Chantix Champix 6
by Chris Holmes
*Update: If you or a loved one has suffered a bad reaction to Champix and you are based in the U.K., you can report it to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) here. The more people do that the clearer the true picture will become. Protect others! Report it.*
Recently a couple of contributors to this blog - who have started to take Champix or Chantix themselves and feel fine on it - have commented that the page they are reading here ”seems very negative”.
This is my sixth blog post on Champix/Chantix. I check all comments that come in, and with the obvious exception of spam each comment is added to the site, which means that what you read here is exactly what I have received. If I suspect a comment is bogus I will still add it to the site, and then say why I think it is bogus. Even when it seems I’m mistaken about that, I leave the whole exchange up there for everyone to read, I don’t cover it up. Sometimes it is hard to tell what is genuine and what is not.
So if someone suggests that it seems too negative, I suggest that they read all the comments that follow all six blog posts, the majority of which follow the original post entitled “Champix/Chantix” and the fourth one “Champix/Chantix 4: Enough Already”.
Now look at this:
You might reasonably ask the question “Why do these reviews mostly seem very positive when the ones on Truth Will Out mostly seem pretty negative, often alarmingly so?”
The answer seems to lie in the fact that many of these ‘rave’ reviews are posted very early on in the Champix users experience. The fact that they feel no urge to smoke at that stage makes a very big impression, and if side effects are minimal at that point it is not surprising that the review they post is bordering on ecstatic.
But we know from the trials that at least half of those smokers will start again when they come off the medication, so this kind of early assessment is premature. We also know from the comments that have come in to truth Will Out that although nasty side effects can kick in quite quickly, it is more common for them to happen with prolonged use beyond the six-week or eight-week point.
Now read the latest comment to pop up in my mailbox:
Sheanin wrote:
“I’m so glad I found this website - I only wish I had found it a little sooner.
You have confirmed what I had started to suspect myself as a user of Champix. Although I had only smoked on and off for about 6 years, I was prescribed the drug to help me quit a few weeks ago. As I was desperate to quit once and for all, I went for it. I soon wished I hadn’t.
Last week, I had to admit to myself that I was quickly becoming ill on so many fronts that I had to see my doctor again - and fast. I was told to stop taking Champix immediately. I had spent just over a week feeling as though I had been locked into a tiny little cocoon somewhere in the furthest corners of my mind while a robot took me over.
Sure, I got little waves of euphoria here and there each time I reached a milestone - but with each milestone that euphoria would crash to an even deeper low. In addition, my body was going to pieces; I was constantly nauseated, constantly wishing I could curl up and sleep, suffering from aches and pains absolutely everywhere - it was never ending. As a single mum to two small children, one of whom is disabled, I knew - even from the depths of that little cocoon - that I couldn’t let things continue.
I grew up around depression and mental illness and I had always sworn to myself that my children would never be exposed to those things. So, upon seeing the doctor, I was told to come off the drug immediately, which I did four days ago. And even now, I am suffering the consequences. Since that day, I have gone through what I now know to be terrible withdrawal; every side effect suffered during those few weeks has returned with a vengeance. I have been almost permanently locked in my bathroom, unable to eat, unable to look after my children, permanently in pain. At one point, I felt like I was dying.
All I can say is that I am so relieved to have come off this drug, even if I am still suffering now. I’m sure this sickness will pass and I’m positive that I need no crutches whatsoever to stop me from smoking at this stage, I haven’t had a smoke in almost a month and now associate cigarettes with the sheer torture I’ve gone through during the last few days. If I’d never started smoking in the first place, I’d never have been introduced to the absolute terror that is Champix and I wouldn’t be sitting here now clutching my abdomen with tears in my eyes. This drug should be banned completely; the government slaps scary pictures on cigarette packets but continues to sell them - while nobody gets thoroughly warned about Champix and what it’s highly likely to do to your body.
I’d sooner spend the rest of my life licking tar from the footpath.”
Not Worth The Risk
My point about Champix is really very simple: why risk a hideous experience like that if you have not already tried all the methods that CANNOT POSSIBLY do that to you? Especially when hypnotherapy, the Allen Carr method and acupuncture all produce better results anyway! (See Evidence section.)
To save money?
And to all those sweet innocents who have suggested brightly that if they feel a bit funny they’ll simply stop taking it, over to Sheanin:
“I was told to come off the drug immediately, which I did four days ago. And even now, I am suffering the consequences. Since that day, I have gone through what I now know to be terrible withdrawal; every side effect suffered during those few weeks has returned with a vengeance. I have been almost permanently locked in my bathroom, unable to eat, unable to look after my children, permanently in pain. At one point, I felt like I was dying.”
And some people have. Take risks if you want, people, but don’t kid yourself this could never happen to you. I mean even with Russian Roulette, if there’s six chambers and only one bullet, the odds are very much in your favour that you won’t die the first time you pull that trigger. Wanna play?
Filed under: Champix/Chantix, Drugs on Trial, Hypnotherapy, The Campaign by Chris
HI, I started this drug this morning. My husband was at work and I was home with our 9 month old son. When my hubby got home and finished mowing the lawn, he came in about 3pm and I was wiped out. I couldn’t keep my eyes open. I am not a person who falls asleep easily, i usually go to bed after midnight every night, but I crawled from the toilet (non-stop runs) to the bed and was out cold in less then 5 minutes. I googled champix and made my way to this site through comments on another site. What I have read here is scary and I am not taking this drug anymore. I am returning them to the chemist first thing in the morning. I thought it was just me, How could one tablet cause this? Well I am telling you this drug is dangerous. After just one tablet i feel like I have not slept in over a month, I can barely keep my eyes open. My husband has made me promise not to take anymore, he dosn’t have to worry, I won’t be taking anymore. PLEASE people, listen to Chris and all the others that are telling you this drug is bad news. I have stomach cramps as I am writing this and I have not eaten since this morning about an hour after taking the tablet. It is 12 hours now since I took that tablet, this is how quick it can get into your system. Please listen, flush them down the toilet, grind them up and put in the bin or hand back to your chemist..just get rid of them!
Thank you Chris for this informative site, i’m so glad to have found it and to know that i am not being paranoid about the drug. Thank you so much.
Kind Regards
Angel
Just wanted to add that I am in Australia and the only side effects warnings i got was from the chemist, not the doctor! He said I may get nausea, strange thoughts and in severe side effect cases, severe depression and suicidal thoughts. He assured me that this was only in the most severest cases. One more thing, I have had 2 strokes and I don’t think they took that into account when prescribing this drug for me. I am now going to go and have hypnotherepy instead. Thanks again.
Angel, thanks for the message and please try to make sure the doctor makes an official report about the medication, that is the only thing Pfizer cannot dismiss or ignore.
Anyone who has suffered a bad reaction or knows someone who has, please make sure it gets reported, otherwise (as far as Pfizer is concerned) it never happened. Protect the innocent! Report it!
This is my sixth blogpost on Champix, for any new readers there are hundreds of comments about Champix on this site - if you want to read some of them click the blog category (to the top right of this page) Champix/Chantix. The majority of comments follow the original blog post “Champix/Chantix”, and the one called “Champix/Chantix 4 - Enough Already”.
Please feel free to add comments of your own. They don’t appear immediately on the site, but usually will within a day or two.
Good luck with the hypnotherapy Angel! More info about that here.
I have been taking Champix for 4 weeks. The first three of those weeks went so damn smooth. Week four has thoroughly scared the living shit right out of me. I can’t believe the change in side effects. I damn near left my fiance before I sat down and started to look up and read some blogs on this stuff. My doctor didn’t mention any of thes wild side effects. I read the pamphlet from front to back, and the severe depression/mood swings and anger were only listed as VERY RARE. I would describe myslef as a very strong-minded person, and have always had a good grip on my emotions. I didn’t think there was any way that this drug could be causing such things in ME, right? Had myself convinced all these feeling were real. Got to reading some stuff today and burst out crying. Thank Christ it wasn’t too late. I had my fiance read some of the same articles and blogs I had looked into, and thankfully it wasn’t too late to reapair the damage I have done. I am going to my doctor tomorrow and intend to stop taking the pills. My questions are, however, as follows. Do you know how long this shit takes to get out of your system? I am concerned that it will be quite some time before these feelings disappear, although at least my family and I are now aware that they are fabricated by the drug and not my personal feelings. Also, how hard should I expect the cravings to come back after I have stopped taking the drug? You seem to be very well-versed on this stuff, so hopefully you may be able to shed some insight that I may not recieve from my doctor. Please email me if you get around to it. Thank you
I’ll answer this here, as others will want to know this too. First of all - and I’m saying this to everybody who has a problem with this medication - please make sure your doctor files an official notification of the bad reaction. This is NOT RARE, but the drug company (Pfizer) and the medical authorities will seek to deny this for as long as they can. Already there are more official reports of bad reactions to Champix Chantix than any other medication, but that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Doctors seem to be incredibly slow in waking up to this, and are still handing the stuff out without warnings, and even to people with a history of severe depression which is contrary to the current guidelines.
However, as we can see from Josh’s post (and many others on the ‘net), we might as well burn the guidelines because these horrific reactions can happen to ANYONE, not just people with previous mental health issues. From the feedback we’ve had so far, Josh, it seems that a steady return to normality is the usual experience, but it can take quite some time in some cases. Please do give us more feedback from your own experiences, because your recovery may be (hopefully) one of the rapid ones, in which case that will be more reassuring to anyone in a similar position. I wish I could reply with more certainty, but the fact is only a handful of contributors to this blog keep popping back to keep us informed, so we simply don’t know the true story with the bad reaction cases that never reported back.
I made a prediction about Champix on an Australian medical blog well over a year ago, and got called all sorts of names for doing so. No-one wants to believe that a horror story is unfolding but it IS, and the longer Pfizer and the medical authorities in the U.S., Canada, Australia and the U.K. try to pretend it’s not happening the more people will end up dead, divorced, damaged and injured.
Virtually every working day of my life I shut down some sort of smoking habit, be it tobacco or cannabis, heavy smoker or social smoker, makes no difference as long as they want to quit. How long are medical authorities like the B.M.A. going to carry on pretending people like me are quacks or liars when THEY are the ones who are killing people? It makes me sick.
Josh, if the cravings come back just read the info on smoking here. Read the extract from Nicotine: The Drug That Never Was published on this site entitled “Why Cravings are Not Withdrawal Symptoms”, and if it sounds perfectly reasonable why not have a think about doing it the easy way?
Doctors: don’t prescribe the suicide pills. First do no harm, right?
Hello.
I started taking Champix on the 30th of April despite reading many of the reviews on this forum prior to taking the pills. To be honest, I haven’t had a single side effect from these pills yet as of day 17 and have been smoke free for 1 week today. Infact i probably feel happier now than i did before knowing the fact that i can kick the habit. I used to smoke between 25-40 a day and easily cut that down to under 10 in the first week. I’ll admit, driving home from work or after eating a large meal i do instantly think “cigarette,” but after a week of no smoking, i just tell myself “no.” Going to cut my tablets in half this week and only have them in the morning. By next week i plan to come off the medication.
After watching a video on youtube regarding champix and it’s side effects (BBC Scotland programme) i discovered than only 0.1% of people in Scotland suffered serious side effects. So from a statistical point of view, you chances of killing yourself are very slim.
You do what you like, Michael. At least you’ve read about it, so if it turns around and slams your brain you have the dubious comfort of knowing that you went into it with your eyes open.
The chances of killing yourself if you use hypnotherapy, the Allen Carr approach or acupuncture are nil. Absolute NIL. The likelihood of succeeding with any of those three methods are higher than achieving real (not temporary) success with Champix.
The official stats about bad reactions are only those that have been officially reported, which I believe is only the tip of the iceberg. Look, if anyone still opts to take Champix after reading about all this, good luck to ‘em. I’m only doing this because so many smokers have come on here (and various other blogs) absolutely livid because they were told nothing, and some of them have a history of depression and shouldn’t even have been given it.
Once everybody knows that there are serious risks - and let’s face it, Michael, if you hanged yourself on this shit, do you think your family would take any comfort from the fact that lots of other people didn’t? - I’ll happily shut up about it because to be frank I’m bored to death with this campaigning crap, it’s really not my thing but whilst the medical authorities are still conspiring with the drug companies to play it down I’m going to keep on shouting about it.
There’ll come a point when it is common knowledge that Champix is a killer and usually doesn’t work anyway, and there’ll come a point when everybody understands what an outrageous con the nicotine replacement poisoning scam is. At which point this Campaign and this blog closes. But not before.
Hope Champix doesn’t harm you Michael. Quitting the drug early and reducing the dose does seem to help with that. All the best.
I took champix for 4 weeks, I did feel sick and a bit low on them, but didnt smoke, however, I knew I wasnt feeling myself on them, by week 3 was convinced they were making me too emotional, but figured as there was only a week left to go, I might as well finish them. I wish to god I had not!
I have been off the tablets for a week now, I feel like I am walking around in a fog, I burst out crying for no reason at all, My friend tells me, my driving is aggresive, my mood swings are illogical and I feel like I dont know what to do with myself. My Doctor would not give me anything to cheer me up, just said if i was still feeling this way in a week to go back!!..I want to know when this depressive feeling will go, and if I will ever be me again?..can anyone help?
Hang on in there Rach, it seems from the feedback we’ve had so far that there is a gradual return to normal, if so the worst is already behind you. Please keep us posted because the more info I have on that the easier it is to reassure people with certainty.
Please please please report it, make sure the GP files an official complaint. This is NOT a criticism of the GP in any way, nor would it ever be veiwed as such. The approvals system depends upon patients giving feedback on bad reactions, so to protect others please insist upon the reaction being reported. Also, read all the comments following the six posts on Champix here in the blog. You will see that you are not alone.
Legal cases are being mounted now all over the world, class actions are likely to be more effective than individuals trying to sue a drug company so if you have been caused unnecessary suffering by Champix Chantix, there will be a chance to hit back. I will be doing a post about this very shortly with advice for anyone with an interest in making Pfizer pay for their callous indifference to the loss and suffering of individual smokers and their families. We are now half way through 2010 - the first alarm bells were sounded in the U.S. in 2007. Harm suffered in the last three years it NOT ACCIDENTAL.
can anyone help
my partner took this awfull tablets that should be banned for 6 weeks, gradually he bacame this person i didnt know, aggitated, depressed, confused, extremely tired, he has isolated himself from others, to be honest i cant describe him at the mo, he thought these tablets were the best thing ever, untill at the 6 week point people were telling him he was acting like he was drunk, then he stopped them, 4 weeks down the line no improvement, it has ruined our relationship, how long does it take to return to normal or is it a permanent thing?
Hi Emma,
don’t despair, although the return to normal can take a while it does seem to happen gradually so far as we know at the moment. Please try to remember IT’S N OT HIM, IT’S THE DRUG. He took it in good faith, please don’t hold him responsible. Complain, report it, read all the Champix/Chantix posts here and on other blogs.
Support him, be patient, please keep us posted. Make some notes. There are legal aspects to this, and I will be posting more information about that here soon.
thanks chris
i have heard and read so many horror stories on this drug its frightening, i work for the nhs and i intend to complain and do whatever i can to stop this happening to others, its evil, am sure he will be distraught and angry to when he recovers and realises what this drug has done him and us, being patient is hard but am trying and keep telling myself its the drug. thanks
i not been on here for ages but have been on previous champix blogs of chris’s.as a previous champix user 2xs i can really sympathise with a lot of comments regarding what users of this drug are saying.it never stopped me smoking ‘long term’ anyway.the side effects from this drug can often be horrendous not only to the unsuspecting user but friends/family and others can also be affected.i have known one succesful suicide and one attempted suicide in the past 2 years.i suffered with mood swings,depression,anger / frustration and contstant nausea.the only thing good this drug ever did was get me off my coffee addiction-even now the smell of coffee makes me heave yet i used to drink cups of it a day.i would never touch this drug champix again-but luckily i dont need to as at the ‘moment’ im a non smoker.i put alot of this down to using an electronic ciggie with bouts of ‘occassional’ once a month smoking binges!!please consider the alternatives to champix.when you first use it and feel it is suppressing the smoking urges-you think great-but the longer you take it-by 3 to 6 weeks the bad side of it hits you.when you come off it the urge to smoke returns in some cases often with very very strong urges/desires.good luck.
One point i forgot to add it took me a while to feel ‘normal’ again.my head was often fuzzy and there seemed to be ‘gaps’ in my day.i for example once couldnt remember driving home! i once found myself confused and panicky as to where i was when i was in familar surroundings.you often forget about smoking anyway because you are so preoccupied with feeling crap.good luck.
Hello Chris!!
Hi Janey! Nice to hear from you again… how’re the horses?
i used i stopped smoking but 10 weeks in after taking champix for only 3 week i have never spent so much time at the docs stomach realy bad .stop smoking and do not eat what a wonder as a wieght loss 1 stone in 1 week.do using also of tablets plus patches ,which is what i wanted to use in the first place but we(idiots) trust our medical proffesionals.and my temper thank my wife loves me our i would me on my 3 rd divorce now but at 30 a day for over30 year i need to stop
Michael I help people quit all the time, 2 hours in a comfy chair and it’s all done. No risk, no pills no toxins, no patches just home free. Don’t put yourself through it, man! It’s just an old habit, you don’t need to be punished!
Honestly folks, hypnotherapy doesn’t hurt, it isn’t remotely weird or dangerous, it’s just a communication process. These bastards are damaging and killing people for no reason at all - please, read more about hypnotherapy here.
this is an update for all those poor people wondering how long it takes to return back to ‘normal’. my partner was on this drug for 6 weeks and suffered horrific side effects, its been 7 weeks off the drug and he is still sufferering and our relationship is virtually non existant, although there is some improvement extreme tiredness, forgetfullness and strange moods is still a big problem.
Hi Emma, thanks for the update but I’m sad to hear that his recovery hasn’t been more rapid. Keep telling yourself it WILL get better, the worst is behind you (I know that’s easy for ME to say).
Have you heard anything about this drug within the NHS? Also, is there anything more we can do to warn everybody because I know doctors are NOT being told the facts about all this, the info on side effects is woefully inadequate.
cant express the amount of stress it has caused but trying to bare with it,
the nhs stop smoking service said they recognise that there are some side effects, and that people are made aware of it when they first go on to the pills and that its very rare for people to actually experience any, thats a joke for starters, you just have to do a little research to find out there is a huge amount of people suffering.
i spoke to my own gp yesterday and he said he actually not heard of anyone suffering any side effects and said he issues loads of the stuff, he was actually very keen to listen to my story so he could help future patients, told him to read forums on a few web sites, said he was interested and would, will see when i go back in a few weeks.
the thing thats annoyed me most is, docs, medical staff etc have kept saying to me that my partner must have been suffering from major depression or mental issues before starting the drug and this is not true.
as for making people aware of it, no one seems to know or want to know, guess we just have to keep trying, i am hoping that my gp will take an interest
This is the official line from the Champix Camp: the suffering is ‘nicotine withdrawal’ - a suggestion already rejected by the US Surgeon-General - and if you suffer mental problems then you must have been mentally ill already.
These are callous lies: they are playing it down and playing for time. Every reaction that is not officially reported ‘never happened’. How many are going unreported because the people involved have no idea Champix does things like this to people?
I know perfectly well that lots of people have taken Champix and suffered negligible side effects. That is not the point - this drug was supposed to be SAFE FOR EVERYONE. Who decided that the deaths and casualities don’t matter because of the relative numbers? When Rhys Jones was shot dead on his way to football practice, did we all think: “Well it’s a shame but lets not be too negative about this - lots of kids get to football practice and back without being shot”?
No-one should suffer harm from something given to them by their doctor which is supposed to improve their health. This is especially true when safer and more successful methods are already available. These are not isolated cases. Champix should be withdrawn - it has an 86% failure rate anyway (link).
Hi,
I ws very interested to come across people’s experiences taking Champix. My uncle committed suicide in Dec 2007. He had been taking Champix and to quote him “it’s taken me to dark places I never knew existed”. He had taken anti-depressants for many years and they worked for him and he lived his life happily because of them. To me, it is inconceivable that somebody taking antidepressants should be prescribed Champix in the 1st place.
I can’t say it is because of the Champix that he committed suicide, but I can say that they sent him into a personality changing depression. I also heard a radio programme where a doctor told of his negative experiences taking Champix and quoted many stories of suicide.
I believe that my uncle would be here today had he not taken this drug. I think it should be withdrawn immediately as there are too many stories like this. It seems to me it is a life and death situation and should be treated as such.
Champix is brilliant, I have had no side effects except a huge lack of desire to drink alcohol.
Nik, how can you follow Jackie’s message with such an off-hand remark?
I’ve seen quite a few posts like this, on this and other blogs, which do not acknowledge the suffering of others at all. Would you stroll around villages in Cumbria saying: “I think shotguns are brilliant”? Have a bit of sensitivity for Christ’s sake.
I can’t help wondering if posts like this are even real, or if they really come from internet ‘pharmacies’, worried about their sales dropping off.
In the Northern Ireland your GP will NOT give you Champix if your are depressed or if it runs in the family, or for example if you had an emotional childhood/adulthood, heart medication diabities etc, an they also give you a health check to make sure your fit body/mentally they also tell you that the tablet has extreme side effects i.e depression/mood swings/sickness etc and they warn you of suicide thoughts and weird dreams, an they also require you to talk to a councilor each week whislt taking champix. Its seem that alot of people are not being made aware of the effects an GPS are not doing there Jobs, my sypanthys for every1.
Yours Sincerely
Danielle
I took Champix 2 yrs ago. I was a normal healthy 31 yr old mother of 2. 4 days after taking Champix my world changed. It literally felt like something broke in my head. I was suicidal, I became bedridden and missed months of work. I couldn’t care for myself of my family. I cried all the time. my health spiraled downward and eventually I was hospiutalized. I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. This my psychiatrist says was likely caused by Champix. It triggered a permanent mental illness in me. My life has never been the same. I reported my side effects to HEALTH CANADA AND PHIZER a week after I took the “medication” I would beg anyone listening PLEASE DON’T TAKE THIS POISON. I ALONG WITH 2 OTHER WOMEN HAVE STARTED A CLASS ACTION LAW SUIT IN BC CANADA. IF YOU HAVE BEEN HARMED BY THIS DRUG YOU MUST REPORT IT TO THE PROPER AUTHORITIES. IN CANADA IT IS HEALTH CANADA. PHIZER SHOULD KNOW TOO. Although I Don’t think they give a shit. They’ve taken my health from me. Where’s the justice. When will the government LISTEN?? WHEN IS ENOUGH ENOUGH?????
A very good question. I wrote my fourth blogpost on Champix entitled: “Enough Already” in September 2008. 144 comments follow that post, many of them reporting the same things, and there are many more following my original Champix post earlier that year.
Make no mistake: Pfizer know all about this. The FDA know all about it: they are “investigating” Champix. In the U.K. all the medical authorities know all about it - the BMA, NICE, the MHRA. They just DON’T CARE. What is going on here is standard procedure: ignore the stories for as long as possible, then issue lots of denials, go through the motions of “investigating” which takes FOREVER, issue “new guidelines” which are totally insufficient when it comes to protecting people and all the while KEEP SELLING. Eventually a few cases will come to court but by that time they will have made so much money that they can afford to pay out anyway. They don’t care who dies or has their life ruined. Just look at all the previous drug scandals.
They don’t tell doctors the truth though. They just get fed a load of drug company hype, and it takes them ages to realise the extent of the horror. Obviously if doctors knew the truth they wouldn’t prescribe it, and that would spoil everything. So they’re the ‘mushrooms’ - kept in the dark and fed on shit.
Justice? There isn’t any justice. There are lawsuits though, and I wish ‘em well. But if there were any justice, the medical authorities involved would be protecting the public instead of protecting their friends in the pharmaceutical world. The FDA would withdraw the licence, the MHRA in the UK. But they won’t. They don’t care how many people kill themselves, they’ll help Pfizer’s lawyers muddy the waters indefinitely with bullshit about “nicotine withdrawal” and “investigations” and piddling about with guidelines and warnings that they know perfectly well won’t protect people properly. But not air-traffic controllers and pilots - oh, no, they’re just banned from using it. You know why? I’ll tell you. If Champix makes an ordinary smoker freak out and attack someone or kill themselves, they can just let the smoker be the subject of the investigation and Pfizer can get away with their usual bullshit that “there’s no evidence there’s a link”, and in that case it’s just one human tragedy, tough shit. As you were, all carry on regardless. But if a pilot freaks out on Champix and ploughs his plane into Heathrow’s main terminal, well - even Pfizer aren’t big enough to brazen that one out! Then there’d be a REAL investigation, and not just by the fucking toothless FDA. Then the game would really be up, so no, they’re not going to risk that one but all you little people, it’s okay for you to all risk your necks individually.
Vile corruption. Truly vile and sickening. And it doesn’t work anyway for 86% of smokers in the long run, and they knew that all along.
I started Champix 10 days ago. The first week was ok although I experienced a nose bleed, felt sick all day and could have slept for a week. I mentioned to my nurse that I had had a nose bleed and she brushed it off and said it was unrelated.
I started the second week and for a whole day I felt like I had been drugged, I couldnt work and even felt uncomfortable to drive my hour commute home.
I reduced my dose and decided I couldnt function in my job. I was sat at my desk yesterday talking to someone and suddenly I was seconds away from passing out. I was sat down, I had eaten, I didnt feel unwell at the time. It was lucky that I wasnt driving otherwise I think I may have ended up hitting something. I have decided to ditch the tablets, it would be easier to continue smoking! Im hoping that only taking them for about 10 days that it will work out of my system quickly.
Hi Deborah! I hope so too.
And I’m glad you weren’t driving, because guess who would have got the blame? Look at the small print on the leaflet regarding side effects. The crucial warning not to drive “if affected” covers their ass if they can get you to admit in court that you felt different in any way BEFORE the driving incident.
“The first week was ok although I experienced a nose bleed, felt sick all day and could have slept for a week.”
That would do fine for Pfizer’s lawyers, because you see it isn’t REALLY a warning, it’s a get-out clause. Sorry, you should’ve read the leaflet like we told you to (Always read the leaflet). You felt funny, should have avoided driving. Your fault, we’re outa here!
Bastards, aren’t they? Someone could have been killed, but do they care?
hello again, this is probably the final update i will write on here, my partner has been off the champix for 4 months now and is worse than ever, he is going about his every life (in a fashion) but is not the person he was, complete personality transplant, i persuaded him to go back to the doctors, they told him was tired and to take a week off work, i give up our relationship has ended and all because of this drug, this could be the new him now, i can not stress how much it changed him, it must be hard for him to feel so desperately tired, depressed, and confused and i dont think he realises how is being half the time, but there is only so much someone can take, he has not stopped smoking so all this for nothing, please do not take this drug, i gave up smoking to and these are not withdrawl symptoms from nicotine
Hi
I am planning on giving up smoking and have heard loads about Champix So i looked it up…… and i am so glad i did!
After reading various articals U.S and U.K based i can quite happily say that i WILL NOT BOTHER!
Is sounds awful and the side effects that i have read about are all sooo similar.
How is this even legal?
I am now going to go for the patches, gum etc ANYTHING except Champix…
Highest success rates:
1). Hypnotherapy
2) Allen Carr’s original book The Easy Way To Stop Smoking
3) Acupuncture
None of these could ever harm you. They work better than the suicide pills anyway. Festival Lou says: “How is this even legal?” Emma says: “I gave up smoking too and these are not withdrawal symptoms from nicotine.”
Pfizer know that perfectly well, the murdering fucking liars. And they still won’t withdraw it until they are forced to withdraw it by law, which takes such a criminally long time to happen because of all the corruption involved. Read Emma’s posts again, and remember that name: PFIZER.
Emma, I’m so sorry for all that you and your partner have lost. And all because he wanted to improve his health. This is not an accident because they KNEW there were cases like this in the USA before it was ever approved for use in the U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Doctors, please don’t prescribe this highly unpredictable concoction - it doesn’t work for the vast majority of smokers in the long run anyway, it simply isn’t worth the risk.