Champix aka Chantix/Varenicline

Hi guys it's late saturday night I'm still in chaos trying to organise my life after the big move in between life going on as usual anyway!
No cravings the past few days, things have been crazy busy but even at night when I do get a few minutes to myself I'm not getting any major pangs to smoke. It is different when I am in the direct company of a smoker though so I now foresee that I could be on the champs right to the bitter end, and in my case that will be a while down the road considering I'm only taking 1 drug a day still. Pinnyoshea I dont know how you've got this far working as a doorman fair play to you & forget the slip ups I have them too & all I keep saying is "it's part of the quitting process to find out when you are most vulnerable & to learn when you should put your guard up", I have friends who gladly offer me fags & say "sure one wont hurt ya".
Quitting is all up to you, it's you that will beneift so it's gotta be you that puts the effort in even when it's hard. I bet your resolve is great once you are sober!
Great that we won the rugger wohoo!:D Only by 1 point mind, it was so close! I really hope they go all the way to the top & win!
Donnie you really are going through the mill! You must be fed up with all the prodding & investigations. You have stuck it out so long now with no slips, you are an example to us all. I read that piece in the wall st journal, there's lots of that type of thing on the net, I've seen some really sad & angry posts from people whose loved ones actually committed suicide but also these are the very people who should not have been put on the drug in the first place without monitoring, they all had to some degree, a history of mental illness. It's very sad. I also query whether those people who claiim to have gotten heart trouble or diabetes following their course of chantix, what if those things were on the horizon for those people anyway...{what do they call those people who try to claim against the slightest itch, you know compensation hungry people...}
I have not heard of anything as severe here in Ireland. I have a friend who works in a large residential home for intellectually disabled people. She was telling me some of the residents have been put on champix but that they are watched like hawks in case of any negative side effects or aggression/depression.
So I'm off to sleep loooking forward to my bike ride in the Phoenix Park in the morning hope it's sunny! then back home to do more unpacking drone...:(

On top of things! I'm all over the place! :pac: Although I did get a lot done today, you dont realise how much stuff you own til you move. I have done this entire move on my own over the past week and now I'm in agony - I walloped my leg off the bedpost the other day & acquired a massive bruise, it did'nt bother me too much but now all the lifting of boxes and lugging of baggage seems to have left me with housemaids knee Ouch it hurts like hell.

Smoking? What's that? No strong cravings today but as always I do think about having one almost daily, I cant call it a craving anymore it's more like a habit I am forgetting to uphold. But I'm still repulsed everytime I smell it off someone else who has just had one. I passed a lady today in the frozen food aisle of the local supermarket and I am not joking when I say I had to hold my breath, she smelled so bad like a human ashtray. I dont ever want to smell like that again!

Almost forgot to boast about my being off the filty rotten fags now for 6 whole weeks let me hear ya say a woohoo! Personally I still cant believe it!

No worries Pinnyoshea thats what were here for. I never got narky, thank God I was afraid of that, I just seem to go quiet & completely change what I'm doing instead of loosing it. I'm even coping with road rage like a dream, this drug is a miracle I tell ya! There was a day back at the beginning when I felt sad looking at one of those ads on telly for poor kids or something that nearly had me bawling but then I realised it must have been the champix so I snapped out of it! It was like a click of a switch to shake myself out of it. I think everyone goes through a "less tolerant than normal stage" when giving up smoking so if people know they usually give you a little leeway.
Sorry to hear about the breakup, there's no easy way through them. I feel your pain with your houseshare, I've had my fill of houseshare hell and there's nothing worse. You should have house rules as a group though especially if people are studying or getting up early Mon-Fri. The only thing is that now the rents have gone down you might be lucky to get a nice place. 2nd positive is that you are almost finished college so a few more months & college stress will be a thing of the past & you might be able to afford to share with 1 person instead of 2 plus girlfriends :rolleyes: Chin up you're doing great

I feel your pain Dragona maybe it's time to ring your surgery and ask if the doctor will speak with you over the phone. He/she will advise you on what to do. It's a bit too long now that you've been suffering to think it'll just go away. I had an upset tum th 2nd and 3rd days, I put it down to the toxins leaving my body and any difficulty I had after that was mere indigestion. I'm taking only one tablet a day, I take it in the morning around 10 or 11 & I am not experiencing any more tummy upsets. I hope this can be resolved it would be such a shame if you have to come off it so soon after starting but you cant put up with this for much longer.

No cravings for me today not one.

Donnie, that happened to me a while back, I ran my spyware & virus scanner & it seemed to fix it.

Hi Pout! You quit 1 month, 2 weeks, 6 days, 3 hours, 9 minutes & 12 seconds ago. You have *not* smoked 962 cigs, saved EUR 409 and added 3.34 days to your life.

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Nice to put figures to the effort

LOL good is'nt it? Well it's sunday & just past my 7th week mark yee ha! I have to admit, after 4 or 5 days of no cravings, today I got a few. Perhaps it was because it was a Sunday, Unstructured yet I so needed a restful day or perhaps it was when I felt those "stop world, I want to get off" moments. I'm over it nowthough & looking forward to the week ahead & Paddies festival next weekend.
I have a mountain of Law lectures to read over the next 19 days so there wont be too much partying for this non smoker. I booked the last week in March off work to spend cramming, cant believe I signed up to this voluntarily! I must have been outta my mind!

Hi Guys Thanks SMK I too am rarely in need of a fag if strssed it's always when I'm bored/waiting! Thankfully I'm rarely bored! You described the cravings perfectly they are not cravings they are irritants! If I smell a cigarette nearby I cant stand the aroma, my tolerance is getting less as I noticed today. I walked through a tunnel to get to the shops near my office today & there were several people smoking either walking through it or standing around either end, I wanted to run through holding my nose like a 4 year old. I thought I would be more tolerant of the smell having been a smoker.
A friend of mine gave up for a year a few years ago, she used to love the smell & followed people who smoked!
It must be the champix working it's magic.
I should be on my 3rd pack now but I'm still only half way through the second pack as I halved the dose.
I have a sensation the past week or so almost as if I can "taste" the champix in my system, if I cough I can taste it - metallic like taste? Is anyone else getting this? I have been a little wheezy the past 4-5 days & have a tickly cough at night & a dry bronchial one during the day that I did'nt have before. I am wondering is it connected to the whole giving up process or is it something entirely removed from Champix.....
So how is everybody else doing? Any newbies got tales to tell us?

Comiserations but at least one person has the cough, I was so used to my smokers cough it never concerned me, since I stopped smoking the cough disappeared, this non productive cough is new. I'll keep an eye on it and I need to drink way more water thank you Donnie.