What's with all the Chantix posts all of a sudden?

[americanstranger]

Does it strike anyone else as weird that suddenly there are a lot of people chatting up this drug?

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[KoKo]

1. Pfizer Ops...posting spam?

:shrug: Same thing with that HPV vaccine... Lot's of hype for that. Much sincere concern...but also some questionable hype.

[americanstranger]

4. Your guess is as good as mine.

I was just wondering where it all came from.

Personally, I stay far away from meds that caution against suicidal thoughts as a side-effect. That's scary.

- as

[HowHasItComeToThis]

2. IT IS WORKING

[leveymg]

3. There's been plenty of viral marketing here over the years.

That one will pass quickly. Notify Admin if you have concerns - commercial activities are generally against DU rules.

[Sugar Smack]

5. We have a buddy in the Lounge who wants to quit.

She's going to try that. I reccommended a few days ago she ask for advice about Chantix in GD, and she got a lot of support here. I think whoever's had a bad experience with it just wants to warn her off of it.

[americanstranger]

6. Ah. didn't see that.

I just thought it turned up out of thin air.

Typically suspicious me. :)

- as

[Sugar Smack]

9. That would have been a little freaky, right?

:rofl:

[americanstranger]

10. Stranger things have happened.

Especially in GD. :)

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[mcscajun]

7. Not at all.

I work in a medical office and word of mouth on this drug, from patients and pharmacists, is amazing. People are clamoring for this, because it works.

[americanstranger]

8. Interesting.

I'm still scared of it, but if it works, more power to ya. :)

- as

[mcscajun]

11. I'm just happy I never took up smoking. My entire family were smokers.

Mom and Dad are both long gone, but all my sisters gave it up a good twenty years ago, thank goodness. Without drugs, patches or supplements. Watching my dad get hacked up due to smoking-induced circulation failure was sufficient motivation.

[Warpy]

17. It took 25 years to kill my mother

and that's 25 years of fighting for every breath she took. COPD is much worse than any other disease I can imagine, simply because it affects such a vital function and maximizes both the misery and the duration of it.

Cig smoke makes me deathly sick, which is why I never started.

Both my parents beat the longevity odds for heavy 1950s smokers, but their last few years were horrible. My dad was having bad circulatory problems that he wasn't telling me about. I saw resin lawn chairs scattered all over his property when I went out to care for him during what would be his final illness, chairs he put at strategic locations to rest while he walked behind his self-propelled lawnmower. Circulatory problems finally killed him.

Neither of my parents stopped in time to avoid smoking induced illnesses. I hope everybody reading this who smokes doesn't wait until they start to get ill before they quit like my parents did.

[Warpy]

12. A whole lot of people smoke who don't want to keep doing it

and they want to find out if the stuff actually works before they spend their month's cig money on it. It does work and is better tolerated by more people than Zyban was.

However, the people who do have problems with it have big problems with it, and it has to be closely monitored by the prescribing physician.

If you've had multiple attempts to quit cold turkey and cracked within the first 72 hours, then Chantix might be well worth a try. If you've quit cold turkey and managed to stay smoke free for months or longer, your problem is psychological rather than physical, and you need to examine it, change your behavior patterns (avoid situations that call for smoke), and quit cold turkey again. You've done it before. You can make it stick if you really try.

I know people who have quit cold turkey, people who have quit through acupuncture, people who have quit through hypnosis, people who have quit using the gum or patch, and people who have quit just because they were in the hospital and drugged to the gills for 72 hours and realized the worst was over by the time they woke up and never smoked again.

Any way you can quit is the right way. We need all the lefties out there, healthy and able to yell.

Anyway, that's the scoop on Chantix. It helps most people. A tiny minority have horrible psychological reactions to it, reactions that go away once the drug is withdrawn. It's still worth a try if nothing else has worked.

[Stinky The Clown]

13. I was prescribed Klonopin to help me quit

It did nothing but freak me right the hell out! I spent an entire weekend on the couch in a fetal position swearing I was dying. It was awful.

I finally quit on my own ...... cutting down to just a few a day and then quitting. Overall, it was a pretty painless process. I just needed the right motivation.

My heart attack was the right motivation.

[NNN0LHI]

14. You must have missed the run on Tamiflu around here a few years ago

Man that was something. People who I once thought had good sense were loading up on the shit.

Mind boggling.

Don

[americanstranger]

15. Oh, I remember that.

In The Year Of The Killer Flu That Never Happened. :)

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[leeroysphitz]

16. I've done some of that pro Chantix posting and

I can assure you that I get NOTHING from big pharma except a big mark up. :)

[Habibi]

18. New Year's resolutions?

:shrug: