i just want to vent and say how much i hate quitting! I am feeling anxious and hyper. I am taking Chantix so that probably has something to do with it. I quite last Thursday night, had Friday off and the weekend as my first couple of days of quitting. It went pretty well. Today was first day back at work and that was ok. I was able to deal with the urges to smoke - I did deep breaths, took a walk around the building. Talked to myself in the car, telling myself "I am a non-smoker. I dont want to die gasping for air. I dont want my daughter to tell me things like smoking means I dont want to live long enough to see her children. But home tonight has been very rough. right now i want to get up and go buy a pack of cigarettes.
Sorry for the buzzkill! I'll be ok, I have a smoke cessation class tomorrow. Just helped to write and b**** a little! 
Nice rant, rallymike!! And many more to come, I hope . A good vent lets out that steam that's building, and that's what we're here for, part of the support. Most, in real life, don't have someone who will quite "get it", how you are feeling these early days. But we do. We've been there, whether it be with Chantix, NRT, or not... the feelings are still there.
And the feelings won't kill you. They might make you want to kill someone else 
, but we won't tell!
There is a reason they call the first seven days of quitting "Hell Week", it isn't a path of roses and sunshine every minute. But you're more than half-way thru, and onward and upward to "heck week" which isn't so bad.
Keep on moving forward, one day, one step, one minute at a time, as needed. Rinse and repeat!
