(nicotine) Long-term effects?

[puking]

I'm not a big smoker but I like to dip. What possible long-term effects am I looking at besides the obvious mouth cancer? Does nicotine mess up with hormones? Does it interfere with nutrient absortion? I'm interested in systemic effects rather than local.

 

[Mr. Mayor]

http://www.quitnow.gov.au/internet/quitnow/publishing.nsf/Content/0F70F614594EC954CA257A0D001F11F9/$File/printm3.pdf

 

[Jabberwocky]

I think that it will be more relevant to look up side effects of inhaling combusted tobacco rather than nicotine as the side effects from smoking far outweights the side effects of nicotine it self. That is what I would worry about if I were you

 

[_DankOpiAmp_]

Switch to Swedish snus. It is like dip in a mini-tea bag and has a fraction of the carcinogens. Dip still contains polonium-210 and nitrosamines in significant quantities. You will get a mutated patch of discoloured gums before the cancer where the DNA has been damaged. Nicotine raises blood pressure and reduces circulation a bit, mainly problems in old age.

Your nutrients are not absorbed as much because it makes you shit. People have trouble understanding this, it just makes you shit your food out faster so less is absorbed, there is nothing more complicated than that.

 

[PsychedelicHaze]

Yeah I agree with above. The real problem one should be worried about is long term effects of smoking or chewing/dipping tobacco rather than nicotine.

one positive thing nicotine has is it's neuroprotective properties from alzheimers.