Maximum Strength Sanity Remover

Doctors worldwide have been touting Chantix as a miracle smoking cessation drug for almost two years now. A lot fo larger hospital networks offering smoking cessation programs are even offering free as part of their class. Why for free? Well, everytime they hand out a script for it, providers are getting some major kickbacks from the fine folks @ Pfizer (a familiar "marketing technique" for the same folks that brought the not-always-effective Lipitor into millions American homes).

Well, as it turns out, Chantix is making people certifiably batshit crazy. The FDA has now launched an investigation into the so-called miracle drug (probably a misnomer because it's been the only true drug of it's kind in nearly a decade) for "serious neuropsychiatric symptoms." A total reported 39 suicides have occured while people have been taking drug, as well as nearly 500 patients in a controlled study reporting suicidal thoughts, behavior, and night terrors.

A few girls here at the office are doing one of the programs that doles out the Chantix to you for free (even sans insurance) and in the course of two to three weeks has gotten extremely testy, made what we call "fatal flaws" on procedural forms, and now has totally flipped out and decided to leave her husband and 3 children.

"Congratulations - you're smoke-free. And you're fucking nuts!"

I'd much rather get a trachiotomy or die from cancer at an older age than celebrate my non-smoker status by being on the business end of a .45.