Posted by JayD on 5/30/2009, 8:44 pm
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I said a few weeks ago I was going to quit and would tell my wife about my smoking if I lit up again. Well, I'm 0 for 2 on both now- smoking again, and still haven't had the conversation with my wife. Except I had an experience Friday that, if I remember it each time I want to smoke, that memory may be the perfect behavior modification technique. (We'll see if that works past Tuesday . . .)
I've been smoking at least 1 or 2 cigarettes every work day for the past 2 weeks, getting one in at the train station before I leave for work and one in the afternoon if I can sneak out of the office for a few minutes. Friday was a very stressful day of trying to meet a deadline on one project and trying to tie up another project that won't go away. Until lunch, my stomach had been empty except for coffee and the 2 Adderall I had taken up to that point (prescribed for my ADD), and I had smoked one cigarette in the morning and one on my way to lunch. I ate a much greasier lunch than I normally eat. Then, I smoked my 3rd cigarette of the day. So, I prance back to work, high off the buzz, then I get back to my desk and feel extremely nauseated. In just a few minutes, I had my first of 3 trips to the bathroom to vomit. This isn't the only time I've felt nauseated after smoking, but it hasn't happened in a few years. I hadn't had an experience like this since the first time I smoked (a night in grad school when I was dumb enough to smoke half the pack when I had never smoked before!).
Even though my smoking life has never advanced beyond chipper status, I still thought it was a little odd to be that nauseated after just 3 cigarettes for the day (I've had at least 3 or more in a day before without any reaction), particularly since, for me, I've been smoking more regularly in the past few months. I smoked my usual brand, too (full flavor American Spirits), so it wasn't a bad reaction to a strange cigarette I had never tried before. So, I was wondering if any of you other chippers (5 or less a day) on the board, or even some of you who smoke more regularly, have had an experience like this, where you don't get any strange feeling from smoking for a long time, then one day, you unexpectedly get nauseated after smoking? Just curious . . .
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