Has anybody else discovered that smoking tobacco makes the brain zaps go away?
I'd quit smoking shortly before Thanksgiving in 2006. Since I will never again voluntarily take antidepressants, I went back to smoking to help control the anxiety and depression as I had before.
I'm discovering that not only does it help with that, like it did before, it's been immediately effective in making the brain zaps almost completely go away for a few hours.
Is there anybody else who feels like the tobacco is healthier, comparatively, than the antidepressants? And that the irony in all this is that the ADs are much more socially acceptable than the tobacco?
A shameful secret
Started by ariel08, Jan 26 2008 12:18 PM
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br16
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Posted 28 February 2008 - 07:11 PM
I haven't noticed that the zaps get any better in particular, but I have been smoking for over a year, and don't really get the buzz you might get if you're starting up again. In fact I generally don't even feel like smoking, unless I get really irritable. The nausea I get from the withdrawal makes me not want to put anything near my mouth. Plus I'm too apathetic to get out of bed to have one.
I disagree that cigarettes are a healthier choice, as using cigarettes to deal with anxiety and depression is probably one of the worst ways to deal with it (I am guilty of this, though, so I don't mean to come off hostile). I do think people underestimate the power of SSRI/SNRI drugs though, especially the effects of withdrawal or the drug reaction going terribly wrong. It definitely feels like a chance thing to me.
I disagree that cigarettes are a healthier choice, as using cigarettes to deal with anxiety and depression is probably one of the worst ways to deal with it (I am guilty of this, though, so I don't mean to come off hostile). I do think people underestimate the power of SSRI/SNRI drugs though, especially the effects of withdrawal or the drug reaction going terribly wrong. It definitely feels like a chance thing to me.
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Posted 28 February 2008 - 11:06 PM
Oddly, for a couple of days, I didn't want to smoke at all, but that is passing. I will say though that I've cut back. I had filled a script for Chantix, and hadn't taken it yet, and lo and behold, there are now warnings about it being linked to suicide! That is exactly why I decided not to take it, I figured that I wasn't going to take anything ever again that alters my brain chemistry.
No, smoking isn't a HEALTHIER choice, but I will say, I'd rather be smoking and taking the health risks than going through this hell known as withdrawal from Cymbalta!
No, smoking isn't a HEALTHIER choice, but I will say, I'd rather be smoking and taking the health risks than going through this hell known as withdrawal from Cymbalta!
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