Posted on 04/18/2008 6:11:40 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Ping-a-Roonie.
The Voices say I am fine.
Well, if you take this drug and kill yourself they can count you as an ex-smoker.
Quitting smoking can make folks exeedingly anxious and depressed.
I have used Chantix. It is truly amazing in its ability to suppress the desire to smoke. However, it screwed my sleeping patterns up with persistent nightmares. I’m not talking about bad dreams, i’m talking about night terrors.
Didn’t hear any voices or want to commit suicide, just wanted some sleep. This drug affects the pleasure sensors in the brain so it doesn’t suprise me that it can cause depression or suicidal thoughts in some folks. They are on the right track with Chantix, but the drug and its active elements need to be refined a little more.
Kenny could run for governor of Wisconsin...it’d be a step up for the state...
Well, to the anti-smoking nazis who have infected governments at all levels, no price is too high a price to get someone to quit. So, according to them, this is a complete success.
It remains to be seen, however, if the governments are able to figure out how to sue both the tobacco companies and the anti-smoking-drug companies billions, to fund their socialist nanny-state programs.
Great....Hubby just started taking it Wednesday.
Bookmarked for Hubby to read.
New ad campaign:
If the smoking doesn’t kill you, Chantix will.
I didn't have nightmares but I did have persistently vivid dreams.
I think this would be a case, like the article suggested at one point, that this may exacerbate something already there.
I'm not a depressive person either and the drug did not cause it in me.
Yeah, suicide will do that.
Night terrors? I'd rather smoke.
“I have used Chantix. It is truly amazing in its ability to suppress the desire to smoke. However, it screwed my sleeping patterns up with persistent nightmares. I’m not talking about bad dreams, i’m talking about night terrors.”
Dittos. Don’t get me started on the mood swings and overwhelming unwarranted feelings of dispair.
And while I don't want to diminish the deaths, 37 suicides is not alot if you consider 5 million prescriptions for Chantix have been written, with three million users currently on the program (that number was verified at Feb 2008 FDA conference).
Also at that first link, it states "While it has been reported that some problems involving Chantix were complicated by the consumption of moderate to heavy amounts of alcohol, it has been reported that an almost equal number of Chantix users experienced difficulty, though alcohol was not consumed.", so that brings the actual number of deaths that can be attributed to Chantix alone down even further. Your risk of being hit by a car walking across the street today are higher and certainly your risk of smoking related death is significantly higher.
Aw heck...that was probably just a nicotine fit.
“on the mood swings and overwhelming unwarranted feelings of dispair.”
I took it for a few days and fell into the deepest, darkest pit of depression I’ve ever experienced. It was so profound that I knew exactly what was causing it.
I quit taking the Chantix and in a day or so I was fine.
OTOH it worked great for my wife.
Quitting smoking invokes a whole raft of unpleasant results. The hold tobacco has on a smoker, is a true addiction - some ex addicts, have even said it was easier to quit heroin, than tobacco.
The end is worth the means, but it’s not a happy time for the smoker, while transitioning to new life as ex-smoker.
Could be, this new drug is so effective, it compresses all those unpleasant feelings one goes through during the process of quitting, into a short and wobbly period of time, resulting in the reported effects.
Quitting is still worth it. Absolutely no question.
Just more 21st century whining, IMHO.
Some of these drugs have side effects worse than what they purport to cure.
Do you feel self conscious? to you feel socially awkward at party’s?
They new Tohellwithital!
Side effects may include impotence,incontinence and blindness.
You’ll be able to pick up babes but will crap yourself when you cant get it up, but hey! you wont have to look at what a wreck you’ve become!
This is troubling to me because I know a man who already had a serious tremor based in a long-term neurological problem.
It has clearly HELPED his neurological problem.
His case is so extraordinary and important that he is now being filmed and evaluated on the possibility that this side effect may help hundreds or thousands of other disabled people.
I hope in the initial panic about people who may have been harmed that this drug is not entirely banned.
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