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That would be wild if a treatment to long covid is smoking tobacco or nicotine patches. Mostly because no sane doctor would think to try that. How long did you
by thenerdhead 4y ago
That would be wild if a treatment to long covid is smoking tobacco or nicotine patches. Mostly because no sane doctor would think to try that.
How long did you try them for? I would imagine it would take awhile for your body to get acclimated to it for effects to take on. 4-6 weeks+
- aradox66 4y agosmoking cigarettes is also a well established treatment for ulcerative colitis symptoms. Usually not prescribed for the obvious reasons https://www.healthline.com/health/ulcerative-colitis-and-smoking#research https://www.healthline.com/health/ulcerative-colitis-and-smo...
- thenerdhead 4y ago> Researchers think this may be due to nicotine’s ability to stop the release of inflammation-producing cells in the digestive tract. This anti-inflammatory action may, in turn, stop the immune system from mistakenly attacking good cells in the intestines. Wow. That sounds very similar to some of the current theories of long covid.
- notahacker 4y agoA few days, on the assumption that my body was taking too long to fight off the infection in which case the hypothesized property of inhibiting virus replication via ACE2 pathways might actually have been useful. Came to the conclusion that lingering symptoms were more post-viral stuff (as I said, only just starting to be recorded with respect to COVID at the time) so the nicotine was utterly pointless. A slight nicotine buzz is hardly a huge acclimatisation (which was sort of the point of thinking it was low-risk to try) and I didn't exactly want to get used to it enough develop a dependency on it!