FrankX's Journal

I've been informed that I have been remiss in not updating you all on my battle with Nicotine.

I'm very happy to report that I have remained Smokeless since August 14, 2007!  I wound up using a medicine called Chantix, but it caused me to gain so much weight I had to come off it.

So now, I'm getting by with maybe 6-8 sticks of the nicotine gum.  I'm striving to get by with less and less of the nicotine gum until I can put it all behind me.

Now coincidentally, my doctor's office called about some recent blood work of mine... my cholesterol levels are all up dramatically, I will be seeing him next week.  I've given up just about everything except "living", don't know what it is I need to do.... watch what I eat, I'm on the Nutrasystem Diet to lose some un-needed lbs, given up bourbon, smoking, etc., but still I'm a candidate for a heart attack (already got a pacemaker which was necessary because I was excercizing too much).  So I need your support to get by this next hurdle in this difficult life.