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Re:Tobacco and Psychosis: not quite a smoking gun by neverknowsbest on Monday October 26, 2015 @01:58PM (#10453078)
They didn't address the confounding variable that these disorders are caused by dopaminergic issues, which are present even before becoming floridly psychotic. High levels of dopamine = low levels of arousal, so the slight elevation caused by tobacco smoking is probably pretty appealing.

Only first person experience, here, but I can say antipsychotics (which are dopamine-receptor antagonists... hence the "thorazine shuffle") cause these bouts of sedation that are made much less uncomfortable by simply having a smoke.

Re:Tobacco and Psychosis: not quite a smoking gun by DanBC on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @11:06AM (#10458418)
The hydrocarbons in cigarette smoke interact with the anti-psychotics - it's well known that people who smoke need to take larger doses of their meds.