Quitting Smoking Causes Clinical Depression in Some People-Help me Prove it-Please : ) ?
Q.So I start researching...I found out that most of the medical community is going by the party line and saying that It is underlying depression. Guess what? Im not believing that for a minute.At least not in my case...
A.Im new to the newsgroup so if you'all have solved this question..bear with me. Only two people in my family have had Clinical depression. Me and My sister. We both smoke. She tried to quit first...using the patch. She became clinically depressed and didnt go for treatment for a year and a half(big mistake..well we didnt know what her problem was).Anyway...It took ECT to bring her back. One thing she said during that time was that she thought the patch caused it.(we thought she was nuts). So I come along and start trying to quit and I get clinically depressed. But I wasnt gonna let it go for as long as my sister did..ECT no thanks. I ran to the Doc and got my antidepressants. While waiting for them to kick in I of course started smoking again(I know self medicating). So I was smoking and taking antidepressants and life was good. Then I went back to work....hmmmmm..cant smoke there. Little by little the depression symptoms came back...more attempts at meds to fix this problem...nothing helped..I was back at home...hey I can smoke here. My only question is since Im now hooked on antidepressants and nicotine how do I get off this chemical merry go round. I bought the unofficial guide to Quitting smoking...it has alot of great info but I need more information about the brain chemistry aspect.
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