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Comment on Problems with Chantix...

moderator — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:25:54 GMT

Hi Susan.
I'm sorry that we cannot post your response. Chantix is a prescription medication used in tablet form. I believe you are thinking about the gum here.

Stephen Michael
Director, ASHLine

Comment on Problems with Chantix...

LeslieD — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:54:12 GMT

I have also had this problem, especially during the morning dose. If I take it after eating breakfast (something more than juice or yogurt)I find the symptoms are greatly diminished or not there at all. I think peanut butter toast does the trick.
Hang in there.

Comment on Problems with Chantix...

SusanKanDidQuit — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:36:39 GMT

Christina, are you chewing Chantix like chewing gum? If you don't park it in your cheek, it will nauseate. The nicotine absorbs into your system through your gums almost sublingually.

Comment on Problems with Chantix...

Ashley Mileham — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:14:13 GMT

Make sure you take it at the end of your largest meals of the day. That has helped my considerably.

Comment on I'm here to help...

James — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:36:13 GMT

i want to quit smoking but i dont have the money to buy patches and my access wont approve a stop smoking aide. what do i do?

Comment on Giving it up for GASO...

Nancy — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:35:31 GMT

That's great that even though you want one last one, you haven't had it. One will lead you back to many. I am proud of the work you're doing, keep it up. This coming Friday I will be a month nicotine free, it's been hard but I'm still "free." I have faith you will be too!

Comment on Giving it up for GASO...

Betsy — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:27:05 GMT

Actually, a combination treatment has been shown to have greater success rates than either patch or gum alone.

Comment on I will not give up...

Nancy — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:20:31 GMT

Don't feel badly, just start all over again. It's a difficult decision to make to walk away from the cigarettes and we all stumble but I'm sure you will make it. You are not alone, there is a lot of support out there.

Comment on I will not give up...

Barbara — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:15:01 GMT

Cheryl,

As you look back at my comments during the past two and a half years, you will see that I too walked in your shoes. I am a 2 year-five month survivor. After smoking for fifty years, I fought that nicotine addiction and I WON! I did it with Chantix and support from all the people like Summer on this Web site. But you really have to want it!! Now I know that I can NEVER smoke just one. I do not ever want to go through the physical and mental anguish of quitting...AGAIN! I just had a chest x-ray and it looks GREAT! The signs of smoking are reversing.

Come on girl, you have a great support team...right here. We want to be here for you...like others were for us. Keep us posted.

Barbara R.

Comment on I will not give up...

Summer — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:13:43 GMT

Cheryl,

Hi my name is Summer and I have been there where you are at; I quit cold turkey. Yeah, I do not recommend it. My husband of 30 yrs had a bypass. We were hypnotized and quit for 10 years and yeah out of spite and anger defied logic and thinking we would choke after 10 years, yeah no it was like we never quit, so this time cold turkey baby and you will not go back, neither of us we miss the social scene, but hey I don't have to listen to the gossip and 2 years and counting very proud that we have made it this far, and this blog is the best,Girl I have vented go into the archives 2 years you will see my name Summer and read all about the hell you are going through. Sweetie, no one is going to hold your hand, you need to build a bridge and get over it, and you will time that is all we have left get off of the Chantix, just another crutch... YOU CAN DO IT!!!!