Anybody Used Cytisine (Page 3) (Top voted first)

Has anybody used Cytisine to give up smoking, is it an anti depressent, doesn't sound as 'natural' as it was made out to be. Side effects?

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hi i have the oral strips to but i have lost the instructions on use. can u tell me the dosage pls?

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So how many more ways do you know to quit smoking that would be effective, apart from nocotine plaster or chewing gum ?!

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You can download the instructions on tbxfree.

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I tried and it gives me insomnia and terrible headache ...but we all different

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Did you use the strips or the tablets?

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Hi I was just wondering how long have you been taking them as I'm on my 4th week and still smoking, I feel I could stop but need longer and are worried that if I take a lot longer it will cause some problem

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If you are using the tablets you should have stopped smoking by the 5th day. If you haven't then you are to stop and wait 2 or 3 months and try again. The pattern is to take tabex then alternate the first 5 days smoking or not. Don't overload yourself with too many toxins.

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how much do these strips cost

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Yes! I just bought TBX-Free Stop Smoking Aid. It really works! Just started today and haven't had a cigarette. I tried everything else. I'm really happy. No side effects.

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Look up TBX-Free to get the strips. I hope that helps!

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I have used it and I found it worked for me. For the first 5 days, the cigarettes I smoked tasted disgusting, I didn't get that initial lift you get with the first few inhalations. On the 6th day I stopped smoking and didn't miss the nicotine at all. You gradually reduce the number of tablets per day, and it is a slow steady reduction, none of the abrupt stop as with Zyban and the likes. I would recommend it, the only side-effect I had was that I sometimes, found it hard to sleep at night. As with all stop-smoking drugs, (I have tried all of them) you have to be determined to stop. Oh and better yet, it is much cheaper than other stop smoking drugs.

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On the first few days can you smoke and use the films? I go 7.5 hours a day without smoking but I still do smoke. Can I smoke still? Not sure about using these.

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I use the strips for craving purposes. I did not put myself on their program. I still smoked two yesterday but I just took a few puffs...couldn't even finish them. Trust me, I am or was a hardcore smoker....Now I have a very slight headache but I believe I am detoxing from the Diet Coke and nicotine. Still drinking lots of water to flush out the nicotine and whatnot. Hope that helps!

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I just started using it today. It does seem to be working. I still have mild anxiety, but nothing drastic. I have a feeling I'll be spending a lot of time outside keeping busy

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Cytisine is simply not as toxic as some of the literature suggests. It seems to have inherited that reputation from some of the plants that it occurs in and great hyperbole exists in this area. However, I am not saying that it or those plants are nontoxic by any means. There is a single report of death from a person ingesting more than 35 mg of cytisine (see TOXNET) but the details are not clear as others (and animals) clearly have been given much more than that and survived. (In mice an oral LD50 can be found listed as 50 mg/kg in Hatfield and as 101 mg/kg in Barlow & McLeod.) The commercial product Tabex is a natural product extracted from Laburnum anagyroides seeds. I would imagine those tablets contain binders just like most tablets. Considering cytisine is a potent molecule, with an abundantly available good plant source for extracting it, there does not seem to be any reason to suspect that the manufacturer would add additional drugs. As is also true for nicotine this molecule can be toxic if enough of it is taken. That said at the recommended dosages it feels roughly similar to nicotine but I found it to have a more relaxing edge. It did induce some minor incoordination that I did not like.

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What is the dosage you took and where did you order it from? Did you have any headache or difficulty sleeping? Thank you.

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Have you asked the manufacturer? It is hard to imagine that they would not tell you or at least I've never had trouble learning the identity of inert ingredients by simply asking; whether medications or agricultural products. Tablets generally contain some sort of binders in order to form them into solid tablets. It can be one of dozens of things but if a person smokes tobacco it is far worse for their health than any imaginable tablet binders. (And the idea with cytisine is not to replace a nicotine addiction with another drug addiction but to use it in order to transition off nicotine) A person could likely use plant material from laburnum, gorse or scotch broom but a pharmaceutical product has an advantage of being a known dosage. Something to bear in mind is that nothing is a magic bullet to *make* a person quit smoking. Any addict, whether to nicotine or another drug, has to actually want to succeed and be an active participant in the process. Tabex can be of support to their process by reducing or preventing cravings due to cytisine acting directly on nicotinic receptors as a partial agonist (ie its action shares some properties with that of nicotine). Whether that bit of assistance can help get a person off of nicotine is always going to be up to them and not the drug. The drug is just a tool. We still have to do the "work" ourselves; a drug will not do it for them. Good luck!

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Did you gain weight or have any cravings after getting off of cuisine? I want to stop taking it in a few months and want to know what to expect.

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Re: smokey (# 10)

Please tell me the name of those strips, as I want to quit smoking.

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Re: Riya (# 67)

Tabex is one brand and others can be found by googling.

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