CHANTIX Reviews (VARENICLINE TARTRATE)

Average Rating: 3.5 (355 Ratings)

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CHANTIX  (VARENICLINE TARTRATE):  Varenicline helps you stop smoking. To increase your chance of success, use this medication with a stop-smoking program that includes education, support, and counseling. Quitting smoking lowers your risk of heart and lung disease, as well as cancer. Varenicline works by blocking nicotine's effects in the brain that make you want to smoke. Discuss the risks and benefits of this medication, as well as other ways to quit smoking (such as nicotine replacement treatment), with your doctor.   FDA Approval Date: 2006-05-10 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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 5  Health, social stigma, smell, Nothing much. A bit of indigestion maybe caised by it, maybe not Physiological craving gone on 1st day at full dose, quit day, all 3 times I quit, over several years. Now I'm quitting again. Sage advice: you are most likely to relapse at 3 days, 3 weeks, 3 months, & 3 years. That has been my exact history. THIS time will do Chantix for 4 months. F 49 45 days
1 mg
5/13/2020
 1  Cigarettes Rage, crying, anger & lashing out, depression I tried this a year ago with a higher dose-I was nuts then and can feel the side effects again. Gotta stop this drug! F 50 14 days
1
4/9/2020
 4  To quit vaping (5x for smoking too) Slight insomnia, vivid dreams, and nausea (if taken without food). I'm a trans woman, and even though my testicles removed 7.5 years prior, I still got severe pulsing testicular (phantom) pain. It didn't start until I was a week and a half in, several hours of intermittent pulsing a couple hours after each dose, and only for a few days. It never happened the other 5 times I took it, nor did the nausea from taking it on an empty stomach, which I did often during previous attempts to quit. I thought vaping would be harder to quit since the e-juice I had actually tasted good, and I almost never had to go outside. It was, slightly, but I still managed to quit before I finished the starter pack. Though, this time was a generic 4 week pack, not the brand name 2 week, but that gave me the extra week I needed to overcome the extra challenges from years of vaping inside. It worked every time. I can't fault the drug for my poor judgement months after I stopped taking it F 31 20 days
1mg
1/3/2020
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 1  To quit smoking The first three days were fine. Then the dose doubled to 1mg. I woke up feeling so drunk and sick. I had no balance, bouncing off of the walls trying to walk and almost falling down just standing. Blurry vision, severe depression, and suicidal thoughts. My dreams were vivid, but not always nightmares. I still craved smoking, not as bad. I don’t know if it just didn’t mix well with my other medication or it’s just chantix itself. What I do know is I had no warning when all of it started happening. I just woke up to it. Never again will I take this medication. It literally only took 4 days before all of this happened. Hopefully they’ll update side effects spring with other drug interactions. F 30 4 days
.5
12/31/2019
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 5  2 pack a day for 30 years Best thing I ever choose to do. Thank you for making this pill and tweaking it to work. Chantix is my anti anti depressant.. I experienced no side effects of any kind no dreams no crazy off the handle mood swings. Just the opposite I found peace and calmness. The best F 44 3 months
10/24/2019
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 5  2 pack a day for 30 years Best thing I ever choose to do. Thank you for making this pill an tweaking it to work. Chantix is my anti anti depressant.. I experienced no side effects of any kind no dreams no crazy off the handle mood swings. Just the opposite I found peace an calmness. The best F 44 3 months
10/24/2019
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 1  Stop smoking My late husband started sleepwalking and smoking in his sleep! There were ashes all over the floor and three or four lit cigarettes. It did nothing for me, but I had no negative side effects. I do not recall the exact dosage for either of us. 64 90 days
20? 1X day
8/16/2019
 2  Stop smoking First couple days I was very depressed and I’ve been depressed before but nothing compared to this. I’ve never had suicidal thoughts but I start thinking the most negative things after taking this. Even when I try to ween off I feel like shit. I’ve had a couple days where I experience high energy but most days I’m hostile and I feel psychotic which is nothing like me whatsoever. I get hot and my joints have locked up. My dreams are so horrifying I would cry myself to sleep. I still smoke just not as much and I’m starting to think it’d be easier to quit all on my own without the help of this terrifying drug. I’m concerned it’s going to have long term effects even after discontinuing it. F 22 13 days
1 MG twice
8/3/2019
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 4  Hypertension, Health Nightmares, Nausea, Sleepless nights, Dizziness, Thirst and tiredness. I am on week 2. I am a light smoker less than a pack a day. First week I noticed I was not craving to smoke. After first week I was only smoking one a day. Week two I have smoked a puff but don't really want it. When I have smoked it taste. I have had awful nightmares, nausea, and been tired due lack of sleep. So far I am glad with with the results but do not like the side effects. M 31 30 days
30 MG 2X day
7/10/2019
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 5  To help me quit smoking The first few weeks I had a horrible headache and felt nauseous. The headaches go away after a few weeks and the doctor told me I needed more water and food for the nausea. I get dreams also but they don’t bother me. You have to really want to quit and be committed or you will fail with this medication. If you get a craving drink a glass of water and it’s amazing how the cravings go away. I am so glad I have stuck it out on this medication, no smoking and I feel so much better about myself and not being chained to a cigarette. Good luck everyone! Don’t give up. F 33 2 months
1 pill 2x
6/27/2019
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 5  Quit 10 yr addiction to Nicorette I am on an antidepressant regimen that has been working for me. On day 2 forward on Chantix I started to sink back down, fuse was shorter, felt more anxious. It definitely reduces nic craving. Chewing less gum. If I continue on it I'll probably be off gum in a week or less. But I'm concerned about my mood. Will try to be proactive with meditation and increased exercise. Wish me luck. F 51 4 days
5/26/2019
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 3  Quit smoking and breathing issues I'm just on day 3. I'm a 2 pack a day smoker but just in this short time I have only smoked 10 cigs a day! Only issues are the lethargy and the red hot skin. F 33 3 days
1mg
3/28/2019
 4  I needed to stop smoking Lower abdomen pain. Sleeping alot. No energy. Change in taste. Nauseous I'm wondering if I can stop taking the meds now on 2nd week. I haven't smoked since first day taking Chantix. F 30 2 weeks
1mgtablets
3/19/2019
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 1  Quit smoking Chantix made me feel very unwell. The second day, dry mouth, upset stomach, headache, vision problems, anxiety, breathing difficult, heart beat irregular. Lethargic, empty emotions. Felt toxic. Restless sleep, strange dreams. Tense muscles. I needed to quit smoking for foot surgery. I requested chantix. What a mistake. Terrible side effects. Now I understand why people would commit suicide. Feeling so unwell makes life feel not worth living. It is a shame that such a toxic drug would be allowed. Just took the drug two days, and realized this drug was going to kill me, either by heart attack, or breathing failure. Stopped using chantix 3 days ago, and still feel unwell. I hope I will feel as good again as I did before using chantix. F 64 2 days
.5
3/8/2019
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 3  To quit smoking I've smoked since I was a teenager and was up to two packs a day..I am 2 months into chantix with very little cravings and for most part have had maybe one full cigarette which I must say tasted terrible!! So over all for quitting smoking chantix has helped .. The nightmares and Vivid dreams are hard to deal with at times... I've developed severe panic attacks that seem to hit me most parts of the day... I have learned breathing exercises to try to cope with them... M 51 0 days
10/30/2018
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 5  To quit smoking For the most part, I have not had too many side effects from Chantix outside of a little bit of nausea, very vivid dreams, and constipation (this being the worst). Overall, the hardest part about the medication is actually remembering to take it. I am almost two weeks in and my craving has all but diminished, my usual trigger points no longer bother me F 32 2 weeks
2X day
1/10/2018
 2  To quit smoking Vivid dreams but pleasant, some nausea Has not helped much at all, have enjoyed the dreams and has reduced my cravings a little but not much. A $500.00 boondoggle for me. Insurance didn't cover much of it but thought it might be worth it to quit. M 65 2 months
1mg 2X day
12/10/2017
 4  Quit smoking Omg the nausea is horrible! The first week I was okay, I was nauseas but not everyday. Now I'm on week 2 and it is so bad! I'm eating before taking it and I'm for sure drinking a full glass of water with it because Chantix is making me SO THIRSTY. No matter how much water you drink, it's never enough! But because I'm so nauseas, the water is making it worse because it's just sitting in the pit of my stomach. 😪 I've downed a bottle of pepto within 2 days and nothing is helping. I love that I don't crave cigarettes but they need to do something about these side effects. I just want to lay and sleep in bed all day F 30 2 days
1mg x2
8/29/2017
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 5  To quit smoking Nauseous , not rested I am on my second Chantix round. The first time I took for 6 weeks and was quit smoking for 2 months! I never had bad dreams I had vivid ones but not bad but I never felt rested. I have no excuse for starting back other than I enjoy smoking! So I am trying it again and this time I am on full dose days #3 and when I smoke ohhhh it's makeing me sick sick. So I assume I will be quit within the next couple days again and don't plan on ever smoking again because if for no other reason this nausea is rough. F 40 0 days
4/28/2017
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 5  Quit smoking after 32yrs. Nauseous, vivid dreams. More side effects during weening off. Quit day was day 9. Ready to ween. But having anxiety, tired, irritable, ect.. working with my Dr down to one pill a day. Well worth it. Said I would quit before 30 yrs then 40 yrs, this year I would will be 50 and smoke free. Cannot wait to be off the chantix. The side effects scared me. But all in all it works. I came this far. I'm not going back. F 49 2 months
3/17/2017

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