Pfizer Champix

Many of you here will have read my previous review on NiQuitin and will know that I am currently giving up smoking. Well, needless to say considering I’m writing another review on a different stop smoking aid things hadn’t been going too well. Granted, they hadn’t been going too badly, but I seemed to be incapable of having a cigarette free day if I was not using the lozenges or some other nicotine product. I was absolutely fine if I had the nicotine, and atrocious as soon as I tried to move off them. So, my nurse suggested Champix. What is it? Champix is a prescription only drug in the UK ... more

I'm French. Therefore I was a smoker. For 17 years non stop. And god knows I've enjoyed every minute of it. "Meat and Potatoes" as Bill Hicks so truly said. But he's gone now and I got scared it would happen to me too if I wasn't doing something about this last remaining vice from my troubled teenage years. What got me thinking? My husband. I love him so much I could barely convey 1% of how I feel for him with words. Sadly he got very ill this year. The doctor said he would carry his ailment until the end. Which means he will need me until the end and it was now my responsibility to be healthy ... more

Champix is a non-nicotine medication to aid with quiting smoking and are only available on prescription from your doctors. Champix is a 12 week course which has to be completed Champix tablets are taken once a day for the first week and twice a day for the next 11 weeks. For the first two weeks the tablets taken are 0.5mg (white) and the further 10 weeks are 1mg (blue) The first tablet is to be taken in the morning and the second is to be taken in the evening. The intructions state that Champix can be taken with or without food but after experience I would suggest that you dont take Champix on ... more

Well I have smoked since I was 12 years old, now 29. I did actually stop for 2 years on the Zyban brand, but on a night out drinking I stupidly had a cigarette, that set me off to starting smoking again. So eventually I decided to stop again. So off I went to the doctors and they told be about a new brand had come out that worked just like Zyban, just cheaper for them to make, but was told it worked exactly the same. So I thought well why not try them, the new brand was called Chimpax. So I picked up my prescription, these are only available on prescription you cannot buy them over the counter ... more

Reading the reviews, i wasn't a bit put off, everyone was raving about champix, said that it worked great, these people didn't even want a cigarette anymore i thought fantastic. Of course i also read about the side effects, depression, nausea, suicidal thoughta. I figured giving ups going to be rough these people would probably be a bit depressed even without champix, and suicidal thoughts, bah thats only a tiny minority, it wont happen to me, well it did. Anyway giving up was a doddle, on the day before my planned give up date i double dosed, not a great idea i felt seriously rough, vomiting ... more