Oh Lord I Can't Breathe

That's not true. That's not true at all. I am breathing as we speak.

I just feel like I can't breathe. Even that's not true. I know I'm breathing. So what is this feeling?

It's not unknown to me. I've broken quits over this feeling. How best to describe it? Like a tightness around the chest. It's annoying. Because I don't feel like this when I'm smoking, and one of the reasons for giving up is to feel better, so when I give up I don't expect to feel worse. I expect to feel good. But instead, I have a weird tightness around my chest that feels a bit like I can't breathe.

I'm not going to let it freak me out this time. It would be stupid, would it not, to start smoking over a feeling? A feeling that is related to quitting anyway, and is thus either my body adjusting to breathing oxygen, rather than CO and CO2, or is a psychosomatic attempt by me to make me smoke again.

Well, I'm not going to.