{"id":1861,"date":"2009-01-28T11:48:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T18:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2009-01-28T11:48:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T18:48:15","slug":"quit-smoking-take-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1861","title":{"rendered":"Quit Smoking — Take 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I started taking Chantix yesterday.\u00a0 I read the pamphlet that came with the quit-smoking-pills and knew that I would probably have to deal with the side effects as they came.<\/p>\n

After the first pill kicked in, I got overwhelmingly tired.\u00a0 One of the side effects mentioned I would be tired, but since I had been on Xanax (the king of tired pills) I figured it couldn’t be worse than that.\u00a0 Wrong.\u00a0 I had to drive home and when I got there I passed out on my bed using the uncomfortable pillow so I wouldn’t sleep too long.\u00a0 The pillow is one of those cutsie ones you don’t really use because it has crisscross patterns and it just for decoration.\u00a0 I woke up an hour later with waffle like marks indented in my face.
\nThe pamphlet also mentions ‘mood swings’, ‘mood changes’, ‘depression’ & ‘suicidal tendencies’.\u00a0 As a woman, mood swings and changes come and go off and on all month long. Depression runs in the family and I had dealt with depression and suicidal tendencies after I had Shea. This would all be worth it if I could quit smoking.
\nThe rest of the day, I didn’t feel much different except that I felt sort of ‘blah’.
\nBy the end of the day I just wanted Shaun to hold me and make me feel something other than blank.<\/p>\n

Today is day two.\u00a0 I took the pill early on in the day so I don’t pass out before I have to pick up the kids.\u00a0 I decided to read some of the websites on the product I’m taking.\u00a0 It looks like this is going to be an interesting ride for me. Hopefully I can exchange the tired feeling for the\u00a0 hallucinations.<\/p>\n

Until then, don’t mind me…I’m just going to cuddle up with the waffle pillow and hope that I can get excited about something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I started taking Chantix yesterday.\u00a0 I read the pamphlet that came with the quit-smoking-pills and knew that I would probably have to deal with the side effects as they came. After the first pill kicked in, I got overwhelmingly tired.\u00a0 One of the side effects mentioned I would be tired, but since I had been…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}