Right so i am a little...ok a lot....irritated with myself.
How i managed to allow myself to smoke for so long even whilst my health was failing. Why did i do that?!
Anyway i am on step two of the patches and doing just fine. I have been keeping up my exercise coping with the moods and other symptoms of quitting (wind being just one!!). But my chest seems to be struggling to heal which is why i am so annoyed with myself. I still have moments when i go blue around the mouth and have to take more medication than i had hoped.
On the other side i am so pleased with myself for stopping when i did. I just went to the gym and ran 5k without the problems i had when i was smoking. I drove home with plenty of air left in my lungs to sing along to a song. I took a shower and put on the jumper i had on earlier which smelt of perfume not nicotine. And finally i am thinking about all the money i have saved, not just by not buying fags but from not having to change and wash my clothing twice a day (because of the smoke) so i am saving on washing powder, electricity etc.
There must be other asthmatic quitters out there, how are you all dealing with it? I honestly thought that giving up would be the end of my problems.....seems not aye!!! But at least we can say we smell better even if we cant breath as well as others!
And whilst i am in the mood, whats with the patches!!! Step two patches are soooo tiny, will step three be finger nail size?!!!