Benefits of Nicotine?

[jasperkent]

Smoking tobacco may actually have one possible benefit. There is some evidence that it decreases the risk of Parkinson's Disease:

https://search.app/r2tqtBsdouJC2jMC9

 

[jasperkent]

Tobacco, coffee, and Parkinson's disease: Caffeine and nicotine may improve the health of dopaminergic systems - PMC https://search.app/yAsSFguqiP6QNhVs8

 

[Smyth2]

I worked in a research team that made epibatidine analogs, a nicotinic agonist.

Possible benefits of these drugs include: pain, CNS degeneration, depression, adhd, addiction.

I stopped smoking tobacco more than 15 years ago though. Now i only use vapes for nicotine.

 

[aftershocknrock]

god where to start...well its super easy to get addicted, no effort required.
Great after sex/a good fight/riot/after a good munch/after a long lecture/movie/boring event
soooo good on MDMA or any stimulant. Booze too but that goes without saying.

It is super versatile. A cigarette can be used as a makeshift timer for ignignting cordite fuse/petrol ect.
if you soak a cigarette in water then administer that water IV into a vien you can kill or seriously incapacitate someone
you can get a hell of a rush off nicotine
you look cool as fuck smoking
you cant beat that taste

 

[daturetard]

Nicotine is neuroprotective, there is also a bit of research suggesting it could be beneficial in the treatment of Parkinson's and, as you mentioned, Alzheimer's. I've also heard a bit about it being slightly effective in weight loss. I don't use nicotine often, but I do enjoy using it on occasion as a stimulant when trying to finish certain tasks. Can't really commend to it's use in depression/anxiety though, am curious to find out.

Isn't it a neurotoxin?

 

[brokedownpalace10]

Isn't it a neurotoxin?

Neuroprotective and neurotoxic effects of nicotine - PubMed

The interest in the action of nicotine in the central nervous system (CNS) has significantly increased during the past 15 years. This is due in part to the growing importance of nicotine addiction and its consequences in terms of life quality and costs for public health systems in industrialized...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[brokedownpalace10]

I love nicotine. Relaxed focus, what's not to like?
It's easy to grow your own if you have time. The plant grows like a weed and you can cure it fine by aging it a few years.
I've smoked on and off my whole life, by which I mean smoking for some years and then stopping for some years. About 1/2 my life, I guess

I smoked 'grettes on and off till I was about 30. Then started up cigars for a while. My last bout with smoking was homegrown or whole leaf purchased on the internet.
You can get some great tobaccos that way. I got to where I didn't like any storebought tobacco and a good cigar is pricey nowadays. Some good Burley or Nicaraguan in a corncob (like the hippiebilly I am). Yum. Dellish.

Too bad the stuff kills you younger.

Now, as an old fuck, I do have mild to moderate heart issues. Likely from the nicotine. Bad for your heart even if you don't inhale (or if you only vape) The issues aren't serious or anything, prolly dodged most of that bullet. I hope to not have them shorten my life, but I can't smoke now. Damn.