From: ChrisC on
My desire to smoke. Is this normal? If it is it's a nice side effect.
I was reading on wikipedia about tricylics and it's mentioned in
smoking cessation.

Here's the link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricyclics
From: kylemeister on
On Jun 10, 1:44 pm, ChrisC <chrisp...(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> My desire to smoke. Is this normal? If it is it's a nice side effect.
> I was reading on wikipedia about tricylics and it's mentioned in
> smoking cessation.
>
> Here's the link:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricyclics

Well, as you may know, the antidepressant usually associated with
smoking cessation (and officially approved for that use in a number of
countries) is bupropion. But that effect is theoretically due to its
dopaminergic action, which tricyclics aren't supposed to have much of.
From: ChrisC on
On Jun 10, 11:55 pm, kylemeister <kylemeis...(a)charter.net> wrote:
> On Jun 10, 1:44 pm, ChrisC <chrisp...(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > My desire to smoke. Is this normal? If it is it's a nice side effect.
> > I was reading on wikipedia about tricylics and it's mentioned in
> > smoking cessation.
>
> > Here's the link:
>
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricyclics
>
> Well, as you may know, the antidepressant usually associated with
> smoking cessation (and officially approved for that use in a number of
> countries) is bupropion.  But that effect is theoretically due to its
> dopaminergic action, which tricyclics aren't supposed to have much of.

Are but does Bupropion not also have action or nor-adrenaline? Like
tri-cylics do?
From: kylemeister on
On Jun 11, 4:57 am, ChrisC <chrisp...(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 10, 11:55 pm, kylemeister <kylemeis...(a)charter.net> wrote:
>
> > On Jun 10, 1:44 pm, ChrisC <chrisp...(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > > My desire to smoke. Is this normal? If it is it's a nice side effect.
> > > I was reading on wikipedia about tricylics and it's mentioned in
> > > smoking cessation.
>
> > > Here's the link:
>
> > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricyclics
>
> > Well, as you may know, the antidepressant usually associated with
> > smoking cessation (and officially approved for that use in a number of
> > countries) is bupropion. But that effect is theoretically due to its
> > dopaminergic action, which tricyclics aren't supposed to have much of.
>
> Are but does Bupropion not also have action or nor-adrenaline? Like
> tri-cylics do?

Indeed.
From: ChrisC on
On Jun 12, 5:56 pm, kylemeister <kylemeis...(a)charter.net> wrote:
> On Jun 11, 4:57 am, ChrisC <chrisp...(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Jun 10, 11:55 pm, kylemeister <kylemeis...(a)charter.net> wrote:
>
> > > On Jun 10, 1:44 pm, ChrisC <chrisp...(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > My desire to smoke. Is this normal? If it is it's a nice side effect..
> > > > I was reading on wikipedia about tricylics and it's mentioned in
> > > > smoking cessation.
>
> > > > Here's the link:
>
> > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricyclics
>
> > > Well, as you may know, the antidepressant usually associated with
> > > smoking cessation (and officially approved for that use in a number of
> > > countries) is bupropion.  But that effect is theoretically due to its
> > > dopaminergic action, which tricyclics aren't supposed to have much of.
>
> > Are but does Bupropion not also have action or nor-adrenaline? Like
> > tri-cylics do?
>
> Indeed.

So maybe it's got something to do with the nor-adrenaline.