Negatine effects of Nicotine

[Kaston]

I am compiling a list of all of the negative effects of nicotine because I have seen many e-cigs advertising as "healthy" and "no negative side effects". There are many effects of nicotine on the body, but the information I find is either very scientific or related to nicotine from smoking.

I am requesting members to add concise items to the list, not links please. It has been my experience thus far that there are many links to studies, but I like to see just the highlights, so please help me out and add what you know and I will insert them as a list here.

Quotes from a scientific study

• nicotine itself seems to be relatively safe
• habitual medicinal nicotine use might expose the user to a lifetime mortal risk of only 1 in 10,000 (very low compared to smoking)
• delivering nicotine without other smoke constituents should significantly reduce harms to current smokers
• nicotine probably accounts for much less than a third of smokers’ risk
• On average, eight nicotine users may be healthier than one smoker and seven non-smokers
• The benefits of a clean nicotine inhaler that displaces cigarettes might be larger than this analysis predicts
• consumers should know of nicotine’s potential immunosuppressive
  effects
• high probability that nicotine permanently affects fetal brain development
• Nicotine might impair quality of life or productivity by altering growth and function of the nervous system, with consequences potentially including depression, anxiety or addiction
• Although a number of animal studies suggest negative health consequences for nicotine consumption, others seem to exonerate nicotine as a major cause of cardiopulmonary and other diseases.

[Salam]

Nicotine and your heart

[dc2k08]

Internet Archive: Details: Tobacco and the Human Body

That video shows the effects of nicotine when it is dripped on a live rabbit's heart. Anyone know if there is a tag to embed flash videos that aren't youtube etc ?

[Kate]

Nicotine safety

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/for...e-smoking.html

[Kaston]

Hmm, so for not helping me much. I have read through the links, but have not found what I am seeking.

I get so many people asking me about my e-cig and if there are any negative side effects. All I can answer them is that it removes the cancer risk from smoking. I would like to be able to list off any long term effects such as high blood pressure, increased risk of heart attack, ect. Those were made-up examples, but that is what I am looking for. Thanks!

[Kate]

Nobody can tell you the long term effects, nobody has been vaping long term.

[Kaston]

Nobody can tell you the long term effects, nobody has been vaping long term.

But nicotine supplements like gum and patches have been around a long time. Plus I am sure some one had done studies using only nicotine without the cigarette part =)

[keys]

Nicotine is made into a bogeyman because of its affiliation to tobbaco. The pharma companies love that it is viewed as some sort of dangerous drug so that they can make millions of dollars off of us, the gullible public, with their ridiculous nic replacement therapies. All of the money and labs that they have at their disposal and look at the absolute crap that they have come up with to date. It took some small manufacturers to see the obvious and invent a safe nicotine delivery system - the ecig.

While nic is more addictive than caffeine . . . so what? As long as you don't get cancer.

It is a mild stimulant like caffeine. That's it. If your doctor wants you to limit caffeine, then that advice, I think, would be appropriate for nicotine. Otherwise, treat it like you would caffeine. If it makes you jittery, you've had too much. It's not rocket science. Just stay away from smoking real cigs if you can. Really, we don't have these discussions about coffee, do we?

[Kate]

But nicotine supplements like gum and patches have been around a long time. Plus I am sure some one had done studies using only nicotine without the cigarette part =)

Nicotine replacement therapy is supposed to be temporary, not long term, so I don't think there has been much testing for that.

You might be able to find long term studies of users of snus or snuff but they are based on tobacco so I don't know if that would give reliable results for nicotine.

If you find any long term nicotine studies, please let us know.

[Kate]

Long term use of nicotine effects cholesterol, Tropical Bob has talked about this somewhere, maybe here - Questions about Nicotine..

It is also a vaso constrictor, believed to cause narrowing of blood vessels but I can't point you to any scientific proof of this.