Day 1 - Wow, what a morning
This morning i woke up and did what i usually do. Black coffee, pop in a zyn, and get started on the day. Wife is out of town for work, so I had to get the kids lunch's packed and out the door. While preparing lunch, my heart rate started shooting up - chest pain, couldn't catch my breath, and palpitations through the roof. Checked my apple watch, and my heart rate was at 146 - I kid you not. 146 from standing and making a PB&J sandwich. I seriously thought I was having a heart attack, but remembered to calm myself down, that it was the Zyn (and probably zyn/coffee mix).
I went to my room, grabbed the zyn tin, dumped the rest into the toilet, laid on my bed, put on my calm app and brought my heart rate / anxiety down. It was indeed not a heart attack. It was the ZYN. This stuff is EVIL. I've had this happen to me before, but this was the worst. My daughter standing next to me helping make breakfast, and I couldn't even talk to her I was so winded, from just standing.
This is it. It's over. No more relationship with anything that sucks the soul and health out of me. Time to get my life back, work on my cardio, and build up my heart / cardio / lung strength. It shouldn't take that much time. I've quit before (for short periods) and have noticed a change usually pretty quickly. I've monitored that when I quit, my resting heart rate is around the low 60's. When I'm on the ZYN, it's closer to 85 - that's a huge difference.
Time to focus on health, not poison.