Can I wear the Nicotine patch and start to take Chantix as well?

Dear Gypsy... you would be defeating the purpose of taking nicotine if taking it with Chantix. Chantix is a very cool drug and one that has had the greatest effect in helping individuals quit smoking... although it does have some untoward side effects in some people.
Chantix actually attaches to the same receptor sight as nicotine... so, if you take Chantix and then take nicotine the nicotine will have no place to attach, therefore having absolutely no affect at all... you would be wasting your money taking both drugs. Chantix is much more successful than nicotine. They are two completely different drugs.

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To understand how drugs work, every drug has a receptor site in the body to which it attaches to be able to create the effect it was designed to create... kind of like a lock and key. For example the key would be the Chantix and the nicotine... and the lock would be the receptor site... if the Chantix, the key, opened the receptor site, the lock, to attach itself... then the nicotine would be not needed because the key, Chantix had already gained access to the lock, the receptor site.
I hope that this helps. Good luck in your quest to stop smoking.