Day 2: Still Trying to Stay Strong
The last 24 hours were horrible, although the urge to have a smoke wasn’t too bad, my body felt like it had been hit by a truck. I was nauseous all day, weak and somewhat dizzy. Not sure what brought all that on, but I didn’t get much sleep last night. For most of the day it helped with the nicotine cravings though, since my mind was distracted worrying about not throwing up or passing out.
But by the time the evening came around, I started feeling better and the cravings came back full swing. The evening dose of Chantix helped a bit and I’m calm now.
Hopefully tomorrow will be better, but I’m still confused as to whether it was the Chantix, nicotine withdrawal or something that I ate that caused all of this. I guess I’ll never know, but the good part is I didn’t break. One more day under the belt.
No, you did NOT break, and that’s ALL that matters! You are a 2-day NON-SMOKER!!! Hang in there!!!!
You are right that it can be hard to tell what’s the Chantix and what’s the nicotine heading the rest of the way out of your body. I’m so glad that you hung in there and didn’t smoke, and even when there are rough patches, and there will be some of those, overall it really and truly has gotten easier in the grand scheme of things. Do what you can to combat the nausea (I talked about it again yesterday on my blog and have some links there for ideas), and hopefully that will help.
I, too, had the stronger urges in the evenings after work for the first little bit. Before long it all evened out to where they were no different than other times of day. I’d already been on the full dose for awhile (quit on Chantix Day 13), so I don’t think it was related to that in my case, but whatever the reason, that got better, too, and that’s what does matter.
You are doing great. Just hang in there and keep going!