Nicotine, the Wonder Drug? | DiscoverMagazine.com
Several very interesting points about nicotine in this article!
1) Nicotine by itself is hardly addictive. It's the combination with dozens of other chemicals in cigarette smoke that makes it such a potent addiction.
2) Nicotine is a very effective drug for treating and preventing Parkinson's disease. More effective and with less side effects than current medical treatments.
3) Nicotine is as effective as Ritalin for treating ADHD.
4) Nicotine may help in the treatment of other neurological afflictions such as schizophrenia and autism.
In short, the estimated 45.3 million people, or 19.3 percent of all adults, in the United States who still smoke are not nicotine fiends. Theyre nicotine-anabasine-nornicotine-anatabine-cotinine-myosmine-acetaldehyde-and-who-knows-what-else fiends. It is tobacco, with its thousands of chemical constituents, that rightly merits our fear and loathing as the Great Satan of addictiveness. Nicotine, alone: not so much.
Several very interesting points about nicotine in this article!
1) Nicotine by itself is hardly addictive. It's the combination with dozens of other chemicals in cigarette smoke that makes it such a potent addiction.
2) Nicotine is a very effective drug for treating and preventing Parkinson's disease. More effective and with less side effects than current medical treatments.
3) Nicotine is as effective as Ritalin for treating ADHD.
4) Nicotine may help in the treatment of other neurological afflictions such as schizophrenia and autism.
In short, the estimated 45.3 million people, or 19.3 percent of all adults, in the United States who still smoke are not nicotine fiends. Theyre nicotine-anabasine-nornicotine-anatabine-cotinine-myosmine-acetaldehyde-and-who-knows-what-else fiends. It is tobacco, with its thousands of chemical constituents, that rightly merits our fear and loathing as the Great Satan of addictiveness. Nicotine, alone: not so much.
