Nicotine

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This paper examines how nicotine is a complex drug which can cause many positive effects in the body, such as reducing anxiety and depression and increasing cognition. It also has promising medical uses, such as preventing Alzheimer's disease. It also looks at how nicotine is considered a poison and how it causes high blood pressure, respiratory distress, gastrointestinal distress, and can even cause death by overdose. Furthermore, nicotine is an addictive drug with and its effects on some systems vary from person to person. While withdrawal from nicotine is difficult, the negative effects of nicotine use indicate that it should not be used recreationally.
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Introduction
Nicotine Addiction
Positive Effects of Nicotine
Negative Effects of Nicotine
Nicotine's Effects by System
Withdrawal
Conclusion

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"While nicotine has a bad reputation, like almost anything else, nicotine is not all bad. There are some promising medical uses for nicotine. For example, nicotine has analgesic properties, which means that it can deliver the absence of pain while retaining the sense of touch. In addition, nicotine is an anti-psychotic drug. In fact, "the correlation between a diagnosis of untreated psychosis and smoking is very high--it appears that somehow the psychotic person 'knows' to self-medicate." In fact, nicotine works on the nervous system in a variety of ways: it lowers anxiety levels, enhances cognition, and causes cerebrovasodilation. Nicotine may also have some neuroprotective properties; "a history smoking seems to be protective against some of the neuronal loss in Alzheimer's disease." "

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