Nicotine patches are being used by Vanderbilt University for memory loss.

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Happyflowerlady

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I have been reading about the benefits of nicotine and how it can help with things as diverse as arthritis and memory loss. I ran across a video that explained about Vanderbilt University doing a study for seniors to help prevent memory loss.
They use nicotine patches.
There is a lot of excellent information about this on YT as well, if you want to look up nicotine health benefits, and Dr. Ardis has several videos that are easy to understand. Here is the website information about the study and why it is important.
https://www.vumc.org/ccm/mind

Dr. Ardis explains that nicotine is found in many foods, not just in tobacco, and nightshade plants like tomato, potatoes, and eggplant have a lot of nicotine in them.
We have all eaten at least some of those foods and no one has ever been addicted to eggplants. He said it is chemicals added to cigarettes that make them addicting, and the tars from smoking that damage the lungs.

 

My grandmother smoked her whole life and ended up with Alzheimer's before she died.

This guy is obviously being funded by Big Tobacco.

The big companies are not going to carry tobacco products. So Big Tobacco has to fight for their lives.

Can't they find some other use for tobacco like fueling cars or something?
 

OldFeller said:
My grandmother smoked her whole life and ended up with Alzheimer's before she died.
This guy is obviously being funded by Big Tobacco.
The big companies are not going to carry tobacco products. So Big Tobacco has to fight for their lives.
Can't they find some other use for tobacco like fueling cars or something?
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So, are you saying that Vanderbilt University sold out to the tobacco companies because they are using nicotine patches to treat memory loss ? Can you explain why you think that , please ?

This video is from the news report, and explains about Vanderbilt University and the MIND program, but you have to use the “watch on youtube” to see the video because it will not embed here.

 
I quit smoking years ago but I'm a nicotine addict and will be for life. That's simply the way addiction is. You can never undo addiction.

This guy sounds like a crack-pot to me "Nicotine was the antidote to Covid-19?" That's news to me!

Another thing I'd seriously question is his claim that nicotine is not addictive in and by itself. It's all the other chemicals in cigarettes that make nicotine addictive? There's 104 million healthcare workers around the globe who would strongly disagree with that statement.
 
Yep, there is nicotine in many foods, but generally measured in micrograms, whereas a cigarette is measured in milligrams. HUGE difference. Even bigger is some are in nanograms. A person would need to ingest several million eggplants to equal one cigarette.

Nicotine might be useful in delaying some diseases. I take a drug that has recently been identified as inhibiting alzheimer's. So it might delay that condition for me, but the reason I take it... will probably kill me first.

I had a doctor caution me about drug claims. His example was for people with lung cancer. Supposedly these drugs lengthened the life expectancy. What is usually omitted, that the cancers were being detected earlier and earlier, as people became more aware of the potential. So is a 5 year life expectancy being extended to 10 years... due to drugs, or detections 5 years earlier.

I keep those things in mind, when seeing studies. In other words... I take them with a grain of salt... which probably contains some trace elements of nicotine.
 
Happyflowerlady said:
I have been reading about the benefits of nicotine and how it can help with things as diverse as arthritis and memory loss. I ran across a video that explained about Vanderbilt University doing a study for seniors to help prevent memory loss.
They use nicotine patches.
There is a lot of excellent information about this on YT as well, if you want to look up nicotine health benefits, and Dr. Ardis has several videos that are easy to understand. Here is the website information about the study and why it is important.
https://www.vumc.org/ccm/mind

Dr. Ardis explains that nicotine is found in many foods, not just in tobacco, and nightshade plants like tomato, potatoes, and eggplant have a lot of nicotine in them.
We have all eaten at least some of those foods and no one has ever been addicted to eggplants. He said it is chemicals added to cigarettes that make them addicting, and the tars from smoking that damage the lungs.

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I keep wondering, if nicotine is not so addictive, why do they give it to you in chewing gum or patches to quit smoking cigarettes? I always assumed the gum/patches were just nicotine in smaller doses to wean you off the higher doses cigarettes provided? I don't buy the statements that it's not addictive.

I quit in '93. As someone else (Blessed) said, it was really hard--damn hard. I only made it because of the incessant nagging of my wife :)--but I'm still overjoyed that I did quit.
 
Smoking cigarettes is definitely BAD !
Cigarettes have up to 500 chemicals added to them, most of them are to make the cigarette more addictive. Around the 1970’s, the tobacco companies started adding pyrazines to the cigarettes because it activates the nicotine, which is only mildly addictive otherwise, more like the caffeine in coffee or chocolate.
Besides the addictive pyrazines and other chemicals, the smoker gets tar in the lungs, and this is what can cause lung cancer, not the nicotine.

This is why the gum or lozenges or patches do not have the same warnings on them as cigarettes have. Doctors seem to have no problem recommending any of the nicotine products for people to stop smoking, so they must know that the cigarette is more addicting and worse for peoples health than just a nicotine product.

There is a lot of information about this online if you look for it.
I called Vanderbilt University, and talked with the person who is the head of the MIND study, which is using small 3 mg doses of nicotine to help people who have memory issues.
She gave me their memory assessment over the phone, and said i do not qualify for the study, because my memory scored very well, and they only take people who are having memory issues.
She did take my information and if they have another study that I qualify for, they will let me know.

In the meantime, I have been using either the 3 mg chewing gum, or a 4 mg mint wafer (that i use in parts) and I have had good results, and have no cravings to have more.
When I take the nicotine, I find that my mind seems to be a lot more alert, and I notice that my body feels warmer, like my circulation is better, and I feel good all over. It does not affect my blood pressure or heart rate.
It is anti-inflammatory , so I was even able to get into our truck (tall 4x4) much better than usual, and did more walking around and even used the exercise bike more.

I am much more concerned about having alzheimers or other dementia than I am about having an addiction to nicotine that is comparable to a caffeine and chocolate addiction.
 
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Happyflowerlady said:
Smoking cigarettes is definitely BAD !
Cigarettes have up to 500 chemicals added to them, most of them are to make the cigarette more addictive. Around the 1970’s, the tobacco companies started adding pyrazines to the cigarettes because it activates the nicotine, which is only mildly addictive otherwise, more like the caffeine in coffee or chocolate.
Besides the addictive pyrazines and other chemicals, the smoker gets tar in the lungs, and this is what can cause lung cancer, nit the nicotine.

This is why the gum or lozenges or patches do not have the same warnings on them as cigarettes have. Doctors seem to have no problem recommending any of the nicotine products for people to stop smoking, so they must know that the cigarette is more addicting and worse for peoples health than just a nicotine product.

There is a lot of information about this online if you look for it.
I called Vanderbilt University, and talked with the person who is the head of the MIND study, which is using small 3 mg doses of nicotine to help people who have memory issues.
She gave me their memory assessment over the phone, and said i do not qualify for the study, because my memory scored very well, and they only take people who are having memory issues.
She did take my information and if they have another study that I qualify for, they will let me know.

In the meantime, I have been using either the 3 mg chewing gum, or a 4 mg mint wafer (that i use in parts) and I have had good results, and have no cravings to have more.
When I take the nicotine, I find that my mind seems to be a lot more alert, and I notice that my body feels warmer, like my circulation is better, and I feel good all over. It does not affect my blood pressure or heart rate.
It is anti-inflammatory , so I was even able to get into our truck (tall 4x4) much better than usual, and did more walking around and even used the exercise bike more.

I am much more concerned about having alzheimers or other dementia than I am about having an addiction to nicotine that is comparable to a caffeine and chocolate addiction.
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It must have been bittersweet not being accepted. Bad that you weren’t accepted into the study group but good that your memory was too good. It’s very interesting. When we go biking I drink a Pepsi on the day that we go. It helps keep my mind alert which is why I do it. Generally speaking, I’m not a pop drinker but I do think the caffeine helps keep me awake and focussed. Stronger coffee might work too. I’ll have to experiment
 
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PeppermintPatty said:
It must have been bittersweet not being accepted. Bad that you weren’t accepted into the study group but good that your memory was too good. It’s very interesting. When we go biking I drink a Pepsi on the day that we go. It helps keep my mind alert which is why I do it. Generally speaking, I’m not a pop drinker but I do think the caffeine helps keep me awake and focussed.
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Yes, @PeppermintPatty , caffeine does help a person to be more alert, and I think that it works even better along with the mint or gum, because both seem to enhance the mind and body together.
(It enhances “other things”, too.)
 
I could use a memory boost. I hate going in the next room and forgetting why I went there. As hard as it was to quit smoking I would personally be afraid of trying the gum or patch, but it's tempting. I do drink the coffee--one vice or the other?
 
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