[Jatelka]

To be honest, SWIJ has been avoiding this thread like the plague (trying not to set herself up for a fall you see)!

However she is delighted (and amazed) to announce that it is now 3 weeks since she last had a cigarette.

She did ask her GP for Bupropion (Zyban) in the end. Side effects wise it hasn't been too bad: Slightly dry mouth, vaguely anxious (but that could also have been physical withdrawal), which settled within 2 weeks.

SWIJ has felt no desire to smoke. None whatsoever. It's really very strange. Something that has been a part of her life for so long and no cravings whatsoever.

OK, so there were the first 72 hours of physical withdrawal, but as others have mentioned (although SWIJ always would have disagreed) they really are relatively mild, dealable with and short-lived: Maybe with her previous attempts she was confusing psychological cravings for physical symptoms?

The desperate craving/yearning/obsessional thinking is completely absent this time. She has even been to the pub, which caused a relapse every previous time! She is due to stop the Zyban within the next week, and she will see what happens then.

For the first time ever she really begins to think that this is (finally) possible: A non-smoker. Maybe she should change her profile details?