Nicotine Can Be Good For You!

In a recent article, "YES, it is a fact; Nicotine Can Be Good For You!" I detailed how nicotine, like that found in eliquid and electronic cigarettes, has been found to be effective in the treatment and prevention of:

• ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder"
• Alzheimer’s
• Arthritis
• Depression
• Obesity

Towards the end of that article I listed four other diseases that nicotine has shown promise in the fight against and promised you further information to come. You’ll find here at Exhale Cigarettes a promise made is a promise kept so here is a further list of rather high profile disorders that nicotine can help treat.

Parkinson’s

The data on the relationship between nicotine and the prevention of Parkinson’s disease goes back to 1966. In that year an epidemiologist named Harold Khan working for the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. was reviewing data derived from the study of almost 300,000 Army veterans’ health records.

He found what you expect that smokers in the group were more likely to die younger from the usual assortment of diseases associated with tobacco use. What he also surprisingly found was that non-smokers were 3 times as likely to develop Parkinson’s Disease.

At first his work was written off as a statistical anomaly, but more recent studies by Dr. Maryka Quick, DRs. Irving I. Kessler and Earl L. Diamond and many others have not only determined that nicotine’s effect on the dopamine receptors in the brain not only reduce the risk of Parkinson’s, but alleviates both the symptomatic tremors and the side effect of the normally used drug treatments.

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a delusional mental health disorder that causes hallucinations and a detachment from reality in its victims. One aspect of the disease that doctors found baffling was that patients with the disorder were 20 to 35 percent more likely to be smokers. Rather than being a causal issue, though, it was found that the majority of patients started smoking after becoming afflicted.

Clinical studies found that this is because the patients somehow instinctively knew that nicotine would help them and were smoking as a form of self medication.

Tourette Syndrome

Most people are familiar with Tourettes as a disorder that causes people to burst out with, at times, inappropriate language. This disease is more than that though, it causes tremors, ticks and muscle control loss as it becomes progressively worse.

Recent clinical studies have found that nicotine’s ability to turn off certain chemical receptors in the brain, while occupying others, helps mediate these systems.

Ulcerative Colitis

Similar to Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis is typically a disease of non-smokers and ex-smokers and is characterised by chronic inflammation of the bowel. While nothing definitive has been determined eveidence has shown that the anti-inflammatory properties of nicotine may be at the root of the disorder.

Patients who were given supplemental nicotine were to found to have much lower instances of flare ups and those who did suffer did so to a much lesser degree.

There you have it, as promised, more ammo to add to your stockpile of information you draw on when people try to deride your choice to use an electronic cigarette or to spout some nonsense about second hand vapour.

Opponents of Eliquids and electronic cigarettes and Behaviour Nazis, in general, love to spout that vaping has not been proven safe and they are correct, it hasn’t, but neither has it been proven dangerous. What has been proven safe and even beneficial is the nicotine that is contained in vapour.

The best way to fight prejudice is with facts, so load up your gun right here and be ready to fire back at their nonsense.

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