Many people disregard nicotine as a substance that can be abused, because of its social acceptability and ready availability. This is why many people would take up smoking without hesitation but still refrain from doing “hard drugs” as a means of justification.

However, the health risks attached to nicotine are several and extremely dangerous. Addiction is a recognized mental illness, whether it is to nicotine or cocaine, because any foreign substance that has the power to alter your brain chemistry fulfills the prerequisites of creating addiction inside a person’s mind and body.

Nicotine is a substance secreted by the tobacco plant to ward off insects from destroying the crop. It is also used as a popular pesticide to kill insects from fields. However, the negative effects of nicotine have plagued nature as well as human beings. Nicotine pesticides have been blamed for killing honey bees and has been labeled as a super-toxin, which is three times deadlier than arsenic and twice more poisonous as rattlesnake venom.

The reason our brain is receptive to nicotine is because nicotine has chemical compounds similar to the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which once fitted inside the brain, hosts a series of chemical locks which enables it to take control and steer the flow of over two hundred neuro-chemicals around the brain, dopamine being one of those core chemicals.

Dopamine is the chemical responsible for pleasure inside the brain. When smokers experience withdrawal, they are noticing shortages in the production of dopamine, which makes them irritable and frustrated, and causes craving.

A good way to wean off nicotine without going cold-turkey is by switching from traditional cigarettes to electronic cigarettes. They provide a lower amount of nicotine than what you would normally receive from a conventional cigarette, without the other harmful carcinogens that are put into creating cigarettes such as tar. This way, you can slowly taper off your nicotine consumption till you feel like you are ready to kick the habit completely, to make the process physically easier for you.

People are extremely quick to label Marijuana as a harmful drug and look down upon people who smoke marijuana as deadbeats and junkies. However these people do not even bat an eyelid at regular tobacco consumers who smoke packets and packets of cigarettes daily who are exposing themselves to dangerous diseases like bronchitis, even lung cancer every day.

Although most countries are centuries away from adapting to the same code, countries that decriminalize the use and possession of marijuana are following harm reduction reasoning which has been backed up by solid scientific research.

Even though marijuana has some negative effects, these effects are almost negligible in comparison to the negative impact sending marijuana users to jail have on the nation. These include the creation of a large underground criminal economy, the promotion of gang violence and the destruction of the lives of the users along with using billions of taxpayers’ dollars to lock up marijuana users while there are dangerous criminals being grouped into cells with them.

Considering the harmful effects tobacco on our health, we should ban cigarettes as well?

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Though nicotine is lesser of a health hazard than cancer causing tobacco smoke, nicotine is not healthy either. Some may be surprised that TheMagicMist sends out anti-nicotine message. TheMagicMist reminds you to quit smoking and if possible try to quit e-cigs as well.

Nicotine effects

Today I heard the question being asked “Can I use ecigs instead of traditional cigarettes during pregnancy’. Well to you the truth I was shocked by the ignorance. Cigarettes are really really bad for pregnant moms and cause huge damage to the unborn child.

I am no doctor but can assure you that nicotine is also really bad for the fetus. It easily crosses the placenta and concentrations in the fetus can be as much as 15 percent higher than maternal levels. Nicotine concentrates in fetal blood, amniotic fluid, and breast milk. Combined, these factors can have severe consequences for unborn baby.

Though cigarettes are really really bad for you nicotine is bad too (and hence ecigs as well). We at the TheMagicMist want to remind you that any addiction is fundamentally not good. Definitely kick the habit of traditional cigarettes and if possible ecigs as well.

If you are an expectant mother then quit all forms of nicotine intake. If you are not an expecting mother but are planning on having a baby then quit the smoking/ecig habit before you go down the wonderful journey of bringing a healthy baby in this world. You owe it your baby’s well-being.

Many people disregard nicotine as a substance that can be abused, because of its social acceptability and ready availability. This is why many people would take up smoking without hesitation but still refrain from doing “hard drugs” as a means of justification.

However, the health risks attached to nicotine are several and extremely dangerous. Addiction is a recognized mental illness, whether it is to nicotine or cocaine, because any foreign substance that has the power to alter your brain chemistry fulfils the prerequisites of creating addiction inside a person’s mind and body.

Nicotine is a substance secreted by the tobacco plant to ward off insects from destroying the crop. It is also used as a popular pesticide to kill insects from fields. However, the negative effects of nicotine have plagued nature as well as human beings. Nicotine pesticides have been blamed for killing honey bees and has been labeled as a super-toxin, which is three times deadlier than arsenic and twice more poisonous as rattlesnake venom.

The reason our brain is receptive to nicotine is because nicotine has chemical compounds similar to the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which once fitted inside the brain, hosts a series of chemical locks which enables it to take control and steer the flow of over two hundred neuro-chemicals around the brain, dopamine being one of those core chemicals.

Dopamine is the chemical responsible for pleasure inside the brain. When smokers experience withdrawal, they are noticing shortages in the production of dopamine, which makes them irritable and frustrated, and causes craving.

A good way to wean off nicotine without going cold-turkey is by switching from traditional cigarettes to electronic cigarettes. They provide a lower amount of nicotine than what you would normally receive from a conventional cigarette, without the other harmful carcinogens that are put into creating cigarettes such as tar. This way, you can slowly taper off your nicotine consumption till you feel like you are ready to kick the habit completely, to make the process physically easier for you.