Can Wellbutrin help me to quit smoking?

i have been cigarette free for 9 days, 15 hours and like 27 minutes. i started taking the Welbutrin one and half weeks before my quit date. i started off using the nicotine patches but after reading some nightmarish affects like being on it for 2 years and it being like quitting smoking to get off the patch, so i have been 2 days without the patch. i don't really have severe cravings and haven't all along. i do however have the want for a cigarette. went for a ride with my friend and she smoked and it didn't bother me at all, but i want one and am afraid to smoke one. but my point is the welbutrin has seemed to help me, quitting has not been the horrific thing i thought it would be. good luck to all :)
judi

I have been smoking for 10 years and I have been on Wellbutrin for 6 days. My cravings having slowly begun to shrivel. Sometimes I will light one up and then just put it out. My doctor told me that you are supposed to continue normall smoking habits while you are on it for the first 2 weeks to give your body time to get used to the medicine and the mdicine to work into your system. Then begin slowly moving away. When I think about it, I have never "really" enjoyed the taste of cigarettes. After about 3 days though I found them starting to taste very displeasing. 6 days in and I can barely stand the taste of a cigarette. In the next few days to come, I'm 100% positive I will be done with this whole smoking business. I have had no side effects and have actually become calmer in my every day normal tasks.

I disagree, Wellbutrin helped me to stop smoking and I hadn't even planned to quit. I just noticed one day that I no longer desired a cigarette.

This is in the context of taking Wellbutrin for depression, not smoking cessation.

yes!!..I was a pack a day smoker for 30 years and have been taking it for about 1 week..I am down to 1 cigarette a day for the last 7 days. i have 3 left in the pack and have no desire to buy more..no more panicking when i think I will run out..TRY IT

Same thing happened to me!

Smoking is expensive and your jusst trading one expense foe another jmo one of the reasons i want o quit is$$$

I strongly urge you to use Wellbutrin...you will be so amazed at how easy quiting can be. My sister and I started it the same day and both of us have had the same resutls...no cravings....not one cigarette...not on edge(well...maybe me once). I didn't know it could be this easy...or I would have done it many years ago. Plus, having someone to quit with is a big incentive...I wasn't gonna let my little sister quit and me keep smoking....no way!!!

I was just prescribed wellbutrin. I have yet to start it because I am currently weening myself off of my current anxiety medication. I am 23 years old and I've been a smoker for 4 years, which seems to be nothing compared to most people that have posted on here.  But I am tired of waking up every morning and coughing up muccus. And definitely tired of constantly thinking about when my next cig will be. I was more sceptical about taking the drug before I read all these posts. You guys have me excited to try it out and hopefully it works. I'll update in a couple of weeks and hopefully everything is good :)
-Megan

I have been on wellbutrin for 2 weeks now. I have really cut back on smoking. This medication does work. I haven't set a quit date but I do know I am almost done. The cigarettes are not enjoyable anymore and I notice I can go hours without smoking and no withdraws..

I've been a smoker for 18 yrs. I LOVE to smoke, My husband has tried everything to get me to quit. The patch worked for a little while, curbed some cravings, but I would smoke with the patch on! I was perscribed Wellbutrin for depression not too long ago and have noticed that I feel the need to smoke as offten, and I'm a pack a day smoker, sometimes a pack 1/2....  I'm not going to say it works yet, but my habits have definitly changed! GOOD LUCK TO ALL

I concur with the general consensus of this thread.  I used to smoke and dip, and if it had been awhile between usage, I'd feel this pleasureable feeling flush through my system.  It was very enjoyable.  Recently, I started taking wellbutrin as an anti-depresseant.  As a result, tobacco can still make me feel a little light headed, but it's more of drowsy, depressive feeling than it is pleasureable.  As time goes on, my endeaver to derive joy out of tobacco use seems increasingly pointless.  Given that I have this endeaver yet nonetheless find that I don't really want to use tobacco anymore, someone actually trying to quit could benefit greatly from using this medication.  Some urges to smoke or dip still exist for a few days after I stop, but they are much easier to ignore than they used to be.  They are really more of an attempt to buy a little bit of happiness (which doesn't end up woking) than an overwhelming desire.  

I am 65 y/o and smoked since I was 12. Tried many times to quit unsuccessfully but never gave up trying. I couldn't make it through day one for some reason cause I really liked smoking. My Doc. had tried Chantrix on me...twice but 2nd time really upset my stomach. Friend gave me a box of nicotine gum which I had tried before but didn't do it right. Supposed to chew it a bit then park it along gum line so nicotine can enter blood stream...not stomach, so I tried it along with wellbutrin. The cravings would pass and if they got too intense I just chewed the gum. Don't know what the Wellbutrin is doing but the combination seemed to make it easier and now I haven't smoked for 2 wks plus only chew gum couple times a day when needed. I already want to stop the Wellbutrin but think I'll wait till I've got a month in first. NEVER quit trying to quit.

I am a 43 year old overweight women who's smoked cigarettes and weed for over 20 years. I quit smoking pot and cigarettes on buproprian.  I began taking it to quit smoking cigarettes, but didn't plan on giving up weed. It didn't seem important anymore and after  6 weeks on buproprian I just stopped. I wasn't getting that high anymore so it wasn't hard to quit.  You will have some crazy side effects like insomnia. You will feel jittery and nervous. I even had a few fits of rage at first, but don't give up. The symptoms will go away. I finally have my life back and not burdened by cigarettes and weed. I feel fantastic. I feel motivated. My acne problem has cleared up.  I've started working out and eating good healthy foods.  I also gave up alcohol, coffee, junk food and soda. So far I've lost 15 lbs. I drink water instead of soda. I eat fruit when I want something sweet. 

Buproprian may not be for everyone. At least give a try, but most importantly ride out the side effects and give it at least a month. It is the best thing I've EVER done for myself.  I am now disgusted by cigarettes and can't believe I actually have no desire to smoke. I've replaced my addiction with the desire to work out and get healthy and fit. 

reading this post has helped me because I realize that this method of 'giving myself permission' to smoke, will definately work for me. Like you said it takes the pressure off. Thank you and enjoy the new lifestyle!

I was given Wellbrutrin SR 150mg scares the h**l out of me.I ask for it to stop smoking after 45yrs 1 pk a day.I teacher school and go from 7 to 3 without a cig.The side affects on me are the reason I haven't  started.I'm 4'6" 95lbs and feel I may need a smaller dosage.Please help if you can.