I have been taking Champix for nearly 4 months now. I have not smoked since June. I suffered nausea half an hour after taking the tablet, but learnt to eat something first to avoid this. I have also at times felt faint, euphoric, angry, but mostly I'm just so happy cleaning my house and cooking & sewing - just like a Stepford Wife.Yesterday my husband walked in to find me cleaning out yet another cupboard, well let's face it - smokers live in filthy houses!
My husband was on Champix for a while, he chopped so many vegetables we ran out of tupperware boxes to put them in, made some great meals though! he also chopped enough firewood to keep us warm through three winters. But then his behaviour started to get more bizarre, picking fights with people over things that normally we would ignore or be tolerant of.(I am also aware that I have been unusually less than tolerant at times, and have actually been less inhibited and quite fearless if provoked) So - at first we were saying 'remember it's the Champix' in these situations, but then it seemed that he was growing a whole new nasty personality - I felt he was becoming a danger to himself & we agreed that he was to stop taking Champix & smoke if he had to until he thought of an alternative method to quit. He is still struggling to quit today .
On the upside of Champix I have enjoyed the euphoria and the vivid dreams & nightmares, I have always had an active imagination but some of these dreams are so graphic and hallucinogenic that I have taken to writing about them afterwards,
I now have only one Champix left, having completed 99.9% of the prescribed course - the last thing I want is a cigarette, think I would spew if i tried to smoke now.
That's my theory: I now associate the nausea with smoking, are the tablets actually designed to make you feel sick? Therefore linking memories of smoking with nausea.
What will happen when I stop taking them?
