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How Can Breast Pain With Spasms After Smoking Cessation Be Treated?

I took chantix to quit smoking about 3 yrs. ago and I noticed a pain in a tiny area of my left breast, I was on Chantix for 3 weeks, got off of it and then started smoking again....I can still pin point the very spot I started feeling it in, and now it's getting worse, stronger charlie horse type pains on the top of my left breast and it's spreading to the upper left side of my breast now. I can feel it right now and it is really starting to worry me, what do you suggest I do?
Mon, 27 Apr 2015
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First, you'd want to get it checked out to see if it is external (muscles) internal (lung) or rib joints. Maybe a chest x ray... mostly just a look is needed to tell.
Then.....
Nicotine replacement is the most effective single thing for stopping cigarettes, there are a wide variety of options. When the nicotine level is gradually cut down to about the equivalent of a half pack a day or less, chantix might be an appropriate last step
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How Can Breast Pain With Spasms After Smoking Cessation Be Treated?

First, you d want to get it checked out to see if it is external (muscles) internal (lung) or rib joints. Maybe a chest x ray... mostly just a look is needed to tell. Then..... Nicotine replacement is the most effective single thing for stopping cigarettes, there are a wide variety of options. When the nicotine level is gradually cut down to about the equivalent of a half pack a day or less, chantix might be an appropriate last step