Post Your Chantix Horror Story Here

Please leave your Chantix horror story to share in the Comments below this post.

I never knew there were legal drugs that could so easily destroy innocent people, in this case people trying to quit smoking. People also seem to easily get hooked on Chantix because of euphoric and stimulating qualities. So help me to warn people, and maybe do a small part in getting this drug off the market. And shame on any doctors who prescribe Chantix.

I will begin the stories with my own. Recently, my spouse of 12 years had been taking Chantix for 3 months to quit smoking. She began exhibiting euphoric behavior, doing things she had not done before, laying down listening to music in the dark, just acting "high." Listening to music on an ipod is not unusual, but for her, the way she did it and other things, it was really wierd. Then I began noticing she was spending a lot of time with a casual friend of ours essentially alone, and lying to me about where she was or being gone visiting the person without calling me. This is not anything she had done before. I confronted her about it, and she told me she wanted a separation to explore her feelings for this person without feeling guilty. She wanted to move out into her own apartment near where she works. After spending 3 days in 2 weeks with this person, she decided she deeply loved them. I simply could not believe my ears. She had the gall to say it would be "fun" to have her own apartment. I was horrified...this was not the woman I knew. Aside from hurting me immensely, I felt as though I needed to take quick action. Among other things, I searched on the internet for information on Chantix, since even she admitted that the drug may be influencing her. What I found sent a cold chill through my being. This blog page has the stories I found, especially comment #10, about a man moving out on his family of 24 years. People on this blog shared all kinds of amazingly odd and tragic stories of erratic behavior and death. Many of the victims managed to save themselves and quit Chantix, with the help of their families who they had pushed away. Chantix had become so much more important to quit than smoking. But some managed to succeed in killing themselves or hurting their families beyond repair.

An old friend persuaded my partner to try quitting Chantix to see what would happen. After a week of hell after she quit Chantix, my partner seems to be coming out of the trance Chantix put her in. We appear to be staying together and saving our marriage. Our marriage may end up being better than ever, but this is a sad way to accomplish it. I don't know if I can ever totally trust her again, even knowing the Chantix probably had a lot to do with it. Doctors don't seem to be helping their patients much who suffer this way from Chantix, saying things like, "Oh, it was just the symptoms of withdrawing from nicotine." Right.......... my partner and I have withdrawn from nicotine several times before without any resulting tragedies. So really my story has not ended yet, it remains to be seen if we will survive this. She is walking around feeling intensely guilty for how she treated me, and I feel like I need to go into therapy to recover from it. She also still acts like a Chantix "Addict". She has not admitted that the drug caused this behavior. She's very defensive about quitting Chantix, saying that if she wants to quit smoking again, she might use it again. That's scary. She's like a drug addict in denial. This is a problem she's probably going to have to work on, don't you think? I had to work so hard to save our marriage, and to save my spouse! and it's not a bed of roses yet! I felt all alone with all this responsibility to save us from a drug the doctors and drug companies want to keep selling. Please leave your story below.

Chantix Info

Writer De Koff was one of them. Almost immediately after starting on the Chantix program, he reports having extremely vivid, and sometimes disturbing dreams that over time began to take on epic proportions. De Koff also notes that sleep while on Chantix took on an unusual quality...that he wasn't really sleeping at all, but was resting while being constantly 'on guard' for something. He alludes to an assumption that his R.E.M. sleep patterns were dramatically affected during this time.

While admitting that smoking cigarettes had become "an exercise in futility" as there was no pleasure to be found, his dreams and everything else happening during his waking hours were becoming a concern.

"One afternoon, I was typing away at advertising copy, and as I did so, I began to wonder how I had succeeded in fooling myself that my life had any sort of value at all," De Koff writes. "Writing? Sure, it was what I'd wanted to do since I was six-but at the end of the day, who cared? Maybe I should just go downstairs and leap in front of a tour bus. Or launch my head through the computer screen. All this seemed logical, but also weirdly funny, even at the time: I could see how crazy these impulses were, I could recognize them as suicidal clichés. But I couldn't make them go away."

The above was taken from a Chantix Side Effect blog, titled "Chantix side effects - a real health concern!"

I believe the psychological side effects of this drug can be so severe, that even if one person's life is ruined from them, it is too many to sacrifice to allow this drug on the market. Our family was nearly broken apart, and I believe the Chantix was a major cause. Many worse stories are out there than mine, including death and severe physical injury. Pfizer of course wants to put a lid on these horror stories so that they can sell the drug. Therefore, I call Chantix Evil, and the Pfizer drug company the Devil. Please leave your Chantix horror story on my blog, so that people will be warned against using the drug to quit smoking, or for any other purpose. It can be an "Enchanting" drug, producing extreme Euphoria and stimulation, making it a wolf in sheep's clothing. People suffering from these mental side effects usually have no idea what it is doing to them, or how abnormal their behavior on the drug has become. Obviously, everyone does not experience the horrible negative side effects, but like I said, if one person experiences tragic consequences simply because they are on this drug, it is one person too many. Abnormal or delusional behavior totally out of character for the person, suicidal thoughts and actions, depression and agitation, scewed judgement, would be a few behaviors that are possible. Help me spread the word and help save people from this pain. Doctors should also be closely monitoring people's behavior who are taking Chantix.