Champix

What is Champix for?

Please note: If it has been more than 28 days (4 weeks) since you last took Champix, you are only eligible to buy the Champix Starter Pack online. Likewise, this applies if you have never taken Champix before.

How effective is Champix?

According to the manufacturer’s, studies have shown 44% of smokers who used Champix on a daily basis were able to quit smoking. This is better than those who are able to quit using previously available medicines (Bupropion or nicotine replacement therapy - nicotine gum, spray, etc.).

Champix has been proven to be more effective in helping smokers quit than Zyban (Bupropion Hydrochloride). The average person in these studies had been a smoker for more than 24 years. The trials involved a mix of men and women who smoked an average of 10 or more cigarettes a day.

How does Champix work?

When you buy Pfizer Champix online, it is a non-nicotine prescription medicine, which when taken orally once or twice a day, can help you stop smoking. Champix mimics the effect of nicotine on the body.

Therefore, it both reduces the urge to smoke and relieves withdrawal symptoms. Although you are not recommended to smoke after your quit date, Champix can also reduce the enjoyment of cigarettes if you do smoke when on treatment.

How to take Champix

Do not buy Champix online unless you are really serious about quitting smoking. You still need determination to succeed, and to break the habit. A combination of Champix with counselling from a nurse, doctor, pharmacist, or other health professional is likely to increase your chance of successfully stopping. Therefore, our prescribers and most doctors will only prescribe Champix to people who really want to stop smoking as part of a 'stopping smoking' programme.

Decide on a 'quit date' - the date you intend to stop smoking. You may need to buy Champix Starter Pack online before this date to prepare for your treatment.

Start taking the tablets 1 week before the 'quit date'. The aim is to build up the dose so your body gets used to the medicine before the 'quit date'. The usual advice is:

• Start with 0.5mg daily for days 1 to 3.
• Then, 0.5mg twice daily on days 4 to 7.
• Then, 1mg twice daily from day 8 until the end of the treatment (84 days/12 weeks in total)

Take each dose with a full glass of water, preferably after eating. So, ideally, after breakfast, and after your evening meal.

Tell your doctor if you develop any side effects. A reduction in dose may be an option.

The usual course of treatment is for 12 weeks. If you have successfully stopped smoking by this time, in many cases treatment is stopped and that is it. Congratulations! You are a non-smoker!

In some cases, an additional 12 weeks of treatment may be advised, even if you have successfully stopped smoking. You may want to discuss this with your doctor before you buy Champix tablets online. This may be useful for people who are not confident quitters.

In some cases, a short 'tapering off' of the dose over a week or so may be helpful. This is because at the end of treatment, if the medicine is stopped abruptly, some people develop an increase in irritability, an urge to smoke, depression, and/or sleeping difficulty for a short time. These problems can be eased by a gradual reduction of dose.

What are the possible side effects of Champix?

Please note:  Patients should be advised to discontinue treatment and seek prompt medical advice if they develop agitation, depressed mood, or suicidal thoughts.

Side effects are rare, and most people don’t get any. Possible side effects may vary from one person to the next, as with any medication. You should always read the manufacturer’s Patient Information Leaflet (PIL) before taking this or any other medication.

This will give you important instructions on how and when to take the medication, as well as any possible side effects of the drug.

How we package your order

Your medication is placed inside a plain delivery box* for protection, then sealed inside a special tamper-proof Royal Mail envelope before being dispatched from our in-house pharmacy.

• Discreet plain packaging / No mention of medication
• Our minimum sized delivery box* to protect the medication in transit is: W - 18cm, H - 6.5cm, D - 8.5cm
• Royal Mail Tracked 24 or 48 hr (UK addresses)
• Royal Mail Special Delivery Before 1pm (UK addresses)
• Royal Mail Local Collect (UK addresses)
• Royal Mail International Signed For (Overseas addresses)
• Some delivery types will require you to sign for the parcel
• Some delivery types will require you to show Photo ID for the parcel
• Find out more information about delivery types here