The joys of using Chantix to quit cigs
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The only time I quit smoking sucessfully was with my last child. As soon as I was pregnant... I had a horrible sickness towards them. Easy to quit when you throw up after every cigarette. Then several years later I started smoking again. Tried EVERYTHING... cold turkey, hypnosis, losenges, gums, patches, and the dreaded Chantax.
Chantax almost ended it for me... along with the depression it caused, it stopped my digestive system, and I had some serious bouts of sleepwalking where I was going up and down stairs, leaving the house, trying to cook in my sleep.... very very bad drug!
Amazing how the e-cig did immediately for me what nothing else did! (well except for my last pregnancy and I am not about to do that again!!!)
Chantax almost ended it for me... along with the depression it caused, it stopped my digestive system, and I had some serious bouts of sleepwalking where I was going up and down stairs, leaving the house, trying to cook in my sleep.... very very bad drug!
Amazing how the e-cig did immediately for me what nothing else did! (well except for my last pregnancy and I am not about to do that again!!!)
I have tried a couple of different prescription Stop Smoking drugs, Chantix was the last one. With both products I suffered different side effects. The first one I ended up with the DT's, a Terrible Itchy Rash all over my body and extremely bad Nightmares. So my Doctor took me off of it.
With Chantix I became lethargic, depressed, had Wild Dreams and Nightmares, plus I had suicidal thoughts Constantly!I got the heck off the Chantix and swore I would never go back to it! In fact I swore that I would rather die of cancer than to put myself through any more prescription drugs to quit smoking!!!!!!!
Out of my experience I WARN Every Smoker I know to NOT USE Chantix or Any Prescription Drug to Quit Smoking!!!!! It Just IS NOT WORTH THE SIDE EFFECTS OR DANGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A couple of weeks ago a friend let me try one of her Vapor4Life E-Cigs. Man! What a difference! In an 8 hour period of taking a few hits off the E-Cig I didn't even crave a cig.
My 3 to 4 pack a day habit is going to disappear!
Richard
Welcome onboard with the few of us fortunate enough to have found the ecig. I cannot believe after smoking for 41 years that I've not lit up a cig in over 7 months!! That's close to a year - and I don't have any desire to smoke anymore. Yup, chantix, patches, gum, you name it I tried it and kept smoking. This really works, and you'll find the best support right here in this V4L forum, which helped me a whole lot!! Good to have you here!
Welcome Richard! Keep us posted after you receive your goodies!
I took chantix for 1 and a half weeks. Scary stuff. DH told me to quit because all I did was sleep and have strange thoughts about how to sleep some more. Thanks for sharing Jeffree.
I took chantix for 1 and a half weeks. Scary stuff. DH told me to quit because all I did was sleep and have strange thoughts about how to sleep some more. Thanks for sharing Jeffree.
GReat post... just say no to BAD drugs. I would not even try Chantix... I took it's cousin Celexa for other reasons that trying to stop smoking and it messed with my head bad too. Weird dreams and sleep walking. And liked to never have got it fully out of my system. These folks are clueless or maybe just plain reckless in there Pharma concoctions.
...just a vapin' fool now!
Oh, welcome in Richard... the water is just right! Vape on---
...just a vapin' fool now!
Oh, welcome in Richard... the water is just right! Vape on---
Hey Jeff, I knew that stuff caused that and more. I have depression already so I am staying clear away from that crap.
Worked great for me for a month. After that it effected my moods so badly, I threw it away. Horrible mood swings. I consider myself stable and have never had any depression problems. If I remember old news correctly, after introduction it became the #1 selling cessation product. After another six months it's sales dropped by over half. Doctors refused to prescribe it based on what they had seen/heard.
I had a co-worker go thru a smoking cessation class and they watched a classmate have a nervous breakdown while she was taking it. I wouldn't recommend this .... to anyone.
And the FDA goes after e-cigs! And now the FDA is doing the CYA crap. I'd like to see the $'s Pfizer has spent on lobbying and who it went to.
I had a co-worker go thru a smoking cessation class and they watched a classmate have a nervous breakdown while she was taking it. I wouldn't recommend this .... to anyone.
And the FDA goes after e-cigs! And now the FDA is doing the CYA crap. I'd like to see the $'s Pfizer has spent on lobbying and who it went to.
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This article makes me *very* angry. I am in an industry that is heavily regulated, and there are certain reports that are required to be delivered to government agencies - those agencies also regulate the reporting process. The regulatory agencies compile and monitor that self-reported information, and use it to sanction participants... seems to me that "oops, submitted the wrong form... for 5 years... until we got caught" is a BS excuse, used by someone with something to hide. Also seems to me that if the FDA doesn't have a data collection method any better than gleaning key words out of text files, that they probably don't want to see the things that the companies they are responsible for monitoring don't want to report. What really made me mad, though, is that there were no consequences to Pfizer from the FDA - the only consequences might come from a long drawn out court case that may or may not actually result in action against them or justice for the victims.
I've got my own Chantix horror stories as well. The vivid dreams were ok, until I lost my job and they turned into vivid nightmares. I can relate to the frantic nature of them as well - waking up unable to breath and unable to tell dream from reality for long periods of time. The suicidal thoughts took months to subside after I quit taking it - the panic attacks lingered even longer (it's been over 2 years and I still get them occasionally - never before the Chantix). And while I cut back on smoking while taking it, I never did quit completely... horrible stuff...
I've got my own Chantix horror stories as well. The vivid dreams were ok, until I lost my job and they turned into vivid nightmares. I can relate to the frantic nature of them as well - waking up unable to breath and unable to tell dream from reality for long periods of time. The suicidal thoughts took months to subside after I quit taking it - the panic attacks lingered even longer (it's been over 2 years and I still get them occasionally - never before the Chantix). And while I cut back on smoking while taking it, I never did quit completely... horrible stuff...
Banking, liquor/beer/wine, casinos? Just curious. I think all industries are overly-regulated, but the pharma/FDA one is a complete scam. And it is hurting us all.
Hubby and I both used chantix. After a week, it started to upset my stomach, so I talked with my doc and she told me to break it into quarters and take it four times a day. I never suffered side effects at all after that. Hubby didn't have any problems with it.
I'm already a little psychotic, and if I had Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas dreams, I would think it rather a bonus! Especially if they were cast with Colonel Depp. It may be that I was already crazy and that the drug didn't bother me. I did quit smoking for 11 months with it, but then there was that Christmas vacation with the in-laws. It took a lot of analogs and a lot of alcohol to survive that vacation.
I'm already a little psychotic, and if I had Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas dreams, I would think it rather a bonus! Especially if they were cast with Colonel Depp. It may be that I was already crazy and that the drug didn't bother me.
I did quit smoking for 11 months with it, but then there was that Christmas vacation with the in-laws. It took a lot of analogs and a lot of alcohol to survive that vacation.
Banking, specifically lending. A few years ago I worked for a bank that screwed up reporting on the race/sex/ethnicity on their mortgage loans - Nobody died, nobody suffered lingering psych problems. The bank ended up under sanctions, spent millions of dollars to try to resolve, shut down their lending facility and *still* ended up getting shut down by the FDIC - guess they weren't paying off their regulator as effectively as Pfizer/RJReynolds/etc...
You know... I am saddened by this, but unfortunately I am not the least bit surprised. The FDA and other government agencies are all ran by the people who are paid by lobbyists. They tell us that eating food that has been sprayed by roundup on roundup resistant plants is safe, but turn around and confiscate nicotine. They keep raising taxes on analogues saying they are bad for you, yet they get paid off by big tobacco to keep them on the shelves and say that pills that do things like this are "safe." at the same time threatening to pull eciggs off the market. It is becoming a complete asylum that is ran by people with big money that will do everything in their power to keep it.
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Gotta agree with all the stories here, the only pill i ever took and was completly, totally satisfied with was called 'Orange Sunshine' circa 1971
But seriously, a mass produced pharma drug that 'replaces' the smoking craving? The only thing us 'vapers' agree on, for those who have quit lighting up, is the 'hand to mouth' 'dragging on a cig feeling', that a pill or patch, etc will never do.
But seriously, a mass produced pharma drug that 'replaces' the smoking craving? The only thing us 'vapers' agree on, for those who have quit lighting up, is the 'hand to mouth' 'dragging on a cig feeling', that a pill or patch, etc will never do.
Technically you could roll up the patch and light it up Ms. Plantlvr.... That's hand to mouth....
As soon as I saw the name Pfizer, I figured that there was trouble. They market a statin based cholesterol drug which has horrid side effects. I know 3 people personally who have lost all short term memory from taking Pfizer made Lipitor. One of those 3 people has also lost all her muscle tone and has tremendous pain in most of her muscles. These are known side effects of statin based drugs. It seems that the FDA has given a blank check to certain Big Pharma companies and yet they will insist on 100% testing on something like our e-cigs.
A cardiologist recommended it and i read the possible side effects and said no way .My gp then agreed with me .
I tried the patch twice and gum once ( try having gum in your mouth all day in a professional office environment ) and failed at all attempts .I have had the most luck with my ecig ( fell a couple times ) .On the other hand hubby quit five years ago with the patch but doesnt have the "hand to mouth " addiction i have .
I tried the patch twice and gum once ( try having gum in your mouth all day in a professional office environment
) and failed at all attempts .I have had the most luck with my ecig ( fell a couple times ) .On the other hand hubby quit five years ago with the patch but doesnt have the "hand to mouth " addiction i have .
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Hubby and I both used chantix. After a week, it started to upset my stomach, so I talked with my doc and she told me to break it into quarters and take it four times a day. I never suffered side effects at all after that. Hubby didn't have any problems with it.
I'm already a little psychotic, and if I had Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas dreams, I would think it rather a bonus! Especially if they were cast with Colonel Depp. It may be that I was already crazy and that the drug didn't bother me.
oh Rappel you are so funny ( in a good way )
thank god Krazie ..very smart .same here ,runs in da family ( chemical for us ) and aint a darn thing i can do ....be well
Morandir - LOL, or you could try to light the gum in a pipe! In all seriousness, a while back, thought they said this would be pulled off the market. So what happened that they're advertising and pushing it again? Don't answer that, we know !
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