Chantix

[Gustavus Adolphus]

Real men go cold turkey.

I've tried twice. I had a checkup with my neurosurgeon yesterday and he threw me a sampler pack.

 

[Nail Polish]

My teen years were in the 60's, and even back then we all knew smoking was bad for us..How anyone who came up in the 70-80-90s started smoking is beyond me,unless you lived in a cave and didn't know how dangerous it is

 

[onebud34]

Worked for me...been cig free for 6 years now.

The dreams were fucked up

 

[Mitchapalooza]

My dad used it to quit. Worked for 2 years but now he smokes again. Idk how he started again.

Sent from Cuba

 

[onebud34]

He's probably wondering if you're still alive

 

[botfly10]

I got on that shit for a month.

It worked - made my body cravings go away though I did still want to smoke just because the habit of the activity. But it was easy to choose not to. Also made it so I wasn't thinking of smoking like 10 times every minute.

But I am pretty sure the shit altered my mood. I stared reading about the shit and some stuff sounds kinda scary, though most of the stories are probably bullshit. Still, kinda freaked me out a little.

Oh, and it was fuckin expensive.

 

[Mitchapalooza]

I got on that shit for a month.

It worked - made my body cravings go away though I did still want to smoke just because the habit of the activity. But it was easy to choose not to. Also made it so I wasn't thinking of smoking like 10 times every minute.

But I am pretty sure the shit altered my mood. I stared reading about the shit and some stuff sounds kinda scary, though most of the stories are probably bullshit. Still, kinda freaked me out a little.

Oh, and it was fuckin expensive.

so is smoking for x amount of years lol

 

[botfly10]

The guy who went crazy on it in 2007 and ended up getting shot to death by his neighbor was a friend of a friend. They neglected to mention his .bac was also 0.27%.

Either way, I've heard the same about vivid dreams and behavior changes. I'm already a prick but if I do anything worse I'm just going to be locked in a room at home for the first weekend I'm on it.

I think the chatix altered my personality a little, but more subtle.

Either way, it was way less severe that when I quit cold turkey and was on edge for 2 months.

 

[botfly10]

Also, supposedly chantix fill your pleasure receptors that are associated with nicotene. So you have to be careful when getting off it cause its easy to relapse.

 

[DrGonzo]

Chantix is actually an anti-psychotic being used "off label" for smoking cessation. I literally wouldn't take it if you put a gun to my head. But then I don't smoke so ...

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

Had to drop off ACT materials at my districts big house today. Going through the forms I had to fill out I could feel my blood pressure raising.

This ain't gunna be fun.

 

[Crystallas]

My mom was on chantix for a month. Didn't do anything. She smoked while she was on it. :shrug: IDK what the success rate is for it. I know I quit smoking with a proper ecig(I have to say proper, because you can buy plenty of mall kiosk garbage ecigs).

 

[airtime143]

I was on it for the past 3 weeks and stopped..... it really curbed the urge, but right around week 2 i was getting queasy and feeling like I was going to hurl about 5-10 minutes after I took it. the queasy feeling only lasted a few minutes, but it still sucked.
I stopped taking it and have been using the E-cig with lessening frequency.
went from about 2 packs a day to roughly a half a pack now and dropping.

 

[DrGonzo]

I was on it for the past 3 weeks and stopped..... it really curbed the urge, but right around week 2 i was getting queasy and feeling like I was going to hurl about 5-10 minutes after I took it. the queasy feeling only lasted a few minutes, but it still sucked.
I stopped taking it and have been using the E-cig with lessening frequency.
went from about 2 packs a day to roughly a half a pack now and dropping.

Congrats and keep after it!

 

[airtime143]

Congrats and keep after it!

Thank you-
I was a light smoker my whole life, but it had ramped up considerably the last few years.

I think the cutting back has been so easy simply due to the fact that I honestly only take 4-5 drags off of every smoke I light.

Interesting side effect of Chantix.... it also cut my urge to drink coffee. I was a 3-4 cup a morning guy and I would hit starbucks on the way to work, and now I do maybe a mug of coffee and a venti coffee that I half finish on the way to work.
I am unsure if the Chantix is responsible, or if Coffee was psychologically tied to smoking. Either way, it works for me.