Smoking-Pill Suicides

[PiKA2001]

I was on chantix twice, a month long each, and other than getting horrid gas (imagine a filled balloon in your small intestine) and some wicked lucid dreams* I didn't suffer any other ill effects. I'm using nicorette now.

*in one dream I was lying in bed sleeping and a masked man walked into my bedroom with knife and stabbed me to death while I slept. I saw it all happen but couldn't move or "wake up" from it. Not cool at all.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

*in one dream I was lying in bed sleeping and a masked man walked into my bedroom with knife and stabbed me to death while I slept. I saw it all happen but couldn't move or "wake up" from it. Not cool at all.

Apparently that's not uncommon. I read the comments in the article I posted.

I was never a smoker but I know that these companies are making a ton of money. I hope people read the fine print.

[AOII Angel]

Many anti-depressants interrupt your sleep cycle and cause very vivid dreams. It's pretty common actually. Psychoactive drugs can have lots of effects. The black box warning on anti-depressants for children due to the risk of suicide has significantly decreased the number of prescriptions being written in that age group, but clearly it's not a problem only in children.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Many anti-depressants interrupt your sleep cycle and cause very vivid dreams. It's pretty common actually. Psychoactive drugs can have lots of effects. The black box warning on anti-depressants for children due to the risk of suicide has significantly decreased the number of prescriptions being written in that age group, but clearly it's not a problem only in children.

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.

[Alumiyum]

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.

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.

[33girl]

My brief soujourn into psychotropics resulted in WAY more vivid dreams than I cared to have (and they weren't fun vivid either, like sex with George Clooney or something). It also ramped up my sense of smell to the point where I couldn't use anything stronger than very light body spray - no perfume - and smells in general were super strong. I assume that part was similar to what women go through when they're pregnant.

As far as not smoking, I think that like alumiyum said, a lot of what's hard to kick is the experience - the lighting up, holding it, etc etc and not just the nicotine dependency.

[AOII Angel]

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.

Yeah, I'm stuck on Lybrel thanks to my husband who thought it would prevent my migraines. Big mistake...it doesn't do shit, and I can't get off of it bc I turn into a huge bitch. . Anyway, my dreams are so vivid and disturbing. I had a dream that my sister told me she'd been hurting my niece. I've dreamed that friends and family members are dead. I've also dreamed that I'm pregnant and trying to get an abortion. Lots of times, though, I'm going back to college and moving into the sorority dorm. Every morning I wake up with a full memory of a bizarre dream.