Saintless

Well, I missed yesterday’s post about Day 4 of Chantix. It was for good reason, though! My son’s 10th birthday is today (my baby is 2 digits now!!!!), and I had planned to take him to the Jazz game – just the two of us – on Wednesday. I was going to buy the nosebleed seats, but they weren’t available. However, an angel friend of mine was able to get me some VIP seats down on the 19th row, behind the Jazz bench. WAY better than I was going to get! So, it was a mad dash of leaving work early, doing lots of driving, helping him finish a diorama for his Goosebumps book report, and racing off to the stadium.

This was our view! How much better of a 10th birthday present could a kid ask for?

Anyway, so that was my excitement for the evening, and blogging was the last thing on my mind.

In all of my rush, I left my Chantix week 1 pack at work yesterday. Day 4 was supposed to be the first day of taking 2 pills – one in the morning, and the other in the evening. Among the many things I panicked about last night (anxiety had a huge hold on me) was what to do about the pill. I am not sure I could even get in the office, much less at 11 o’clock at night, nor did I feel like doing ANY extra driving. I had the brilliant idea of splitting a week 2 pill (they are 1 mg, and week 1 is all .5 mg) in half, and that dropped off of my anxiety radar. But, upon taking the pill out of its package, I discovered that they are not easily splittable. I’ve tried to split hard pills with a knife before, and they tend to turn into a mess. So, rather than let myself be more anxious, I just took a 1 mg pill. I will just swap it for the .5 mg pill on the first day of the 2nd week. I’m pretty sure that won’t actually do any harm.

Whew! I’m anxious all over again thinking about it!

Anyway, I didn’t end up counting my cigarettes today, but I did notice that I’m down to about half a pack. Some of those are ones that I smoke half of, and come back for the other half later, but most are ones I smoke half of and then just toss. So, I’m definitely down from 1+ packs before this all started.

Still no unusual mood changes. The anxiety is nothing new, and my Celexa generally handles that well – in fact, I think I might have forgotten to take the Celexa yesterday. Oops. So, I’m not counting that towards any Chantix side effects. And it will be resolved just as soon as I have both my bedroom and my kitchen in order at the same time (I can handle anything if the two are both organized). Guess I should go get my bedroom taken care of while the kitchen’s still looking good.

Tags: Chantix

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