I am past one month mark! Yay! Still have moments, but it's slooowly getting better.
Yay! Things are well! This week has been a bit up and down, but nothing big at all. I'm plowing straight ahead. Not looking back to smoking at all. It feels like I'm on a spaceship leaving the gravity of a huge enourmous black hole that's been slowly dragging me in. :D
Google is about to announce that it is working on a Google Operating System based on Google Chrome! The speculations were long ripe that Chrome is a precursor to a full-scale OS, with the long-term focus on running applications (or even the computer) over the web.
I've been a day one user of Google Chrome, and it has been the most amazing experience, in and out. The browser aspect of it is mind blowing, but I didn't really get to experience much of other powerful capabilities. I don't think community has really picked up on Gears yet, but I know Google has long-term goals in mind, so I know all will happen in due time.
These years we live on a precipice of some major technological advances, and Chrome OS will be the future of computing. It's very exciting to be watching it unfold right in front of our eyes.
I am staying smokefree! It's crazy but I don't think I would've been able to go through the physical withdrawal without Chantix, even if it was just two pills this time. I am so fed up with smoking, I don't think I'll ever go back!
It'll be 2 weeks on Friday. All it took for me this time was 2 pills of Chantix, and I was on my way. It really evens out the withdrawal.
I'm still feeling weird here and there, but generally feeling ok and not even that many urges. Those 6 months smokefree did me a lot of good that - apparently - was not forgotten at all.
It feels good not to be poisoning your body. I hope all the smokers get addicted to that feeling.
Happy July 4th everyone!
Been quit for 5.5 days. Of course, I had to get a strep throat right after I quit, that's normal for me. But doing well, otherwise. A bit low on happy thoughts, but this will all improve. Without Chantix on that first day of quitting, I don't know if I could've done it. And yes, the way Chantix makes me feel is scary! But it works!
Let's keep on keeping! Hope everyone is well!
I only took two pills of Chantix Friday night and Saturday morning. Well, it's Sunday night, and I'm still not smoking because I decided to be done with it. What's interesting is that somehow Chantix seems to redirect the withdrawal from being targeted at sticking something in the mouth and sucking smoke in to just a very annoying (but a lot more tolerable) feeling of longing for something but not being sure what. It's like what stomach feels like when you are hungry, except not in the stomach. It's really bizarre, but it works. And only after two pills.
It's also almost like it makes you forget what pleasure your body thought it was receiving from smoking. It's almost like it physically disconnects that link in your brain, completely disassociates it, and maybe that's where it strength is. It's almost like it manufactures your memory to exclude any reference to smoking. All your body is left with is the physical withdrawal from nicotine...which would be mediated by its stimulation of the receptors in the brain (and in my case, some gradual withdrawal).
I didn't want to keep on taking pills because I wasn't feeling too excited about how they were making me feel. It's a psych medication, I said it numerously before, and so you don't feel yourself, it feels like your brain is messing with you, bah. Scary enough effects that you want to stop taking it. Enough said.
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