What benefits does nicotine have? I just bought some nicotine gum.
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I wouldn't recommend anyone who isn't already a nicotine user start. Very addictive and expensive. It also elevates blood pressure and can contribute to cardiovascular disease. If you're already a smoker/vaper or chew tobacco, the gum is almost certainly a safer alternative (when used correctly, of course).
If that's the case, why do smoking cessation (nicotine only) products (mints, gums, patches) carry no warning labels? Yes, nicotine is addictive. But also curative. It's all the additives in chew, cigs, and vapes that cause all of the other problems, IMO. Nicotine in pure form is just a plant put here by God.
Nicotine is an alkaloid in plants that were created by God
I had never noticed but it should say they are addictive. By the way I have smoked for 58 years but I threw away the cigarettes about 14 years ago and went to the vape. I use a high amount of nicotine in the vape. I went to the vape because with cigarettes I started coughing and could not stop. I stopped coughing almost instantly once I switched to vapes.
With that sort of justification you could say the same thing about heroin, it comes from a plant the same as nicotine. Nicotine however is a neurotoxic poison that has been used to kill rats, and as dangerous as Heroin is, it's not even classified a poison at all.
I would second this recommendation, all this talk about it having an antiparasitic action while it may true, it doesn't mean you should take it every day, or even every week. In reality of course it has an antiparasitic action, it's been used in rat poison and as an insecticide, and it should only be used to combat an infection not preventative.