Posted by bleauberry on August 31, 2011, at 4:47:56
In reply to Any1 have thoughts on my timing of nicotine wx?, posted by zonked on August 30, 2011, at 20:38:38
Nicotine has been shown in recent research to be a beneficial substance for brain health...parkinson's, alzheimers and depression. Obviously smoke is not the favored method of delivery.
My opinion is that nicotine alone does not account for all of the psychiatric effects of cigarettes. The smoke itself has maoi properties and likely other mechanisms distinct from nicotine itself. I remember last time I tried to quit I went on the gum. Even though I was getting as much or more nicotine as I was accustomed to, the deepest darkest place came to me anyway. As soon as I started smoking again, the dark eased away. It was a rapid fall into deep depression, and a rapid rise back up out of it, based on the smoke not the nicotine. That was the first time I thought, hmmm, there's something else going on here besides just nicotine.
Too bad they passed the PACT act. It made internet purchase of cigarettes illegal. Up until this year I got them from an Indian reservation in the US for $2.50 a pack mailorder and they were good cigarettes. At the store they are $7+. What is really bad is most of that price are layers of taxes.
Anyway, for sure, nicotine has psychiatric benefits sometimes beneficial, but figuring out how to dose it is the hard part.
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