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There are potential risks to inhaling any gaseous substance, but in terms of the molecule itself, nicotine probably isn't riskier than caffeine. Nicotine patche

There are potential risks to inhaling any gaseous substance, but in terms of the molecule itself, nicotine probably isn't riskier than caffeine. Nicotine patches are likely safe, for example. https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine

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KingOfCoders 4y ago
Source? "I am best known for work on the darknet markets & Bitcoin , blinded self-experiments , dual n-back & spaced repetition , and anime neural networks ."
- GoblinSlayer 4y ago
  In the post. >Another example is a breathless media article “Children Exposed to Nicotine in Utero Have Lower Reading Scores” on Cho et al 2012: here we can’t blame the media or Wikipedia editors because the paper itself (a longitudinal correlational study) has “nicotine” in its title and abstract (a total of 8 times), though the abstract quietly mentions it is actually a study of “maternal smoking”
- meowface 4y ago
  Respectfully, he includes at least a hundred different sources in this post. Asking "Source?" when each claim he makes is accompanied with sources is a little confusing.
Retric 4y ago
I wouldn’t suggest nicotine is safe, but patches are likely safer than vaping excluding risks associated acute nicotine poisoning. The non nicotine components of vaping are also harmful. Smoke machines operating on similar principles are a known workplace safety hazard. It’s likely decades of inflammation from vaping would present it’s own unique hazards.
- meowface 4y ago
  Yes, there are lots of other things to consider in tobacco and nicotine vapor solution. Just in terms of the single molecule itself, nicotine doesn't appear to be more harmful than caffeine. Acute caffeine poisoning can be fatal.
  - Retric 4y ago
    That’s another consideration, in pill form people do OD on caffeine. It’s rare, but so is consumption of canine pills. Generally caffeine consumption is in food or drinks at levels which limit consumption. From that perspective patches and vaping are probably closer to a pill than coffee and as such represent increased risks over the nicotine it’s self.

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KingOfCoders 4y ago

Source? "I am best known for work on the darknet markets & Bitcoin , blinded self-experiments , dual n-back & spaced repetition , and anime neural networks ."

GoblinSlayer 4y ago
In the post. >Another example is a breathless media article “Children Exposed to Nicotine in Utero Have Lower Reading Scores” on Cho et al 2012: here we can’t blame the media or Wikipedia editors because the paper itself (a longitudinal correlational study) has “nicotine” in its title and abstract (a total of 8 times), though the abstract quietly mentions it is actually a study of “maternal smoking”
meowface 4y ago
Respectfully, he includes at least a hundred different sources in this post. Asking "Source?" when each claim he makes is accompanied with sources is a little confusing.

Retric 4y ago

I wouldn’t suggest nicotine is safe, but patches are likely safer than vaping excluding risks associated acute nicotine poisoning. The non nicotine components of vaping are also harmful. Smoke machines operating on similar principles are a known workplace safety hazard. It’s likely decades of inflammation from vaping would present it’s own unique hazards.

meowface 4y ago
Yes, there are lots of other things to consider in tobacco and nicotine vapor solution. Just in terms of the single molecule itself, nicotine doesn't appear to be more harmful than caffeine. Acute caffeine poisoning can be fatal.
- Retric 4y ago
  That’s another consideration, in pill form people do OD on caffeine. It’s rare, but so is consumption of canine pills. Generally caffeine consumption is in food or drinks at levels which limit consumption. From that perspective patches and vaping are probably closer to a pill than coffee and as such represent increased risks over the nicotine it’s self.