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The ingredients in cigarettes are what actually make nicotine addictive...alone, it can actually be beneficial to the brain

• BugBrother 12y ago
  >> The ingredients in cigarettes are what actually make nicotine addictive Uh, that sounds wrong. "Snus" users get addicted. That is tobacco, even if it isn't burned. But afaik, users of e-cigarettes also get dependent -- that isn't tobacco.
  • casualobserver 12y ago
    There's a bunch of on-going research on nicotine gum dependence too. I was a participant in a study for this.
  • ethagnawl 12y ago
    > But as laboratory scientists know, getting mice or other ani­mals hooked on nicotine all by its lonesome is dauntingly difficult. As a 2007 paper in the journal Neuropharmacology put it, “Tobacco use has one of the highest rates of addiction of any abused drug. Paradoxically, in animal models, nicotine appears to be a weak rein­forcer.” http://www.salon.com/2013/12/29/sciences_obsession_the_search_for_a_smart_pill/ http://www.salon.com/2013/12/29/sciences_obsession_the_searc...