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Day 2 on Chantix

 It's just about the same time as last night. 7:55 PM and I just took my medication. Last night's sleep wasn't really great. I went to bed at nine and woke up 3 times, about every 2-3 hours. The first time i had to go to the bathroom. It's becoming a habit lately and I'm not sure why. But i have a Physical at the end of the week so i can bring that up. The dreams overnight were unusual. I barely remember them now but i just had an image of dark clouds at night. I was advised that the dreams can become a bit weird but on night one i wasn't really expecting a change. 

Waking up several times throughout the night did leave me feeling unrested when my alarm finally went off at 6:00 AM. It's unfortunately been like this for several months. I'd say 6 months or maybe nine months. I generally stems from our cats. Ash and Matchy wake up every morning around 4:00 AM and they start banging on things to try and get us awake to feed them. We tried Dry Food... a Gravity Feeder... and all it ended up doing in the end was getting them way overweight. They are now on a diet but they still insist on trying to get me up and out of before four. My medication manager is becoming concerned about it. 

In good news today I didn't over smoke. Which is a start. Yesterday I had ended my day at 16 Marlboro,  Red-Shorts... Today I ended my day at 14 Marlboro, Red-Shorts. It's been about 20 minutes now since taking .5mg of Chantix and i don't feel the light headedness that I did last night. However, i do feel a bit more tired than i did yesterday. Katie already went to bed... and i've got about 45 minutes of reading to do before i get into bed. Overall it was a good day. 

Write more tomorrow.

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