the bleep are you talking about I hear you say!
Smoking makes me very thirsty, its something that I have just accepted and ignored over the years. It would be a norm to down a bottle of wine to quench that thirst of a friday evening and be nibbling on junk food to soak up the alcohol and mask the smokey taste in my mouth. Last night I learned something. I was very content with two glasses of wine and didnt go for any snacks. Has smoking cultivated the way I drink and eat too? I am starting to that maybe it has. Most people gain the extra 6 pounds giving up the smokes, maybe I'll lose 6 pounds. Wouldnt that be a great double achievement!
Anyway, day 4 commences without any dramas. Still no side effects from the drugs, the hulk monster hasnt appeared quite yet, I think we shall leave him til next week when the real test begins. I pop my pill in the morning and skip that wake up smoke, new routines are building kicking the old ones to the curb.
Still full of optimism as the journey progresses.
More thoughts to come later as I push away those cravings ...
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Hi Zoe
ReplyDeleteThink your doing fantastic for only four days in. At that stage I was still using the fact that Champix said you could smoke for the first fourteen days as an excuse to smoke as much as possible. It wasn't till I got to my planned quit date, day 10, and wasn't even close to quitting that I started to cut down dramatically like you are doing. That's when I realised that champix was working and that I was just too busy smoking to notice. Suppose I thought it would somehow do all the work for me.
Champix does work for a lot of people and you should only worry about the side effects if you start to get side effects (does that make sense outside my head?).
Hope you keep taking Champix and keep blogging because, I believe that, only us smokers can help each other give up.
Cheers