Somehow I find myself in day 10 of not smoking. (or
drinking) and on the other side of yet another afternoon nap. My sleep patterns
are all over the place and during the night the most I seem to manage lately is
about 6 hours of interrupted sleep. Is it the exercise I’ve been doing to keep busy
doing this? No, because it usually knocks me out at night – especially the
weight-training. Is it the not drinking? No, because when I lay off the booze
regular sleep patterns establish within a couple of days. Then it must be the
not-smoking, even though I’ve been using NRT and don’t seem to be suffering
anything in the way of withdrawal. Also, scattered through these periods of
being utterly knackered are periods when I feel so bursting with energy I can’t
keep still, would like to run around the nearby field, in fact feel as more energetic
than I have felt in many years. This last is what I have to keep in mind. Once
all the upsets are out of the way I’m going to be healthier, fitter! Caroline,
meanwhile, is also being whacked on the head by Morpheus and his now getting
her own particular reaction to giving up smoking, which is ulcers in the mouth.
Of course the anti-smoking crowd never use words like antiseptic or antibiotic
in connection with smoking…
I’m sorry to have to report that the writing isn’t going
great at all, in fact, it would be more accurate to say it isn’t going at all.
Yes I’m writing blog posts but they hardly require the same degree of concentration,
and yes I managed to do that synopsis of Penny Royal I: Isobel for Bella Pagan,
but actually getting deep into the trilogy to make the alterations and
corrections needed is a no-no now. This inability to concentrate is certainly
due to the abnegation above, but is also due to the reason we are back in
England right now, when we’d usually be on Crete. In fact that might be another
reason for my insomnia.
4 comments:
Take care, you sound a little shook up.
Hang in there, most (if not all) of the bad symptoms of quitting smoking should go away, such as the mouth ulcers: http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Mouth-ulcer/Pages/Causes.aspx
Stopping smoking
When you first stop smoking, you may find that you develop mouth ulcers. This is a normal reaction. Your body is dealing with the change in chemicals in your body.
After giving up smoking, any increase in mouth ulcers will be temporary, so don't let it put you off stopping smoking. The long-term health benefits of not smoking are far greater than the short-term discomfort of mouth ulcers.
What he said^ and all the lack of writing will be the same root cause. How's your reading? Is it also suffereing?
Yes, my reading is suffering too. Just can't get interested.
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