Hi all: I was doing pretty good with my anxiety, not letting it control me, driving to work and back through rush hour traffic etc. I'd passed my probation period in my job and was coping with the other clerks in the office whom I found to be extremely abusive at times and didn't even feel safe there emotionally. Anyway, around this time in Canada, cigarettes went up and everyone was trying to quit. I had heard of Zyban, how it was originally used to combat depression but since the people taking it were easily able to quit smoking they decided to remarket it as a cease smoking aid. I was depressed at the time and thought I could kill 2 birds with one stone, so I decided to try Zyban (I'm one of those agoraphobic's that doesn't take med's as a rule, they make me feel to weird, which in turn increases my anxiety). Anyway, on Zyban I found my anxiety increased but I hung in there. I noticed that when I was driving I felt really disconnected, like my brain was wrapped in cotton batten. One of the girls at work said I was acting really stoned and I should consider getting off it. (At this point I was only taking 1 Zyban a day and you are suppose to progress to 2 a day after 3 days but I was afraid to). Anyway, I was thinking about this woman's comment and was driving over to my friends place when I had this huge panic attack. I was on a inner city highway of sorts and there was no where to pull off so I had to just plough on through. I made it to my friends but when I got out of the car my legs were shaking. It scared the poop out of me and I never took another Zyban. Later on another woman at work said something about if you have mental problems Zyban will make it worse, this was supposedly according to her physician...she herself had successfully quit with Zyban and I considered her to have mental problems as she was in the habit of blowing up at co-workers in the work place, which I considered totally inappropriate behavior. But her remark continued to haunt me. Has anyone else had simular experiences with Zyban? I wondered if my sensitivity to drugs etc (being an agoraphobic) had anything to do with it being a problem for me. Fiestyfem Fiestyfem