Chantix works

[Sun Vaporer]

Originally Posted by chokmah

Sadly there are some who can't take Chantrix so some like myself see e-cigs as a blessing when the other items out there like patches and gums just didnt work...

That drug is bad news for some people indeed. I can attest to that. But try telling that to the FDA.----------------Sun

[Idahojo]

After witnessing what it did to my brother-in-law I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. He was a very mild-mannered individual before starting Chantix. Immediately we saw a huge bad temper increase when he started taking. It was far more than the one that comes with quitting smoking. Very soon after he started it he also developed diabetes. He was able to quit smoking and still hasn't started to this date, almost 2 years, but still has the temper problem and the diabetes. It changed him and not for the good. I know it's better that he's not smoking, but again, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I don't know if he got diabetes because of this drug but have heard other cases attributed to it. I'll stick to my ecigs thank you. I haven't had an analog since St Patty's Day so ecigs are working for me.

[sherid]

I talked with a friend yesterday who had taken Chantix. She quit for seven months, but we were outside smoking when she told me this. How can a drug be called successful if those who take it soon return to smoking after stopping the drug. How can a drug that carries the possibility of one losing his mind, taking his own life, changing his personality, developing diabetes be called a better alternative than smoking? I would rather take the risks of smoking tobacco than take a drug that could change who I am.

[Duckies]

I am another one who failed on Chantix. Tried once in Nov of 2007 when it was first released. Did well through March, and then I let stress put me right back smoking again. It did make me quite sick, but I was so tired of being chained to analogs that I didn't care.

The worst came on my second attempt in mid-2008. No clue as to why, but this time, it didn't make me physically ill -- it completely and totally changed my personality, and not for the good. I am single, so live alone -- making these kinds of changes impossible to see as it normally takes someone else to notice them. My BF at the time and my Boss were the two to pick up on it. It almost cost me my job.

I am normally very pleasant and class clown-ish and apparently I became bitter (!!) and nasty (!!!!). That has to be the most frightening thing I have ever experienced. Scary because it sounded like the boss was describing someone else, someone very unpleasant to be around -- but he was talking to me about me and I didn't see it.

It took 4 months working with a homeopathic doctor to get this poison out of my system and back to being myself. The boss had no idea I was on meds. Once he found out it went from "WTH is wrong with you lately" to "what do you need from us to help", so it worked out well in the end, but still.

I wouldn't go near this drug again even with a gun held to my head.

[Darkest]

Yeah, exactly. I tried Chantix and had to stop because of the nightmares and no sleep and being insanely depressed. Plus I NEEDED to smoke anyway, wonderful stuff that.

[moksha23x]

Originally Posted by DisMan

So, you trade one drug for another drug?

Not an insult at you...basically, chantix is to smoking what methadone is to heroin.

They're both killers.

Not an insult to you but.........your statement "Chantix is to smoking what methodone is to heroin".....is not true. Methodone is an opiate, when a heroin addict takes methodone he/she is basically taking the same drug in a different form. Although there are drugs that could be compared to a Chantix......Heroin addicts also use suboxin, subutex, these drugs block the opiate high of heroin.......much like ho chantix works for Nicotine. A more accurate statement would be "E-smoking is to smoking what methadone is to heroin".....................

[DisMan]

Originally Posted by moksha23x

Not an insult to you but.........your statement "Chantix is to smoking what methodone is to heroin".....is not true. Methodone is an opiate, when a heroin addict takes methodone he/she is basically taking the same drug in a different form. Although there are drugs that could be compared to a Chantix......Heroin addicts also use suboxin, subutex, these drugs block the opiate high of heroin.......much like ho chantix works for Nicotine. A more accurate statement would be "E-smoking is to smoking what methadone is to heroin".....................

You're right. Chantix is more deadly than analogs...at least in immediacy. But at least you *know what killed you* when you take Chantix. With analogs, you still wonder if it was the city air, the caffeine, or some other common element in your day to day life...

[Rob]

Chantix didn't work for me, depressed, angry, unable to think clearly, and smoked the whole time. I will esmoke unless they are banned, and then I will find a way to bootleg my fix I am NOT going back to analogs.

[Obi Wan]

wow ,, reading this is insane.
ill never try chantix...
yet the fda approves it.. even more insane.. someone wants smokers either dead, insane or to keep smoking and pay 7 or 8 dollars a pack.
somehow its always about money and pretending to care about peoples health..
e-cigs may be the first safe replacement for cigarettes and if someone cant make money from it then they will ban it.or hopefully just regulate it and tax it.
not sure who they are yet,, fda ? government,,big pharmacies ? all of them ?

[Chris From Cali]

I also tried it, for lack of a better word it turned me into a ****. I was so short tempered it was weird. Sean in my videos can attest to this. Not like me at all. I also had the weirdest freaking dreams you could imagine. Bad bad stuff