Has Anyone Successfully Quit Smoking Using Chantix?
I’m taking this medicine, and I feel sick, cold, I can’t get a good night’s sleep, and i’m 3 days in. Any good success stories that will make me feel better about taking this? I really want to quit, I’ve smoked for 19 years, but this is hell.
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October 30th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
I have been on chantix for three weeks now and quit smoking 8 days after I started it!! I had been smoking for 12 years. I have tried to quit twice before–once using wellbutrin, that lasted about 4 weeks–and once using nicorette–lasted about 3 days. Chantix has been a miracle. Only a couple of days after starting it, I began to smoke less without even trying. My cigs also started to taste bad and my robe–which I put on when I go outside to smoke–all of a sudden smelled so bad like cigs I threw it in the washer immediately. Since I quit, I have had a few cravings–but just mental/emotional cravings–I was mourning the loss of my best friend–the cigarette. But now, it has been 14 days and I feel great and find myself not even thinking of cigs. I actually am able to stand outside with my friend while she smokes and not even want one–instead I want to throw up b/c she smells so disgusting. It has to be the Chantix that is making smoke smell so gross. And I was a pack a day or more smoker–I had to smoke everytime I got in the car, picked up the phone, had a break between classes, woke up, went to bed, after every meal and snack, etc. Now I drink tons of water and feel SO CLEAN! It is truly unbelievable. I never thought it could be this easy. As for the side effects–I only had nausea once but never threw up. I also still have very vivid dreams–I would not call them nightmares–some have been negative dreams, but some just normal–what my doctor told me is that we all have dreams & nightmares all the time, we just don’t usually remember them or realize we even had them. So that is what I mean by “vivid”–I remember them so completely–I was actually talking in my sleep to one of the people in my dream the other night and had to be woken up to stop. I have also experienced some insomnia–like it takes me an hour or so after laying down to actually fall asleep. But those small temporary things are so worth the trade off!!! I just remember it is only temporary, but if I had kept smoking, I would continue to do permanent damage. I also have asthma and it was really starting to act up–smoking began to really affect me in every way and I couldn’t take it anymore. I am so happy I took Chantix and will try to stay on it for the 3 months they recommmend—even though I don’t even feel like I need it anymore. It is so weird how it seemed to come in and rearrange my brain! I am very thankful for it. I suggest you continue to give it a shot–make sure you eat with it and drink the full glass of water every time too. I have, so maybe that is why I have not really felt ill. Remember too, that once you quit, your body will begin undergoing changes and those changes, although GREAT, may feel like a pain in the butt for a little while, so it is not always the drug that is causing problems but your bodily changes in general. Feel free to email me if you want to talk more about it, I would be happy to.
October 30th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
I have a good friend that quit by using Chantix. She smoked for 25 years, and was practically a chain smoker. She has been smoke free since last June. With her money that she’s saved from smoking, she’s been buying cook books, because she says the food tastes so much better now!
October 30th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
I quit smoking with “alan carr” the easyway to quit smoking. I smoked whilst reading this book and when I’d finished I was totally anti – smoking, it was the strangest feeling ever but I have never smoked since 5 years later!!
October 31st, 2009 at 12:56 am
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October 31st, 2009 at 3:04 am
I used both Chantix and the Allen Carr book, The Easy Way to Quit Smoking. All side effects to Chantix went away after a few days. Hang in there. It’s worth it.