When my doctor prescribes a drug, I don't simply start taking it without question.
No! I check out the TV ads. And then I listen to what the DUmpmonkeys think.
How else can I learn whether my doctor knows what he's doing?
Thu Jan 2, 2014, 12:10 AM
wildbilln864 (10,866 posts)
Al Jazeera TV is airing a show(segment) about Chantix. On now...
And it's effects on the brain and how in some cases suicide is committed by its users.
Dying to Quit"
That's some bad shit!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024263789When I read about that TV show, I thought, "Wow, I'll bet not even nutcase nadin knew about that!"
I was wrong.
Response to wildbilln864 (Original post)
Thu Jan 2, 2014, 12:11 AM
nadinbrzezinski (128,627 posts)
1. It is a well known side effect
Not new.
Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #1)
Thu Jan 2, 2014, 12:12 AM
wildbilln864 (10,866 posts)
2. wow, new to me...
Well, DUmmy wildbillnnumbers, she's nadin, and you're not.
Response to wildbilln864 (Reply #2)
Thu Jan 2, 2014, 12:16 AM
nadinbrzezinski (128,627 posts)
3. Pay attention to the commercial
The possibility of suicide is listed.
It still is the most successful at getting patients off tobacco.
A good clinician will ask the obvious questions on psychiatric history before writing a script, chief concern is a history of moderate to severe depression. And a good clinician will go through the possible side effects of any drug prescribed, not just chiantix[sic].
Worrisome, because I agree with the crazy bald dwarf.
For me, like the vast majority of people who take it, Chantix was a miracle.
I thought it impossible to quit after decades without really serious cravings, but I did.
It was like magic.
Where do you go when you have questions about a health hazard?
I go to the DUmp, and check in with a whackjob like DUmmy sabrinanumber:
Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #3)
Thu Jan 2, 2014, 12:24 AM
Star Member sabrina 1 (40,273 posts)
6. Hilarious, I've watched their ads and wondered if anyone is stupid enough to risk DEATH, yes they
tell you you can die from the effects of Chantix, to stop doing something they have obviously not died from for many years.
'Truth in advertising'. I guess if you die they have accomplished their goal.
The healthiest people I know are smokers, many of them in their eighties by now.
What a scam this all is.
Secondhand smoke is a democrat scam.
Tobacco stats aren't.
Oh, God! I agree with another nutcase post!
This is a real discombobulation.
Response to sabrina 1 (Reply #6)
Thu Jan 2, 2014, 12:35 AM
nadinbrzezinski (128,627 posts)
It is not a scam. There are people who simply should not take it. But with care it simply works. More people die from a Tylenol overdose (it destroys the liver, nothing you can do to reverse it once it is underway) than Chiantix. Is that a scam too? What I question is some doctors prescribing it as if it was candy.
As my pharmacology prof put it many years ago, all medications are a poison, and all are potentially deadly. Be careful how you use them. He was an old fogey who loved to teach pharmacology to doctors, nurses and paramedics, and started every course with that caveat. Any med can kill.
And cigarettes are so damn harmless this is why dad needed O2 almost constantly the last year of his life. Yup, harmless.
Yup, she has an old pharmacology prof.
