This really pissed me off today for some reason so I though I'd share my thoughts.
I don't understand why there is such a negative stigma surrounding Nicotine. Sure it's in Tobacco smoke - but it has MANY legitimate uses. Many studies have come out recently showing that Nicotine may be a very effective treatment against many psychological disorders - such as....Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Hyperkinetic Disorder (Also known as ADHD. However in ICD-10 ADHD has been officially renamed to HyperKinetic Disorder) Certain Anxiety Disorders, as well as Personality Disorders.
That's what people don't understand. It's not the nicotine that kills!!! It's the smoke that kills!! If you were to dry lettuce, roll it, then smoke it - you would end up with similar problems then if you were smoking tobacco. The carbon that is formed when something is burned is what causes your problems when smoking.
However, Tobacco can be blamed as well.
Tobacco contains other psychotropic substances (chemicals that are able to enter the brain). Specifically - there are 3 alkaloids in Tobacco that inhibit MAO enzymes. These are known as Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors.
What Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOI's) do is they stop the Monoamine enzymes from being able to break down Dopamine, Serotonin, Epinephrine (A.K.A Adrenaline), and Norepinephrine as well as any substance that is in the blood stream.
Because of this - these 3 alkaloids in Tobacco are actually what causes the addiction to Nicotine because the MAO enzymes would normally break down the Nicotine and make it inactive. But with these enzymes inhibited - the Nicotine is able to stay in the brain for a much longer period of time have a much larger and significantly more potent effect on the brain and central nervous system.
If Nicotine where the only substance in the body - it would normally be metabolized and entirely be filtered out of the body within 2 hours. But with these MAO enzymes present in Tobacco - they cause the nicotine to stay in the body for up to 20 hours after initial absorption.
This is why smoking while under the influence of cocaine makes it more likely that you will become dependent on cocaine.
It just pisses me off that anti-tobacco organizations use people's ignorance about the positive effects of nicotine against them and make false claims that Nicotine is the problem and that nicotine is cancerous and that's what causes your issues when in reality Nicotine has been proven to NOT be cancerous as well as not cause the problems that you see in people who smoke.
Which brings me back to my original point. It's not the Nicotine that kills - its the smoke that kills.
I don't understand why there is such a negative stigma surrounding Nicotine. Sure it's in Tobacco smoke - but it has MANY legitimate uses. Many studies have come out recently showing that Nicotine may be a very effective treatment against many psychological disorders - such as....Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Hyperkinetic Disorder (Also known as ADHD. However in ICD-10 ADHD has been officially renamed to HyperKinetic Disorder) Certain Anxiety Disorders, as well as Personality Disorders.
That's what people don't understand. It's not the nicotine that kills!!! It's the smoke that kills!! If you were to dry lettuce, roll it, then smoke it - you would end up with similar problems then if you were smoking tobacco. The carbon that is formed when something is burned is what causes your problems when smoking.
However, Tobacco can be blamed as well.
Tobacco contains other psychotropic substances (chemicals that are able to enter the brain). Specifically - there are 3 alkaloids in Tobacco that inhibit MAO enzymes. These are known as Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors.
What Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOI's) do is they stop the Monoamine enzymes from being able to break down Dopamine, Serotonin, Epinephrine (A.K.A Adrenaline), and Norepinephrine as well as any substance that is in the blood stream.
Because of this - these 3 alkaloids in Tobacco are actually what causes the addiction to Nicotine because the MAO enzymes would normally break down the Nicotine and make it inactive. But with these enzymes inhibited - the Nicotine is able to stay in the brain for a much longer period of time have a much larger and significantly more potent effect on the brain and central nervous system.
If Nicotine where the only substance in the body - it would normally be metabolized and entirely be filtered out of the body within 2 hours. But with these MAO enzymes present in Tobacco - they cause the nicotine to stay in the body for up to 20 hours after initial absorption.
This is why smoking while under the influence of cocaine makes it more likely that you will become dependent on cocaine.
It just pisses me off that anti-tobacco organizations use people's ignorance about the positive effects of nicotine against them and make false claims that Nicotine is the problem and that nicotine is cancerous and that's what causes your issues when in reality Nicotine has been proven to NOT be cancerous as well as not cause the problems that you see in people who smoke.
Which brings me back to my original point. It's not the Nicotine that kills - its the smoke that kills.
