Be me. Smoke for decades. Use chantix to quit. They have you take it for 3 weeks, one before you quit, two weeks after you quit. First week at times I go for hours where I forget I smoke. Amazing.
Second week, quit smoking, dose increases. I start getting random panic attacks in the day, at night, while I sleep. Intense dreams and whatnot but somewhere in there the actual urge to BREATHE shuts off. As in...sit there at the dinner table, gasp for air. Walking...gasp. Shopping...gasp. The worst is trying to sleep. SO for the next 5-8 years, I spend every waking moment going from a breath of air to holding it, forgetting to breathe, then gasping as if I was underwater. Ruins sleep, business, family, causes several bouts with sanity, suicidal, incredibly tired all the time so brain fries.
Not only do I never smoke, I never have a craving to smoke again. I can sit there watching you smoke and the urge to smoke one just doesn't come up. Still...hard to tell if it was worth it. I'm guessing dying of no oxygen would be a lot worse.
mongre 1 points 3.6 years ago
Be me. Smoke for decades. Use chantix to quit. They have you take it for 3 weeks, one before you quit, two weeks after you quit. First week at times I go for hours where I forget I smoke. Amazing.
Second week, quit smoking, dose increases. I start getting random panic attacks in the day, at night, while I sleep. Intense dreams and whatnot but somewhere in there the actual urge to BREATHE shuts off. As in...sit there at the dinner table, gasp for air. Walking...gasp. Shopping...gasp. The worst is trying to sleep. SO for the next 5-8 years, I spend every waking moment going from a breath of air to holding it, forgetting to breathe, then gasping as if I was underwater. Ruins sleep, business, family, causes several bouts with sanity, suicidal, incredibly tired all the time so brain fries.
Not only do I never smoke, I never have a craving to smoke again. I can sit there watching you smoke and the urge to smoke one just doesn't come up. Still...hard to tell if it was worth it. I'm guessing dying of no oxygen would be a lot worse.