Giving up cigarettes is hard enough, but with reports of nicotine withdrawal being linked to depression and suicide, could a drug designed to help be causing more problems than it set out to solve? SMOKING kills around 120,000 people in the UK every year. Take your pick from cancer or the slow, agonising deaths that result from lung disease and emphysema. It's not pretty. Add to that the cost – a 30-a-day habit will set you back around ?2,60 ADVERTISEMENT 0 a year – and the UK-wide smoking ban, and it isn't surprising so many of us are trying to give up. But at what cost? Omer Jama, a video editor with Sky Sports, was prescribed the drug Champix as he tried to quit his cheap cigarettes habit. Two months later he had taken a knife to his wrists and killed himself. Was the drug to blame?