Antidepressants for smoking cessation
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Antidepressants for smoking cessation.
BACKGROUND There are two reasons to believe antidepressants might help in smoking cessation. First, depression may be a symptom of nicotine withdrawal, and smoking cessation sometimes precipitates depression. Second, smoking appears to be due, in part, to deficits in dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine, all of which are increased by antidepressants. OBJECTIVES The aim of this review is to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1465-1858
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd000031.pub4