Varenicline - Day 2

OK so one of the side effects listed for Chantix is "abnormal dreams."

Before I woke up I dreamed that I was driving my old Blazer home in traffic, but kept having to stick my foot out to stop it. When I got home (I lived in Bellaire but was driving home on 290 for some reason) I had to go to a park & ride lot to get my real car, which turned out to be a bike. While riding my bike home I passed a house that looked like the farm house where my mom grew up. I learned that it WAS the farm house, but it had been moved to Bellaire some time ago and the one on the farm was a reproduction.

At some point in the dream I was listening to songs that I had never heard of. They were songs on a collaboration album that ZZ Top did (ZZ Top was playing and other people were doing the singing). One of the songs sounded like 69Boyz's 1994 hit "Tootsee Roll."

Varenicline - Day 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varenicline
$120.99 for a 4-week course (not covered by Blue Cross/Blue Shield)
12 weeks total

Day 1

I took one .5mg pill after lunch, per the directions. Since it was after lunch, I also went and had a cigarette. It seemed normal.

I had another cigarette a little over an hour later though and that was different. I didn't get that sense of satisfaction on the first inhale. Or really for any of the cigarette. After I finished I kinda wanted another 'cause the first one didn't do anything - but at the same time I DIDN'T want another 'cause the first one didn't do anything. It was like that for the next couple cigarettes in the afternoon, and then it started going back to normal.

I imagine it will get to the point where they all seem pointless once I get further into the course. It's .5mg once a day for the first 3 or 4 days, then two .5mg doses, then two 1mg doses.