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A comment on CDC on depression and mortality: wealth, smoking, exercise reduce risk of death. Parent comment

Re:CDC on depression and mortality: wealth, smoking, exercis... by tnecniv on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @10:24AM (#37929138)
Doesn’t it also provide dopamine, which a depressed person might not be getting from their life activities?
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Re:CDC on depression and mortality: wealth, smoking, exercis... by kraussvonespy on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @12:01PM (#37930619)
You're right. It looks like there are studies that indicate that dopamine is also increased by nicotine.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2946180/

Edit: er, sorry, you were probably talking about Buspar, not nicotine in regards to dopamine. Buspar does increase seratonin and dopamine, both of which are tickled to varying degrees by nicotine.

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Re:CDC on depression and mortality: wealth, smoking, exercis... by tnecniv on Thursday October 19, 2023 @02:34PM (#37946718)
No I was referring to nicotine, though I now see how I was ambiguous
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