Nicotine gum/patches - is nicotine ALONE beneficial?

[Dr.FeelWell]

I've stopped smoking few months and from time to time I use Nicotine chewing gum (2mg or 4mg) as a stimulant. My question : is nicotine ALONE (without all the nasty stuff in cigs) beneficial for concentration/brain, well-being etc etc ?
Ive always heard that nicotine alone is good. Any studies ?

 

[BilZ0r]

Well I don't know what "well-being is", but nicotine increase vigilance and improves memory formation. But it also probably causes a dependence rapidly; i.e. you become shit if you're not taking it.

 

[funkee]

I couldn't dig up the journals i was looking for on my uni's database, but I've seen reports on carcinogenic metabolites of nicotine.

 

[Cagliostro]

Nicotine alone is certainly less harmful than smoked tobacco products, but it still has a negative impact on the cardiovascular system. You eliminate the risk of getting cancer, but not the risk of getting a stroke. Nicotine is unhealthy in any form. Some more selective nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonists are more promising as recreational drugs.

 

[triptiks]

youre kidding right? nicotine is a toxic poison...

 

[Catboyy]

Nicotine is a toxic poison in sufficient quantity. Dude, just get some Galantamine and be over it.

 

[BilZ0r]

Nicotine is a toxic poison? Someones being listening to the government propoganda without questioning it. MDMA, methamphetamine, 99% of therapeutic drugs, are all poisoness if you take too much. Nicotine is just the same.

University ethics commities allow you to dose nicotine to people for cognition studies, so it can't be that toxic.

There are so many nicotinic potentiators, FK960, galantamine, donepezil all kinds.

 

[Cagliostro]

Sorry about the multiple posts. I was getting some database error when posting, and it didn't seem the post went through. I'll clean them up now.

 

[rnd.id.]

Nicotine alone is certainly less harmful than smoked tobacco products, but it still has a negative impact on the cardiovascular system. You eliminate the risk of getting cancer, but not the risk of getting a stroke.

Is pure nicotine harmful to the cardiovascular system merely by being a stimulant, or is there some other mechanism making it disproportionally harmful compared to it's stimulant effects?

(I'm a non-smoker wondering whether nicotine could sensibly be used as a concentration aid, too)

 

[hussness]

I think it's the sympathomimetic effects, which is basically the same as saying it's a stimulant. The way I understand it, the cardiovascular system is not designed to be chronically stimulated.

 

[BTB]

nicotine seems to lessen symptoms of ADHD, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia....

it seems that nicotine plays a role in attention....and is one of the few drugs that seems to increase selective attention....and focusing

this all lends itself to the notion that perhaps smoker's might actually be selfmedicating

the theraputical benefits of nicotine are being studied....apart from the actual inhalantion of tobacco smoke....

if anyone is interested, I can provide the journal articles...or go into more depth about my findings