all this started to happen approximately around the time my wife was expecting our 2nd child. so naturally the doctors and myself thought it was all caused by stress of having a new child in the family. but thanks to this website i have put 2 and 2 together.

i have never suffered from depression or anxiety until now. i survived hurricanes katrina and rita with no problems. survived losing our house in katrina with no issues. we lived in a fema trailor for more than 18 months with no issues of depression or anxiety. most shocking of all the last nine months while we were in the fema trailor my wife was pregnant with our first child and at that same time we were finishing rebuilding our home. we didnt move back into our home until 1 week before she delivered the baby. so at this time we even though our home was finished we still had barely enough furniture for a family. even with all of this going on i had no depression or anxiety issues. hell i even changed jobs during this time. and once again no problems.

the problems didnt start until after i took chantix. i stopped taking the drug sometime last year because it was making me extremely paranoid, crazy dreams, mood swings, up

The odds of surviving a heart attack are not all that good. While I don’t want any long term effects from taking a drug to help me quit smoking, I would rather face the odds there, than to keep on smoking and have a heart condition worsen, or a breathing disorder get so bad I couldn’t do anything fun any more. Most drugs that are prescribed have fact sheets available for the patients to read. On them are a list of things to watch out for. So, if you are feeling depressed after taking Chantix, stop taking it.

I read a whole bunch of the replies here and it looks to me like people are a. not really wanting to quit smoking. b. wanting a reason to stop the drug so that they can continue smoking. and c. looking for a way to make some money fast with a lawsuit.

Have a major heart attack like I did, or watch a loved one die of lung cancer, as I did, then perhaps attitudes would change. It isn’t right to take a drug off the market that helps more people than it hurts just because there are side effects. And if they do that, then most drugs should be taken off the market. Aspirin, Tylenol, Valium, and 75% of the drugs can be blamed for at least one death, if you looked hard enough.

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and NO i would NOT recommend Chantix to my worst enemy…it works for smoking but releases all kinds of other problems that to me were not worth it one bit…..

My husband has his own set of issues, and my behaviors triggered his violent temper. Early in our marriage, he gave me a concussion, choked me, kicked me in the back and the ribs, punched me in the face, chest, and just about everywhere else. . . I know that my husband always had these problems, and he repressed a lot of anger, but I STILL somehow blame myself because of my impulsive, irrational behavior during and after my course of treatment with Chantix. It has ruined my life. Not only do I resent my husband for what he has put me through, but I also deeply resent Pfizer for the company’s misleading claims and BLATANT LIES about the side effects of Chantix. (I know that I need to stop blaming myself, because his abusive tendencies would have come out sooner or later. Believe me, I still have to try to convince myself that it’s not all my fault. Chantix CHANGED who I am and how I react to stress. I became impulsive, anxious, and angry.)

My daughter is my world and all I live for. I really think she has saved my life. But I don’t want her to grow up seeing her mother’s emotional problems. Since Chantix, I haven’t been the same person I was before. I have abandoned my hobbies. I’ve given up everything I enjoy because I have no motivation to do anything. My house is a disaster because I let it go… I can’t think straight and I’m forgetful. I was successful and career-oriented, a 4.0 in high school and college and a working professional… I bought my house on my own at 26 years of age. Doing pretty well, I’d say… But now I am a DIFFERENT PERSON altogether. It’s all I can do to take care of my daughter or go to work; I have no energy to do anything else. I procrastinate and miss opportunities that I NEVER would have let pass me by… And to this day, the anxiety is out of control. The littlest thing makes me feel like having a meltdown, and it takes everything I have just to keep under control and not lose my job!

I’m so thankful for my daughter, who motivates me to go outside, to enjoy days off, and to do fun things… If it weren’t for her, I don’t know where I’d be. I have a long way to go; I am afraid I’ll never be the person I was.

Pfizer was very careful to state that Chantix only demonstrated an increase in psychosis and impulse-control in people who had a “psychiatric history”. As evidenced by all these reports by people with no previous psychiatric problems, Pfizer’s claims are UTTER NONSENSE.

SHAME ON PFIZER, for their piss-poor research, for their deceptive result-reporting, and for denying that Chantix has caused this extent of damage to its many victims.

As for the gentleman who claimed that all our stories were full of bunk, does he think we *wanted* this to be our story? Could we all really make this stuff up?

I never thought my life would be like this. I couldn’t have imagined this nightmare if I’d tried. I’m sad to hear that so many other people are going through problems so long after having stopped taking Chantix. At least we can say we’re not alone.