Nicotine fights fear, anxiety, PTSD

Indeed!

The first metabolite of nicotine, unimaginatively titled cotinine, was a prescription antidepressant until the 1960's.

Well hell son, I could have told you that. ;)
sure it bottles up all them emotions up somewhere, which may cause cancer in the long run.
But for now, having a smoke just makes life, not so bad.

Actually it does not cause cancer: Thread: The anti-smoking conspircy
[link to www.sott.net]

They want you to live in fear, like they do with the convicts.

Effects of prison smoking restrictions
Prisons are increasingly restricting tobacco smoking.[98] In the United States, 24 states prohibit indoor smoking whereas California, Nebraska, Arkansas, and Kentucky prohibit smoking on the entire prison grounds, both indoors and outdoors.[99] In July 2004 the Federal Bureau of Prisons adopted a smoke-free policy for its facilities.[100] A 1993 Supreme Court ruling acknowledged that a prisoner's exposure to second-hand smoke could be regarded as cruel and unusual punishment (which would be in violation of the Eighth Amendment).
With the exception of Quebec, all Canadian provinces have banned smoking indoors and outdoors in all their prison facilities.
Prison smoking bans are also in force in New Zealand, the Isle of Man and the Australian states of Victoria, Western Australia and New South Wales. The New Zealand ban was ruled unlawful in December 2012, but the Department of Corrections intends to keep it, even if a law change is required.
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

burnt/oxidised nicotine is niacin aka vit b3..

I have observed for some time that people who smoke are in general far less susceptible to mind control. This of course could be due in part to a lowered fear response.

I have also observed that abuse of prescription opoid pain killers appears to counter these effects to some extent.

Smoking also has effects on adrenal androgen secretion. Higher levels of androstenedione and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) are found in smokers (62–65). ACTH-stimulated androstenedione, 17-hydroxyprogesterone and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) levels are reported to be higher in male smokers (66).
[link to www.eje-online.org]

Cross-sectional studies have associated cigarette smoking in men with elevated androstenedione and little net effect on other sex steroids.
[link to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Androstenedione is the common precursor of male and female sex hormones.
Androstenedione was manufactured as a dietary supplement, often called andro (or andros) for short. Andro was legal and able to be purchased over the counter, and, as a consequence, it was in common use in Major League Baseball throughout the 1990s by record-breaking sluggers like Mark McGwire. The supplement is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, and from the Olympic Games.
The International Olympic Committee in 1997 banned androstenedione and placed it under the category of androgenic-anabolic steroids.
Androstenedione has been shown to increase serum testosterone levels over an eight-hour period in men when taken as a single oral dose of 300 mg per day, but a dose of 100 mg had no significant effect on serum testosterone. However, serum levels of estradiol increased following both the 100 mg and 300 mg doses.
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Smoking had a gender-specific effect on cognitive function: it improved the performance of males in a verbal task and increased the subjective confidence of females thereby affecting the preferred cognitive strategies for problem solving.
[link to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Cigarette smoking calms the nerves and gives you confidence
[link to www.youtube.com]

It is a long time known Fact!

Nearly all real and manifest depressive People are smoking!

Bullshit ...3 out of 5 of my mum's heavy smoking family..lung cancer, emphysema and heart attack....go figure. The anecdotal evidence and the confirmed stats are beyond questioning, beats me who is putting you up to this..I hope they pay well!!!

This post was sponsored by the tobacco industry.


9 out of 1o dead doctors smoked camel.

"the confirmed stats are beyond questioning" indeed! Unfortunatelly you are talking about things that you have never seen and researched! If you would have bothered to check this Thread: The anti-smoking conspircy you would have seen medical statistics showing inverse correlations between lung cancer rates and smoking rates in many countries.

I love the way they have done everything they can to erase the long history of medical use of alcohol, as well.

As smoking goes down, watch colitis cases go up.

[link to ibdcrohns.about.com]

Ulcerative colitis appears to be a disease of non-smokers. Former smokers are at the highest risk for developing ulcerative colitis, while current smokers have the least risk. This tendency indicates that smoking cigarettes may prevent the onset of ulcerative colitis.

There might be something to this. I have PTSD from some pretty nasty things that happened to me during my childhood and as an adult. I chew nicotine gum and have noticed a marked decrease in PSTD symptoms for the past 3 1/2 years I've been chewing. It doesn't alleviate symptoms when I'm in periods of extreme stress but now that I think of it the nicotine helps! Figures, I quit smoking and now I'm addicted to the gum. My doctor says its still better than smoking.

Non-smokers are more exposed to stress which can induce ulcerative colitis.

The Link Between Stress and Ulcerative Colitis
[link to www.webmd.com]

Short-term stress does not trigger exacerbation in ulcerative colitis, but long-term perceived stress increases the risk of exacerbation over a period of months to years.
[link to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Nicotine treatment for ulcerative colitis
There is overwhelming epidemiological evidence that smoking protects against ulcerative colitis, the risk of developing the disease being significantly lower in smokers than in non-smokers or former smokers.
[link to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Smoking is not a virus but here they are talking about an anti-smoking vaccine:

Professor Ronald Crystal of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York said:
The new vaccine contains a harmless virus that has been engineered to carry the genetic information to make anti-nicotine antibodies.
[link to www.couriermail.com.au]

anti-nicotine antibodies??? It's unbelivable how low can get such whorified doctors!

There was also a recent study by a Medical University in the US (Carolina?- will see if I can find it) where the results showed nicotine improves memory.
They are now conducting studies with Altzheimer patients, with strong indications that the degenerative effects of the disease can be halted or slowed down, and in some cases reversed to some degree.

The truth is that the anti-smoking vaccine targets VMAT2 gene, called the God gene.

Geneticist Dean Hamer has suggested that the VMAT2 gene correlates with spirituality using data from a smoking survey, which included questions intended to measure "self-transcendence". Hamer performed the spirituality study on the side, independently of the National Cancer Institute smoking study. His findings were published in the mass-market book The God Gene: How Faith Is Hard-Wired Into Our Genes.
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Pentagon Video from 4-13-2005: Flu Vaccine against religious behaviour by inhibiting VMAT2 gene
> [link to www.youtube.com]

They want to create godless sheeple devoid of any spirituality.

The sooner the smoking of tobacco ends the better off the world will be. I am talking about the blood of my family..three good people dead before their time because of the tobacco industry.

The smoking/lung cancer correlation is at stronger than the link between asbestos and mesothelioma.

So in relation to your position I say again:

"In 2004, the government started experimenting with VMAT2. The project was titled FunVax. It stands for Fundamentalism Vaccine."
Thread: Project FUNVAX: Secret Gov't Vaccine NEUTRALIZES the God Gene VMAT2 / being used in M.E.
Thread: How well is their "FUNVAX" working in the middle east now???

This is very true.

Better than creating godless big tobacco shills.

Not the article I was referring to in my post but along the same lines:


Nicotine patch may help improve memory, study finds
By Linda Carroll


Nicotine may help tune up the brains of seniors suffering from mild memory loss, a new study shows.

Researchers found that seniors suffering from mild cognitive impairment, or MCI, could boost their memories with a nicotine patch, according to the study published in Neurology.

The patches also led to improvements in attention and mental processing. But these effects weren’t as strong as the impact on memory, said study co-author Dr. Paul Newhouse, a professor of psychiatry and director of the Center for Cognitive Medicine at Vanderbilt Medical Center. “The take-home message for this is that nicotine may be helpful in those with early signs of memory loss,” Newhouse said.
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MCI is considered to be a precursor to Alzheimer’s disease, bringing similar, though less severe, symptoms such as mild memory loss, slowed thinking and attention problems. Currently, there are no medications approved to treat those symptoms.
Experts suspect that in MCI, just as in Alzheimer’s disease, there is deterioration and death of nerve cells in the brain that make a critical chemical messenger called acetylcholine. As levels of the neurotransmitter drop, memory and other mental functions decline.


Nicotine has just the right shape to mimic acetylcholine and fit snugly into some of the same receptors that the neurotransmitter does.

Newhouse and his colleagues followed 67 seniors with MCI for six months. Half the study volunteers wore a nicotine patch, while the others wore a placebo patch. The seniors, who were aged 55 and older, were tested for declines in memory and other mental skills at the beginning of the study. They were retested at three months and again at six months into the study.

At the end of the study, volunteers who had worn a patch saw improvements in memory of 46 percent. Those who were treated with placebos declined by about 26 percent over the same period of time.

The nicotine may simply be improving symptoms and not helping with the actual disease, Newhouse said. But there has been some research suggesting that nicotine might actually offer some protection to the cells being damaged by Alzheimer’s.

^^^That's not nicotine, but the only thing I'll smoke.

I luvz my nicotine! I just would rather VAPE it!! I'm puffing on a White Cloud right now (a Fling disposable - 54mg/5.4%). Num nums!!

The more the better! I used to dip Copenhagen, so in order for me to quit, I had to go to the higher nicotine level electronic cigarettes and White Cloud has the highest nicotine levels for the pre-filled cartridge brands.

This is great news!! :)

Same here. I use 3.0 tanks for the day, Ry4 custom blended at a local spot, and a 1300 batt.

Great stuff, helped me quit smoking a long while back, and theyve come a long way, baby.