What do you think of chantix?

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

I have been on it for 2 weeks, did quit smoking!! No major "usual"side effects- you know, the nausea and weird dreams. What I do have is extreme hot flashes. Enough that I wake up several times a night due to being hot. The tops of my hands even sweat! As I write this, it is snowing outside and cold, but I am hot and have the window open!! Too odd, usually I am a freeze baby!! Any one ever have hot flashes as a side effect???

It worked for me. I did get the dreams, though. I liked them. :)

It worked for me (I stopped smoking 7/15/08) . I had the dreams, but not the nausea. I have night sweats, anyway, from my birth control, but they got a LOT worse when I was on Chantix. I would wake up in a puddle 2-3 times a night, burning up.

Any chance the hot flashes are an age related coincidence ;)

I loved, loved, loved the stuff, it is the only thing that has come close to working for me.

I was in week 3, having NO side effects, was down to 3-4 cigs a day and would be stopping at the end of the week.

One morning I just lost it, was pizzed off to the point of ranting and tears. At the everyone and everything. Probably a coincidence, I came down with Norwalk that afternoon and couldn't keep anything including meds, down for a few days.

I never went back on it and went right back to 2+ packs a day.

I waited a month and started over with the 0.5mg starter pack. The second 1mg dose in week 2 tore my stomach up. The ONLY way I could tolerate it was by taking 400mg of Zantac with each dose, by the end of week 2 I realized it wasn't doing anything to help with the cravings and stopped.

Waited a month, tried again. Still caused really bad stomach pain and at the end of a month it had not helped with the smoking at all.

I'm on a 6 month break now, going to retry again after Christmas.

One really nice thing - my insurance covers 60% of the cost.

Specializes in Geriatrics.

Could be age related, although i am ONLY 42!! :D

I don't know whether Chantix works because I never tried it. What worked for me was --(I was a serious heavy smoker)--I bought a book by Alan Carr called "The easy way to quit Smoking"--read the book and then I bought an herb called Lobelia--it mimics the effect of nicotine on the dopamine receptors of the brain. The Lobelia was mixed in with other herbs in a stop smoking aid that I bought from an herbal place online--they were in PA--if I find the bottle I will get the name for you or you can google --stop smoking herbal aid.

I was a hard core smoker and these 2 things combined worked--the best thing was there were no side effects--the lobelia calms your brain naturally and the techniques in Carrs book teaches you how to be a non-smoker.

Go natural and good luck--I know how hard it is.

Specializes in Addictions, Acute Psychiatry.
It worked for me. I did get the dreams, though. I liked them. :)

Please do share!!!

I never tried that but took a couple wellbutrin from an early Rx (only 2-3 days worth) enough to make them taste bad and stopped that way. I recall when i was prescribed it, only 2-3 days and it was like smoking ashes.

I get hot flashes and everything, too. You're not alone. Stupid habit....stioopid! Tobacco made me it's biotch!

I'm still moody, can't sleep worth anything and want one so bad but I need to stick around to torture you all for more decades (I have kids)....I don't want to die yet (until I'm sure there's something after)!:angryfire

Specializes in home health, dialysis, others.

After 45 yrs of smoking, my mom used the patch - and she stopped smoking. Hasn't had one in about 15 years. But she wasn't a nurse!!!!

Specializes in jack of all trades.

Only side effects I had was nausea if I didnt eat something when I took it. As long as something was on my stomach no prob. By week 2 I couldnt stand the smell much less the taste of a cigarette. It's been almost 2 years for me now and happy happy happy!!! I got night sweats but no doubt that was AGE LOL.

Specializes in psych. rehab nursing, float pool.

After 40 plus years of smoking and only 19 prior attempts to quit. Chantex worked for me. I had no withdrawl. I did notice vivid dreams, so I started taking the second dose of the day at 3 pm instead of at bedtime. I also by week 5 was able to cut back on the dose of Chantex to 1 mg in the morning and only 1/2 tab or .05 mg at 3pm,, I did not stay on Chantex beyond 8 weeks. and still have not smoked since the end of April. Did not notice sweating any more than I usually do when it is hot out. Mild nausea only the first week while I was still smoking once I gave up the cigarettes no more nausea. From 1 pack a day to zip in 1 week...

It is/was a miracle for me.

well that explains it! I have been having hot flashes .. I am on week 2.

Specializes in Rural Health.

I'm not a smoker, but

My husband's uncle took it, I think he only took it once or twice. He had nightmares, said he was dreaming he had a gun in his mouth and was abou to pull the trigger when he woke up in a cold sweat. He'd never been so scared in his life and couldn't go back to sleep after that.

MIL listened to some tape and that was how she quit.

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