Can nicotine help chemobrain?

[nicnik]

Healthy 4 Life: Can nicotine help chemobrain? - WSMV Channel 4

Nicotine gets a bad rap, but researchers at Vanderbilt believe it may possess at least one redeeming quality: helping improve cognitive functioning after chemotherapy.

 

[DC2]

Add that to the list of reasons why Big Pharma wants control of nicotine.

 

[Kent C]

Since nicotine increases focus and helps alzhiemers, parkinsons, mental problems, and now the effects that chemo has on the brain, it wouldn't be a stretch to say that it might help ADHD and perhaps should be a choice in treating it in kids.

 

[Kent C]

And could it be that the onset of the 'plague' of ADC/ADHC was coincident with the attack on smoking? Did TC cause ADHC and the obesity epidemics??

 

[DC2]

Since nicotine increases focus and helps alzhiemers, parkinsons, mental problems, and now the effects that chemo has on the brain, it wouldn't be a stretch to say that it might help ADHD and perhaps should be a choice in treating it in kids.

Using nicotine to treat ADHD is certainly not a stretch by any means...
Let me google that for you

 

[Kent C]

Using nicotine to treat ADHD is certainly not a stretch by any means...
Let me google that for you

Haven't seen that 'link' before - WOW!

... and some good info there as well

 

[Jman8]

Since nicotine increases focus and helps alzhiemers, parkinsons, mental problems, and now the effects that chemo has on the brain, it wouldn't be a stretch to say that it might help ADHD and perhaps should be a choice in treating it in kids.

Also not a stretch to say it improves focus/concentration in an average person. IOW, that there is a benefit to using nicotine. Perhaps even a benefit to having a lifelong addiction to the substance.