Friday, June the 22th.

Hello,

I am now officially a Guinea pig.

This morning, I started on a course of Champix to help me to finally quit smoking.  I do smoke a lot these days, about 40 a day and I am smoking since the age of 15, which is for some 12 years now!

So I am going to take these pills and put my experiences here each day in the Hope that it will persuade some of you SLOBS to quit too. If I fail, then at least you will ll know why I failed and might be able to avoid my errors.

The pills are new, no longer experimental but I think it's worth mentioning that the pill was originally meant to treat manic depression and the nicotine suppressor was a side effect.

I tried the patches, the gum, cold turkey (they are hell to swallow with a glass of water, damn feathers) but none of these worked for me.  Champix supossly works directly on the nicotine receptors in the brain, fooling them into thinking that you are still smoking even after you stopped, so I'll see.   Oh, and I think that I should also mention that I have a will-power of a rotting corpse so I am counting purely on this medicine.

To find out more how Champix (Chantix in the US) works, check out the link here: http://www.chantix.com

So, I take one white pill today, one tomorrow and one on Sunday, then on Monday I take 2 white pills per day up until day eight. Then I take two BLUE pills each day and sometime between days eight and fourteen I stop smoking - I will have my final cig and, quite frankly, I can't wait!  However, to make sure that I will avoid failures, I will follow instructions and won't try to quit smoking sooner than on day 14.

The course is for twelve weeks and if neccessary, I may other another twelve weeks of the blue pills, just to make sure that the cravings are gone.

So, thats it, I took the first pill today, and I`ll keep you guys informed of my progress or lack thereof.

If you have any questions, ask away and I`ll answer them as best as I can.  You can reach me on my email jparicka(at)gmail.com.

Keep your fingers crossed for me!

Thank you.

Saturday, June the 23th.

Hello, again.

I am taking the second white pill.  Other than that, I have nothing to report at this moment.   I am still smoking like a chimney, as if someone's paying me for it and overall feeling fine.