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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Strattera has similar effects. (And apparently it was a 'failed' antidepressant in the US so no surprise).
My dreams on that crap were nothing but loud noises and color and the weirdest most surreal situations that mostly kept me awake. Psychotropic medications of all stripes affect your brain, monitoring them closely is really fracking important, and people who think it's just popping a pill a day and woohoo are usually people who haven't been on them. (Hint, there are no easy fixes to whoever posted that but sometimes they're needed ones.)
Pfizer's a corporate asshole for any hiding of this that was done with Chantix.
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I take both Strattera and Zoloft and have had horribly ridiculous dreams for years. Vivid dreams, lucid dreams, just foolishness all around. Now that I'm so used to it it's no big deal, but it scared the bejeezus out of me when I first started taking them. I've got a few friends on Chantix and they have similar dreams, and a couple have a hard time sleeping as a result. If I were going to use something to quit, it wouldn't be Chantix.
I occasionally go weeks without smoking because I'm at my parents' or have respiratory problems and have never experienced more than a moderate headache...quitting caffeine was way more unpleasant. But I'm so psychologically/socially dependent on smoking. Gum/lozenges don't do me a lot of good because it isn't really the nicotine I want, it's the smoking experience. I have a camp job this summer where I obviously won't be able to smoke but also won't be around smokers, so that's going to be my habit-breaker. Coming back to school in the fall and not picking it back up is going to be sooooo hard.