Chantix

Posted By: Very Sad on 2008-02-04
In Reply to: Chantix Warning - sooo glad I never smoked

It is so sad to here about these side effects. My husband smoked for 30 years, went on Chantix in January 2007, and has not resumed smoking - He has been smoke-free for over one year! He said it made him forget that he even smoked. No side effects either. It is amazing that it can make one person so depressed and have absolutely no side effects on another. I had a coworker that got the depression though. Very sad.

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Chantix Warning - sooo glad I never smoked
- Chantix - Very Sad
- I used to smoke but.. - PJ
- Just in the last several months have I noticed (sm) - me
  - I think it would be like the Prozac scare... - tnmt
    - I'm on it now with no problems. sm - Shannon

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Chantix Warning

as it must be just horrible to stop!

I received this today regarding Chantix......

FDA informed healthcare professionals and consumers of important revisions to the WARNINGS and PRECAUTIONS sections of the prescribing information for Chantix regarding serious neuropsychiatric symptoms experienced in patients taking Chantix. These symptoms include changes in behavior, agitation, depressed mood, suicidal ideation, and attempted and completed suicide. While some patients may have experienced these types of symptoms and events as a result of nicotine withdrawal, some patients taking Chantix who experienced serious neuropsychiatric symptoms and events had not yet discontinued smoking. In most cases, neuropsychiatric symptoms developed during Chantix treatment, but in others, symptoms developed following withdrawal of Chantix therapy. See the FDA Information for Healthcare Professionals Sheet for recommendations and considerations for healthcare professionals on using Chantix therapy for patients.

Read the complete 2008 MedWatch Safety Summary including a link to the FDA Public Health Advisory, Healthcare Professional Information Sheet and the prescribing information for Chantix regarding this issue at:
http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/safety/2008/safety08.htm#Varenicline

Chantix - Anyone use it to quit smoking? I am most concerned sm
about the nausea. I have been hearing it is pretty bad for at least 1/3 of the people who have used it. I have a generally touchy stomach as it is. Please post your comments here or by email