So I read one of the medical posts here on GAW about how a 7-day regimen of low-dose (7mg) nicotine patches could kick long covid. The post was actually a link to a long rumble video in which the key takeaway was the patch will alleviate all long-covid symptoms and was a good detox from the vax.
The video featured Dr Ardis. Anons will remember him from Stew Peter's "Watch the Water / Snake Venom Everywhere" hype. I personally think Stew is the clown waiting in line for when Alex Jones fades away, but I think Dr. Ardis is a good guy who was set up by Stew. Either way, I decided to research nicotine. Especially because (as many anons remember) cigarette smokers enjoyed protection from covid back when it was new in 2020 and honest doctors and reporters everywhere were shocked that a "respiratory disease" didn't get the smokers first.
Anyway, it turns out that tobacco, with its nicotine, has a long history of being used as an antiparasitic. So whether you like Dr. Ardis or not, detoxing with a 7mg patch each day for a week is a lot more convenient and cheaper than the other protocols I've seen (curcumin + bromelain + nattokinase twice daily, for example). From a number of other sources, 7mg appears low enough to not have to work about addiction.
Here are some studies. Obviously there's no shortage of puff pieces about how horrible smoking is, but feel free to read and think for yourself. Cheers!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31276744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4996163/
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.826889/full
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513814000567
https://www.wideopenspaces.com/4-uses-for-tobacco-in-a-survival-situation/
And here's the original detox post that got me interested - https://greatawakening.win/p/17rm5LyNAT/the-dr-ardis-show--episode-08282/
It also causes cancer. I lost my Father and my best friend to nicotine addiction. Neither of them could quit smoking even after their diagnosis.
Are you talking about the tar or just nicotine? I thought the tar causes cancer.
I think the poster is suggesting to have pure nicotine to avoid the tar or other carcinogenic additives from smoking.
Not possible. In a cigarrette there are 4000 chemicals once you light it up and the only one that will not give you cancer is the nicotine. Its mostly the tar that does that. I smoke a vape and nothing resembles a smoke other than the n icotine and even the hospital considers me a non smoker.
Nicotine is not a killer or a disease spreader it is addictive however but other than that it will not hurt you.
I would like to say one thing about vaping. In another reply here I said I smoked 40 years. True. I did quit for around 3 and immediately went to vaping. All was well for the first year and a half. I found myself vaping far more than I used to smoke. I then cut back to at least match what I was smoking. Then I noticed I could not breath as well. Scared the shit out of me and I quit. For a week. Then I was back to smoking cigs. Now I breath fine again. I am not saying that cigs are not killers nor are they good for you. I am saying that vaping is not the healthy alternative that some say it is. There is something in that juice that sticks to your lungs, I would bet on it. There are so many varieties out there some are probably better for you than others.
I vaped to quit smoking for 2 months. When I stopped vaping I hacked for two weeks very badly. It’s was way worse than quitting cigs.
There is a diagnosis code we use for vaping. So depending on your visit to the hospital inpatient vs outpatient and why you were there, most likely they coded the nicotine dependence, e-cigarette.
Pretty sure it's the other chemicals that cause the cig. addiction not the nicotine. I mean if people can usually ween themselves off cigs with nicotine patches/gums etc and if nicotine is the "most addictive " thing in the cigs why not just ween themselves off with cigs instead of patches? answer seems to be the nicotine is what helps folks break the addiction to some other chemical(s) is in the cigs. when the nicotine is consumed over weeks/months without the other 4000 chemicals.
Good point, and well taken. Yes, I know people that are addicted, too, even while others can easily stop or use in moderation. Like alcohol, a person needs to know themselves and avoid overdoing it.