What withdrawal symptoms do you get?
Bupropion wasn't that addictive for me, had no problems kicking it, but it was quite
compulsive when snorted. And an entirely different drug when combined with dextromethorphan (just 100mg XR/d and 150mg XR bupropion). More stimulating than amphetamine even, but more chilled. It's a "real" drug for sure, but on itself boring.
This is interesting, would you actually compare bupropion to amphetamine, in what sense? Stimulation, euphoria, concentration / focus... I'm desperately looking for some stimulant to help me with ADD and can't get the real deal off the docs here but bupropion is OTC. Highest dose I've ever tried were 300mg but only briefly, mostly I stuck with 150mg which just induced tinnitus and were bored if not snorted and even then so short lived that I thought it wasn't worth it. Maybe I should try a higher dose?
I did, however, combine bupropion with DXM and it was like a completely different drug, as if the combo somehow unlocked bupropion. Stimulated harder than 20mg of dexamph. Now both, DXM and wellbutrin are powerful liver enzyme inhibitors, I thought it'd be a drug drug interaction but maybe it was just a metabolic interaction.
I agree 100% that this drug has 0 potential for addiction ...none - over 1 year taking it for Opiate maintenance drug induced anhedonia ( or just call it plain procrastination) and I found it just as effective as it was harmless . Latter in the sense I quit taking it cause I was no longer getting any noticeable reward from it , come next day one is expecting some type of withdrawal ...nothing ...day 2 - same . There is simply no withdrawal with that med, not imho anyways.
Having said this ,when I started taking it along with buprenorphine and the odd benzo ...holy f**k! You know when you´re in complete disbelief at the effect some Rx´ed substance can have on you ? That was my 1st few weeks of taking Wellbutrin - it is obviously mild in comparison with coke/(pre ban ) mephedrone, any type of amphetamine ( actually nicer imho since it had a relaxing side to the stimulation it caused ) .
A good comparison for how I felt for the 1st month , or so ,would be a molly/4- mmc afterglow ...when you wake up next morning and you feel contented as the drug exits your system ...this feeling but long lasting ...actually , there were two major positive changes in my life when I was on Wellbutrin :1st and foremost I quit smoking soon after I started taking it, I would lit a fag and it tasted rank ,thus , naturally quit it ; secondly it also help me restraining my ,by then ( at some point I relapsed while on it still that year ) , rather compulsive coke/crack use ( at times I would combine Wellbutrin and the aforementioned uppers ,not sure if there was any positive or negative interaction though. The crack/powder would simply override the mild effects of Wellbutrin. Be careful though, this was a long time ago and I was fit af and some 15 years younger .SS could be a thing even though I never felt nothing of that sort ...not even anxiety or anything ...
" Plumbus-nine " finds it not comparable to amphetamine , this makes me wonder whether he was taking the *GSK original Wellbutrin SR ( in my case ) or some other generic version . I would 100% compare it to all uppers, particularly other cathinones and molly since amphetamines never had any relaxed feeling to me ...euphoria definitely, specially IV which used to be my chosen ROA ... so yeah, mate, if you see this and decide to reply , now I´m curious to know what type of Bupropion you were prescribed/scored cause I find it so difficult to imagine people taking that med in particular and saying they didn´t feel a thing ... more so people with a lot of drug experience behind them ,which was my case back in the day, as it´s seemingly yours for that matter ... it was the only popular med which truly impressed me in its instant positive/clean / (relatively ) strong effects .