1 Week Down

I have to admit, it's not as difficult as I thought it would be.

I think Pfizer has figured out that if they make the cigarettes taste terrible and encourage you to keep smoking a week into the drug, that the memory of just how bad it was is enough to make one quit. That's been my experience so far. I managed to get through a whole week without a single drag, and have noticed a few additional things:

1) I now have a bionic sense of smell. Seriously. I think it's driving my husband kind of nuts, especially since he doesn't really know why "all of a sudden" I can smell everything and make that fact well known.

2) The nausea sucks. Especially at night. I have to make the change from taking the pill before I go to bed (with my other medications), to dinner time I think. Laying down and feeling like I'm going to ralph is really no fun at all.

3) So far, there have been no night terrors, and I'm kind of disappointed about that. I was hoping that like my pharmacist's mother (who also used Chantix), I'd have a big purple dinosaur chasing me through my neighborhood. Seriously, Barney is not scary.

So. 1 week down, 12 more to go.