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Re: Nicotine boosts BDNF release » Marty

Posted by linkadge on July 31, 2008, at 8:05:42

In reply to Re: Nicotine boosts BDNF release » linkadge, posted by Marty on July 30, 2008, at 22:11:13

I didn't realize they still allowed smoking indoors for inpatients! Thats wierd. Yes, its banned almost everywhere here in Ontario.

Well, of course the issue is very controversial as you get the anti-smoking bandwagon and all the propegand that they associate with smoking. Yes smoking is bad, but that doesn't necessarily negatively implicate every constituent in tobacco smoke.

If you look at independant studies on nicotine itself, there seems to have a number of interesting properties.

I can't say how it will affect you so I don't know if it would be a good idea to add to your regiment. You could try. It might be a viable neuroprotective strategy.

Unlike most some drugs of abuse, nicotine seems to enhance reward sensitivity over time. It increases the expression of d3 receptors in the neucleus accumbens.

http://biopsychiatry.com/nicotine-dopamined3.htm

This might be very helpful for somebody who had good results with say a dopamine agonist, but who loses effect over time. Perhaps a low dose of nicotine + mirapex might be a good strategy to maintain an effect.

Linkadge



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