Smoking Cessation
"I have been a pack a day smoker for 25 years with no real desire to quit until I had a health scare in December.  Luckily it ended up being just a scare, but it did send me the message that I needed to quit smoking.  I started Chantix 1-23-2010 and quit 1-29-2010. The Chantix has been helpful but I still wanted to smoke up to the very last cigarette, even though it wasn&#039;t as pleasurable.  I was able to minimize the nausea by taking it after a meal and drinking lots of water, but the vivid dreams really affected the quality of my sleep.  At this point I have already decided to taper off the Chantix due to the sleep issues.  This week I am only taking one 1 mg pill per day, and next week plan to go to one-half of a 1 mg pill and then stop."