Has anyone heard of Pfizer's Chantix

Farmgal wrote:

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Hey, Jane! I think I like your skull better than mine! LOL

Carole wrote:

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yep, i really like it too...so i know how hard it is to dig up the willpower to quit.
I started the full dose of Chantix yesterday, and smoked 5 cigs...i'm a former 2-pack-daily smoker. I have smoked all of my adult life..and i have realized i am losing a friend. However, this friend is also making it difficult to breathe, and could cause me to get cancer or other deadly diseases...not a very good friend, yanno?
Today i plan on not smoking even ONE!:)

Deb in Michigan wrote:

Becky,
Ah ha! I'll have to agree that not wanting to quit can be a problem when trying to quit. Ok, here's a different message for you:
If you haven't gotten chronic bronchitis yet, where you're spending a lot of your time during the day and night bent over a wastebasket, coughing, gagging, and drooling while trying to breath, think about how that will be for you if you contine to smoke. Also, when you get chronic bronchitis and start coughing real often, you could also end up with some cracked ribs, which makes it almost impossible to cough without feeling like someone is sticking a knife into you.
I can almost guarantee that, if you don't quit smoking, this is what it will be like for you. I went through all of the above for several months last year, it got better for a few months, and then it started up again in early June of this year. That's when I decided I had to just quit, so I filled my Chantix prescription on June 13th, started taking the pills, and on the night of July 2nd, I smoked the last 1/2 of a cigarette -- and I had been able to reduce by 1/2 the number of cigs I smoked every few days after June 13th, so by July 2nd, I was only smoking one cigarette per day. There were about four or five times in the following week when I smoked two or three drags about every two days when the cravings were really strong, but I've been able to get past any cravings since then.
I'm so glad that I finally made this decision after 39 years. I may want a cigarette right now, but I know that if I start smoking again, I will eventually end up where I was last summer...bent over a wastebasket, coughing and drooling, trying to breathe, while pushing on whichever rib was cracked at the time so that I could cough without feeling those stabbing pains. And this process is just the first stage of what happens when you smoke all your life. I've heard it can be much worse if it turns into lung cancer. I don't want to spend the last several weeks and months of my life lying in a hospital bed, barely breathing, hacking, etc, etc...
I know that you can do this. Please watch the following video, if you haven't seen it yet:
Thanks, Tobacco: You Killed My Mom
http://www.youtube.com/watch ...
Best of luck to you!

Teresa in Tennessee wrote:

Drink lots of water or juice.
You have to WANT to quit.
You CAN do this!

Zen Girl wrote:

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Becky-
You will get through this. For the no go problem- Get a bottle of Magnesium Citrate. Drink it & I promise you, it will work. Start getting lots of fiber, drink lots of water. It gets easier. Your body is going to have to re train itself on how to function without nicotine. I ate 4-5 small meals er day so I could digest easier. You might want to get a benifiber pill or citracell type fiber thing going. Hang in there!

Becky wrote:

<quoted text>that's one of the problems i don't want to quit!

Deb in Michigan wrote:

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Jan - That wasn't a very encouraging thing to say to Becky!
Becky - Would you rather be able to breathe or die of lung cancer?

Becky wrote:

i bought the magnesium caltrate and even some suppositories. we'll give that a shot. WHAT ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE TO SLEEP? i've been taking 2 excedrin pm's every night and sometimes a sleep right along with it and i still never sleep through the night. i'm lucky if i get 4 hours it is so difficult to work. i have been working out for years several times a week, always have drank tons of water there's not more working out i can do. i refuse to gain weight or i know i would go back to smoke. I'M NOT EATING MUCH AT ALL I CAN'T BECAUSE IT MAKES THE CRAVING UNBEARABLE! honestly, i don't think i can get through this coming weekend without smoking at a tailgating party univ of michigan vs notre dame game. i may get fired soon because i'm ready to beat the shit out of someone do you know what i mean??????