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It follows that taking this medication could potentially be incompatible with safe diving. Possibly, following a trial period at atmospheric pressure, and given that none of these adverse effects present themselves, you could very gradually try experimenting with diving while on this medication, and slowly descend to greater depths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&apos;m trying to quit smoking and I would like to know: are there any contraindications to diving when taking Champix?&nbsp; Answer from DAN experts:&nbsp; This&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11383935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[390],"tags":[1866],"authors":[266],"class_list":["post-11383934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-medical-questions","authors-dan-staff"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fighting against nicotine addiction - 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