Champix - Any one else on it for Quitting Smoking

Komedy

Komedy

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So I'm now in my second week off the fags with the help of Champix and have to say I am shocked at how easy it has been for me to manage so far, tried all the Nicotine Therapy patches etc before.

So far the only side effect is really vivid dreams and wakening up earlier in the morning.

Anyone else been on them ?
 
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I gave up with Champix. Smoked 25 a day for 20 years.

I gave up outside Edinburgh airport, having agreed with myself that it would be the last one. I'd fly to Florida (my home there is smoke free, my home in Scotland was not) and since I'd be away from my usual triggers/habits it'd be easy, I'd come back home and by that time the cigarette smell would have gone - helped by an air purified I'd left running.

I'd never tried giving up before, but I found it to be fantastically easy. The difficult part I think was deciding in advance that I'd really had my last cigarette, I'd never touch another, and that one cigarette was the full hog and I'd be smoking again if I did it.

That was May 2010. In October 2011 I was out drunk with a group of people from work on a thursday night. I was standing outside Hamilton Palace (the shame) and they were smoking. At that point I had it my head I was an ex-smoker, and I'd never be a non-smoker, I'd go back to it eventually - I was just putting off the inevitable. So I lit up, expecting it to be a rollercoaster ride of satisfaction, like a warm hug... and it did nothing for me. I didn't choke or boke, it was just a complete disappointment. I took 2 draws, and that's including lighting it up and put it out.

I'm happily a non-smoker now, and I have no regrets and no desire to smoke most of the time. The odd times that I do I remind myself that the enjoyment could only happen again if I started smoking full time again and then it'd be 1 out of 20. I know that I cannot, for example, have a cigarette and enjoy it.
 
Well there's a question... :)

After 6 months I went to the docs because I felt I was still wheezing - I was fine according to the doctor.

I used to get floored with the cold/flu twice a year. I've yet to be floored again, in fact I've felt it come on a few times and it's either gone nowhere or been very minor. Although I have caught meningitis - perhaps if I smoked I'd be dead. :)

I have sadly put on some weight. I did lose it, but I moved house and before I knew it I had put it back on again. I could use to lose it again and more. That's next on my list.

I gave up smoking in 2010. That was my goal for that year.
I started to lose weight in 2011, then aborted that when I got a mortgage and owned my first home - it took until about February to get things sorted - I bought in April, paid in May, sorted it out and moved in September, and Oct,Nov,Dec,Jan,Feb I was sorting things out.
I was planning to lose weight in 2012, but that's when I got meningitis, and I've been ****ed since, and that's a lot of the reason for the weight re-gain.
I've now nothing blocking me losing weight, so I'm sorting out everything in preparation for that, which I'll do with the same resolve as giving up smoking.

Giving up smoking was the pivotal thing in my life in the past few years. It showed me I could haul myself out of a rut (I suspect I was depressed) and put things in order, piece by piece, bit by bit.

I now can run up a flight of stairs, if it wasn't for my dodgy legs I'd be able to walk for hours. I couldn't do that while smoking, I think it was about a year before I felt healthiest.
 
it's a good feeling, achieving something!

giving up smoking is a constant achievement as you will still get cravings but they pass quicker and quicker.
 
I didn't get any cravings - not like I used to when I smoked if I hadn't had one for a while. All I had was the odd feeling sometimes that a cigarette would be nice.
 
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