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A Chantix user report

tigisfat said:
Good luck buddy!! I'm quitting right now too, but I'm using a far more controversial method: chewing tobacco. For some reason, I can literally forget to use chewing tobacco, and it takes away my symptoms. I start chewing and phase out smoking, then I forget about smoking. I quit for two years this way, and only chewed for a couple weeks.
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Whatever works ! There's lots of evidence to indicate the whole process affects and works on different people, well - differently! For example, I remember when I quit for that year and a half, it never seemed to bother me if someone was smoking next to me - and it doesn't now, yet other "quitters" hate the odor of the smoke. . . just like side effects attacking some but not others.
 
I am a cold turkey quitter ... granted I may not have smoked as long, but I had the variety while I was. Started with Old Golds, went to SwischerSweet Cigarrellos, then a pipe and back to Camels.

It was while I was doing camels that I hacked up half a lung and decided to call it quits. Of course being an adult asthmatic while smoking didn't help. :banghead:
 
Took the smoking cessation course the VA gave us. I've tried before with the patch, gum and cold turkey. Nothing worked.
This time my MD gave me Welbutrin. No side effects and I've been smoke free now on my 21st day. Some people do have side effects especially if they consume alcohol. I'm a tea-toter so I didn't have problems.

Here's to future years smoke free!
 
b52bob said:
Took the smoking cessation course the VA gave us. I've tried before with the patch, gum and cold turkey. Nothing worked.
This time my MD gave me Welbutrin. No side effects and I've been smoke free now on my 21st day. Some people do have side effects especially if they consume alcohol. I'm a tea-toter so I didn't have problems.

Here's to future years smoke free!
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Yeah - here , here !! :ernae:
 
OleBoy said:
I can write a book on this subject. But I won't. I'll just say this. I was a user of this drug..and the effects (at first) were gratifying when my head came out of the clouds of nicotine addiction. The more I took this drug, the more I praised the positive effects and spoke highly of it to others. I took the drug for 30 days and had just gotten the 2nd script. My symptoms were mass depression and suicidal thoughts while both awake and asleep and at all times of the day or night. I was borderline (very fine line) of being institutionalized due to Chantix. Prior to taking the drug I had no depressive feelings whatsoever and my doctor also thought I was a good candidate to take it.

If you are a smoker and are considering using this drug, PLEASE.......do your research. There are millions and millions of people in the US alone. The FDA did not test this drug on enough people to learn of the extended outcome on a wider patient/drug relationship for side effects. IMHO Chantix should not have been released
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This is my point exactly. Welbutrin alone, eh, most people have no problems, but withdrawing from MAOIs and SSRIs are a problem too. You have to stop Chantix at some point. This is a reading here of a case of Seritonin Poisoning, something too common today. of all anti depressants, MAOIs are the least effective and you need to watch the "natural" antidepressants too. Many depressives want to "kick up" their SSRIs with St Johns Wort, which is an MAOI.

As far as smoking goes I'm a militant smoker. I'm 1/4 Shawnee Indian, all the rhetoric and trumped up medical "evidence" is about as valid as global "warming" to me. Everyone do as you wish becasue I sure as hell am. With inurance companies one of the many parasites that are able to bend govt.policy, the day is coming when it'll be illegal to eat a cheeseburger.

You have a hand in your own health care, research your medications!

Dr. Bones
 
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