{"id":122,"date":"2007-02-11T18:21:27","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T01:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2007-02-11T18:21:27","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T01:21:27","slug":"quit-day-minus-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Quit day minus 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m quitting!\u00c2\u00a0 Smoking that is.\u00c2\u00a0 I figure it’s time since I’m 53 and my health isn’t getting any better.<\/p>\n

I’ve been thinking about it for several months now.\u00c2\u00a0 I really started thinking hard when after my\u00c2\u00a0 last cold went away my cough didn’t.\u00c2\u00a0 I had thought about doing it over the holidays but realized that’s probably one of the higher stress times.<\/p>\n

About 2 weeks ago I enrolled in Boeing’s program called Free and Clear.\u00c2\u00a0 They provide you with stop smoking guides, a quit coach, and patches or gum if you want to try one of those.\u00c2\u00a0 They also recommend 2 different prescription drugs if you want to try one of those.\u00c2\u00a0 The drugs are Zyban and Chantix.\u00c2\u00a0 Zyban<\/a> is actually an antidepressant which has worked well as a smoking cessation aid.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s how Betty quit several years ago.<\/p>\n

Chantix<\/a> on the other hand is brand new and is actually made as a smoking cessation aid.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s what I decided to try.\u00c2\u00a0 It works by reducing the cravings for nicotine.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve been taking it for a week now and I can tell the cravings will be much less than if I wasn’t taking it.<\/p>\n

Please don’t comment that you “are proud of me”.\u00c2\u00a0 If I successfully quit I’ll be proud enough for myself but I’ve always disliked getting a pat on the back for doing something I should have done a long time ago.\u00c2\u00a0 Kind of makes me feel like a puppy.\u00c2\u00a0 Well wishes are welcome though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m quitting!\u00c2\u00a0 Smoking that is.\u00c2\u00a0 I figure it’s time since I’m 53 and my health isn’t getting any better. I’ve been thinking about it for several months now.\u00c2\u00a0 I really started thinking hard when after my\u00c2\u00a0 last cold went away my cough didn’t.\u00c2\u00a0 I had thought about doing it over the holidays but realized that’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}