u/Cool_Director_2530

Curious if you used Wellbutrin after quitting smoking? I see a lot of such comments on this thread, and I’m starting to wonder about it as I think I have naturally low dopamine levels, and after quitting I’m just a wreck and my brain isn’t functioning (or so it feels).

However, I’ve always been highly sensitive to meds/pharmaceuticals so I usually avoid them. I tried an antidepressant once briefly years ago and I could’ve sworn it was Wellbutrin but I’m not sure… I remember I had horrible restless leg syndrome and aches, insomnia, and I felt even more anxious and catastrophic than without them, ha.

Just curious if anyone sensitive on here had side effects ?

Hey guys I was a smoker for 23 years and quit cold turkey 5 weeks ago. I’ve been having terrible derealization, anxiety, depression, brain fog. Im not interested in taking anti depressants and am trying to do all the natural things (meditation, exercise in the ways I can with certain limitations, healthy food and herbs etc), but I feel like nothings moving. It’s like my body and brain forgot how to work as soon as I ripped the nicotine away and I’m wondering if I maybe went a bit more hardcore than my body and kind could handle rightnow and I’ve been seriously considering miniscule doses of nicotine gum to see if it helps…. I can’t tell if I’m in too deep to turn back now but I don’t know. I really get the impression by brain and body were highly dependent on nicotine and maybe I shocked it too intensely by going from being a long term chain smoker to just nothing overnight 🤕

I’m a month into quitting. It’s not my first rodeo. But even after month, the cravings are constant and especially at night or in moments of joy and pleasure- I just feel this deep sense of lack. I miss going out at night and smoking one. I miss making art or having a crush and smoking one. I feel this deep sense of lack and emptiness without the cigs, and nothing seems to fill the void of the cigarettes now gone. I often get so restless by it at night I just stay up all night going for walks to try and fill the void and restless cravings - yes, even after a month.