Smoking cessation symptoms and conditions

I was prescribed Wellbutrin to help relieve withdrawal symptoms from smoking cessation. It worked. I felt so awful from the Wellbutrin for 4 days that I never – ever wanted to smoke again. My head felt like I could remove it from my shoulders and rest it on a table. I experienced a sort of “out of body” sensation most of the time. I was nausea's and had headaches constantly. By the time I decided I couldn’t take any more - 4 days had passed and the physical addiction to nicotine had been flushed out of my system. So technically it worked, just not the way my doctor had intended.

Well, for me, I'm a hard-core smoker. I will be 40 in April, 2008 and I started smoking when I was 13 1/2 yrs. old. Anyway, yes I've had the nausea, but as long as you eat a meal and take right away, I haven't had that problem again.

Well, I'm in my third week and still smoking. Is anyone else slow like me? I was up to 2 packs a day so it's a really major struggle for me. I am finding it longer periods for me to crave a cigarette, but then I have to have one. Yesterday I had 26 cigarettes. Which, yes I know, it sounds like a lot! But on the other hand that is a half a pack I have cut down so far. I'm going to stick with it but...

I have to say, I also am suffering a lot of mood swings. I didn't think I was acting paranoid, but my daughter said I was and then I read that a few other people were having the same problem. At least I know I'm not alone anymore and talk about anger and sadness, I got them. The headaches are a real bitch for me too, but maybe I'm more susceptible since I do suffer migraines. I'd love to know if people are having that problem. Some of the reviews I read mentioned headaches, but I'd like to know if they were terrible or mild headaches. Otherwise I'll worry there is something else going on with me. With all the problems, I want to continue taking, I've tried the gum, the lozenges, the patches (allergic to the adhesive-terrible rashes, itching, and heart palpitations), cinnamon sticks, regular gum, smoking cessation classes, and etc. I need something to help me. I just want to live a normal and healthy life.

I took Wellbutrin XL for two weeks. After a week and a half I felt very depressed-I was very lethargic and just didn't care about anything. I also wanted to die, which is NOT a symptom of my depression. So I decided to stop taking it. A few days later I started itching like crazy. I had had an allergic reaction to sulfameth earlier in the year and this was exactly like that. This time I didn't fool around with Benedryl and calamine lotion but made a drs appt for the next day. The morning of my appt when I woke up I was not only itching horribly, but had a deep red rash on different parts of my body that would disappear and reappear. My right hand was starting to swell and so was my right eye, just like an earlier poster. By the time I got to the doctor the rash had spread up my chest, over my neck. The nurse freaked out when she saw me! But the straw broke when I was in with the doctor--I had a seizure!!! I thought I had just passed out (which was frightening enough) but she said my eyes had rolled back in my head and I convulsed. I had to have a cat scan which came back fine but I am firmly convinced it was the Wellbutrin, and I was just lucky enough to be in the doctor's office at the time I seized. She had never seen the itching or rash with any of her other Wellbutrin patients, but my brother had experienced the same thing when he took it a few years ago for smoking cessation. If you are itching, go to a doctor immediately for relief! That was over a month ago and I still have occasional itching spells. You just never know how certain medicines will react to your body.

I had taken Wellbutrin SR 150mg 1x a day for over 2 months without noticing any effects. Now I am on Wellbutrin XL 300mg 1x a day for the past 3 months and have been experiencing sleeplessness for almost a month. I can get to sleep OK, but after 5 hours at most I just wake up - my mind is alert and I just have to get up. This is very tiring and makes for a long day. My "normal" sleep is about 7 hours.
I have also noticed weight loss, about 10lbs in the past month or so, without any decrease in appetite.
I am taking Wellbutrin for smoking cessation - I have noticed less of an urge to smoke and have been able to go for a longer time without a smoke, although I have not quit yet.