Another Chantix (Champix) disaster!

[Kurt]

Found this one today.

Father who murdered his family 'was quitting smoking and on medication that caused depression' | Mail Online

To be fair, we don't know about the man's history, but Occam's Razor tends to cut deep.

 

[drew999999]

Very sad...

I've been on Chantix twice. The first time I didn't notice any side effects at all, but caught the flu 3 weeks in and couldn't keep them down. A couple of months later I tried again, but found myself staring at my cube walls not knowing whether I was happy or sad. Felt this way continuously for a few days until it freaked me out and stopped taking them. Had other friends take it with similar emotional strangeness.

 

[xg4bx]

I posted an article a few months ago from time magazine that stated that chantix is the #1 legal drug linked to violence, even moreso than amphetamines.

 

[wazzup592]

Wow! I never knew that about chantix. Ill remember that if I ever snag any stop smoking aids from work . Not that ill likely ever have to

 

[Hogwart]

I quit smoking for 6 weeks in the past using Chantix. Never finished taking the full prescription. Everyone was complaining that I was moody and I started having extremely vivid nightmares of, well lets just say, hurting people. Stopped taking it and the nightmares that kept waking me up went away.

 

[OgreLokon]

I quit smoking for 6 weeks in the past using Chantix. Never finished taking the full prescription. Everyone was complaining that I was moody and I started having extremely vivid nightmares of, well lets just say, hurting people. Stopped taking it and the nightmares that kept waking me up went away.

Pretty much the same thing happened to me... I would have dreams that I could not BELIEVE came from my brain. After about 2 weeks, I was terrified to sleep, and when I did sleep I would wake up after about an hour and a half. You could almost set your watch by them.

 

[kristin]

Yeah - I basically told my husband to go back to smoking. He was horribly moody and impossible to live with. Luckily, we found e-cigs shortly after! (And later it came out that people with depression and other issues shouldn't take it & he has mild depression occasionally and rare panic attacks - NOT a good combination with Chantix!)

I quit smoking for 6 weeks in the past using Chantix. Never finished taking the full prescription. Everyone was complaining that I was moody and I started having extremely vivid nightmares of, well lets just say, hurting people. Stopped taking it and the nightmares that kept waking me up went away.

 

[jazdale]

I'm curious of a possible coincidence.
I quit smoking 2 months ago and started vaping. I have never taken Chantix.
I also got some weird dreams and wondered if it was the tobacco withdraw shortly after I quit tobacco. I'm not getting these dreams anymore, but they were vivid.

Not discounting the Chantix side-effects, I've heard these side-effects elsewhere.
But, in both cases (chantix or vaping), the common element was tobacco cessation.

 

[redheadone]

My ex-brother-in-law took Chantix and went from being really happy go lucky to being moody and withdrawn. He quit taking it after two weeks and went back to his normal self. My doctor tried to put me on it and after seeing what it did to him I told my doctor no way

 

[Vocalek]

Did you notice that Dr. Siegel is calling for the FDA to pull Chantix off the market? The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary

 

[JohnKing]

I'm sure the FDA will be seizing Chantix inventories.

NOT

 

[meems]

I can't knock chantix..it got me off cigs in the first place, and the dreams? I LOVED the dreams! They weren't violent, but they were vivid! I did the mania thing on it...I want that manic energy back! I had smoked in my basement, so I spent the 1st month of non smoking moving everything in my full unfinished 3 room basement, scraping all the walls & floors, sealing & painting everything (no more smoke smell!), the thought of that task now is inconceivable & I'm pretty energentic! I did find I went through withdrawal & that had me moody..but, although I could tell it was withdrawal jitters..snappiness, I didn't want to smoke, though I still had cigs in my freezer!

 

[lordnordeth]

I tried Champix...after a near psychotic break, my Doc and I decided I should probably look into something different. Ten days later at my Wife's staff Xmas Party, I saw my first e-cig, and the rest (along with the analogues) is history.
Coming up on 4 months now, after having smoked for 30 years.

 

[rpriode]

I'm curious of a possible coincidence.
I quit smoking 2 months ago and started vaping. I have never taken Chantix.
I also got some weird dreams and wondered if it was the tobacco withdraw shortly after I quit tobacco. I'm not getting these dreams anymore, but they were vivid.

Not discounting the Chantix side-effects, I've heard these side-effects elsewhere.
But, in both cases (chantix or vaping), the common element was tobacco cessation.

I had really vivid dreams for about the first month after i quit smoking and started vaping, now that has stopped! not bad dreams but really vivid and i remebered them all, which doesnt usually happen, odd i thought i was the only one since i had not read anything on here about it.! Thanks for posting!

 

[JupiterV]

I tried Chantix. For 2 weeks. I was a mess. Couldn't sleep, couldn't focus. I can't even believe the FDA approved this. I'm sure it works for some but for me it was a nightmare (literally).

 

[congaman]

I was fired from a gig because of chantix. I had been taking it for about three weeks and noticed i was becoming more agitated by the most frivilous of things. Went completly off on a patron at the club I was playing in and then went off on a waiter for no apparent reason. Needless to say this did not go over well with the club management nor my bandmates...so, I was asked to leave both. Stopped taking Chantix and within 1 week everything was back to normal...Never did get my gig back with that band though. And, if you are taking this evil "medication?" DO NOT drink any, and i mean not a drop, of alchohol with it!

 

[RobertY]

And yet the FDA continues to endorse whole heartedly Chantix and down the evil PV. Simply mind boggling. (sigh)

 

[GMoney]

Chantix is a success in their view. It decreases the number of smokers and people exposed to 2nd and 3rd hand smoke. Some smokers quit and some smokers kill themselves and/or the people around them. It's a Win-Win!

(it's just smokers after all and not REAL people or puppies)

 

[Adrena]

This kind of knowledge saddens me. How many must fall for BP profits?
Need more dopamine *lonnnnnng vaping session*

 

[pixiedust]

I took Chantix and wow..I was a train wreck. I have never had psychiatric problems, or violence issues- but when I was on Chantix I was angry all of the time, I really felt like hurting something..anything. It got so bad that when my husband would ask 'what's for dinner' I got an overwhelming urge to throw a frying pan at him. The good news is that when I had these thoughts I recognized they were not normal so I quit taking it but since the effects were so profound and unexpected I don't think that it should be sold.