If women continue to use nicotine during pregnancy, here's some interesting things to consider:
I checked into a possible relationship between nicotine and caffeine, because along with no longer wanting to light up a tobacco cigarette in the morning, I always do consume 1 or 2 cups of coffee in the morning. But I've noticed that I've lost the desire to drink coffee during the day. I speak of the past, when I was drinking coffee around the clock as a habit.
Here's what the web says :
All I can speak of is the here and now. Without smoking tobacco cigarettes, I don't spend my days coughing, and feeling congested. I have more energy. That's why I drank coffee so heavily, during the day. To feel awake, to have energy, it was all about energy to keep up with a busy schedule... I lived on a nicotine/caffeine diet, around the clock for years.
For the past week, I feel safe to say I'd rather drink a soft drink (diet soda), than coffee. I don't want coffee during the day time, and late at night anymore. I don't crave it, I don't desire to drink it.
Just one of those things that creep up on you, you stop doing and you don't even think about it, until you've done it for several days, or weeks. I feel energetic, better breathing... I feel awake during the day, so why drink coffee?
Here's another piece of interesting information that turned up while trying to pinpoint the correlation between tobacco cigarette smoke, and heavy coffee consumption:
Even lower nicotine levels in the bloodstream. That's wonderful news.
Perhaps the body cleanses itself quicker of nicotine (without the *constant supply* of nicotine, such as the Nicotine Patch), along with all those 4000 toxins associated with smoking tobacco cigarettes... all of which the body must painstakingly cleanse itself of. I'm not suggesting women who are pregnant should use nicotine, but apparently, using an electronic cigarette sounds much safer (evidently, barely detectable in the bloodstream!) than nicotine patches, or traditional tobacco cigarettes.
From my blog "Staying and Living Smoke Free"
Staying (and Living) Smoke Free: Nicotine and Caffeine
I checked into a possible relationship between nicotine and caffeine, because along with no longer wanting to light up a tobacco cigarette in the morning, I always do consume 1 or 2 cups of coffee in the morning. But I've noticed that I've lost the desire to drink coffee during the day. I speak of the past, when I was drinking coffee around the clock as a habit.
Here's what the web says :
The prevalence of tobacco smoking and coffee drinking place nicotine and caffeine among the most used licit drugs in many societies and their consumption is often characterised by concurrent use. The pharmacological basis for any putative interaction between these drugs remains unclear. Epidemiological reports support anecdotal evidence, which suggests that smokers consume caffeine to enhance the euphoric effects of nicotine. The aim of the present experiment was to examine effects of chronic exposure to caffeine on responding maintained by nicotine. Sprague-Dawley rats consuming caffeine (approximately 150-180 mg/kg per day) in their drinking water for 7 days prior to the beginning and throughout behavioural testing acquired intravenous nicotine self-administration (0.03 mg/kg per infusion) more rapidly than did controls. In a cross-over design, exclusion of caffeine brought levels of nicotine self-administration back to baseline, while adding caffeine to the drinking water of control rats increased responding maintained by nicotine over 90%. These findings strongly suggest that caffeine can potentiate the reinforcing properties of nicotine, thus highlighting the importance of environmental factors in shaping and maintaining tobacco smoking.
http://www.biopsychiatry.com/cafnic.htm
http://www.biopsychiatry.com/cafnic.htm
All I can speak of is the here and now. Without smoking tobacco cigarettes, I don't spend my days coughing, and feeling congested. I have more energy. That's why I drank coffee so heavily, during the day. To feel awake, to have energy, it was all about energy to keep up with a busy schedule... I lived on a nicotine/caffeine diet, around the clock for years.
For the past week, I feel safe to say I'd rather drink a soft drink (diet soda), than coffee. I don't want coffee during the day time, and late at night anymore. I don't crave it, I don't desire to drink it.
Just one of those things that creep up on you, you stop doing and you don't even think about it, until you've done it for several days, or weeks. I feel energetic, better breathing... I feel awake during the day, so why drink coffee?
Here's another piece of interesting information that turned up while trying to pinpoint the correlation between tobacco cigarette smoke, and heavy coffee consumption:
Nicotine 166 Times More Deadly than Caffeine?
Any assertion that nicotine is as harmless as caffeine must divorce itself from the deadly reality that nicotine is not a bean stimulant but a potent natural insecticide engineered by nature to protect the tobacco plant from being eaten by insects. While it takes 50 to 60 mg of nicotine to kill a 160 pound human, it would take 10,000 mg of caffeine to do so.
Contrary to Shiffman's assertion that nicotine is not a "big player" in the harms caused by cigarettes, a mushrooming body of toxicology science suggests otherwise, especially for the developing fetus. On December 29, 2005, two UK NRT industry consultants, Martin Raw and Robert West, helped author government guidance recommendations allowing UK NRT use for up to 9 months by pregnant smokers.
The report asserts, "The pharmacology of nicotine suggests that it may contribute to some of the damage to the fetus caused by smoking. However, this contribution is likely to be small and there is no doubt at all that NRT use is much safer than smoking."
Not so, asserts Professor Theodore Slotkin with the Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke University Medical Center. "There is abundant evidence that the major problem for fetal development is exposure to nicotine rather than other components of cigarette smoke." "NRT, especially by transdermal patch, delivers more nicotine to the fetus than smoking does."
A March 2003 study published in Reproductive Toxicology found that the nicotine concentration in the brains of fetal mice were 2.5 times greater than the nicotine concentration found in the mother's bloodstream when nicotine was continuously administrated, as would be the case with the nicotine patch. A pregnant smoker need only imagine what it would be like if her mind were trapped and forced to constantly endure 250% more nicotine than normal.
http://whyquit.com/pr/021606.html
How interesting. Then according to medical research, could the electronic cigarette be safer to an unborn fetus, than the Nicotine Replacement Patch?Any assertion that nicotine is as harmless as caffeine must divorce itself from the deadly reality that nicotine is not a bean stimulant but a potent natural insecticide engineered by nature to protect the tobacco plant from being eaten by insects. While it takes 50 to 60 mg of nicotine to kill a 160 pound human, it would take 10,000 mg of caffeine to do so.
Contrary to Shiffman's assertion that nicotine is not a "big player" in the harms caused by cigarettes, a mushrooming body of toxicology science suggests otherwise, especially for the developing fetus. On December 29, 2005, two UK NRT industry consultants, Martin Raw and Robert West, helped author government guidance recommendations allowing UK NRT use for up to 9 months by pregnant smokers.
The report asserts, "The pharmacology of nicotine suggests that it may contribute to some of the damage to the fetus caused by smoking. However, this contribution is likely to be small and there is no doubt at all that NRT use is much safer than smoking."
Not so, asserts Professor Theodore Slotkin with the Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke University Medical Center. "There is abundant evidence that the major problem for fetal development is exposure to nicotine rather than other components of cigarette smoke." "NRT, especially by transdermal patch, delivers more nicotine to the fetus than smoking does."
A March 2003 study published in Reproductive Toxicology found that the nicotine concentration in the brains of fetal mice were 2.5 times greater than the nicotine concentration found in the mother's bloodstream when nicotine was continuously administrated, as would be the case with the nicotine patch. A pregnant smoker need only imagine what it would be like if her mind were trapped and forced to constantly endure 250% more nicotine than normal.
http://whyquit.com/pr/021606.html
Study: 'Electronic cigarettes' don't deliver
By Paul Courson, CNN
"It may be worth noting, however, that while electronic cigarettes are purported to deliver nicotine to the user in a manner similar to that of a Nicotrol inhaler, no electronic cigarette has yet been approved as a medicinal NRT product or provided the necessary clinical testing for such approval. Moreover, doubts have been raised as to whether electronic cigarettes actually deliver any substantial amount of nicotine at all."
"I smoked 37 years, and when I found them, I was, like, 'Thank, you Jesus,' " Jackson said with a laugh, as a reporter visited his shop, No Smoke Virginia, coincidentally just a few blocks from where the research was conducted at Virginia Commonwealth."
"The latest clinical evidence suggests users are not getting the addictive substance they get from smoking tobacco. "These e-cigs do not deliver nicotine," Eissenberg said of the findings he expects to publish in an upcoming issue Tobacco Control, a product of the British Medical Journal Group."
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/08/e.cigarette/index.html
By Paul Courson, CNN
"It may be worth noting, however, that while electronic cigarettes are purported to deliver nicotine to the user in a manner similar to that of a Nicotrol inhaler, no electronic cigarette has yet been approved as a medicinal NRT product or provided the necessary clinical testing for such approval. Moreover, doubts have been raised as to whether electronic cigarettes actually deliver any substantial amount of nicotine at all."
"I smoked 37 years, and when I found them, I was, like, 'Thank, you Jesus,' " Jackson said with a laugh, as a reporter visited his shop, No Smoke Virginia, coincidentally just a few blocks from where the research was conducted at Virginia Commonwealth."
"The latest clinical evidence suggests users are not getting the addictive substance they get from smoking tobacco. "These e-cigs do not deliver nicotine," Eissenberg said of the findings he expects to publish in an upcoming issue Tobacco Control, a product of the British Medical Journal Group."
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/08/e.cigarette/index.html
Even lower nicotine levels in the bloodstream. That's wonderful news.
Perhaps the body cleanses itself quicker of nicotine (without the *constant supply* of nicotine, such as the Nicotine Patch), along with all those 4000 toxins associated with smoking tobacco cigarettes... all of which the body must painstakingly cleanse itself of. I'm not suggesting women who are pregnant should use nicotine, but apparently, using an electronic cigarette sounds much safer (evidently, barely detectable in the bloodstream!) than nicotine patches, or traditional tobacco cigarettes.
From my blog "Staying and Living Smoke Free"
Staying (and Living) Smoke Free: Nicotine and Caffeine
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no, like a broken record parroting the FDA about "the wonderful safety of patches"... spreading lies about the safety of patches. People are dying from patches, whether its nicotine patches or pain killers.
of course I could just be fooling myself but i really hope not 
