Andy, 52yo

Nicoderm side effects - vivid dreams when worn sleeping. mild soreness at application site after removing, went away in an hour or so.

I forgot to wear it on 5th day, haven't worn since, haven't smoked since.

Tom, 43yo

My Nicoderm side effects - Intense, very lifelike, insane, vivid dreams (only happened first two nights I wore the patch sleeping).

For me, it felt as if I had just got done smoking a cigarette all day, so there was no urge (other than oral fixation). Worked great! The only thing is, I had been a smoker for over 10 years (1-2 packs a day) and I quit easily without following all the steps they listed.

Kerk, 45yo

From day one, I have been pleasantly surprised with how effective Nicorette was. I had always just kind of thought it would not help (i.e., that I would still crave the real thing--cigarettes). Admittedly, I didn't follow the suggested Nicorette plan--I still chew the gum and have never really cut down. However, I view smoking as the worst thing in the world to do to yourself, so for me, the gum is one million times better than smoking. And no I haven't experienced any hair loss at all, and I have been chewing the gum for several years off and on, and daily the past 6-9 months.

Art, 39yo

grateful to be off cigs but not worth the side effects.found this sight because I was curious about side effects of the gum felt very unhealthy I'm hoping to regrow my hair and keep it Haven't chewed the gum for three days..I'm done..

By Jim, 37yo

After 3+ years of chewing this gum, I find myself addicted to it. How do I break this addiction and remain smoke free? Help!!

Bob, 45 yo.
Nicorette side effects : Gas, bloating, belching, burping, flatulence, headaches, severe ear ache, back pain, irritability, severe anxiety, high blood pressure, shortness of breath, sore stomach, can't eat almost any food without it causing issues with digestion. Lightheadedness, fog brain

I went from working out every day to staying home and packing on weight from not working out. I couldn't breathe or I would get short winded or have these episodes that occured where I would feel like I was punched and lost my breath. I don't know if it was the nicorette or not as I suspected gall bladder or gall stones but I strongly suspect it after reading these posts and my symptoms matching others. I have been in and out of the hospital and today just came home from a ultrasound. Not sure if gallstones or not but I am telling you, I am beginning to think it is the nicorette. I am going to do my best to get off of this stuff..been on it a year and I bet my problems are a result of this gum. I think over time these symptoms progess as I have been on it about 13 months. I notice when I start chewing that I will get a small burp. Unfortunately, I will get stressed and chew, chew, chew and I will start burping more. Sometimes, I feel like my whole belly is going to explode and I will belch, have stomach acid, be gaseous, and I will go into a panic attack from the anxiety.

chantix side effects :
Nausea and vomiting, gas and bloating, mood changes, "busy" dreams that left me exhausted, all over body aches and pains.
Nausea after taking tablet until I realized I should eat first Very vivid dreams Visual hallucinations when waking during the night (still evident)

As a 50 year 1-2 pack per day smoker I used Chantix per instructions and never varied dosage until I was slowly weaned from the drug per my physician's instructions during month 5. The drug was effective on about day 10 for me. I have now been a non-smoker for 17 months. I have some concern regarding hallucinations when waking druing the night which are still present.

Tim, 42yo
Chantix side effects : Nausea, very vivid dreams, feeling detached/dopey, feelings of depression and hopelessness, severe bloating, horrible flatulance. My husband also taking the tabs also seems to be always angry/aggressive.

am now 3 wks smoke free, but quit the tabs 3 days ago. I found giving up smoking very easy on this medication(remarkable after 25 years smoking, around 50/day for many of them). I have found that I am unable to function properly (everything seems just off normal) and have been sinking deeper into negativity and depression. Painful bloating and foul smelling constant flatulance is still a problem even though I am no longer taking the tabs. I am yet to shake the negative feelings, and the "dampened" perception. Luckily I do not drink, so I have no feedback on the effect of alcohol for me. I have a wonderful marriage and two beautiful kids, but have found myself having negative thoughts ie "why do I bother", though not suicidal. I immediately stopped the tablets but am still working through these feelings. Please note that I am proud that I have stopped smoking and fully intend continue with quiting. I am not feeling depressed about the loss of the cigs, and the tabs have helped me kick them easily. I would think that if depression is related to withdrawal, a component of that would surely be regarding how hard it is to do without your "fix"???? This drug does the job, but am concerned about what else it is doing at the same time. So many people state that the side effects of smoking far outweigh those of this drug. WAKE UP, a life ruined by cigarettes or by any other source is a life ruined. How big is the risk for severe side effects really???

Bob, 53yo
My Chantix side effects : mild/short nausea, EXTREMELY CRAZY DREAMS, blah feeling

THIS DRUG WORKS EXACTLY LIKE IT SHOULD. If you are pondering the thought of taking this drug--you will stop smoking. The best analogy is that smoking a cig tastes like you are breathing in campfire smoke. It's as if the "idea" of smoking is gross. I stopped smoking after day 4. I'm a 28 year old guy. Up until I started taking this drug, I would have an occasional (once every month or so) dream that I could only remember foggy parts of--if at all. After I started taking this drug, I would wake up tired--thinking that I have pulled an all-nighter!!! These dreams you have... I still remember every detail of every thing--just as if I were there. Some are very nice, some not so much. I think that this side effect puts one "out of cycle" for lack of better terminology. Besides the dreams, I experienced a little discomfort for the first 20 minutes upon taking a pill-like I want to yack all over the place. I recommend taking the pill with some food, and possibly lay low for the next 20 mins. It helps a lot. Also, little things at work and at home (with my roommate) would send me over the edge (i.e. extremely short fused and crabby). I'm generally a very happy go lucky person. I can not say this was from this drug, but it is, at the least, a coincidence. Bottom line: it's worth it. Yeah, life may be a little rough for 2 weeks, but, you stop smoking, slowly stop taking the drug, and life goes back to normal without cigs!!

By Bobby, 62yo
I was told that this drug (which here in Canada is called Champix, don't ask why; I am talking about the drug whose generic name is varenicline) would react with my dopamine receptors, the ones activated by nicotine, in such a way as to give me the satisfaction I got from smoking; and that, at the same time, it would, if I smoked, prevent the nicotine from getting to those receptors. Made sense. Didn't work. Yes, it did in fact prevent nicotine from getting through, yet it absolutely did not in any way give me the satisfaction I got from smoking. As a result, I smoked more and more attempting to get a nicotine hit. I quit the medication after 1 day; but it seems to have done something permanent, or at least long term: i.e., it seems to have reset my daily nicotine need level, so that I am now after many months smoking on average 11.5 cigarettes daily, whereas before I was smoking 8 daily. Whoopee.

Leo, 59yo.
I started at 150HCL for a week and now am at 300mg. This is my first week on the new dose, and today is the first day I actually feel okay. The first two days on 150mg there were no side effects. I am now taking the generic brand and i am beginning to think that the more expensive drug is the way to go. I am going to keep trying this drug for the next month and see what happens. I think 300mg's is to much, but my doctor says it can take up to two months to see the benefits. No more caffeine, don't need it. Still smoking but is drastically less, some times it makes me naucious, down to three or four a day. It has been a rollercoaster but today i have a feeling of hope again for the first time in a year. Maybe the side effects are worth it.

Kerk, 49yo.
side effects:
back pains, no sleep, constant urination, upset stomach.

John, 54yo.
My Bupropion HCL side effects :
Nausia, loss of appetite, dizziness, trouble sleeping, increased sex drive, aggitaion, anxiety, headache, increased depression, some sort of vaginal irritation/swelling

I haven't been on this very long. It is very expensive, 30days of 150mg once a day, and I have insurance. I went up to 300mg a day(as recommended if I didn't notice effectiveness after 4-5 days) and side effects seemed to worsen. I'm having "bad" days where I just want to cry all day, don't want to go anywhere, be social at all, and am more depressed. I'm having anxiety issues along with some paranoia. I'm not getting angry as easily but more little things are seem to aggitate me more than before. I'm having an increased sex drive, but the last time I had sex it was uncomfortable and unsatisfying. I don't know that it is worth the side effects to continue taking this medication. I feel like I was more stable before.

Joshua, 29yo
my zyban side effects :
I've been taking zyban for 4 weeks now I had insomnia only two nights, I do feel a little careless but that is nothing compared to the rage I experienced in previous cold-turkey attempts. In the past week and a half I am extremely nautious and cannot keep food down, have missed my period and have the side-effects of a pregnancy although I definitely am not. I'm now weaning myself off it- although SO GLAD TO HAVE QUIT SMOKING. THAT WAS THE POINT RIGHT? Small price to pay than cutting off years of my life due to cancer.

By Kerk, 49yo:
I am clean now for 22 days, and I was smoking for 22 years! I feel great, my kids was the driven source, they was scared I will die. Sometimes the cravings is there, if I only could have one puff, but it only last for 5min, and the craving is gone. I must say, my skin look healthier, I breath easier, smell fresh at least, and now I can kiss my children on the mouth, without even feeling quilty!So for all my partners in crime, be strong...If you cannot sleep at night, try to reduce the intake of pills for only one a day, that works wonders for me!Now i sleep peacefully, after reducing the pills. There is no side effects after that. Decrease it, iso INCREASE it!!!

By Jim, 51yo :
When I smoke a cigarette now it's like drinking de-alcoholized beer. The smell, taste and other physical sensations are there but it's like something should be happening in my mind, but isn't. It appears that whatever mental effect I get from nicotene isn't happening. Very much like the first few months of total abstinence when I detoxed from over thirty years of alcohol and drug addiction. I mean after the physical part was over and the suppressed emotions started coming out.
I also trying to quit nicotene cold turkey brought horrible and chaotic blasts of suppressed emotions which caused depression and other negative "in the now" emotional reactions. Zyban is like that but much more gradual and more bearable. I've been through this kind of mental confusion 6 years ago and I know from experience that the emotions sort themselves out.

By Jessy, 46yo.
I have been taking Zyban now for a couple of weeks, after got to admit, I started getting aggitated to begin with and then get moody. I have since stopped feeling moody and aggitated, and that is after upping to twice a day. Im glad I asked to go on this drug as I dont miss smoking in the slightest, even though hubby is still smoking, although its less than he used to. We agreed to stop smoking in the house which helped with the zyban.

The smoking habit is not from the virtuous task on earth. It is ethically a bad habit. Smoking is not only a deal of your body and it is not your personal matter but you have people working and living around you that do not like smoking and its smell.

They even get the diseases due to your smoking habit. So the best option for you is to quit smoking. You are no one to harm your kids and wife, your friends or parents.

With the increase ratio of quit smoking program, we see many positive results of these treatments and we can not say about a single method that is failed. People are of different tempers and attitudes and different treatments treat people in different prospective. So the most suitable method is adopted by the smokers to get rid of. But if you want to follow any quit smoking plan, then you should look for the suitable option and make a good piece of advice of your doctor or consultant.

As we all know about the fact that nicotine is the addictive chemical present in the cigarette so it is important to break the habit of nicotine. Many medicines are available in the markets that are doing the same job but the most commonly used is the zyban which is known as bupropion hydrochloride. Zyban and in 1997 it was approved by FDA an anti smoking drug. The zyban do not show the results of releasing that Zyban is known as the therapy than specifically called drug.

Zyban needs weeks to start its working. It takes more time period like other depression drugs and within its time, it slowly removes the craving for the cigarette from the mind.

Zyban changes the chemistry of the mind so most of the people do not consider it as a medicine. In fact it was introduced by the name of Zyban therapy in the market.

This makes the Zyban suitable for some people because it is not a much effective pill for every one. If it suits you and your temperament Zyban. It relaxes your mind and provides you comfortable way to quit smoking.

On the contrary Zyban like other smoke prevention drugs has many side effects. Usually, sleepiness, weight gain, drowsiness, nausea and dry mouth are most frequent occurring symptoms.

Before using Zyban as a treatment for your smoking habit, make sure that you consultant good doctor and tell him about your smoking habits and you’re on going life style. Talk to him about your other medical treatments if any or the in take of your alcohol. Otherwise, the side effects can be very destructive for your body.

Zyban is good therapy as long as it suits you, so if you are tired of all the ways that you have previously chosen to quit smoking, give Zyban a try and see if it worked for your body and mind.

In the fast and every day prosper world, the word impossible is exiting day after day. The more and more solutions are coming out for almost every type of the problem that is faced by human beings. The precautions and products of quit smoking are increasing day by day.

New research methods, products and therapies are introduced in the market every day. But still it is very difficult for people to quit smoke because of the addiction they had of smoking cigarettes. A smoker can easily quit cigarette if his addiction and habits are broken. From the unlimited products of the quit smoking treatments one is the blu Electronic cigarette.

When I first saw the blu electronic cigarette description online, I just thought that nothing is more amazing than it. The blu Electronic simply is unique and result producing product different than other US based products. The blu electronic cigarettes are easily available in the market or you can buy it online with thirty days money back guarantee but I am sure that it will really help you to quit your smoking habit so you will not repent after using the blu electronic cigarette.

If I talk about the price of the blu electronic cigarette than it is really reasonable and affordable unlike the other quit smoking products. You can buy them in price of one carton of cigarette and it has more to over, a complete kit with carton of filling cartridges of electronic cigarette just for sixty dollars per week. So the estimated amount of the refill cartridge is just dollar one. And it is really affordable for those who smoke forty to fifty cigarettes daily.

If you buy them in bulk than you can save you extra five dollars means that the bulk of cartridges will be available in just twenty dollars.

The blu electronic cigarette has the blue pack or case in which you can keep your cartridges and cigarette and you can take it any where you want. The blue box is really helpful in traveling and my office routine. I just carry it with me and I can inhale my blu electronic cigarette smoke free any where and at any place I wish to. Because the blu electronic cigarette has no harmful smoke coming out of it and that will keep me and my environment healthy.

The deal of the blue pack does not ends here, the blu electronic cigarette is fire free and you just have to add the juice or water in the refill cartridge to inhale it. So the blu electronic cigarette is charger at itself and it has enough of the juice that I can use six times.

So each of the cartridges offers you the six times usage and that becomes really cheap for me to use blu electronic cigarette. This is the best thing I found about my blu electronic cigarette.

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When you are on the habit of smoking, it is very difficult for you to quit it. If you are lucky enough that you quit it in first attempt by using your will power or any treatment but all are not lucky. Smokers try and try hard to go away from their habits but most of the time, they just can not make it to the end and after months or years, and they come back to the disastrous habit again.

So we can make a question here that is there really anything exist that can take smokers away from their habit. Basically it is the Nicotine that is present in the cigarette that makes the receptors and mind used to it. So the most important thing for any smoker is to find something that helps him to war against the nicotine powers.

Most of the smokers when try to quit smoking gets moody, irritated and show lack of patience that are just because of the Nicotine that their body is asking for. To find the solution, smokers try patches, chewing gums, electronic cigarettes vaccinations but never get satisfaction of nicotine and in result failed to quit smoking. But one thing that I think really works on the human body is the smoking deter. It was experienced by one of my friend who was unable to quit smoking before she tried the smoke deter.

I heard many smokers get out of the problem by using smoking deter. The best thing about the smoker deter is that it spoils and block the nicotine addicted brain receptors and result are so powerful that whoever tried it, get ninety percent success. And if I talk about my friend it’s been year and five months that she smoked any cigarette after using the smoker deter.

It is good to know about what exactly the smoke deter is? Smoke deter is the herbal supported fluid oral spray that can be used three times in a day. It is used as a supplementary to the herbal pills. And it is an herbal product so it is totally free of the side effects. If you will use herbal pills with smoke deter than you will get double befit and in less time.

That is what my friend did when she was onto quit smoking program. the smoke deter cut down your cravings for the nicotine that helps your body to quit the habit and that is what the most important aspect for a smoker to get away from smoking. Usually smoke deters works within weeks but it depends on the will of the smoker. It can even take longer than three months for a smoker to quit smoking via smoke deter.

What is the most amazing thing smoke deter is that it takes the life time responsibility of the smokers as life time free membership that if ever smoker try again to puff, the smoke deter will help him again to get rid of. You can also get the detail mp3 smoking details when you buy smoke deter that can help you to guide against the smoking. Smoke Deter changes the way of the smoker.

It not only works for body but to the mind as well. So smoke deter is an excellent and successful method for all those people who want to quit smoking. Do not hesitate to try smoke Deter.

Note from aSmoking.com owner. I myself quit smoking after switching on electronic cigarettes and later after I read this book I stop smoking and at this moment (sep-2009) not smoking one and half year after it!

This book using some NLP (psychic) method to make you want to stop smoking.

My own personal recomendation for you to stop smoking : at first use electronic cigarettes to stop cigarettes addiction, after it (few weeks/monthes) start reading this stop smoking book. Allen Karr book "easy way how to stop smoking" help you to create self motivation why you need it and how easy you can do it. After it you need only to start live without cigarettes. And yes, stop smoking was really pretty easy!

To attract some one to the path of quit smoking is not an easy job. When a human get addicted to some habit, it is very difficult for him to break it. There are many methods available for people to quit smoking and one of them the very famous one is the Allen Carr book called “the easy way to stop smoking”.

It has all the techniques and supports that can be helpful for a person who needs to quit smoking. The methods and points discussed in this book are all for encouraging the will power and setting the mind to quit smoking. There are no therapies and medication discussed in his book.

He explains in his book all the methods related to the smoking addictions. We all know we have different reasons to smoke but to stop it there is only one and that is the logical way. It is a way on which a human can control his mind and senses.

Smokers unusually do not consider the advice of their friends or family members to quit the game of smoking. But they could not even immediately get rid of it. They are unable to break the chain of their smoking addiction. In this book, there is no burden to quit the smoking as soon as you read the word quit smoking but the slow process in which the detail methods and foods are discussed that can help smoker to get rid of smoking.

The good thing about the book is that writer has not pressurized the reader to stay away from the cigarettes at once but he is talking to readers that they can step by step follow the ways and they can continuo puffs while reading this book.

At the end of this book, Carr has provided a checklist of the activities and what so good about this book is that when readers finish reading the book , his habits of smoking are far less than his previous and he can feel like his addiction is breaking.

Another important thing that is discussed in this book is the habit of nicotine. Most of the people who quit smoking get addicted to it. So he write separately on the ways to find a save end from nicotine as well. The step by step procedure will help the smoker to learn to quit smoking by his self.

He wrote about the reasons that why people smoke and he forced the readers to justify in their mind that there is nothing more important in their life than their health.

The author tries to list down all the good way reasoning that can force the reader to quit smoking but all logical.

When a person makes his mind completely with all will and determination, then he is able to say good bye to his smoking habits for ever. Other wise, if he is not willing or he may be addicted to some other drug then it is almost impossible for him to quit smoking.

Because his addiction is not breaking and he can not leave the cigarette when he craves to it. In this book, Allen Carr has put his efforts to focus on the mind of the smokers and what he feels like when he has the craving for smoking.

That is why this book gets ninety five percent success results than other books...

this is good herbal supplement to use additionally, with main stop smoking program.