Yes, I remember the first week or so of Chantix being very odd. And then days 4-6 being real doozies while I went through full scale nicotine withdrawal [i]while i was still smoking[/i]. That's a real head trip, you wait and see! :) Maybe Chantix worked quicker for you and what you were feeling was *already* nicotine withdrawal. I know someone else who said cigarettes tasted completely different to her 2 hours after her first pill.
On another board (or maybe it was here; if you search the messages for Chantix, you'll find a ton of them), I described everything after day 6 (and I quit cigarettes on day 8) as completely mellow and floaty and almost as if I had taken a valium or a percocet or something.
So, bear in mind that you *will* go through nicotine withdrawal while you are still smoking; looking back, with the exception of some great vivid dreams, I didn't have any side effects from Chantix that I can't attribute just to quitting smoking.
I was just coming back to this site to post my Chantix update: I finished my 12 week course on Monday and have now been Chantix free for three days (counting today). And I've experienced no side effects or withdrawal symptoms from stopping the Chantix; I know this is a concern of a lot of people (it was a concern of mine). So, I've nothing but good things to say about the drug.
All the kooky side effects and tiredness or not tiredness or highs and lows and all that evened out, for me, after about two weeks and it's being pretty much regular life -- but without cigarettes!! -- since then.
I wish you the best of experiences with it and hope things go as well for you as they did for me!
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/6/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 80
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,760
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $400
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 7 [B]Hrs:[/B] 1 [B]Mins:[/B] 12 [B]Seconds:[/B] 41
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$223,206.75
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Days: 6302
Hours: 13
Minutes: 7
Seconds: 43
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45786
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686,790
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