I have been a smoker forever (I admit it and I own it and everyone in my life KNOWS IT)...but I have recently been diagnosed with ADD but I have had it ALL my life...anyway I have found that I do have a tendency to want to SMOKE MORE now that I am on Adderall...I just assumed it was a side effect because now I can actually focus and be motivated...I am still working on the being organized part....however my therapist said that I had coped amazingly well with it all this time...I may not LOOK organized and in fact I am not about MOST things and I have piles everywhere in my office and bills are scattered everywhere in my house...BUT I am becoming more motivated and much more focused...I CAN focus now whereas in the past I could not...truly I had the attention span of a gnat but not when it comes to movies or books...but then again I will watch a movie twice just because I cannot sit still or just watch it I have to be doing something else too!

MY answer is YES I want to smoke more and have found that I smoke more on adderall BUT I have lost huge amounts of weight also (which I needed to do also)...so the trade for me is okay for now...but since I smoke at home I have found I think I am smoking more but in reality they are just burning up and I am not actually SMOKING them...especially if I am playing a video game or whatever!

Hope that helps!

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I was smoking more on adderrall also. I had smoked for 15 years. I guess, from reading other replies, that the consensus is that adderrall Does increase the urge to smoke more. However, the adderrall also, I believe, helped me to have the focus to QUIT smoking. I also had the help of chantix, a RX medication that I highly reccomend. The pount being that ADHD treatment helped me give many of the addictive habits that I had had forever.

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I was smoking more on adderrall also. I had smoked for 15 years. I guess, from reading other replies, that the consensus is that adderrall Does increase the urge to smoke more. However, the adderrall also, I believe, helped me to have the focus to QUIT smoking. I also had the help of chantix, a RX medication that I highly reccomend. The pount being that ADHD treatment helped me give many of the addictive habits that I had had forever.

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Don't think that it is the adderall that is making you want to smoke. Most smokers in general have some form of mental health issues. I say this as a nurse. Stop the smoking and what ever you were treating with the nicotine becomes predomninate in your personality. So if if the adderal is taking care of one part of your ADD/ADHD there may be another loose ends unaddressed like anxiety issues. There are meds for this too. I personally have to take an antidepressant/antianxiey medication in addition to the long acting med for the ADD. I treated my ADD for years with caffine and slept in excess for the depression. Diet Coke profit margins took a sharp decline when I started being treated for the ADD. Caffine/Nicatotine/Recreational Drugs/Alcohol are all used in excess for underlying mental health issue treatments once diagnosed and on the proper managment cycles weather it be diet alteration/medication/or both the fundamental issues like anxiety should be improved they do not disappear comepletely but should be manageable.

So smoking is just a fix and habit. Find out what your treating so you can stop. An ADD or ADHD person in there 60/70/80's draging around tanks of Oxygen isn't going to be pretty.

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