A lifetime of smoking cigs, spliffs and bongs has finally taken its toll. i now have emphysema lung disease. That explains the constant out of breath and tiredness ive been experiencing lol.
I know i should have stopped smoking years ago as I already suffer from inflammatory rheumatoid arthritis and asthma and the smoking has probably made my health worse.
Like most people though, we put things off until we have to deal with things. Well now i have to deal with this so i'm finally going to have a proper go at stopping before it kills me. some people are not so lucky to get a warning.
Previously i have made half hearted attempts to stop but have failed.
In the past ive tried nicotine chewing gum, it made my throat hurt. tried nicotine patches, they made my arm hurt.
Tried vaping, which did work for a bit but my love of a good spliff always took me back to tobacco.
So now i'm trying champix. A drug that blocks the nicotine receptors in your brain, therefore making you not want to smoke eventually.
I'l be honest i'm not intending to stop ingesting pot as it helps so much as an anti inflammatory for the arthritis, but i'l no longer be smoking it.
So its now day 2 of being on champix.
With champix you do not stop smoking immediately, you continue until day 12+ (you make your own goal date)
I have decided to try and stop by day 14 which will be 14/05/2018
Already when i smoke, the taste seems to be slightly different and its making me a bit nausious and dizzy.
ive noticed im already wanting to smoke slightly less.
I will keep posting about my progress so other would be quitters can get a viewpoint on whether to try champix or not.
Wish me luck steemians :-)