Why Is Chantix Not Working Faster For Me? (Top voted first)

I'm almost finished with my 3rd week of pills and still need a couple of cigs a day. They do not smell or taste bad to me at all. I've read where many people are totally free in just days....am I just a slow learner!!

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This is my third time using Chantix. The first time it worked perfect - quit on the seventh day (for nine months). These last two times, it's like chantix doesn't have that same intense "I don't want a cigarette" feeling. I still crave, but have reduced to one pack per day. The cigs taste bad, but apparently not bad enough. Not sure what to do. Would be curious if the person who went up to three times per day had any luck.

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I've been using Chantex for almost 2 weeks now, I have cut back a little, but I've decided to try it three times a day and see what happens

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I will have finished my 3rd week tonight and I don't feel like this is doing anything at all. I take them just as prescibed- twice a day, but nothing. No urge to not smoke. Yesterday was bad. I smoked like 2 packs of cigarettes! Help!!!!!

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Today is my quit day. First time on Chantix. My only side affect has been nausea. Bad nausea! Dreams were not bad, just silly. However, i am not ready to stop today. I have cut my smoking in half after 43years in this past days, so I am more than proud of myself. i refuse to feel like aloser cause i didnt quit when they say to. My body will do it when it is ready. EAch day I dislike the taste and smell more. Each day i dont have the urge i used to have. Just one less urge each day means one less cigarette! If it takes 2 weeks instead of one. So what!. Im hanging in there and I hope all of you do too. good luck to all of us. DONT GIVE UP!!.......

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I am using Chantix to stop using smokeless tobacco (snuff). I just started week 4 and still dip the same. My cravings are the same. The first three weeks on Chantix I would take one pill when I woke up and one later in the evening. Because I work 3pm to 3am, the times would always vary. So now I decided to take one at noon, and one at midnight. I don't know if this will make a difference or not. I hope so. Anyone else have a severly delayed reaction to Chantix, or has anyone used it for snuff?

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I was just prescribed Chantix today. Had a LONG talk with my doctor before deciding. He actually recommended to make my QUIT date in two weeks rather than one week. He said in most cases that he has seen that it take 2-3 weeks to build up in your system. He also made is very clear this is not a magic pill. "Don't expect the craving to totally disappear even after your quit date. This is a 12 week program and it's only an aid...." I made a new thread though as well about starting day one -three at night as opposed the morning.

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Be patient. You didn't become addicted overnight, everyone is different. It took me 3 months of taking it CORRECTLY before I saw results.

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I have been on Chantix for almost 2 weeks. I went from a pack per day to just a few puffs today. The cigs taste HORRIBLE, which is good. A big part for me is that "mental obsession". I'm also trying to change my routine, especially morning, by cutting way back on caffeine. I no longer walk straight outside to smoke, I eat breakfast first and then shower. Overall, Chantix is working, but I know from repeated attempts to quit smoking that I have to do my part.

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I too am trying for the second time to quit. Its day 7 and I'm still smoking without and feelings of quiting. Maybe it doesn't work a second time.

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I wish i had a good note to write but I dont. I stayed on course for 3 weeks. suffered alot of nausea that only a prescription would help. I reached a point after 2 weeks where cigs tasted bad but not bad enough. On the 4th week, the real problems started. Heart pounding, anxiety attacks, panicky feelings. I had to stop taking Chantix completely. It felt like that ride up the first hill of a roller coaster, i was full of hope, but then i teetered at the top for a few days, then it was a plunge into a bad depression and panic attacks. Now im still smoking and have to see a Pdoc to get anti anxiety and depression meds. With this said, these are all side affects of Chantix for SOME people, and I stress "some". Unfortunately for me i was one of those. I have and I know people who took it, it worked, and they are still smoke free today. I hope for all of you who are trying, that it works. Unless you feel the side affects that I did, stay on it, keep the FAITH!!... You just might be one of the winners!

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Going on 4 weeks now. Was nauseated somewhat for a few days and it passed. Can't say the desire to quit has left. Still need to smoke but don't want to. I've tried EVERY product out there to try to quit but to no avail...Chantix is my last option. What am I doing wrong?

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Today is the end of week three for me. I am almost completely smoke free. I REALLY wanted this.

I think, and I could be wrong, that sitting around and waiting to completely lose the impulse to smoke is where people are going wrong. I still have cravings though the chantix lessens the strength quite a bit. It's gotten now to where I am only really having cravings in response to higher than usual stresses usually.

I am disabled and don't work so I am at home alot. I have eliminated all cigarettes from my home..not there. If I have a craving it's just too dang bad...can't help. I also made a rule for myself that I must not buy any more packs...no matter what. If I have them, I'll smoke them and keep this thing going. I figure if I smoke it will be a bummed cig from a stranger, they'll go and I"ll go and I'll be pushed back into not having cigs when I finish it. Since I only go out about once a week...it's pretty hard to maintain an addiction on that,

Chantix is not a magic pill....it helps...it takes you halfway but you still have to actively push it the rest of the way yourself. I am having a cig or a part cig maybe once a week. I am going to have to actively fight that next now that I got home figured out.

Also what helped me is I dropped from 2 packs a day to 10 cigs a day in the week before I started Chantix. The Chantix came in just when I was worn out and ready to break. I had a pack of cigs on day 7 and I told myself that I could have those, finish the pack then that was it, no more packs. It wasn't nearly as bad as I've known it to be from attempts before.

Those people that are on a couple a day, for goodness sake, make the no pack rule for yourselves and force it back. You're so dang close.

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I have the same effect. The first time I used it, it worked perfectly for 9 months. Then I made the mistake of having ONE cigarette and the addiction took over again. I suspect (just a theory) that it only works the first and perhaps the "pleasure center" of the brain (where Chantix does it's work) becomes immune to further use of chantix. I hope I'm wrong as I'm about to try again with Chantix. Good luck to you and everyone else.

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That's what I want to try as well. This is my second try at quitting with Chantix. The first time was last year and I was under a lot of stress. I had bad mood changes and some depression (minimal). So I'm trying again but I'm on week 6 and I still have my AM, drive from work, and evening smoke and one or two more, but significantly down in consumption!! I just want someone to say it is safe to take 1 mg x 3 per day. Or even .50mg and two 1mg.

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I was able to smoke while taking Chantix and did so for approximately a month and a half but less and less during that month and a half. Along with the Chantix and my desire to quit I did but the urges were there during the times I was on Chantix for six months. I quit it's been 2 years now but the urges or as I say habit is still there mentally I just replaced it with something else. I go for a walk or exercise or work on a project but tell myself NO SMOKING YOU DON"T SMOKE. It is not easy to quit as I tried gum and patches and everything but Chantix was the only thing that actually helped me to quit and I smoked since I was 14 and well over 50 now so I had a life long habit to break and as I said it wasn't easy. Many of my family and friends said they never thought I would quit but again it was a combination of my DESIRE to be a non smoker and the Chantix and I did. I also at first was nauseated but rode that out and I did sleep a bit more and that was alright with me since it meant I wasn't smoking and I drank a lot of water to flush out my body of the toxins of nicotine. Everytime after I no longer smoked and I'd get an urge I would just put it out of my mind and go do something else also remind myself of how I no longer smelled like an ashtray and my house didn't have the nicotine all over my belongings. Keep taking it and as time passes you will stop. Get rid of your ashtrays, and change what you do in the morning when you first wake up; if you reached for a cig then put a lifesaver on your night stand and pop it into your mouth. Take deep cleansing breaths over and over and feel the new lung capacity and enjoy being a non smoker.

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Thank you for the encouragement!

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I will be starting my third week and no change yet, this will be my second time to try chantix with five years apart, have started to wonder if my body wont respond to it again as it did then which made me HATE to smoke. Hope it works again this time..

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I am on my 11th day of Chantix. I smoked for 29 years and have never really tried quitting. Even through 4 pregnancies I only cut down. I smoked normal the first day, finished that pack and bought another the next day. That pack lasted 3 days and I haven't smoked since. The smell of cigarettes doesn't bother me, but the smell of people who smoke does. I am on Celexa (daily) and Xanax (as needed and I haven't had a Xanex in a week). I don't drink coffee and haven't been able to exercise since I have a boot on my foot at this time. I don't think I have had any bad side effects as of yet. A few very vivid dreams and upset stomach when I take them. I take sleeping pills now and the dreams haven't come back and I just eat right after I take the pills. I have been coughing a lot of mucus up that is just gross! And have had a stuffy runny sneezing nose. But those are all getting better now too. I don't crave a cigarette but I do think " I should be smoking now" and that has been when I get anxious and have to do something else to occupy myself. Gum and candy and my new "forget me nots". My mom died almost 6 years ago of lung cancer and I have wanted to quit since then, but didn't want to try and not be able to for my fathers sake. I had to have my mind ready.

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Yes, I'm having the same problems. Actually, I'm going to start my third 3-month session! Although I haven't quit smoking yet, I am smoking way less -- from 1-1/2 packs a day to only 6 per day. And I never finish a whole cigarette. For this reason alone, I don't want to stop taking the medication. I have contacted the pharmaceutical company about this and my understanding is that you can take Chantix for as long as it takes.

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On day 7 (my quit day) and I am still smoking. I am experiencing nausea but can wipe that out immediatly with Emetrol. I still smoke the same amount and beside the obvious reasons to quit, im not really feeling the urge to completely put them down!

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