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May 01, 2013, 01:02 PM
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Has anyone here found that nicotine actually creates and keeps one trapped in the inactive depths of depression? I had issues before starting to smoke, but never felt the awfulness of depression. Now that I'm quitting and anxious about removing the crutch and afraid of having to deal with the raw unabated depression, I'm wondering if perhaps quitting will actually alleviate the depression.
Has anyone found that quitting helped their depression rather than made it worse? |
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May 02, 2013, 02:36 AM
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I'm guessing that nicotine doesn't cause depression.
Nicotine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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May 02, 2013, 06:06 AM
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nicotine is actually an anti-depressant.
 but if you have physical fatigue symptoms of depression, cigarettes felt really bad for me, so I eventually quit at the start of my depression. |
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May 02, 2013, 06:08 AM
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in some ways quitting both helps and worsens depression, because craving for nicotine can sometimes be difficult. But the actual feeling of physical well-being due to not smoking helps. but on the long run.
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