Nicotine keeps Alzheimers, Parkingson, and Turettes away

ever been to a nuthouse or rehab??

the ashtrays are ALWAYS FULL.

nicotine is a mood stabilizer.

Yes there was a study done on patches and ADHD.

My dad's family has a history of parkinson, the brothers that smoked didn't come down with it, the ones who stayed away from cigarettes died with it.

He is a non-smoker and after reading this I started him on the patch. We did it in reverse order, started with the light weight patches and are moving up to the stronger ones. He really is upset that there is no medicine that helps contain or slow the progress. I really hope this works, I'll keep this updated.

These studies just may help those that have just been diagnosed, but I wouldn't wait on any doctor to tell you about these studies.

Cancer cures smoking

Not buying it sister!

Thanks, this is interesting to me. My 93 year old mother has moderate alzheimers and was just diagnosed with the beginning stages of parkinsons a couple of weeks age. I will look into this.

How did you figure out the dosage for him?

weeks AGO

I didn't write that, look at the article from the National Institute of Health, NIH. There are alot of other studies if you follow the google link.

I felt that since he is a non-smoker I would start with the lighter patches (last one for quitting smoking) as nicotine can make you feel sick. Then I'm stepping him up with the patches. A typical smoker goes blue to green to red. So I started red, to green, to blue. I want to see if it helps his Parkinson. I'll feel you in as I see the results.

Keep wondering why all that Nazi anti-smoking propaganda.

Yeah, I know some will say; "But this is different." Still it makes one wonder.

They smoked before they were nuts though.


So likely it played a role in them becoming unstable.


Most criminals smoke too.

Kindly cite sources for your statements, please. Otherwise, you're just flapping your pie-hole.

then you don't know WTF you're typing about.

please.

I believe you.
Nicotine is also the best anti-inflammatories there is.

Study up on it, there are alot of studies on this and they never see the light of day. My daughter was being an ass when she chose a topic of the benefits of smoking for a paper in college. I helped her research it and was amazed. I'm a smoker and she isn't but she just damn hates anyone telling her what she can do. You take the good with the bad I guess, anyway I found out thru research, family geneology, and watching my dad get nothing from the medical community.

You better learn to take your own health into your own hands because these muddraggers are going to kill you if you let them.

Don't mean to be a wet blanket but,

and on the darker side....:



Secondhand Smoke Linked to Chronic Sinusitis
Researchers Add Sinus Trouble to List of Health Problems Connected to Secondhand Smoke
By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Health NewsReviewed by Laura J. Martin, MDApril 19, 2010 -- Secondhand smoke exposure contributes to as many as 40% of the roughly 30 million cases of chronic sinusitis among adults in the U.S., a new study shows.

Chronic sinusitis, also known as rhinosinusitis, is defined as allergic and non-allergic sinus inflammation lasting at least three months. Symptoms can include, but are not limited to, nasal congestion, facial pain, headache, and daytime or nighttime coughing.

In a 2006 report, the surgeon general estimated that 60% of nonsmokers in the U.S., or 126 million adults and children, are routinely exposed to secondhand smoke.

Secondhand smoke exposure has been implicated as a risk factor for a number of respiratory ailments, including asthma and other conditions including heart disease, sudden infant death syndrome, and cancers of the lung and sinus.

Researchers compared secondhand smoke exposures among patients with chronic sinusitis to non-sinus sufferers matched for age, sex, and race in four settings: home, work, public settings, and private social gatherings. None of the study participants smoked.

Participants with chronic sinusitis were almost twice as likely as those without sinusitis to report secondhand smoke exposure at social gatherings (51% vs. 28%) and slightly more than twice as likely to report exposure at work (18% vs.7%).

The patients were also more likely to report exposure at home and in public places, although these associations did not reach statistical significance.

The more places people reported being exposed to tobacco smoke, the higher their risk for chronic sinusitis, study researcher C. Martin Tammemagi, DVM, PhD, tells WebMD.

Tammemagi is an associate professor at Brock University in Ontario, Canada.

The research appears in the April issue of the Archives of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. It was funded by the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute in Miami.

"Ours is one of the first studies to connect secondhand smoke to rhinosinusitis," Tammemagi says. "Our research confirms that people are being exposed in large numbers and it indicates that about 40% of cases are caused by secondhand smoke."

The finding that private social gatherings are an important contributor to secondhand smoke exposure was somewhat surprising, Tammemagi says.

"Certainly from a public policy point of view, limiting these exposures is not easy," he says. "But people with sinus problems need to recognize that exposure when they go to a party or a card game at a friend's house puts them at risk."

Sinus specialist and sinus sufferer Jordan S. Josephson, MD, says it is no surprise that exposure to secondhand smoke triggers symptoms.

Josephson practices at Lenox hill Hospital in New York City and is the author of the book Sinus Relief Now.

"I experience it all the time," he tells WebMD. "If I walk past someone who is smoking I can feel the effects almost immediately."

He says nonsmokers are probably more vulnerable to secondhand smoke than smokers because they are exposed less often.

"More study is needed, but I believe these studies will confirm just how bad secondhand cigarette smoke is for the lungs and sinuses," he says.

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I am a smoker and do not advocate smoking, nicotine could be used to help aleviate parkinson or alzheimers and these patients should be told of the advantages and our damn ama and fda sit mum.

My father has three doctors and NONE of them have mentioned this to him. He's a big NON-SMOKER advocate but he's very interested in the patch and possible help with his parkinson. He said Parkinson is hell to live with and would try anything especially when we discussed his 12 brothers and sisters, all brothers smoke except dad and he's the only one with parkinson, all the sisters were non-smokers except two and both died with parkinson. A rather small coienceidence but we are at least going to try something, especially since there are studies that confirm this.

If you know anyone with parkinson, you may just derive something that will make their life a little more complete. I'm tired of the medical association and their false lies and ill gotten gains, at the suffering of others.

They feed us poison and keep information that may help us hidden. I'm not talking smoking but give us the information and let us decide what to do with it.

Hello,
Go to [link to www.earthclinic.com] there is a lot of info there for you, look under ailments.

The patch takes the shaking away, you have to build up the nicotine in the body or the individual will get sick to his stomach.