Bupropion, also Amfebutamon, is used in smoking cessation.

Cigarette smoke contains more harmful substances. Tar is responsible for the cancer-causing, for carbon monoxide durchblutungsstörenden properties. The dependence of nicotine is through a direct increase in the neurotransmitters dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain generates.

In the absence of cigarette smoking and thus reduces the number of these messengers again and leads to withdrawal symptoms. Bupropion, these concentrations increased again, albeit through a different mechanism than nicotine and therefore do not produce addiction.

The aim of therapy is to nicotine addicts to a life without cigarettes, and to accustom him through lack of withdrawal symptoms to facilitate