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Nicotine is a stimulant drug that speeds up the messages traveling between the brain and body. It is the main psychoactive ingredient in tobacco products. Nicotine is a chemical that contains nitrogen, which is made by several types of plants, including the tobacco plant. It is also produced synthetically. Nicotiana tabacum, the type of nicotine found in tobacco plants, comes from the nightshade family. While not cancer-causing or excessively harmful on its own, nicotine is heavily addictive and exposes people to the extremely harmful effects of tobacco dependency.

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Nicotiana

[ni-koh-shee-ey-nuh]

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Watch this to find out more about nicotine!

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Nicotine is rarely sold as a singular product, rather it's most often found as an ingredient in tobacco products like cigarettes and some smoking cessation products like nicotine gum and patches. Nicotine is sold as a liquid for use in e-cigarettes.

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Nicotine Usage in  Kids, Teens, and Young Adults

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Nicotine Usage in  Kids, Teens, and Young Adults

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Nicotine can harm the developing adolescent brain. The brain keeps developing until about age 25.

Using nicotine in adolescence can harm the parts of the brain that control attention, learning, mood, and impulse control.

Each time a new memory is created or a new skill is learned, stronger connections – or synapses – are built between brain cells. Young people’s brains build synapses faster than adult brains. Nicotine changes the way these synapses are formed.

Using nicotine in adolescence may also increase risk for future addiction to other drugs.

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Nicotine is a stimulant drug.

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In the 1930s and 40s, tobacco companies would happily tell you it was theirs. Doctors hadn’t yet discovered a clear link between smoking and lung cancer, and a majority of them actually smoked cigarettes. So in cigarette ads, tobacco companies used doctors’ authority to make their claims about their cigarettes seem more legitimate.

The first cigarette company to use physicians in their ads was American Tobacco, maker of Lucky Strikes. In 1930, it published an ad claiming “20,679 Physicians say ‘LUCKIES are less irritating’” to the throat. To get this number, the company’s ad agency had sent physicians cartons of Lucky Strike cigarettes and a letter asking if they thought Lucky Strikes were “less irritating to sensitive and tender throats than other cigarettes,” while noting “a good many people” had already said they were.

Soon after e-cigarettes debuted in Europe in 2006, tobacco companies began investing heavily in vaping. The Food and Drug Administration noted in 2018 that vaping was increasing at an alarming rate among teens, raising concern that more young people were becoming addicted to nicotine. In 2019, six deaths and hundreds of cases of vaping-related lung illness were reported. By September, 2019, the U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar said the FDA planned to take flavored e-cigarettes off the market.

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Desired Effects:
Studies have shown that nicotine appears to improve memory and concentration. It is thought that this is due to an increase in acetylcholine and norepinephrine. Nicotine results in increased levels of beta-endorphin, which reduces anxiety.

Harmful Effects:
Nicotine is known to cause decreased appetite, heightened mood, increased heart rate and blood pressure, nausea, diarrhea, better memory, and increased alertness.

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Ciggies

Darts

Durries

Rollies

Smokes

Fags

Butts

Cancer sticks

E- cigarettes

E-hookah

Vape sticks

Vape pens

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https://adf.org.au/drug-facts/nicotine/

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240820#_noHeaderPrefixedContent

https://www.verywellmind.com/nicotine-addiction-101-2825018#:~:text=Common%20Side%20Effects%3A%20Nicotine%20is,better%20memory%2C%20and%20increased%20alertness.

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/Quick-Facts-on-the-Risks-of-E-cigarettes-for-Kids-Teens-and-Young-Adults.html#:~:text=Nicotine%20can%20harm%20the%20developing,%2C%20mood%2C%20and%20impulse%20control.

https://www.history.com/news/cigarette-ads-doctors-smoking-endorsement