Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Nicotine Is the New Wonder Drug

Posted by kdawson on from the if-it-don't-kill-you-first dept.

Fantastic Lad sends us to Wired for a story on the upside of nicotine. Researchers are developing drugs based on nicotine that may prove beneficial for brains, bowels, blood vessels and immune systems. "Nicotine acts on the acetylcholine receptors in the brain, stimulating and regulating the release of a slew of brain chemicals, including seratonin, dopamine and norepinephrine. Now drugs derived from nicotine and the research on nicotine receptors are in clinical trials for everything from helping to heal wounds, to depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, Tourette Syndrome, ADHD, anger management and anxiety." A separate story talks about nicotine warding off Parkinson's disease.

19 of 439 comments (clear)

  1. Oh great by BlackCobra43 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Every time I try to get out, they pull me back in.

    Stop making me smoke you damned scientists!

    --
    I never spellcheck and I freely admit it. Save your karma for more worthwhile "lol erorrs" replies
    1. Re:Oh great by niceone · · Score: 5, Funny

      Stop making me smoke you damned scientists!

      I'm surprised they are letting lab beagles post on slashdot, is it the result of some animal rights campaign?

      --
      ccalam - acoustic versions of new songs.
    2. Re:Oh great by elrous0 · · Score: 3, Funny

      For all those who bitched about breathing my second hand smoke: You're welcome.

      --
      SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
    3. Re:Oh great by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 4, Funny

      You can spin it positively as much as you like, but you two are still a couple of quitters.

      --
      It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
  2. Oh great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    quit smoking after 15 years. What a bitch. And NOW they say that the nicotine is good?

  3. Re:Suspicious at best. by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Funny

    Phillip Morris Healthcare

    --
    Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
    What truth?
    There is no dupe
  4. ...just remember by tygerstripes · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... if you're undertaking clinical trials with these drugs in the UK - don't do it in public enclosed spaces.

    --
    Meta will eat itself
  5. Wait ..... by ajs318 · · Score: 3, Funny

    So fags are good for you now?

    Just make sure that report wasn't signed by anybody named Benson or Hedges!

    --
    Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
    1. Re:Wait ..... by troc · · Score: 4, Funny

      My gay office-mate thoroughly enjoys his daily fags ;)

      (that's a UK-centric joke, sorry)

      Oh and he's giggling over my shoulder now.

      --
      Troc's dubious podcast and blog: http://www.trocnet.net
    2. Re:Wait ..... by JargonScott · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm surprised at your typing prowess given that type of activity. o.O

      --
      Nuke Gay Whales for Jesus.
  6. Re:Suspicious at best. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Depends on who I was administering it to...

  7. Daydream by Detritus · · Score: 3, Funny
    Go away! Don't you have work to do?

    Grumble...

    Can't take a smoke break in peace anymore, with all these health nuts trying to get a free lungful of nicotine.

    --
    Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
  8. Re:Nicotine and bowels by Bourbon+Man · · Score: 4, Funny

    I quit smoking about a year ago, and I've found that there is one bad thing about quitting (at least for me). I used to always get up, have a smoke, and within minutes I would need to go poop. Since I quit smoking, my pooping schedule is all messed up. When your bowels perform like clockwork for decades, to have that schedule go awry is truly a shitty thing.

  9. New nicotine drugs, for a healthy you.... by bodland · · Score: 5, Funny

    Packaged in a 20 dose per container. New fashionable "inhaler" delivery system. Regular, 100 and 120 mg sizes. To take the new drugs you light the end of the inhaler tube and inhale the refreshing vapor. The dose burns with a pleasing aroma and relaxing patterns of vapor. 20 doses, take as needed 20 times per day or more. Packed in soft of hard pack box and cartons. Available at most gas stations. Menthol and other flavors available. NOW over the counter!

    Welcome to a healthy new you.

  10. obligatory Gentoo joke by javilon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, I understand you, its like having finished recompiling Gentoo the day they have a new release.

    --


    When his defense asked, "Which computer has Jon Johansen trespassed upon?" the answer was: "His own."
  11. Re:Suspicious at best. by beckerist · · Score: 4, Funny

    *sigh* Go calm down, have yourself a cigarette...

  12. Re:better than SSRI? by Lord+Ender · · Score: 4, Funny

    I stopped seeing him. I was looking into 'legal' highs for depression, such as St. John's Wort and

    Since I also had problems concentrating,
    That's gold! Seriously, you just can't write comedy like that intentionally.
    --
    A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
  13. Re:better than SSRI? by lawpoop · · Score: 3, Funny

    I couldn't remember the word 'melatonin' and I was going to look it up, and then I forgot...

    --
    Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
    -- Pablo Picasso
  14. Re:Suspicious at best. by itlurksbeneath · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Mansons were a family too... They don't have many commercials, though.

    --
    Have you ever considered piracy? You'd make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts.