Dear TeeJay,

crfische

How's not smokin' going lil' buddy?Wanna kill people yet?

J&K10910

I was going to ask you this as well.(Interjection--Fishy, I'm disappointed you didn't participate in my discussion question.)

crfische

Frick, I missed it! I'll go check it out.

temerityjane

Chantix... oh my God.Brutal insomnia followed by horribly vivid dreams - last night, it was wasp people. I can't even explain. Horrible.And it blocks the effects of nicotine, so the first little while there was UGLY. I was jetlagged, sleep deprived, surrounded by family, looking for a wedding venue, and suffering from nicotine withdrawl. I was a fuucking peach.I have yet to completely quit. I think I smoked a total of 3.5 cigarettes yesterday (down from a pack a day).Smoking kind of makes me want to vomit. Seriously, after half a cigarette yesterday afternoon (the 1st of the day), we had a very close call in the freezer aisle of the grocery store.I don't CRAVE them anymore, but am now trying to break the habit of having one in the car, on the phone or with coffee. Which also tastes like butt. I've got a partial pack left. I really can't see bothering to buy anymore once it's gone.Hooray!Now, Buddy has been smoke free for just over a month. He says his sense of taste hasn't improved, nor his sense of smell. But SOMEthing sure has improved. If I have to say "stop WAVING IT AT ME" one more time, I'm locking him out of the bedroom.

J&K10910

Ugh that sounds awful, but good work for sticking with cutting down!  Don't buy any more!  If you don't have them, you won't have any to smoke when a sudden urge hits you. 

bbyckes

Stick with it TJ - sounds like you've made it through the worst of it!

temerityjane

Managed to lose and (so far) keep off 10 pounds during the worst of it, too!/shamless brag

missy68

Good going, TJ - sounds like you're getting there. I can't imagine what it's like, but I applaud both you and Buddy for sticking with it.

georgia_bride09

Dang! I wish I could quit smoking and lose ten pounds!!! If only I smoked in the first place... Congrats so far TJ.

ootmother2

TJ rocks!I remember how hard it was to quit.  Think I spent most of the second week in the shower because that was the one place I knew I couldn't light up

julezlee

Hip hip hooray!  Maybe you're losing weight from all the extra "exercise" Buddy is giving you. 

BecW2be

"stop WAVING IT AT ME"DEDYou are doing awesome! Keep it up! You are down to less than 20% what you were smoking. That's terrific. Once that pack is gone, there's no reason to get any more. Have you found anything to replace the habit of smoking? Can you chew on a toothpick or coffee stirrer?

SwedishChick2011

Good job, TJ!  I'm intrigued by the wasp people.  Were they like half wasp, half human?  Could they sting you?

temerityjane

coco - It was freakish. Wasp people that bit other people and turned them also into wasp people, and I hid with three other people in a back room. When the wasps were gone, we came out of the back room with a smoke machine and breathing through handkerchiefs for some reason, I think to make sure we were safe on the way out. Except we ran into two other people checking out the building after the wasp disaster and they thought we were infected so I ran away, and then ended up living in the same back room as kind of a safety bunker with a little community of people and the people who were left out kept trying to break into our hideout to be safe but we couldn't support any more people and I had to sneak out for supplies and when I tried to get back in I had to squeeze through a tiny opening and my fat butt got stuck.I have a phone interview for a new writing project in two minutes, and after all this talk of smoking I ran downstairs for half a cigarette (I'm easily influenced) and now I feel like I'm going to yak. Awesome!

SwedishChick2011

Wow, that intense!  It sounds a little bit 24 Days Later-esque. 

temerityjane

Or... I do not have an interview right now, for my dumba$$ has just noticed that I was given a phone number of only 9 digits. DOUBLE AWESOME.I've not found anything to replace the smoking. I've noticed that if I don't SEE anyone smoking and no one mentions it, it doesn't even occur to me to smoke. Just have to work on the habitual smoking times, like in the car or sitting outside on the phone. That's more ingrained habit than addiction, I think, though.