This Is My Brain on Chantix

Things were looking good. My doctor had gone through the test results and told me I was perfectly healthy—except my breathing was a little shallow. That didn’t surprise me. I’d been smoking for twelve of my 32 years, and my father died of lung cancer in his early fifties. That’s why I was having my first physical in five years: I’d decided it was time to stop for good. I’d heard about Chantix, a relatively new drug from Pfizer that blocks nicotine from attaching to your brain receptors

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