Posted by SLS on September 16, 2006, at 22:46:48
In reply to Re: Nicotine and Depression, posted by linkadge on September 16, 2006, at 13:13:33
> http://biopsychiatry.com/nicotine.htm
This study is interesting. I wonder if the rats had nicotine in their bloodstreams when they were tested.
> It was a short study, but I think it confirms what many self medicaters know.
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> What I really find funny/ironic, is that you can go to a doctor to get electroshocked for your depression, but yet they caution against the use of nicotine because the "long term effects are not known". What a bunch of.....Nicotine provides mild anxiolytic, reward, and euphoriant effects, but it is not a potent antidepressant. If it were, we wouldn't see so many depressed people smoking cigarettes. It would, of course, be the best kept secret in psychiatry.
People who are depressed choose many different drugs and behaviors to self-medicate. This does not make these things antidepressants.
Nicotine is not an antidepressant.
- Scott
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