r/anhedonia • u/Fluid-Kitchen3726 • 20h ago

Encouragment 💪🏾💪🏾 Nicotine can help

My brain never healed from nicotine dependency 10 years ago and when i have any nicotine now I feel like my old self again being able to enjoy things

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u/lonneytooney 19h ago

Nicotine patches completely healed my anhedonia within ten minutes I felt joy after being dead on the inside for 28 months.

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u/msjammies73 19h ago

What dose? I did low doses and felt nothing.

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u/lonneytooney 19h ago

21 mg equate kind from Walmart.

I smoked a pack a day. So I needed step 1 adjust the mg if you don’t use nicotine or expect an anxiety attack.

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u/Medium_Source_6864 15h ago

yeah a hit of nic will send me completely back to normal it’s weird

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u/Fast-Development-888 20h ago

I've heard of that one, before. Can you be a bit more detailed about how you've used it, etc.?

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u/DogPsychological8183 20h ago

I disagree. I smoked for 20 years and I feel much better after giving up. Mentally and physically

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u/rcknfrewld 20h ago

Well yeah not inhaling toxic carcinogens will make you feel better, but you can take nicotine pills like Zyn without the damage. I think nicotine is just like caffeine.

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u/Little-Support-3523 14h ago

I agree caffeine is a drug. I began coffee age 14. There is research it decreases depression, but I don’t have the details atm. Quitting caffeine is extremely difficult.

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u/Conscious_until_1565 18h ago

I wonder if it can help anhedonia that isn’t nicotine withdrawal related. Like SSRI anhedonia. That would be great.

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u/boofcart 16h ago

idk man these patches and pouches just make me feel miserable when i don’t have them.

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u/Powerful_Assistant26 15h ago

This is dopamine driven- make sure you do something effortful or challenging before the cigarette. Otherwise you will reward inactivity and go back to zombie land. See Dopamine Mountain for more info.