Posted by ChicagoKat on November 15, 2012, at 19:30:10
In reply to nicotine - motivated to study?, posted by rjlockhart37 on November 15, 2012, at 19:04:58
I too am a smoker rj, half a pack a day.I can tell you what I've read. Most interestingly, 43% of people with severe depression smoke. So I suspect there are a lot of smokers here on PB, even if they don't mention it. I've also learned that smoking works on the pleasure centers of the brain (not quite sure of the mechanism of that) and that it does indeed act on Dopamine to give a transient but true sense of well being. Lastly, I have learned from many sources, and from both my pdoc and my therapist that it is dangerous to get a smoker to kick the habit while they are still depressed because it is guaranteed to make them even more depressed.
That's all I know, but I hope the info helped.
KatIve got a really bad disease
Its got me begging on my hands and knees
So take me to emergency
Cause somethin seems to be missing
Somebody take the pain away
Its like an ulcer bleeding in my brain
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