Chantix

[Armistead]

Just wondering how many of you have tried this. I know several that have stopped cold turkey with this new prescription.

I smoke and I hate it. I've quit several times and started back. Not that I blame my wife, but she smokes and enjoys it. When I quit, it's so hard being around a smoker. Usually, I can make it several weeks, then a bad
day, stress, ect...I will take a puff of hers...then I'm back. I really feel I could quit if she would quit with me.

My banker used Chantix and said she hasn't had any desire since and she was a two packer for 15 years.

I wish they would outlaw the things. I'm 44, but have watched my mother suffer from lung cancer...terrible.
Her sister, my Aunt, also has lung cancer. My mother quit and hopefully she will make it. Losing a lung and the other damage, she couldn't breath. My Aunt still smokes, in between taking breaths from her oxygen mask. She has fought cancer for 5 years throughout her body. I guess she feels she is going to die soon, so why quit...

 

[footprints1973]

Hi there,

Nice to meet ya...I have been taking Chantix for a couple weeks. I am on day 11 of being smoke free. Chantix is a gift from God...it has been the only method that has worked for me...I've tried cold turkey, patches, gum, lozenges, everything.

I've been praying and praying for God's help in addition to the Chantix. IT WORKS! I still have slight urges once in awhile, but they are only slight and they fade quickly.

When I am around smoke/smokers, the smell really hits me hard and not in a good way. It stinks!

I think it would be very hard to stay quit if I lived with a smoker...but you can do it! I hope you can convince your spouse to quit...that's the hard part though, you have to want to quit.

God Bless you...I will pray for you and your quitting.

Footprints1973
day 11 smober

 

[mhoward48]

Hi,

I was going to make a appointment with my Dr. in Oct. I want to try the Chandrix, I have tried quitting before, but would start back again.

I hope and pray that it will help me, since I seem to be unable to do so on my own.

Take care, and God bless all you trying to quit.

 

[Alexandrah]

I have been smoke free since July 9 Thanks to Chantix. I smoked 1/2 to 1 pack a day for 10 years. I had tried quitting thrice before cold turkey and with Zyban and always reverted back to smoking. I

don't even think about cigarettes now or miss them.

It's really the greatest smoking cessation drug out. I couldn't have done it without chantix. I feel so much better, I breathe better and I smell better.


GOOD LUCK!

 

[Alexandrah]

Be prepared for the cigarettes to taste really bad/weird after you start taking it.

Take it with food! Dont' play around with it, it can hurt your stomach if you are sensitive to that sort of thing.

Something else I noticed is that I was indifferent to others around me smoking.

Since your wife smokes get the continuing pack. If you are on it for the longest duration possible I think you'll have a better chance at success.

Hopefully you have health insurance. Mine covered it. If you don't have insurance just remember how much more cancer/ashtma treatment will cost! It's worth every penny.

 

[verruca]

Not to damper anyone's spirit,but in the latest Issue of People Magazine, It warns on the dangers of it. The keyboard player for Edie Brickel went crazy on it and ended up dead.
People talk of having hallucinations and very horrible dreams while taking it.
I'm not going to try it.

 

[basment]

It worked well for me, the easiest time I ever had quitting (like most smokers I had quit several times over the years). I have been smoke free since May 07 and my wife used it to quit in Aug 07. Yes I do remember some weird dreams, but it was worth it for the ease of quitting.

 

[MaraPetra]

I quit on Chantix, too. Like many of you, I'd tried many quits before, and this was (I think) my 19th attempt. It turned out to be my final one.

The medicine is fabulous. It takes care of the cravings you experience, and gives you a limited dopamine release (you know, that "aaaahhhh!!!!" feeling of relieve you'd get when you'd take a drag off of a cigarette). I don't think I could have quit without it. Before, the longest I'd lasted on a quit was 8 days.

Today, I am one year, three weeks, and two days smober. According to statistics, I am one of the 7% of folks who make it to a year smoke-free without support.

Side effects on Chantix:

1. Gas. If you've got a dog, blame it whenever possible. If you don't have a dog, get one or borrow one. You'll need it.

2. Nervousness/mild depression. This is a symptom of both nicotine cessation and Chantix, so hard to tell which came first...Chicken or egg.

3. Extremely vivid dreams. Again, a symptom of both cessation and Chantix. However, for three months, I spoke with pleasant dead people, smoked countless packs of cancer sticks, and somehow managed to build a nuclear bomb with a camera and a bottle of bleach in the middle of Wal-Mart. A dream journal to go with your Chantix is a must.

4. Sleepiness.

5. Grogginess.

 

[hannahfievel]

Yup...totally helped me quit...been smoke free since November.....and plan to stay that way...cuz I watched my mommy die last august from emphazema and copd...didn't want my kids to see me leave here like she did! It was not pretty! Wish Chantix had been around sooner....maybe I'd still have a "mom"!

 

[satrunstar]

Hello,
I somked for three five years, the last two years a pack or more a day. Even though I took it out side, by little girl knew what I was doing. (I never smoked around her) She started picking things up and pretend to smoke them (stage most kids go through) but then it became bregging about it. Then it was the dog smoking and the doll somking and her smoking like me. It became too much I couldn't not go on knowing she thought it was cool and wanted to be like me so I quit. Haven't had one in 5 months now. The first few weeks were hard but I did it. I stopped! Praise God because I couldn't do it with out him.

 

[mnolen82]

Not to damper anyone's spirit,but in the latest Issue of People Magazine, It warns on the dangers of it. The keyboard player for Edie Brickel went crazy on it and ended up dead.
People talk of having hallucinations and very horrible dreams while taking it.
I'm not going to try it.

All drugs have side effects and not all people experience the same side effects. I'm sure that what happened to that keyboard player was probably extremely rare or else Chantix would probably not be available. Anyhow, once I read more into the story, you left out the part where he had consumed cocktails that night and he was shot in the head after screaming and banging on the back door of a neighbor's home. Here's a link...

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=3623085

I think it's something that will probably save millions of lives in the future.