anyone tried Champix to quit smoking?

[gottavecalaisv]

Hi all, i am currently on the second week of Champix tablets to give up smoking after 30 years! you start with half strength once a day for 3 days then half strength twice a day for 4 days the full strength twice a day for 12 weeks in total. you have to give up in the first week of taking the full strength, so it has now been 4 days without the fags for me so far.

i still feel like a ciggy quite often but it does seem to pass quite quickly, the bad side effects from the tablets are insomnia, it takes me over an hour to get to sleep every night and i seem to wake a lot through the night too, maybe a small sacrifice to pay?

I have started a transfer of the $70 per week i used to spend on ciggies to a seperate bank account to save for an electric sunroof as an incentive.(only 29 weeks to go LOL)

anyone else been on the champix and still currently a non smoker?

wish me luck people!!!:

[sixshooter]

I used "Cold Turkey" and quit over 16 yrs ago... I hate the smell of passive smoke now.

Smoking is all in the head... once you can control the urge to light up half your battles won. If you fail be hard on yourself... don't buy that sunroof... Make it a be all or nothing campaign... You've done a smart thing with making a reward to aim for... It gives you a positive goal ! Good luck with quitting !

[Cobez]

I don't believe in taking drugs to quit another drug.

[gottavecalaisv]

I don't believe in taking drugs to quit another drug.

so what do you suggest? tried cold turkey,hypnotherapy,patches,gum,will power!!!

[needwork2-4fillhabbit]

See how you go with what your doing now, im on the patches been 2 days, this time im kickn it.

[Garth]

do what works for you, what worked for me, and other people wont always work for someone else. keep at it champ, you are gonna have some good days, and some days that just suck, think of your health at the end. i wish you all the best.

[Bravotwozero]

I too used Champix to quit smoking. Tried most of the things you tried as well and none of them seemed to work.

I ended up only taking them for a month. I didn't really have any problems with insomnia but I did get pretty severe nausea once I went on to full dose. I haven't had a cigarette for 2 months and I stopped taking Champix 4 weeks ago.

Giving up is definitely hard so kudos to you and good luck!

[ClairBear]

anyone else been on the champix and still currently a non smoker?

wish me luck people!!!:

I wish you luck You might want to check out the last couple of pages in this thread, where a few of us discuss quitting smoking. I went cold turkey beginning of the year, but you can read the success stories of others along with mine here:
Smoking

C.

[VNexecutive]

might be a bit of a hijack, but what posesses smokers to take up smoking in the first place?

[gottavecalaisv]

same reason people get hooked on alcohol and harder drugs, the addiction!

[UNKNOWN]

might be a bit of a hijack, but what posesses smokers to take up smoking in the first place?

Its cool! Duh!

Nah good luck too ya. I quit 5 or 6 years ago now, it was hard but worth it. I just went cold turkey. I was out in the country at the time 10km dirt road to the nearest town so there was now easy was of getting smokes! Just kept myself occupied and busy and lots off coffee!!!

[AttaBoy]

I took a puff only once in my life just to see whats its like. GAWD its awful, How can people get addicted to this kind of stuff??
I mean seriously, it does not taste, smell good either. Whats so special about that makes people addicted to it?? I must be missing something here...

By the way GOOD LUCK!!!!

[Darren]

I thought Champix was great, I gave up for 6 months or so last year and stupidly took it up again for reasons I can't recall now, I had a few tries with patches but it just didn't work or I didn't let it work (take your pick).

Start of the year I went on Champix along with a co-worker and we've been smoke free since the end of January, I have had 1 or 2 but that is whilst fairly heavily intoxicated, not much you can do about the will power then.

I found the night tablet would knock me for 6 for an hour or so, I'd be lying in bed and just spring to life as if I've had hours of sleep.

The morning tablet I found if I didn't have something to eat within 20 minutes my stomach would get really twitchy and almost to a point where I was going to be sick, this was just something I got used to it.

What really amazed me was you get to a point when your taking them you think I don't want this smoke but I will anyway, you still need will power as I was more or less found I was smoking purely because it was the habit thing. Even now there are certain things which I do which spark me to thinking I need a smoke but it doesn't take much to overcome them (it does get easier but don't get sucked in and think like me that 1 won't hurt).

Be very prepared to whack on some weight although it was the least of my worries at the time, in 3 months of quitting I whacked on 16kg which was disappointing but I'm slowly peeling them off again with plenty of extra.

All in all I couldn't be happier, I am back on my bike and doing 8km each morning which for the size of me I think is a feat in itself.

[VrWagz1]

I think a bloke at work used those tablets to give up. He had good success while he was on the tablets. But he wasnt really ready to give up and his will power was pretty weak because of that, so as soon as he stopped taking them, about a week later he was back on the durries. But he does recommend them, he said they worked good.

[feistl]

I think my mate is using champix now. Apparently you start taking the tablets and keep smoking for 2 weeks. After 2 weeks you stop wanting to smoke. Ill ask him exactly.

BTW ive never had a single cigarette or drug, apart from bourbon. Even then, i only ever drink with mates. I figure if i never try them, i cant get hooked.

[maggie]

Another one trying to give up cigarettes. Am onto day 4. So far it has done nothing for me to curb my addiction to Cigarettes. But I am becoming very forgetful. Leaving my mobile behind, and forgetting everything. No Nausea but am feeling like I could lay down and go to sleep at any time.
Anyone else had cognitive problems with this medication?:

[VT1988]

everytime you spark up think of this:
YouTube - Graphic Australian Anti-Smoking Ad
YouTube - Anti-smoking Ad

[StockoVRWagz]

mate at work quit with champix and worked well. another one used Zyban and that worked good for him too.

[ClairBear]

Bit of a thread dig here, but now it's been done, am curious as to how the OP is going with his quit smoking efforts?

I am over a year off the fags now, and not interested in smoking at all, but on a very rare occasion I still think for a fleeting second, will go have a smoke when I finished this. Just the habit I guess from years of smoking. When I have this thought I laugh to myself and shake my head in disbelief that I still have the habit ingrained.

Giving up is the best thing I did, apart from the 8 kilos or so I gained, but that's gone too now. I figured if I could give up the smokes, giving up snacking would be easy (nearly typed 'piece of cake')

[Bax]

Theres actually a massive thread on Whirlpool forums about someones blog to quit using Champix.

Whirlpool - Champix

Have a read if you get a chance, should have a lot of interesting stuff about Champix in particular.

[Morton]

might be a bit of a hijack, but what posesses smokers to take up smoking in the first place?

The taste, for me. I absolutely love them. But only two specific brands. I don't enjoy smoking cheap cigarettes, just like I don't enjoy drinking cheap beer. If I can't afford good smokes, I won't buy any at all.

There's no better way to wake up, than sittin on the porch in the morning sun, having a smoke and a coffee. And on the upshot, it's cheaper than my Scotch Finger addiction

[cracker]

good luck i hate smoking always have but i find it very hard to not smoke when i drink, which didnt bother me so much.
however i found it scary that after about 4 months of doing this that during the day, after work etc id be like hmm a smoke would be nice at that point i thought this is ****ed and have cut back massively only really smoke when i really ****ed now
i can see how easy it would be though to form a habbit, and the urge of nicotine is quite strong more so then anything else iv ever experianced

[alipete]

Hi,Mate I know it's hard and you something to hold onto and the money thing is a really good idea, #1- you really need/want to give up #2 how you make it happen #3 doing it. You just have to make the changes and hold onto something new to make it happen. I did it 2 years ago cold turkey after many failed attempts.
So give this ago & let me know how you go

[greenfoam]

My brother came home one day and just said he wasn't going to smoke anymore. Never had a reason and chucked his smokes in the bin he got quite agressive for a few days, punched some things :P but hasn't had a smoke since. He rekcons its pretty easy so long as you do it the hard way and throw them in the bin at the moment you decide you don't want to smoke anymore no matter how many you have left. He told me once anyone that says I'll give up at the end of this packet is full of shit about wanting to give up and wont be able to do it

[Goon]

My brother came home one day and just said he wasn't going to smoke anymore. Never had a reason and chucked his smokes in the bin he got quite agressive for a few days, punched some things :P but hasn't had a smoke since. He rekcons its pretty easy so long as you do it the hard way and throw them in the bin at the moment you decide you don't want to smoke anymore no matter how many you have left. He told me once anyone that says I'll give up at the end of this packet is full of shit about wanting to give up and wont be able to do it

yeah people do get angry when they give up cold turkey but hey what to blaim, if u throw ur car in a bin after a few days u'd be p'd off too..

i overall think its will power, u either wanna smoke or u dont.. know ones holding a gun to your head?

if u want something bad enough, u can have it - will!! iron will!