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A key side effect of Chantix is vivid, bad dreams. I was warned by the doctor, the pharmacist, a friend who has seen success with it, and most blogs about it. Initially, I thought, ‘nah, not me… I don’t even dream that much.’ …and I didn’t, until about Thursday night.

I’ve seen a gradual brightening of my dreams from a hazy blur of far-from-memorable oddities to a now life paralleling vivacity. Thursday night my entire night was a day at the office. I realized Friday evening that I most likely made reference to dream conversations with coworkers on Friday morning. No, coworkers, I haven’t lost my mind, I’m on medication.

Last night, apparently a cohort and I were shooting our way out of a naval brig. Odd thing was, we were navy as well so we were shooting to disable. On the first attempt, we almost made it then were surrounded and returned to our cell after accidentally killing one guard. I woke up during the second escape attempt, and did I mention that the brig looked like a 5 star hotel? I’m losing my mind and more than somewhat curious as to what the dream analysts would read from this.

I hear that I’m only scratching the surface dream-wise. The good news is that I haven’t smoked today at all. I had a few yesterday but for the last week I’ve been spinning my wheels. They do nothing for me and taste like eating ceiling tiles out of an old honky-tonk. I think I’m done with them. We’ll see as the week goes on. An additional positive note is that I’ve got the nausea down to about an hour after each pill daily which is much more manageable than the day-long near vomit from the previous post.