What are the side effects associated with bupropion?

What are the side effects associated with bupropion?

When someone has been prescribed bupropion to quit smoking, what they should watch for are three or four common side effects. Most of them get better after about two weeks as your brain adjusts to the new changes in the stabilization in brain chemistry. The first one people notice is usually dry mouth, but dry mouth actually helps you when you're quitting smoking because it makes you want to drink more water. Nicotine is water soluble and you flush the nicotine out of your system better, so that's a very good side effect. The second one is that some people might get jitteriness. They may feel like they drank a whole pot of coffee and they look at their hands, they aren't shaking, but they feel like they are. That also gets better in a few weeks. Some difficulty with sleeping is also noted by many people, maybe up to a third of them, initially because it's stimulating chemistry all night long, 24 hours a day, and not just when you're smoking the way a cigarette would. Some people get an upset stomach and some people get headaches. If someone has a history of seizures in their family or epilepsy, or if they have a family history themselves, or if they drink alcohol on a daily basis or have a problem with alcohol or have other chemical dependencies, we recommend them not to take this medication and to talk it over with their health care provider, or to get help for one of those other problems.