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angelikaJ -> RE: I Admit It I........ (2/18/2017 8:15:27 AM)
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
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ORIGINAL: DesFIP
Take the damn Zyban. It eliminates cravings. Of course, your lungs probably won't fully recover anyway. My mother in law smoked till her forties, and developed emphysema in her 60's. She's now dependent on oxygen and can't do anything that she used to enjoy
Zyban is actually another name for Bupropion, an anti depressant, and an maoi and thus not recommended to be taken by anyone on blood pressure medication, which I am.
strike one
Bupropion is also linked to onset diabetes, and complicating the treatment of anyone already diagnosed with diabetes.
strike two, I am considered borderline diabetic and control sugar with diet.
Bupropion is also known to have adverse affects in people with bipolar disorder and PTSD
Strike three.
Now, as for the health risks associated with smoking, while there is a causality link there, it is not 100%, hence the key word 'may' in all warning labels.
I agree that smoking is not good for you, but then neither is eating lots of red meat, drinking excessive amounts of caffeinated drinks, or for that matter breathing the air in 90% of the heavily populated urban areas around the world.
When you consider the chemical toxins you are exposed to on a daily basis, the ONLY way you can be assured to live in a non toxic atmosphere with near zero risk is somewhere so far removed from civilization that the atmospheric contaminants from modern civilization falls below 100 parts per million.
Which, unfortunately is no where on the planet outside a sealed habitat.
Zyban is not an MAOI but can raise blood pressure in some people.
Since nicotine can raise blood pressure that may be a neutral point... plus it is a relatively short-term drug for smoking cessation.
Also, I know people who take it for bipolar disorder (along with other meds).
Since it can actually drop appetite it may cause blood sugars to go down.
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