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What is 'bupropion'?

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What is 'bupropion'?

Bupropion is an oral tablet that stimulates the normal physiologic range of two chemicals brain transmitters; the chemical messengers that create the sense of pleasure - dopamine, and stimulation - norepinephrine. Those happen to be the two similar chemicals in the brain that stimulates every time you smoke a cigarette by nicotine. And when you quit smoking, they drop and make you feel miserable. So, what bupropion really does is keep these chemicals in a normal range so you don't experience much withdrawal when you quit smoking. It's an oral tablet, and it's prescription only. You start it two weeks before you quit so you can get used to its effect. Then, you set a quit date and you continue it through the whole time in which you're experiencing withdrawal symptoms, but they will be modified and limited compared to what it would be like if you quit cold turkey.

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