Comments on: Chantix suicide warning strengthened by Pfizer

By: Lairda

Lairda — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 23:22:14 +0000

I was prescribed Chantix in which I took for three months, and it did help me stop smoking (nearly a year now). But my suicide thoughts, my mood swings, my anger is so out of control. And the more I think about it these thoughts, out of control anger, mood swings didn’t get worse tell after I stopped taken Chantix. I’ve had mood swings before but nothing to what I’m experiencing now one minute I’m just fine next minute I’m crying for no reason. My anger is so out of control that I just hope that I don’t hurt myself or someone else because of it. My suicide thoughts, sadly to say my daughter has realized that I have them. Luckily she continues to check on me daily. I just want to feel somewhat normal again. I hope this behavior, these thoughts, etc. doesn’t continue for years (that truly scares me). If anyone has some ideas to help please help, I really don’t want to take any more medications.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:48:31 +0000

Hi I took Chantex for 2 months that was 8 months ago I still can’t stand being around people they just make me enraged with anger. I have always been very laid back and easy going no history of any type of mental illness or my family. Now I’m just down right mean but I can’t control it. Like I said its been 8 months now when will it end. I don’t even like being around my family anymore and just want to be alone that way I won’t have anyone to verbally abuse anymore. My wife and I have been together for 21 years and I’m afraid be ause of this behavior it will end. Does anyone know how long this anger will last? Please letme know i’m at the end of my rope here!

By: carissa

carissa — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:09:40 +0000

My husband took chantix over 2 years ago for about 3 months. Since he started taking it it had become so hateful to all of us (mostly me) we thought at first it was cigarette withdrawl so we excused it. After 2 years he is still hateful and mean. He says he knows hes doing it and and he cant help it. He says he has had terrible thoughts and feels like when hes around people he loses it. Could chantix be responsible for this also. I have begged him to go get pills to relieve his feelings and thoughts but he doesnt want the doctor to think hes lost it. Again its been 2 years and hes not the same person before chantix.

By: Beckie

Beckie — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:38:05 +0000

it’s nice to know I am not alone. I keep asking myself, when will this rage go away. I have been ‘smoke free’ for almost 8 months, but the rage still hasn’t gone away. I took chantix for three months. my husband told me that he wanted the sweet girl he had married back.

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:03:36 +0000

My husband has smoked for 35 years started when he was about 7ish anyway he just had a bad heart attack and the doc said he must stop smoking doc started him on chantix in the hospital and when he got out 4 days later he never smoked until a week later he was a little stressed and said he needed to smoke he took one puff and could not inhale it it was so awful tasting…. I was so happy it has been 5 weeks and into the 3rd week on the medication he started to become crazy angry and just hating life worry over little things – rage I took him to the dr.s and the doc gave him xanax and said to just take them when he needed them he is now taking 2 and 3 at a time drinks liquor with them. We do not take pills and nor do we drink ever. you would think that this would knock him out well it doesnt it just makes him loopy and awake and still nasty. I dont know what to do i call our dr. and he said just take him off the chantix so i didnt give him the pill this morning. I am just at my wits end I hate to be here and I want to get a divorce we have been married for 17 years. I just stay up all night and cry.

By: Polly

Polly — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:58:16 +0000

I have been on Chantix now for 8 days. The first day it made my stomach really miserable and gassy, the 2nd and 3rd day it made me have horrible headaches. Now I just started on the 1 mg twice a day and it has made me feel tonight tired, things are slightly blurry, some strange but not nighmare dreams. I haven’t had any emotional issues at all. I am still smoking, but have cut down from like 10-15 cigarettes a day to maybe like 5 or something? It has helped me with not thinking about smoking as much. It is not that I just don’t want one, I don’t think about having one half as much! This is weird I have never felt so positive I could quit. So far this drug is a miracle drug for me. I also take Prozac for anxiety and lorazepam for anxiety. I have taken these drugs for a couple of years, so it is not new. I wish this would work well for everyone and sorry to you all that have experienced negative emotional rages and anger and such. I tried Zyban first and that one made me moody, my husband complained when I was on that. Chantix is working for me, and I am so sorry to you guys that have had problems with it, but a lot of people do just fine on it too. My Aunt currently takes it and has NO problems, and I know others and it is the same thing. Keep your head up, things will get better.

By: jerri

jerri — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:46:33 +0000

This is insane I can’t believe there are so many others after taking chantix for 3 months or so I couldn’t stop crying I went to my doctor and he said I was under alot of stress and perscribed me an anti depressant, that seemed to make it worse I have thoughts of suicide, and I really feel worthless. I had a black out and apperantly took my friends car and wrecked it. I went to jail with a 5thousand dollar bond and had to pay an attorney 3thousand. The charges have been dropped but I lost my friend. People don’t understand. My husband of 19 years is at his wits end. It seems like there is no end in sight. I just hope and pray that this stuff hassn’t changed me forever

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 02 May 2009 17:26:48 +0000

I have been dating my boyfriend for 4 years now, he is the most laid back, easy to get a long with kind of guy. Nothing ever bothers him and he was always so good to me. Well he smokes, so he tried Chantix. He became the angriest person, I could not even be around him!!! Our landlord called one day and I told them he would call them back, he gladly agreed. When he got home I asked him to call and he said he would in a minute, a few hours went by, I completely forgot about it, so I was like oh I forgot you need to call the landlord. He was like oh yes and literally like flipping a switch started flipping out on me which is not like him at all. Now I am mad and I was trying to reason with him and he starts hysterically laughing at me like he was mental. This is just one situation, I was very close to labeling him bipolar! He noticed he didn’t feel right and stopped taking it. This was in October and he is just starting to act like his old self. He went back to smoking but I’d rather see him smoking then so miserable. Good luck to all you people out there, that drug is definately not something you want to mess with. I’m shocked it’s legal.

By: Betty

Betty — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:05:36 +0000

Well I agree with all of you except the jessica i guess you were the lucky one!!!!!!!!! I quit smoking in the 1990″s with Gods help for 5 years yeah it took a while to get through the nicotine thing BUT I NEVER GOT ANGRY. I loved people ia WAS a people person i have been my whole life i enjoyed everything life had to offer. then i started smoking again after a mother died. anyway in the summer of 2007 after months os hearing my doctor tell me i needed to quit, unknowing to her she perscribed me chantix i cut back on my smoking as recommended i thought this is wonderful i am going to quit smoking again. well it didnt happen that way i cut back alot was fairly happy for my success. but then one afternoon when my husband was taking a nap, before he took his nap i was in the back yard listening to Gods music and enjoing the i thought soon to be new freedom of nicotine well what happened next was a whirlwind i went from feeling happy about life to marching straight through the house past where my dear husband was napping and took every pill i could get my hands on. completely hated everything and everyone and obviously myself. the last thing i remember i woke up in a hospital after a thank God failed suicide attempt. im not the same person anymore i hate life i hate people im a loner i have no desire to do anything nothing makes me happy and by the way i smoke more now then ever i just dont care my poor husband a wonderful man is retired now and has to put up with my misserable self we thought when he retired we would just have the time of our lives not so i rarely get dressed anymore and i dont want to be around anyone so jessica you were the LUCKY one i hope it dosent hit you someday i never saw it coming the unlucky one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: brenda

brenda — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:52:39 +0000

My significant other of 17 years is taking Chantix, on it for 2 weeks now and driving us all nuts. He is angry, has no patience with anyone and we hate to be around him. If he is not complaining, making horrible comments or just plain being mean, he is asleep, which he is doing a lot more now, too. He was always very laid back, easy to get along with, never yelled or complained. He is a totally different person. I am a smoker and not quitting at this time, but have sympathy for him. I smoke outside and not anywhere near him. How are we suposed to deal with this? So far we are ignorning it and trying not be home. We have 2 kids, 7 and 6, they dont understand that “daddy is grumpy” ALL of the time and are still going to act like kids.