Wellbutrin didn\'t work for me at all. I had tried it because I had heard it worked for others. Perhaps I am an unusual case however, because I am already on other meds. I found that it made me feel scatterbrained! Maybe I just wasn\'t very motiviated to quit.

I have been on Wellbutrin for the last 3weeks & its been 2 weeks since my last smoke. This is my 2th time I have tried to quit taking Wellbutrin. It worked the frist time for me but I gave in due to stress & started up again.
I know now I need support as well to get through each day without a smoke.
This is my frist post. I just joined your group today.

Hello,
I too am on Wellbutrin. I have been on it for over 2 weeks and it really does seem to be helping me with the smoking withdrawals.

This is my first time really trying to quit after 22 years. I am really ready. I\'m sure that has alot to do with it too. I\'m sure wellbutrin is helping me but I really have the desire to quit and stay quit for several reasons including that I have a 6 year old I ned to set a better example for.

Wellbutrin is not for me, either. Tried it years ago for about 3 weeks and got very depressed and weepy. I\'ve read that it can have an adverse effect on some people, obviously I\'m one of them.

don\'t you dare give up . believe me every day it gets a little easier, not a lot easier, but a little, and thats better than nothing.Just think how happy I was this morning not to have to pick a couple butts out of the ash tray and then try to smoke those little things without burning my mouth,[I\'ve done that more times than I care to remember] love, Normie

I did not use Wellbutrin.
I used the patch, drank water,
and held a worry stone in my
hand. I haven't smoked at all
for 3 months!

So far wellbutrin is working for me. I was on a 150 mg per day dose and that was not so effective. Now I'm on 300/day and It seems to be working a lot better.

I used Chantix, worked great. My doctor put me on the Wellbutrin 2 months after I quit, I took it for 10 days and had to stop, it made me to anxious.

Doug Wellbutrin (cost less) under this Rx by doc instead of Zyban (cost more) made me anxious and insominic when I got up to the daily dose of 300mg! On the first three days of the 150mg I was fine! Zyban and Wellburtrin are the same drug however if you get it on RX from doc by trade name it will cost about 4x's more. Lineke

I slowly cut back smoking over a 12 week period on Wellbutrin. By the end of the 12th week I was down to 0 cigarettes. It has been 3 months since I've quit completely and I don't plan on ever having another cigarette again.

You need to give wellbutrin time to work- dont expect it to be immediate. Slowly reduce the number of cigarettes you smoke per day over 12 weeks (10 the first week), (8 or 9 per day the next week)...etc..

I'm on my 4th day being smoke free. I started taking Wellbutrin because my doctor told me it would help me with quiting.So far the only thing that has been bothering me is I have a hard time sleeping and I find my self being a little scatterbrained. But it could be because my body is in a shock because I've been smoking for so long. I'm willing to give this a chance. I really want to quit so I think this will help also. And of course this site and my friends have given me lots of support.

I've been taking Wellbutrin for depression, and it seems to help a little. I take 300 mg's...I find that I still have the craving...but I don't even finish half of the smoke...it doesn't give me the same pleasure it used to. You have to give Wellbutrin a chance....but again they started marketing the drug as an anti-smoking drug to renew the patent. It has few side effects...mostly vivid dreams...I say it's worth a try.

Hi Everyone. I tried wellbutrin about a year ago and it didn't work for me. i guess I wasn't really ready to commit to stop smoking though so it was mostly my fault that it didn't work. I am going to try it again now. I am finally mentally ready to quit.

I smoked for 43 years and have tried everything you can think of and nothing worked, I was really starting to worry about what all the years of smoking had done to my body so I went to the doctor and asked for something to help me. She gave me a sub for Wellbutrin and explained that for the first 10 to 12 days I would feel like crap, but that after that I would stablize and it would help me. So I continued to smoke for 12 days then quit and have not smoked for 6 weeks. seems like it just takes the edge off of the cravings, and I'm not talking about the nicotine, because that was out of my system after a few days, I'm talking about the habit of using cigs to reward, console, and calm my self. I just am having to learn new ways to deal with stress, it's not easy but I'm not smoking and that is amazing to me. So I will continue to take the meds for 6 months to a year and then tapper off with the help of my doctor. good luck to you all

HI Doug. Wellbutrin worked great for me. I smoked for over 40 years and this is the first time my quit has lasted so long. Almost 6 months now. I was lucky because I had no side effects after taking 2 pills a day. Everyone should give this a chance to work. I think its great and of course DS has been a life saver for me. I know this is my last quit.