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hi reborn,

ive tried most products over the years including patches etc. pleased to say champix may just be starting to kick in as of fri. was just about to give up on them as after 3 weeks no difference, but since fri i have only smoked 1 pack of cigarettes in 3 days, where i would usually have smoked 5 packs not 1 so heres hopin after another week or so will o even less. maybe 4 some people champix just takes longer to kick in

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Hiya All,I started champix last week .Went from 35 a day to 10 a day within 3 days.Fell of the wagon today but back on it again lol...Only horror I found with the tablets are the sicky feeling but passes after 20 mins or so.

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Tried champix 2 years ago precribed by my doctor. Had the most awful stomach problems, throwing up etc, the entire time I took them. Previous to this I didn;t even know what indigestion felt like. My friendly taxi driver had the same experience. Might help taking 0.5mg twice a day instead of the 1mg.

 

I had to come them after 5 weeks.

 

good Luck:)

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hi,

 

i started to take champix in march of this year to try and quit smoking after 19 years. after having tried patches in the past and failed i thought champix would be the better option. how wrong could i be. yes, they seemed to work at first, stopping me from smoking, but what i didnt notice was the change in myself, low moods, irratibility, no energy, no interest in anything, until last week when i started to have suicidal thoughts, i visited my g.p. who advised me to stop them straight away, come friday i was admitted to hospital due to the thoughts i was having, not very nice for my children and my husband to see me like this, after seeing doctors for the last week i am finally feeling a lot better and the thoughts i had have gone away. i would not recommend champix to anyone,

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2 years ago I tried Champix - after two weeks on the pills I still wanted to smoke so gave up on it.

March this year I decided on a whim to try it again (I have tried everything else out there over my 40 year habit of 30+ cigs a day).

Within a week I had quit smoking - just didn't want them anymore. I am proud to say that I am still smoke free 15 weeks later!

I had no side effects other than maybe I dreamed a little more vividly - or at least remembered my dreams more.

I would still be smoking if it wasn't for Champix - in 15 weeks alone it has saved me over $1050.00 on what I would be spending on cigs!

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Started taking Champix Feb 2010. Stopped completely after ten days, not smoked one since. Of course residual craving remains but I guess this is the will-power required bit of the advertisements. Bit of nausea that lasted a couple of days and I've always had vivid dreams so nothing too bad. Now I got to get the missus to give up

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I attended a smoking cessation clinic last night and hope to be going on Zyban. I tried Champix but after 3 days i was totally parnoid and very aggressive (totally out of nature for me) on top of that i was feeling suicidal and having very vivid dreams. I am hoping Zyban does the trick. I am currently smoking + per day

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I've now been on Champix for 4 weeks and haven't smoked for 3. I've previously tried absolutely everything to stop smoking (and some of them so long ago that I could still have a fag on the bus on the way home!) and nothing had ever worked for long, and the last time I stopped I got so depressed I very nearly ended up in hospital so I was actually scared to try again.

 

Champix has made the insomnia worse and made the IBS much worse but I've decided it's better to live with that for a few weeks than carry on killing myself with cigarettes. Like everything else, it isn't going to work for everybody but I'd recommend giving it a try.

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Boy, does that sound familiar. My cardiologist gave me a prescription which I faithfully followed and felt absolutely NO desire to quit by the time it was finished. This was early October, 2008. I knew smoking was bad and I'd like to quit. Problem was I didn't WANT to quit & there's a big difference. I smoked my last ciggie on Dec.8, 2008 and underwent quadruple bypass surgery on Dec.9, (Yay Trillium!). I had refilled the Champix perscription in November and deliberately timed it to finish while I was recovering from the surgery. It worked perfectly! My wife doesn't smoke & would never buy me a pack and I knew my 'enforced' abstinence would preclude wandering about the nearby shops in search of nicotine.

I couldn't drive (or even walk) to the variety store once I got home (winter in Canada) but I didn't WANT to! The craving had completely disappeared! I still 'hang around' smokers but stand upwind as the smoke just stinks. I have what I would call an 'addictive' personality whether it be coffee, booze, smokes, aspirin, etc. I stopped drinking in 1984 and it was easier than kicking smoking!

As for side-effects, the weirdest thing for me was dreaming of kids I went to public school with (c. 1959-60), names I thought I'd forgotten. I almost wish I'd had scary dreams, I'd write 'em down & get them published. Poor old Stevie King needs some competition these days.

The bottom line: I thank Pfizer and my cardiologist for Champix, smoke-free for almost two years and NO cravings.

Cheers, Dave

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I took Champix for 3 weeks. 1 week where I didn't smoke. I stopped taking them because of the horror stories I read on the web! That was 106 days ago, and I have had ANY cravings. The first few weeks I felt like there was something missing, had a terrible temper, but now I don't miss them one bit!

Just wish I knew where the £800 I have saved has gone - chocolate probably!!!

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I'm on Champix for 27 days now, no effect.. Still having my 25-30 cigs per day. Feeling myself ok too. Asked my pharmacist about all this stuff, she was very surprised and told me maybe I should stop Champix. But I'll continue anyways, will see, maybe it'll work on me later. But if not? Ok, I got it for free, but imagine all those guys who paid 150 € for 28 tablets and they not working... They need a cig straight away :)

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Started taking Champix Feb 2010. Stopped completely after ten days, not smoked one since. Of course residual craving remains but I guess this is the will-power required bit of the advertisements. Bit of nausea that lasted a couple of days and I've always had vivid dreams so nothing too bad. Now I got to get the missus to give up

 

Above posted in July this year. I still am a non-smoker, though those damned cravings still lurk but become easier to suppress over time. I have heard of some champix users requiring extended courses of treatment. It's worth the wait, well, it gives my Missus more spending power...though she hasn't given up yet!8-)

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