10 weeks
Today is my day 70, 10 weeks smoke free, so proud of myself.
i have been taking Champix and have 3 days left, i am starting to get nervous, i know this medication has helped me and i know that i also had to used willpower not to smoke. because everyday i have the urge to smoke but i choose not too. I carry my last packet of cigarettes with me at all times and have never gone to my bag and taken them out even when the urge was really strong in the beginning.
If anyone out there has done the full course of Champix, please share with me your experience of coming off them.
Mentally I am allover the place at the moment and I am sure it is fear, I am frightened that being smoke free is dependent on me taking this medication.
I tell myself I can do this, i cannot go back to smoking, I need to stop thinking about it.
i like others have gained weight during this time, people tell me don't worry about it, be kind to yourself deal with one thing at a time. Maybe it is time for me to focus on loosing weight and then maybe I can stop freaking out about the medication running out.
I think I am feeling sorry for myself, I felt so good in the middle weeks and the last week or so I feel horrible, I feel tried with a capital T, fat with a capital F, sick with a capital S, and maybe wimpy with a capital W.
Anyway thank you for your time, enough self indulgence for the time being, but please let me know if anyone has completed the full course of Champix
Fantastic...well done. I am also on champix but going to wean myself off soon....so I cant help you with that side of it. Keep focusing on the positives........you have come so far and done so well, bravo.
yeah that's it remember you haven't had a smoke for 10 weeks and maybe it will be hard maybe it wont coming of the tabs, but come to far to go back now :)
you will be right but we are here either way :)
IC
Keep reminding yourself of the struggle you went thru to get this far...you don't want to go back thru it again if you were to start again. I have just today started on Champix myself. Been a 25/day smoker for 30 years and cut down to 12/day recently. Can't get below that so Champix it is. You can do it!
Try to use the fear against itself. The fear is the smoking devil, laugh at him. You don't need him, he's scared and he's transferring this fear to you. This is not your fear, it's the last connection he has. Stay strong, concentrate on keeping busy and the fear is probably worse than stopping the medication. Good luck, this is now about you and you being free. Let us know how you get on
I stayed on the Champix for about 3 months as I knew I needed the back up. Now its been 334 days and I am still hanging for a smoke but I just tell myself that I definitely don't earn enough to afford the habit and also that I don't want to be hanging around a hospital door with a drip in my arm puffing on a cigarette in front of everyone.
I stayed on the Champix for 3 months for the back up. Its been 344 days now and I am still hanging for a cigarette but I tell myself that I definitely don't earn enough to support such a habit and I don't want to be hanging around a hospital doorway with a drip in my arm puffing on a cigarette in front of everyone.
Tee Em it is so good to know someone else on the same path has gotten so far, congrats on 334 days.
Roseanne congrats on the 72 days and thank you for your encouraging words.
Topsy I wish you well, Champix has helped me I know I would not have done this without the mental help that Champix gave me, cold turkey I would have failed.
IC thank you for your comments I also really enjoy your posts keep them coming.
Flora thank you for your comments, positive is always good
WhiteWillow you are going to succeed, working the fear for our benefit is good
Thank you all, tonight I am not so self involved, I know I just have to keep going one day at a time, ending the medication is probably a really good thing, sleep has been a problem since I started hopefully after medication ends sleep will start. If I'm not so tired it might be easier
Hi Storm, self indulgence is essential. Others who are on the same page as you will take a leaf from your book. Everyone enjoys reading of the successes of others. That's what got me to 359 days... Just keep posting. Enjoy the support and accolades
Hi storm, there is nothing to fear except fear itself. Champix us not very good for our mental and physical well being and you will find that you are much stronger without it.
Hey storm, we are with you and want you to succeed. So, its possible and doable and I know you can do it. I've no idea what its like to take champix but I'm sure once you are through with it and continue to with your quit path that you'll be able to help those who used champix.