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Smoking for Schizophrenia
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I wanted to know if one can smoke cigarettes if having schizophrenia. i used to smoke a box and would be gratelly satisfied but after psychosis, i have stopped smoking, is there a problem in smoking?
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Its better to avoid smoking even if you don’t have psychosis
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Hello. Smoking decrease the effect of antipsychotic medications by half. So indirectly it will affect the improvement .It is better to avoid smoking
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