Posted by poser938 on May 3, 2014, at 23:14:07
In reply to Re: Smoking increases mental illness risk?? » poser938, posted by Phillipa on May 2, 2014, at 16:38:26
> For some it relaxes. Me never did reeved me up and made me dizzy.
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> I have seen that many patients with schizophenia, and bipolar severe do seem to smoke. I read it increases dopamine I think? Someone else will most likely know more.This site won't let me copy and paste from the article, but its basically describing a study with 1,190 participants. And the ones who smoked were more likely to develop depression during the 11 year period that the study was done. And heavy smokers were the most likely to experience depression, while non-smokers were the least likely to develop depression during the 11 years.
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