So I quit the patch and this is day two. I feel okay, just have trouble concentrating. Like even during my workout today, I was doing jump squats and one legged squats with a friend, and I was supposed to be keeping count but I kept thinking about other things, sort of daydreaming.
I just sat down with a collection of articles I have been meaning to read and by the second page I was just staring at paper thinking about if I ever had a kid how I would give them the talk. I just can’t concentrate as well.
I feel better though. My heart rate and blood pressure feel better and my workouts yesterday and today have felt almost as good as when I was a teen. No ears popping or pulse throbbing or completely failing.
This is odd- I’m pleasantly surprised that all it is really doing is making me daydream and not concentrate well.
There is this guy at the assisted living center where I live who was very dependent on cigarettes. He had one of the worst smoker’s coughs I’ve ever heard. His health started to fail him. He got cancer and he had about five different lung diseases. He is in the hospital now with a tube stuck in his chest, unable to smoke. He’s going through hell. He’s 57 years old, and he won’t make it to 60 because of cigarettes.
At the assisted living center where I live a person can really see the effects of smoking on smokers. Several people have breathing machines for their COPD. Also, the difference in discrectionary income between smokers and non-smokers is striking. People who smoke are always short on cash.