I'll send gold stars for each week smoke free.

How does Wellbutrin affect smoking? I'm interested.

It acts as an aphrodisiac for many, so I'm guessing it'd increase smoking.

I may need a bit more of a carrot than that, thanks.

Every time you go to light up, picture yourself in a threesome with Chevy Chase.

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Wellbutrin helped me!

It caused me to have a psychotic episode. Which is not an unknown side-effect for people with depression. Kristen was about to call my mother. Now it's one of those red-flags that come up as an "allergy" on my medical record.

How does Wellbutrin affect smoking? I'm interested.

IIRC, something to do with dopamine receptors, but I can't remember for sure. (Dopamine being the "pleasure, yay!" receptors. Wellbutrin fools them into thinking they're already in flavor country.)

Wellbutrin helped me!

It caused me to have a psychotic episode. Which is not an unknown side-effect for people with depression.

It gave me crazy rage, Howard Hughes-like social anxiety, and almost a year of insomnia. I am clearly not its target patient. Too much norepinephrine already running around in my brain.

My dad smoked three packs a day for 40 years, up until his first heart attack. At that point he pretended to quit, but actually smoked about two packs a day. He tried everything: hypnosis, patches, gum, suport groups, cold turkey, and nothing worked. Until he used Wellbutrin. He quit after three weeks and never smoked again. It helped us have another few years with him, so I am a Wellbutrin supporter all the way.

ETA: but not, of course, if it damages you.

Wellbutrin fools them into thinking they're already in flavor country.

Now I'm picturing a commercial where a cowboy puts a Wellbutrin in his mouth and says, "Welcome to Flavor Country."

I don't have a particularly inspirational model -- I got sick enough that I didn't feel like smoking one day, and the next day I just decided to see how many days I could go, and it's been almost three months. I've lapsed a couple times with a cigarette here and there, but mostly been OK. It's not the social situations that I have found most daunting, it's the alone time.

If I were to do it again, I'd use patches, because I think the physical withdrawal of the nicotine affected my emotions or whatever in ways I did not anticipate or recognize right away.

It caused me to have a psychotic episode.

It gave me crazy rage, Howard Hughes-like social anxiety, and almost a year of insomnia.

It completely destroyed my short-term memory. I would take the meds, and then have absolutely no idea if I just took my meds or not.