ATOM PHARMA

  In the New World, tobacco was both thought of as a panacea for all that could ail you and also as a spiritual conduit. Using it cured you, kept you safe, and could give you visions. And it also helped with what was more common in those days: a less reliable food supply. In other words, more people were more hungry more of the time. Tobacco, and the  nicotine  it contained, was an effective appetite suppressant and a food substitute. When you smoked, it both distracted you from thinking about food as well as suppressing the cravings. Nicotine: The Appetite Suppressant We still use tobacco as an appetite suppressant, but more to combat the desire to eat than to survive the times when food is not available. However, the poor (and supermodels) still smoke to alleviate hunger. Historically it appears that many psychoactive substances were adopted precisely because they helped alleviate hunger. Hallucinations were much more common in those days – both because of the use of to...

Nicotine by itself is actually viewed as the least harmful of all the compounds found in cigarette smoke, and what’s more nicotine may actually have medicinal benefits for a number of conditions. Professor Polosa pointed out at the 1st Global Forum on Nicotine 2014 that: “Nicotine is not the reason for smoking-related disease: officially it is not a carcinogen it does not cause lung cancer it has minimal effect on cardiovascular disease”  Nicotine in Protecting Against Alzheimer’s No cure has not yet been found for this awful disease, but nicotine shows promise in delaying the onset of Alzhimer’s disease as well as mitigating the associated symptoms due to its neuroprotective effect. A study of people diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (an onset for Alzhimer’s) over six months found that those treated with nicotine demonstrated statistically significant improvement on their reaction time, memory and attention. 2. Enhancing Memory with Nicotine One study on...