You can find plenty of studies to read on the benefits of nicotine. If you just "Google" it though they are pretty hard to find because most report on tobacco products, not nicotine alone. Need to search pubmed/ncbi/Google scholar etc.
My personal experience is that nicotine itself isn't addictive but the habit in which you take the nicotine is, you repeat something enough you're training your body for a dopamine hit. If you secretly removed the nicotine from a persons vape, they would still get placebo effect.
I smoked for about a year when I was a teen, tried to go for a mountain bike ride and felt it in my lungs, quit cold turkey that day.
Didn't pick nicotine back up until started working construction many years later. Tobacco based chew. Got grossed out by that and quit cold turkey.
10 years later after no nicotine use the nicotine salt pouches showed up and gave them a try. Been on and off with those.
I'm healthy, I workout 5 days a week alternating lifting and running. There is a a difference on and off nicotine. But I also feel like too much is a bad thing as with anything. I feel like there is a neural burnout when taken too long. If you would really like the benefits of nicotine but are worried about the addiction I would cycle it. 2 weeks on 2 weeks off. Or change the method in which you get nicotine, patch one week/ gum the next/ pouches the next. I don't recommend vaping due to oils and contamination.
Habits are hard to form and hard to break, the mind doesn't like change, if you don't get it used to anything it won't miss it either.
protodonata 2 points 8 hours ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9871277/
You can find plenty of studies to read on the benefits of nicotine. If you just "Google" it though they are pretty hard to find because most report on tobacco products, not nicotine alone. Need to search pubmed/ncbi/Google scholar etc.
My personal experience is that nicotine itself isn't addictive but the habit in which you take the nicotine is, you repeat something enough you're training your body for a dopamine hit. If you secretly removed the nicotine from a persons vape, they would still get placebo effect.
I smoked for about a year when I was a teen, tried to go for a mountain bike ride and felt it in my lungs, quit cold turkey that day.
Didn't pick nicotine back up until started working construction many years later. Tobacco based chew. Got grossed out by that and quit cold turkey.
10 years later after no nicotine use the nicotine salt pouches showed up and gave them a try. Been on and off with those.
I'm healthy, I workout 5 days a week alternating lifting and running. There is a a difference on and off nicotine. But I also feel like too much is a bad thing as with anything. I feel like there is a neural burnout when taken too long. If you would really like the benefits of nicotine but are worried about the addiction I would cycle it. 2 weeks on 2 weeks off. Or change the method in which you get nicotine, patch one week/ gum the next/ pouches the next. I don't recommend vaping due to oils and contamination.
Habits are hard to form and hard to break, the mind doesn't like change, if you don't get it used to anything it won't miss it either.