Third day on the pills

It's Friday afternoon and I would normally have smoked 10 cigarettes by now, yet today, I've only had 6. I'm well happy about that. How come you may ask, me too! It's only been 3 days since I started taking Champix and they're kicking in already! Let me be clear, I've had 1 pill a day for the last 3 days, as of tomorrow I start taking 2 a day. Bloody brilliant!

Went down for a smoke about an hour ago and couldn't even finish it! The taste is really not very nice and quite frankly the buzz that I would normally get is pathetic. At this rate, I'll be a non smoker by Monday.

As for the side effects, hardly anything. I get a bit nauseous in the morning straight after taking the pill, but that goes away quite quickly. Might try having some breakfast with it tomorrow morning, from what I've heard that helps a lot. It's early days still, but so far Champix is nothing like Zyban, I distinctly remember the crazy dreams on that pretty much from the start.

I'm going out for dinner tonight, then a wedding tomorrow, so will be interesting to see how I go, especially as these are the times when I would normally smoke a lot.

Anyone else taking Champix / Chantix where it kicked in so early??

Day 1

I took the first pill this morning, yeehaa! It's the beginning of the end for the smokes. I have to say, the packaging for Champix is really good, allows you to easily see where you're up to. Why don't they make all pharma packaging like this??

Anyway, nothing to report really, feel like normal. Had a couple of ciggys already... In any case, it's only after 8 days that I start to slow down on the smokes, then just stop altogether.

So probably won't have much to tell in terms of the effectiveness of the tablets in the next week, but you'll be the first to know about any side effects.