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Intro: All she wanted was to quit smoking, so she tried a widely advertised prescription drug that was supposed to help her. Instead, one suburban mom says something horrible happened. CBS 2's Anne State reports.
Tina Hurst is a suburban mother and a manager at a Fortune 500 company. Her life was great, but she had one dark secret.
"I was a closet smoker," Hurst said.
Her doctor prescribed a drug called Chantix to help her quit. Seven million Americans have taken it.
Hurst says she took Chantix for two months and it worked great.
But when she stopped, "I totally went off the deep end," she said. . . .
Carol Southard is a smoking cessation specialist.
"I'm a huge advocate of Chantix and I've had a lot of success with it and very few problems," Southard said.
Southard says she has had more than 700 patients on Chantix.
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