🚨“EVERY VIRUS ON EARTH IS BEATEN WITH NICOTINE" 👀
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Wrong. Smoking tobacco causes it. Nicotine itself is not a carcinogen. A nicotine patch will not give you emphysema. There's nicotine in tomatoes, potatos and many other foods
All I know is that the 'Nicotine Patch' is what caused me to STOP SMOKING. It was a Godsend because I had tried everything else. I have been smoke free for 8 years now.
I quit smoking after 45 years 7 years ago. I did not quit nicotine. I suck on Nic losenges and Nic Gum.
Bad for teeth though.
Good for you. I don't do nicotine anymore, however I allow my husband to smoke around me at times. If the smoke gets bad, I leave the room. He knows when I tell him that it's getting to me he will put it out. I wish he would stop smoking.
Praise God ❤️👊 Did the patches cause any cravings when you stopped those / have you tried stopping those ?
No. The patches didn't cause any cravings that I know of.
You might want to do some further reading on the subject.
https://www.healthline.com/health/does-nicotine-cause-cancer#nicotine-and-cancer
Let's go through this:
How much is a "small dose"? Are we talking, levels which don't rise to "nicotine poisoning" levels? That would be a big fat "duh"!
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a biological process in which epithelial cells acquire the characteristics of mesenchymal cells, including increased motility, invasiveness, and resistance to apoptosis. This process is essential for various physiological events, such as embryonic development, wound healing, and tissue regeneration. However, EMT is also implicated in pathological conditions, including cancer progression and metastasis. -AI
So it sounds like this EMT process could be considered a "neutral" process. It all depends on what else is going on before it begins.
Potentially the most damning finding, however...AI sure is handy:
"ChK2 (Checkpoint Kinase 2) is a protein kinase that plays a crucial role in the cellular response to DNA damage and the regulation of the cell cycle. There is some research indicating that nicotine may influence various signaling pathways and cellular mechanisms, but the specific interaction between nicotine and CHK2 is not extensively studied. While nicotine itself is known to have numerous effects on cellular processes and can influence cancer biology and apoptosis, the direct inhibition of CHK2 by nicotine is not well-characterized in the literature. Some studies have suggested that nicotine can have a variety of effects on cell signaling, proliferation, and survival which may indirectly affect CHK2 activity or the DNA damage response."
So this article is another case of "selectively picking a study" to base claims on.
Can or does? Again with the subjective language. Is this related to the aforementioned EMT process?
not even relevent to the topic at hand as their Big Pharma "cancer treatments" are bullshit.
I find this article to be very weak. It seems like they're just trying whatever they can to make war on nicotine. I'd want something more concrete.
Finally, let's see what their sources are: Oh yeah a bunch of tobacco stuff
The American Cancer Society medical andeditorial content team. (2017, March 12). Harmful Chemicals in Tobacco Products.Retrieved from https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/tobacco-and-cancer/carcinogens-found-in-tobacco-products.html Cahill, K., Stevens,S., Perera, R., & Lancaster, T. (2013, May 31). Pharmacological interventions for smoking cessation: An overviewand network meta-analysis [Abstract]. Cochrane Database ofSystematic Reviews, 5:CD009329. How smoking causes cancer. (2016, August 4) http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/smoking-and-cancer/how-smoking-causes-cancer McDonough, M. (2015, August). Update onmedicines for smoking cessation. AustralianPrescriber, 38(4), 106-111.Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4653977/ Pappas, R. S., Halstead, M. M., & Watson, C.H. (2016). Electron microscopic analysis of silicate and calcium particles in cigarettesmoke tar. International Journal ofRespiratory and Pulmonary Medicine, 3(1),3:039 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4858188/ Sanner, T., & Grimsrud, T. K. (2015).Nicotine: carcinogenicity and effects on response to cancer treatment — a review.Frontiers in Oncology, 5, 196 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553893/ Trends in current cigarette smoking among high schoolstudents and adults, United States, 1965-2014. (2016, March 30) http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/tables/trends/cig_smoking/ van de Nobelen, S., Kienhuis, A. S.,& Talhout, R. (2016, July). An inventory of methods for the assessment of additiveincreased addictiveness of tobacco products. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 18(7), 1546-1555 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4902882/ What happens when you quit? (n.d.) https://www.nhs.uk/smokefree/why-quit/what-happens-when-you-quit
The article also says:
So, it's probably not the nicotine causing the cancer. And are these 70 cancer-causing chemicals coming from the additives they are using?
This is an abuse of language. Studies since around 2005 started calling cigarettes "nicotine". 2005 was when vapes (nicotine, glycol, and flavoring only) started to get big and all of the machinery had to start addressing the work around to their laws oj smoking.
How can you smoke nicotine? You can't.
The tobacco companies themselves admitted it did cause cancer, but only when long jail sentences were staring them in the face.
In the UK about 30 years ago a tobacco company marketed a nicotine chewing gum targeted at children called Skoal Bandits. This gave Scots children mouth, tongue and throat cancers as well as lung cancers. It was banned after a huge outcry but only after the government had stonewalled any attempts to stop it.
There were no prosecutions