Christine’s Story from Ireland
I started taking Champix 6 weeks ago. I haven’t smoked for 5 weeks BUT I have never experienced such feelings of anger, rage, paranoia and depression before. In addition, My joints, particularly in my lower body, are screaming. Getting up out of a chair one would think I was a 90yr old when in fact I’m just 48yrs old. I decided to stop taking the tablets 3 days ago and am hoping that my mood will improve and the aches and pains will ease off. If all that wasn’t bad enough, I have gained weight very rapidly, I feel bloated all of the time and have had to use laxatives on several occasions! I would like to pull the duvet over my head most mornings as that seems much more appealing than facing the world! I have stopped going out and meeting with friends, I have no desire to socialise and my relationship with my husband has become very strained. I am full of hate but mostly toward myself for being so weak willed that I couldn’t give up smoking without having to resort to so called easy option pill taking. The irony is this, I think I might feel a whole lot better if I had a cigarette!!!!
My advice to anyone even considering this convenience drug should think again, the punishment it deals out in adverse side effects doesn’t fit the crime of being a smoker.
Christine from Ireland
