Is this it?
I am now Day 13 on Champix and getting quite nervous because it is 2 days to my Quit Date and I haven'st stopped smoking. This morning when I had a smoke I got this overwhelming nausea. I had had a little bit previously but not enough to make me not light up. Is this it? Is this what will make me stop, this terrible nausea? So you associate smoking with feeling sick.
Champix works by blocking the effects of nicotine in your body. There are receptors for nicotine in the brain. When cigarette smoke is inhaled, nicotine attaches to these
receptors. This sends a message to a different part of the brain to release a chemical called dopamine. Dopamine
gives a feeling of pleasure which only lasts for a short time. The body wants to repeat this feeling reinforcing the need to keep smoking. Based on research, it is relieved that Champix works by activating these receptors and blocking nicotine from attaching to them.
Taken from the website
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcmed.nsf/pages/pfcchamt/$File/pfcchamt.pdf
Hope that helps.
So - do you mean that I am actually going through nictoine withdrawal at the moment, even though I am still smoking? Because my body doesn't recognise it as such.
when I started taking champix I was still smoking. I found the only way to stop was to give my remaining packs away as while there were cigs available I would smoke them.
That was over a year ago. It worked.
Gerry1 - how long after you started taking the Champix did you carry on smoking?