Chantrix Nicotine Replacement Therapy (Champix, Chantix)

What is Chantrix

Chantrix is a nicotine-free replacement therapeutic drug you can use to help you quit smoking cigarettes. Its active Ingredient is Vareniciline Tartrate. It is especially useful in helping you if you are one of those who experience severe withdrawal symptoms when you stop smoking.

Chantrix acts as a replacement therapy by providing you with the same effect nicotine has on you without its very dangerous effects.

How Chantrix helps in Giving up Smoking

Your brain has special cells called receptors which respond to chemicals or drugs. Many drug therapies make use of this response and several. drugs are designed to copy the effect of natural chemicals on these receptors e.g. sleeping pills, anti-depression pills etc.

There is a portion of the brain that nicotine acts on to create a very pleasurable sensation. Just like cocaine and heroine it causes the release of a substance called Dopamine which produces intense pleasurable sensations in the body. This is why it is hard to stop smoking without help.

What the drug Chantrix has been designed to do is to attach to and occupy the same portion of the brain that nicotine would normally attach to.

This has two very important effects that can help you to stop smoking.

1. If you smoke, the nicotine from your cigarette has fewer cells to attach to and is therefore ineffective - This is why many smokers have reported that they don't enjoy smoking while on chantrix i.e. the nicotine loses its satisfaction.
2. Secondly, because Chantrix can stimulate the same receptors as nicotine, it provides some of the pleasure of smoking and reduces the craving to smoke. So you don't feel compelled to light up a cigarette.

Side Effects of Chantrix

Some users of Chantrix are said to have experienced:
Depression, Suicidal thoughts, Behavioural changes
Irritability, Unusually aggressive behaviour
Headache, Insomnia, Abnormal or colorful dreams or nightmares
Stomach upsets, constipation, flatulence , indigestion
Nausea, Vomiting
Changes in the way food tastes

People who may wish to avoid Chantrix or use it with caution:

People with asthmatic conditions
During Pregnancy
Diabetes sufferers
People with Kidney problems
Mental health issues
Undergoing Anticoagulant treatment
People predisposed to suicidal thoughts or depression

Efficacy

It can be very hard to quit smoking but a combination of behavioural changes and medication should help you to stop smoking permanently. Some studies have shown chantrix to be 44% effective in helping smokers to quit smoking.