Been peeking in here there, mostly there, the last couple weeks. Been using the patch/gum/losange combo... ... was that a bullet that just wizzed by? Hold your fire, today marks 1 whole month without tobacco and 2 days without nicotine!!! ... so I can say hello now, right, without getting shot at? :)
So lessee, me... 39, 12 hour shift worker (hence the intro post @ 03:14), living in my house are: 1 wife/3 kids/2 bunnies/2 hamsters/1 Beagle (who thinks the previous 4 critters are feeder bunnies/hamsters) and occasional stray inlaws (I try to discourage this activity). Can or less per day of Skoal habit since High School, which has wreaked havok on my gums. The new dentist I saw on March 16th scared me straight. Of course I have discovered Hooch Smokey Mtn (which I like better) and so traded one bad habit for another. I'm also getting alarmingly fat. Did I mention sunflower seeds and gum and lifesavers and worthers candy? And that I feel like I did when I was 15- there is not enough food to ever make me not hungry! Man I have an appetite again.
I'm also 9 days into Chantix, which I guess is working since I'm not experiancing any mind warping jonesing yet. Speaking of mind warping, no weird dreams at all, those came mostly the first week when I was crashing hard from nicotine reduction. That was a hard week.
I will end this initial post with this random tidbit: You know what I'm doing right this second that I have never tried before? Dipping coffee. Yup, a couple pinches of coffee grounds, and I think it's actually working to perk me up! Mind you, I type this 9 hours in to a first Nightshift, @ 03:23, 2 days into no nicotine. Wouldn't even have tried it but I'm almost out of fake chew, my new crutch, which is ordered but still have to wait a week for it to show up, and needing some caffine. Got the idea from a Marine buddy, guess they would make a little MRE instant coffee bandit?
