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[Doc]

Cancer and water bottles

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[jamesstew]

Just something to look into. But regardless, if you read some of the science that has been done on nicotine since the big tobacco settlement allowed science to study it without getting wrapped up into politics, nicotine is cited as increasing concentration in even normal adults. The issue is how much you need that.

I had a girlfriend last year with a heart condition. Even tiny amounts of nicotine would throw her hear rhythms off, so I quit snus for about a month. I was almost helpless. My work suffered dramatically, it was like I was going through life in a fog. The day we broke up, I returned to snus and it was literally like the fog lifted.

I have only become fully aware of my ADHD in the past 4 years. I smoked on and off since I was 9, and have now been able to trace my most significant difficulties in life with both school and work to the periods I wasn't smoking. I never intend to give nicotine up again.

I also suffer from adult ADHD but am currently on medication for it. I've noticed on days that I have accidentally skipped the medication I end up using more snus and do not suffer too badly. I think I may be more able to concentrate and not get distracted since I have started snus. Perhaps this is because the nicotine levels are more constant throughout the day. When I smoked I'd just sit around thinking about my next cigarette and wondering how I could get away from my desk. It would be interesting to start a post on adult ADHD, methinks a lot of forum lurkers suffer from this.

[sagedil]

The first study to show the effects of nicotine on ADHD was done about 6 years ago. Researchers noted that teenagers with ADHD smoked at a rate of about 65%, compared with the 23% smoking rate of all teenagers. At first, the assumption was that there was spmeting about ADHD that caused the kids to smoke. But as they looked into it, they realized that the kids were just self medicating. Numerous studies since then have proven the effectiveness of nicotine to treat ADHD.

Below is just a few links if you are interested in learning more.

http://www.uvm.edu/~psych/news/archi...r_nicotine.pdf

http://www.docguide.com/news/content...256DDD004D95F8

http://health.msn.com/health-topics/...44050&GT1=8546

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/art...?artid=2446482

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8927677

[jamesstew]

Thanks for the links, it really seems to make sense to me now. The medication I take is a time released stimulant but tends to taper off in the evening. That's when I automatically seem to switch from my regular strength snus to Nick and Johnny when I find the need to concentrate.

[sagedil]

Yeah, life started to make more sense once I stumbled across it as well.

I wish I could take medication, but after abusing amphetamines many, many years ago, I know that I would still abuse them today if given the chance. Desperately don't want to go that route.

So for me, snus is the way I maintain, and it works very well. I did have a chance last year to try out some medication for a week. I suppose I was a bit better with it, bun then started to play with it and I just knew that could never be an option for me.

[Snusærn]

You don't get addicted by using 3-4 priser pr. week. Period.

[Snusærn]

I do agree my above statement was stupid.. I dont know what I was thinking.

I very much enjoy snus, it makes me feel better, I think clearer, I have greater a greater attention span while using it and I have actually started to see weight loss from using snus due to nicotine speeding up metabolism.

I suppose the only negative thing for me about using snus is the unknown.

And by the way, all these myths about snus are not true.

[Soliex]

I've started to get some small indentations in my gum area and little holes, Im done using snus.

[auggie]

Soliex - it's good to keep track of your gum health, and if there is something serious, it's without a doubt best to keep away.

However, if you're a new user, the salt and pH of the snus will be a bit rough on your gums, and I would suspect that spots or marks on your gums are a reaction to your gums getting used to being bathed in a hyper-osmotic solution (high salt, high ionic strength) in your saliva, which can create blisters (wrinkly gums and wrinkly, bumping feeling skin on your lip.)

I mean, that's just a possibility - it's not worth messing around with if you're worried about it being something more serious - but the fact is that millions of people use snus their entire lives, and so far I've not heard much about it rearranging a user's mouth within the first month. :P

[sagedil]

A few folks do find some gum irritation the first month of use, but it always quickly goes away. I have been using for 17 months and my gums are in great shape. And I rarely move my snus around from it's preferred perch. That area looks exactly like all the others in my mouth