What is your opinion of Wellbutrin?

What is your opinion of Wellbutrin?I'm thinking about taking Wellbutrin to help myself quit smoking. If you've ever taken Wellbutrin, would you mind sharing the side effects you experienced, and anything else very negative or positive you thought about it?
Thanks a lot!

James
I hated it. It made me depressed, and caused hyperphagia, a condition where you feel hungry all the time, on matter how much you have eaten. Others have taken it and had no bad effects. If you start on it and find you don't like it, taper off slowly. Stopping cold turkey is very dangerous psychologically.

alex_from_sf
I think you should quit cold turkey like I did. It only takes 24 hours to get most of the nicotine out of your system. After that, its just a matter of getting out of the physical habit. It's difficult, but the longer you can go without smoking, the closer you are to freedom.

I think doing that would be better than dealing with the side affects of Wellbutrin, but that's just me. My older brother takes Wellbutrin for OCD and he loves it. He's also a nutcase with really poor social skills.

Mills
If your only reason for taking it is smoking cessation, I would advise against it. The reason is that along with being a nicotine receptor antagonist, it is a very effective dopamine/norephenephrine reuptake inhibitor. These properties are very useful for a wide range of other conditions, but you haven't stated any use for them.

I actually took it for a while for smoking cessation and for a non-stimulant therapy for ADD. It also helped with excessive daytime drowsiness I was experiencing. I really didn't experience negative side effects except for occaisonal vivid dreams and lack of an appetite. (I actually considered these positive side effects, lol). Wellbutrin was effective for what I was using it for and I did taper off slowly as well because discontinuation syndrome can be severe.

So, unless you have the conditions it's more effective for treating altogether which mostly is seasonal depression, I would try alternative approaches. Why start problems when your trying to end them?

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