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.