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| Positive Effects Of Smoking |
Question:
Are the any posistive effects of smoking or nicotine?
Answer:
Here is one informal list, keeping in mind that all studies do show that the negatives far out weigh the positives in regards to smking...
1. weight loss. Ask any smoker what happens to their weight when they
stop nicotine.
2. production of an alert rational calm.
3. Improved memory and problem solving while under the acute
influence of nicotine. This may not be seen when tobacco is smoked as
the carbon monoxide in the smoke interferes with brain function. But,
it occurs when nicotine is taken orally.
4. analgesia. Not many physicians realize that nicotine has pain
killing properties, but it does.
5. Marked anti-aggressive effect. I like to think of this as 'the
peace pipe effect'. The converse unfortunately appears when blood
nicotine level falls --- marked irritability.
6. Improved attention span. People with adult ADD and ADHD often self
treat by smoking.
7. Decrease in obsessive compulsive behavior and decrease in tics.
8. Decrease in psychotic symptoms in schizophrenics.
9. Dosage can be regulated (and is automatically by the smoker or
snuff dipper) to produce stimulation when stimulation is desired and
to produce sedation when calming is desired.
10. Pleasure!
11. Antianxiety effect
And I am sure that some of these items can easily be debated scientifically with just a little bit of research.
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