#MedicalNicotine

348,601 "ever-#snus users had about 60% lower Parkinson's disease risk compared with never-snus users."
https://t.co/YHB9FKkUtQ

30,000 British doctors followed for 60 years: "current smokers at baseline had a 30% lower risk of

#MedicalNicotine

Nicotine is beneficial for people with #ADHD. Research on adults and adolescents with ADHD shows that nicotine patches improve focus and attention, and reduce hyperactivity & impulsivity.
https://t.co/0mTHFftmDf
#MedicalNicotine

Nicotine reduces symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD).
https://t.co/Tht2Y8CZiN
#MedicalNicotine

Nicotine is beneficial for people with schizophrenia. More than 70% of people with schizophrenia smoke.

#SaferNicotine alternatives could help them as therapy, and to not die from smoking.
https://t.co/lNH75kqGGM
#MedicalNicotine

Nicotine, "(either 2 mg nicotine gum or 7 mg transdermal nicotine patch) potentiates [enhances] the therapeutic properties of neuroleptics in treating Tourette's syndrome... A single patch may be effective for a variable number of days."
https://t.co/lBJztxciio
#MedicalNicotine

Nicotine promotes weight loss. It is "associated with ...increased energy expenditure as a result of increased locomotor activity, increased thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue (BAT), and alterations in fuel substrate utilization."
https://t.co/jNufO6rFdq
#MedicalNicotine

Nicotine helps smokers quit (and thus not die). Nicotine patches & gum increase smoking cessation success (5% for cold turkey; 9% for patches & gum... but many relapse by 3 years). Longer-term quit efficacy for nicotine vapes is ~20%.
https://t.co/tnNUufg80Y
#MedicalNicotine

Nicotine patch therapy may be an effective treatment in #epilepsy patients who have nAChR gene variants.
https://t.co/gGCpX96QSW
#MedicalNicotine

"Transdermal nicotine ...improves symptoms in patients with ulcerative colitis."
https://t.co/wY6PUlDqL6

"Complete resolution of symptoms was observed in 48.6% of cases with nicotine and only in 24.3% of cases with placebo."
https://t.co/iVZqgnojR0
#MedicalNicotine for #COVID19?

"Compared with never smokers, current smokers appear to be at reduced risk of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection, while former smokers appear to be at increased risk of hospitalization, disease severity and mortality from COVID‐19."
https://t.co/wuP4SZmN7m
#MedicalNicotine THREAD
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Nicotine has therapeutic benefits for #StopSmoking; #ParkinsonsDisease; #Alzheimers #Dementia; #ADHD; #MentalHealth; #Tourettes; #UlcerativeColitis; #Schizophrenia; #Epilepsy; #weightloss; and, possibly, preventing #coronavirus infection

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I think @SamAdlerBell in his quest to be the contrarian on Fauci gets several things wrong here. 1/


First, the failure last year actually was driven by the White House, the #Trump inner circle. Watch what's happening now, the US' scientific and public health infrastructure is creaking back to life. 2/

I think Sam underestimates the decimation of many of our health agencies over the past four years and the establishment of ideological control over them during the pandemic. 3/

I also am puzzled why Tony gets the blame for not speaking up, etc. Robert Redfield, Brett Giroir, Deb Birx, Jerome Adams, Alex Azar all could have done the same. 4/

Several of these people Bob Redfield, Brett Giroir, Alex Azar were led by craven ambition, Jerome Adams by cowardice, but I do think Deb Birx and Tony tried as institutionalists, insiders to make a difference. 5/

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