Anyone using champix to give up smoking??

[SarahFair]

I had a friend who smoked a pack and a half a day. Heard that you actually only crave it for about 72ish hours then after that is only habbit. Quit cold turkey and said that it was true.

 

[kezabel]

so its called chamtix over there, it champix here and I have to go back to the doctors every 2 weeks, its subsadised(can't spell that word) over here it only cost me $5 but the doctor had to ring through to get it autherised for me. My hubby tries Zyban about 2 years ago and it didn't work for him. I'm just worried about the side effects of champix, I have heard you can get depressed have really bad mood swings and have bad thoughts about harming people.... I'm really hoping I don't get any of them. I had to answer alot of questions at the doctors about how I feel and if I get depressed or have ansiety attacks but I have neither so I hope i'll go ok.

 

[ems_chick]

i tried to quit smoking using chantix... it was the most horrible 5 days of my life. i had the horrible dreams, couldnt stop crying, and wanted to jump off a bridge. i do believe that i had every side effect the commercial said was possible happen... worst experience of my life. ever. it has also been linked with causing diabetes by the fda. i was showing symptoms of type 1 diabetes less than one month after taking this and was diagnosed a month later. (denial isnt just a river lol!) not saying it caused it BUT if i were you i wouldnt touch the stuff. i work in the medical field and most everyone uses Welbutrin to quit. the only issue that i have heard with welbutrin is that it ups your "adult urges" greatly. just my 2 cents

 

[catfish/okie]

Do you have to go to the doctor to get chantix?

 

[ems_chick]

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yes you do, i would try something else though... too many horror stories with the stuff

 

[catfish/okie]

Thank you! I go see a doctor monday If she asks me if Im still smoking Ill ask her what she thinks.

 

[kezabel]

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adult urges... i think i need some of that welbutin lol hubby has been complaining that he ain't getting enough

I'm on day 2 now I've only had two 0.5 gram tablets so far, The doctor told me i could feel sick from the tablets but so far so good(i've got a strong stomach) I slept alright last night but I am not a good sleeper anyway, i wake up a couple of times a night. on day four the dose goes up to two 0.5gram tab a day and then week two the dose goes up agian to 2 1.0gram tabs a day. I'll keep ya's informed on how I go. Oh and can you drink alcohol on these tablets? i'm going to a party tonight and plan on drinking a few or many lol

 

[19Dawn76]

One more thing -

I never realized how much of my life revolved around smoking. About to go to work gotta smoke, about to start med pass gotta smoke, just finished med pass gotta smoke, about to eat smoke, finished eating smoke, just got off work gotta smoke just got up gotta smoke , going to bed gotta smoke, going into a building gotta smoke got out of a building gotta smoke, upset, mad , happy , sleepy, what ever GOTTA SMOKE. Get the picture? I have had to relearn ways to function thatdo not include having to light up all the time.

Looking back I feel like an idiot for letting something so harmful have that kind of control over my life.

 

[catfish/okie]

I go a day or two cold turkey But after I eat thats hard for me and if I drink a couple of beers forget it.

 

[SarahFair]

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I see SO many people like this. Ill be hanging out with a group of friends and we are about to jump in my car to go to the gas station and because I dont allow smoking in my car we have to wait 5 extra mins so everyone can smoke. Then they are jumping out of my car at the gas station to smoke then as soon as we get home they gotta smoke again. Im like AHH Give you lungs a rest!!!