iPeat
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A few years down the road now and as an update I will say that I wish I could delete this post and thread. It was a few years ago when I wrote this and honestly there was probably a lot of psychological bias and cherry-picking of studies because I wanted to try and justify nicotine usage for myself. Just because some select studies show some potential benefits doesn't mean that nicotine on the whole is good for you. I didn't look at much data when I wrote this and i'd consider it mostly junk science now.
It's disturbing that some people are using these nicotine posts to justify smoking tobacco which is proven highly carcinogenic and addictive.
There may be some concerns with lung inflammation, addiction, and vasoconstriction from nicotine and vaping.
I think that most of the benefits of nicotine such as temporary increases in metabolic rate, attention, memory, and dopamine boosts can be obtained much more safely by simply exercising.
Nicotine does have a proven effect on reducing risk of parkinsons but the doses needed to achieve this effect are so low that the small amounts of nicotine naturally found in nightshade vegetables like tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes are enough to have this effect.
Use at your own risk I guess...
I took your original post as sharing information about nicotine itself, not necessarily smoking tobacco. I recently listened to the KMUD where they spoke about nicotine and Peat had nothing negative to say about it and said it could be beneficial for people over 60. While there are some downsides to nicotine, it does have positives.
I myself have started chewing on the Pixotine toothpicks and have found them to really lessen my stress throughout the day. I have a physically stressful job that has mental stress attached. I also have 2 young children so there's some stress there. Honestly, my stress load was a little too much to bear unscathed, and the sole addition of the toothpicks has really helped me.
I smoked for 15 years (quit about 10 years ago) and will never go back. The toothpicks are very nice though. Don't stress the post, man. You're not responsible for other people's actions. Thank you for sharing the data.