Good Morning!
Autumn has started to rear it's head......I'm going to miss sitting outside wrapped in my robe on a brisk morning with a cup of coffee and cigarettes, for some reason it started my day out just perfectly. This year will be different but I'm determined for it to be just as perfect minus the cigarettes.
I'm doing okay, the urges are fewer and farther between one another, and less intense. I'm only 3 weeks into using the Chantix but I can't imagine coming off it any time sooner than is absolutely necessary.
I'm coughing (productive) a little more than I have been recently. I wondered where all the phlegm I was coughing up (when I was still smoking) was going to - I guess it's a delayed reaction. It isn't constant but it's for the first hour I wake up and then again at least one other time of the day. I'm happy to be rid of the constant nagging cough I had while I was smoking, it drove my husband crazy - he really hated it and commented about it constantly.
My admission and vow:
I am an addict and I understand I will always be one cigarette away from my pack a day habit.
I vow not to smoke today.
I wish continued success to all my supporters and other ex-smokers out there - STAY QUIT!
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Day 15
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I can see missing autumn mornings, but I do know that I won't miss sitting in the rainy NW winter ;)
Like you, I envisioned staying on Chantix the full 12 week ride, and I do think it was just about right for me. Not sooner, not later, but I understand that plenty of folks to need just a bit less or more.
It was a couple or few weeks quit that I started coughing up crazy stuff, too, but it was so nice, like you said, to be rid of that scary smokers hacking cough. I celebrated the joy of my happy cilia bunches of times over on my blog knowing that I was clearing out my lungs (if you are curious and search for cilia at the top, you'll find the posts - sometimes I went a little over the top with my joy).
Anyway, MamaFlo, you continue to inspire me. Keep going!
I sure would like to experience "Autumn." We just slip into rainy weather. Grey, gloomy, rain. I am so glad I won't be one of those silly people huddled outside puffing on a cigarette this year.
Keep up with the vow and I will too.
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