Chantix/Wellbutrin to help me quit smoking? I need reasons NOT to take it please | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 22323395 United States 12/01/2012 12:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm not aware of any long term side effects, but some of the short term ones are really horrendous. Chantix tends to make people really angry, fighting with strangers angry, in addition to bringing on bizarre and upsetting dreams. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 27270668 United States 12/01/2012 12:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here is a link where they discuss it. I could not find the original discussion where I saw this, but it is something that apparently happens to men AFTER they stop taking the prozac or drugs? [link to www.depressionforums.org] I know that wellbutrin is supposed to not have "sexual" side-effects, but the fact that an anti-depressant that affects serotonin has ANY permanent side-effects worries me! |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 27270668 United States 12/01/2012 12:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm not aware of any long term side effects, but some of the short term ones are really horrendous. Chantix tends to make people really angry, fighting with strangers angry, in addition to bringing on bizarre and upsetting dreams. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22323395 Yeah-I had horrible nightmares and hot-flashes on the patch till I took it off at night. The black-box warnings are enough to make me want to be committed somewhere BEFORE taking it ha ha, but my doctor says that she is pretty sure that I will not become homicidal, or suicidal, but if I do that I would have enough awareness to get help before something terrible happened. My doc said that those side-effects tend to happen to younger people who have not experienced enough life to know that things will get better. |
SkinnyChic User ID: 28814606 United States 12/01/2012 12:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm not aware of any long term side effects, but some of the short term ones are really horrendous. Chantix tends to make people really angry, fighting with strangers angry, in addition to bringing on bizarre and upsetting dreams. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22323395 THIS! Plus the reason why you don't smoke while taking it is because it makes you very ditsy. hard to remember your own name let alone think of smoking or anything else. Very angry..and very bad dreams. don't take it OP. You can do it cold turkey. |
ReVbo™ User ID: 28774502 United States 12/01/2012 12:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 27270668 United States 12/01/2012 12:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Someone that I know said that the nightmares were so horrific that it was enough to scare them into not taking the drug OR smoking anymore. I worry that it could make me turn bipolar or some other serious mental illness. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 990186 Poland 12/01/2012 12:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Dr. Richard Schulze suggests taking one capsule of lobelia in place of one cigarette the first day, 2 in place of two cigarettes the second day and keep increasing until the desire goes away. It also clears out the tar and/or nicotine. He says if it makes you throw up, that's okay, it good for you. |
TheCartel User ID: 11312040 United States 12/01/2012 12:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Beloved, congratulations on quiting that nasty habit. Stay busy to keep your mind off smoking. Stay away from caffeine and drink lots of water.DO NOT take more govt. Medicine. Google a plant called krantom. One hundred percent natural and great for anxiety. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 27270668 United States 12/01/2012 12:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here is one reply from the link I posted above: this is the kind of thing that scares me too: Some people may disagree, but I have no doubt that this prolonged sexual dysfunction is from the use of SSRI's. I have experienced these symptoms that started on the drug, and they continue despite being off all medication for years. I also feel numb, disconnected from life, I can't emotionally connect to people in the way I use to. I don't feel like a human being anymore. I feel ,empty,boring - permanently and thoroughly dead inside. These drugs have purged me of all my humanity. I fear that I will never be the same again. I'm sure that some people may say that that person was already depressed, or that maybe they still have depression,but I appreciate that they could be correct about the drugs having something to do with it. Especially if it is not the kind of depression or symptoms that they had before taking the drugs. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 22323395 United States 12/01/2012 12:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 27270668 United States 12/01/2012 12:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Dr. Richard Schulze suggests taking one capsule of lobelia in place of one cigarette the first day, 2 in place of two cigarettes the second day and keep increasing until the desire goes away. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 990186 It also clears out the tar and/or nicotine. He says if it makes you throw up, that's okay, it good for you. I'll check this out Thanks! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 679298 United States 12/01/2012 12:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28592649 United States 12/01/2012 12:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
goldi User ID: 8755634 United States 12/01/2012 12:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 10993716 United States 12/01/2012 12:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm not aware of any long term side effects, but some of the short term ones are really horrendous. Chantix tends to make people really angry, fighting with strangers angry, in addition to bringing on bizarre and upsetting dreams. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22323395 Yeah-I had horrible nightmares and hot-flashes on the patch till I took it off at night. you ALWAYS take the patch off at night!!! WTF you want a heart attack?? put a fresh one on in the morning... never leave them on 24/7 sheesh... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 12921438 United States 12/01/2012 12:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27887077 United States 12/01/2012 12:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So I'm at the end of my rope as far as smoking. I'm a fool and whatever else you want to say, but the fact is that I quit for six months with the help of nicotine patches and some other no-smoking things and lollipops. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27270668 When my insurance refused to pay for the patches any longer, (which was unknown to me till it happened), I was ok for about two weeks and then I started smoking again. Now I really want to quit again. I was never able to quit before and even though I did get some more patches, it did not work this time. I am seeing my doctor next week and she is willing to write me a script for Chantix or Wellbutrin. I have never taken an anti-depressant in my life and I worry about the black-box warnings, AND any kind of permanent damage or change. I'm terrified of messing with my serotonin for some reason, but mostly any permanent damage. I am a woman, and from what I have read, men can be permanently damaged by anti-depressants, (erectile dysfunction permanent), but I wonder if it can do that to a man, it must be dangerous? So at this point-I am ready to try it, but I really would like to know what kind of permanent risks am I taking? Please don't take that crap. Try food grade hydrogen peroxide diluted in water. It will cleanse your system and reduce your cravings. Please at least consider it. It cured my IBS in a few days when the medical industry says there is no cure for IBS. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28823155 Australia 12/01/2012 12:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
SkinnyChic User ID: 28814606 United States 12/01/2012 12:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Someone that I know said that the nightmares were so horrific that it was enough to scare them into not taking the drug OR smoking anymore. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27270668 I worry that it could make me turn bipolar or some other serious mental illness. OP I seriously can not stress enough for you or anyone else thinking of taking these things that the anger is incredible. I am a very positive easy going person. but I swear I could of killed someone for no reason. The nightmares are horrific. I had some that still haunt me to this day. So horribly bad and seemed so painfully real. I wish I could forget them. Please don't take it. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28145879 United States 12/01/2012 12:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 9108752 United States 12/01/2012 01:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 6888765 United States 12/01/2012 01:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 4123634 United States 12/01/2012 01:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Cold turkeys the only way to go... but also you just have to be ready to quit. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 9108752 If you are saying "ill quit after this pack runs out" then you arent really ready... you got to want it! I tried to quit many many times, once made it two years, and went back. its crazy i know. youre fighting yourself, your own mind turned against you. thats why cold turkey is the only way to go, its about a COMMITMENT> when i did finally quit, i dreamt of buying a pack, or bumming a smoke EVERY NIGHT for TWO YEARS EVERY NIGHT. Its the hardest thing i ever did. but drugs and patches are just more substitutes. got to know that its not part of you anymore |
ming User ID: 1374118 Sweden 12/01/2012 01:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Go to the cancer ward at your local hospital, visit with people who have had half their throats/faces cut off, then go on Chantix. Worked for my husband. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 6888765 I reckon that might be the only thing that would work for me. I know I should quit but find it hard to even contemplate let alone try. Out of this ugliness may come, Some day, so beautiful a flower, That men will wonder at that hour, Remembering smoke and flowerless slum, And ask-glimpsing the agony Of the slaves who wrestle to be free- 'But why were all the poets dumb?' -William Montgomerie So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
Invisible Man User ID: 12884644 United States 12/01/2012 01:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't know about Welbutrin, but I did the Chantix for 3 months. I quit smoking, but I felt like I was in a fog all the time. Like I got a little dumber. I decided it wasn't worth it, started smoking again. I recently discovered the ecig, and it's been the best thing I've tried. Quoting: ReVbo™ Same way I felt on Zyban. Like I was having constant vertigo. Wellbutrin and Zyban are a lot alike if I remember correctly. Last Edited by Invisible Man on 12/01/2012 01:48 AM |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 5850530 United States 12/01/2012 01:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I tried wellbutrin to quit smoking. What a nightmare It said take one in morning and one at night caution may make you sleepy. I was up for at least three days, went nuts and moved to the garage for a week until It wore off and I was sane again and fine to be around the kids. I only took two pills. |
yankeemofo User ID: 18296310 United States 12/01/2012 02:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | SNL parody of Chantix: The actual commercial: I quit with the help of Tootsie Pops. They helped with the psychological aspect of the hand-to-mouth action. Good luck! Last Edited by Handsome Squidward on 12/01/2012 02:03 AM Meet the new boss; same as the old boss. Trust in those that seek the truth. Doubt those who find it. |
getit User ID: 6171016 United States 12/01/2012 02:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Someone that I know said that the nightmares were so horrific that it was enough to scare them into not taking the drug OR smoking anymore. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27270668 I worry that it could make me turn bipolar or some other serious mental illness. I agree with the crazy chantx nightmares. Pretty creepy to open your eyes and find yourself staring directly into the eyes of dead person only to wake up a heartbeat later and realize it was only a bad dream. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 5724046 United Kingdom 12/01/2012 02:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So I'm at the end of my rope as far as smoking. I'm a fool and whatever else you want to say, but the fact is that I quit for six months with the help of nicotine patches and some other no-smoking things and lollipops. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27270668 When my insurance refused to pay for the patches any longer, (which was unknown to me till it happened), I was ok for about two weeks and then I started smoking again. Now I really want to quit again. I was never able to quit before and even though I did get some more patches, it did not work this time. I am seeing my doctor next week and she is willing to write me a script for Chantix or Wellbutrin. I have never taken an anti-depressant in my life and I worry about the black-box warnings, AND any kind of permanent damage or change. I'm terrified of messing with my serotonin for some reason, but mostly any permanent damage. I am a woman, and from what I have read, men can be permanently damaged by anti-depressants, (erectile dysfunction permanent), but I wonder if it can do that to a man, it must be dangerous? So at this point-I am ready to try it, but I really would like to know what kind of permanent risks am I taking? OP have you read the book "Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking"? This book is just simply amazing. It breaks down why we are addicted to smoking. Why all the other methods dont work. and of course how to free yourself from smoking. check it out.. please! [link to www.amazon.co.uk] Ps. maybe read some of the reviews too GOOD LUCK |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 9005159 United States 12/01/2012 02:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |