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  1. mosspa

    Vaping for nicotine advantages?

    I haven't taught my neuropharmacology course for a couple years and I'm currently teaching it this semester. I'm giving the alcohol & nicotine lecture next week and I will post the nicotine part of the PowerPoint lecture if there is any interest. I think that PowerPoint allows export to a PDF...
  2. mosspa

    Vaping for nicotine advantages?

    I wish I had something pithy to say here, but Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays seems appropriate.
  3. mosspa

    Vaping for nicotine advantages?

    OK! So the answer to the question you just posed is 'yes'. In fact there is a recently defined branch known as "Affective Neuroscience" that addresses this. There is a book, the first edition of which was published in the later 90s, called "Affective Neuroscience". It was written by Jaak...
  4. mosspa

    Vaping for nicotine advantages?

    Since my post concerning the behavior of this forum's software which was replied to with the quote, above, I must say I'm confused as to what this is a response to. However, I'll reply to it anyway. (1) kids vaping with no nicotine is not providing them any cognitive benefit. Since we know...
  5. mosspa

    Vaping for nicotine advantages?

    Thanks for that info. Does just looking at the thread reset the notifier, or do you have to post something?
  6. mosspa

    Vaping for nicotine advantages?

    Gee, I had no idea I was missed :) I would like to let everyone with interest in this thread know that I didn't intentionally leave it for any reason. I'm still getting used to the way that this forum software works. Almost every other forum I subscribe to notifies me when anybody posts to...
  7. mosspa

    Vaping for nicotine advantages?

    Before anybody asks... Research Physiologist
  8. mosspa

    Vaping for nicotine advantages?

    Just out of curiosity, what kind of organization do you work for? After I got my degree, I was in the U.S. Navy for a while as an MSC O3 scientist, even they weren't that invasive.
  9. mosspa

    Vaping for nicotine advantages?

    Also, how would the insurance company know if you were using nicotine?
  10. mosspa

    Vaping for nicotine advantages?

    No matter what one's reason for vaping is, I think we all share the responsibility of making people aware of the distinction between smoking and nicotine, even if it is only that they are not equivalent from a health perspective. I did a Pubmed search yesterday on "nicotine cognition". It's...
  11. mosspa

    Vaping for nicotine advantages?

    @DC2 $50/mo ransom?
  12. mosspa

    Vaping for nicotine advantages?

    People who use drugs to control their blood pressure are dependent, as are people with Parkinson's disease who take l-DOPA. I view my nicotine use the same way. It allows me to cognitively function at a level similar to which I functioned when I was a much younger man. To not do something...
  13. mosspa

    Vaping for nicotine advantages?

    I thought about entering the contest a couple years ago since it always looked like my C code was obfuscating anything any of my programs did. I figured that I'd have a chance to win.
  14. mosspa

    Vaping for nicotine advantages?

    For what's it's worth. Matlab coding. essentially amounts to "C" programming, and I find that nicotine definitely improves my productivity in Matlab.
  15. mosspa

    Vaping for nicotine advantages?

    For what it's worth. All but one of my best students vape. I think the relationship is more than just coincidental. If I were going to do a study with some other school, it would probably have to be one outside of Florida. I read in a local newspaper, recently, that most universities here...
  16. mosspa

    Vaping for nicotine advantages?

    If I were going to attempt something like this in collaboration with some other school, it would probably have to be outside of Florida. I read something in a local newspaper, recently, that suggested that most universities here either already have a tobacco (nicotine) ban or have proposals for...
  17. mosspa

    Vaping for nicotine advantages?

    Scientist or not it is a great idea and could be done relatively easily. However, there is no way I could ever get this kind of thing approved by our Institutional Review Board (IRB), the organization that has to approve ANY research involving human participants conducted here. They are overly...
  18. mosspa

    Vaping for nicotine advantages?

    There is some data but much of it is confounded with socioeconomic status. That especially applies to older data from the 50s and 60s that appear to show that smokers do more poorly in school. When you control for socioeconomic status that effect goes away, and appear to start to favor...
  19. mosspa

    Vaping for nicotine advantages?

    While I realize that the effects I've observed may be only placebo effects, I am really trying to test this in some kind of an ABABABAB design. That requires me to not use nicotine for substantial periods and record my missteps as I go. There are serious confounds here, I know, and I'm not...
  20. mosspa

    Vaping for nicotine advantages?

    Thanks. I'll look into it. I wouldn't trust any of my local vape shops further than I could throw them.. I've yet to get any accurate information from any of them. They appear to be operated by idiots. However, this is Southwest Florida :) I already fill my chamber from a 3 ml syringe. I...
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