I’ve been teaching people to stop smoking since I quit smoking in 1978. When Chantix first came out I questioned smokers that had tried Chantix. Some said, “it helped”, some said, “it didn’t do anything”, some said, “I would rather die than take that stuff again”.

First the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) banned pilots and air traffic controllers from taking Chantix because it was linked to seizures, dizziness, heart irregularities and suicide attempts.

My husband works for Fed-Ex and he received a corporate memo that Chantix was banned by the Department of Transportation (DOT), because Chantix had been the cause of over 100 accidents.

When you are choosing a method of stopping smoking, weigh the pros and the cons. Chantix advertises that it takes away the highs that smokers get from smoking, and when smokers quit smoking, it levels out the lows associated with stopping cold turkey. There are so many side effects of quitting cold turkey. 

In the Nicotine Solutions seminar, students can take Chantix if they want to, but most realize that they don’t need it because they can learn to quit smoking by gradually changing their behaviors.

It takes 21 days to change a habit and that is the reason that smokers in Nicotine Solutions smoke for the first 6 weeks to learn how to detoxify (naturally). Unlike cold turkey methods like Chantix, smokers and chewers learn to deal with stress and emotions so when they do stop smoking with Nicotine Solutions they don’t feel like they lost their best friend or got hit by a freight train.

Chantix is new, but it is just approaches one aspect of quitting. What about the behaviors, routines, emotional attachment, rituals, first thing in the morning, last thing at night, when you are under stress and all the ways that you are hooked up to smoking mentally, physically and emotionally and psychologically.

Sometimes smokers and chewers announce that “I’ve got it all handled, I’m going on Chantix”, and then later they realize that it sometimes takes more than a pill to deal with their habit because the smoking habit has got a hold on them on so many levels.

I teach people how to quit smoking.

I am neither for nor against Chantix, the new pill to help people quit smoking.

I could recommend this or not but I want to know what the long-range effects after someone has been off Chantix for at least 6 months. Are there any of you out there?

I really don’t know of too many people trying Chantix.

Could you reply to my blog and let me know the good and the bad so I will know what to say to my clients who ask about Chantix.

Thanks!
The Quit Queen

Lela Bryan
http://www.nicotinesolutions.com
The Personal Approach to Quitting Smoking & Changing Your Life!!