A full 24 hours!

I’ve gone a full 24 hours without a cigarette!  This is a first in many years.
Goodnight.

I QUIT!

Today is the first day being smoke-free in almost 6 years!
This first day has been pretty rough, I must say.  Every few minutes, the urge to go have a cigarette is there, but having tried quitting in the past, the urge does subside rather quickly in comparison.  Perhaps it is more of the habit of smoking […]

Day 4-7

I just finished my last cigarette.  Ever.  I hope. FOR SURE.
The past few days were pretty normal.  I have noticed that since I started taking Chantix 2 times a day (morning and evening), I have been a bit more tired all day and evening than usual.  There has been very little nausea.
The dreams though:  wow.  […]

Day 2-3

Yesterday and today, I kept taking the .5mg dose once per day as required.  Not a whole lot to report just yet.
SLIGHT nausea and a good amount of dreams - neither of which I am prepared to attribute to Chantix yet.  Aside from that, I am feeling pretty good about things.  In the evenings, it […]

Day 1

I started Chantix this morning!  Unfortunately, there’s really nothing to report (I assumed there wouldn’t be).
A lot of folks around the Internet have complained of nausea, but so far I haven’t experienced any.  Only a week until I [hopefully] become smoke-free!

One more day…

…until I start on Chantix.
I think it’d be a good time, now, to give my top 10 reasons why I’ve decided to quit (in no particular order):
1.  Risk of cancer and heart disease
2.  I am quickly getting more and more out of shape (stairs embarrass me)
3.  My girlfriend has a 3 year old that I […]

Pre-quit excitement/anxiety

I am looking forward to the 23rd of October to start on Chantix. Actually, I am looking forward to it slightly too much; I get a little anxious about the quitting when I think about it.
I figure I should be completely honest and straight-forward if I am going to do a public blog about […]

I’ve decided to quit…

I have no intentions for this section of my blog to become a soapbox for me to belch out everything smokers have already heard.  If you want to quit, great.  If you haven’t decided or are still looking into quitting, that’s fine, too.
I figured that writing as often as possible about my experiences with quitting […]