Any Advice To Have Success Using Champix The Stop Smoking Pill?
My father has been a smoker for more than 30 years and is going to start taking Champix the stop smoking pill. Anyone take this before? Have any success stories with it? And also how long should u take it for? It comes in a 2 week dosage so after 2 weeks is it supposed to work or should u take it again? Please any helpful tips for champix to be successful would be great!! Thank u so much!
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July 1st, 2009 at 4:28 am
I was smoking for around 10 years before I tried Champix. In total I received a 12 week course (which is recommended for long term success). I didn’t have any side effects at all from taking it other nausea on occasion, my advice to avoid this is to take the tablet with a FULL glass of water and wait at least 15 minutes before having a smoke, otherwise I got an uncontrollable urge to throw up. I also tried drinking juice or a cup of tea or coffee and it made me feel sick but for whatever reason if I drank an entire glass of water I didn’t. A possible side effect is unusal dreams, I know that I dreamt more then usual but that didn’t bother me. Another side effect is not being able to sleep properly, but I found that I’ve never slept better in my life while taking them! I think it tells you to give up sometime in the first 14 days, which I found it hard to set a day to stop (I tried day 8, but then firgured that I still had a few days to go before I HAD to stop), so on day 14 I set my alarm late so I would have to rush to get to work and because I was in such a rush I didn’t think of having a smoke, once at work I didn’t even feel like a smoke – its been 9 months since then and I’ve never had a single craving and haven’t had an urge, even under stressful situations to start smoking again. I did find that over the Christmas period, having a few days on the grog, that I did think about having a smoke – but that was only because I knew that I would normally be smoking when I drink, but I didn’t have an actual craving to smoke, so I didn’t. The best thing about taking Champix is that by the 4th or 5th day, you can’t taste the smoke, there’s no craving, so when you have a smoke there no benefit, there’s just nothing, so you don’t finish your smokes because its pointless and you also find if you don’t look at the clock (if you had a certain time at work that you’d normally stop for a smoke) you don’t think of going for a smoke. I can say that 9 months later I don’t even feel like I ever smoked, I don’t cough in the morning and generally feel better for it and seem to be able to do more before feeling puffed out. I tried patches and gums etc before which didn’t work and I’d get upset or moody over nothing whereas on these there is no change in behaviour/moods it’s simply like you’ve never smoked. Its absolutely brilliant stuff to take, best thing I ever did. I’m happy to answer any other questions you or your father might have.
Good luck. 