Health benefits of tobacco.

[Ansel]

Just saw this on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_benefits_of_smoking

[pris]

At last, a positive article on nicotine :-)

[Ansel]

Was quite surprised to see it on Wikipedia.

[hondo]

Nicotine has been shown best for people using ulcerative colitis, the item alleviates the particular symptoms, and the ones with thought illness, yet again the cigarette smoking alleviates symptoms.

[muddyfunkstar]

Yeah, I can testify to the benefits of nicotine/smoking on colitis.

I was diagnosed with UC a few years after I quit smoking, and the doctor at the time said it was quite common for ex-smokers to develop it, and that cigarettes could relieve the symptoms. He then went on to say he wasn't advocating I started again, etc etc.

That's partly the reason I started snussing, to see if would help my UC, and it did. I still got the occasional flare-up, but was able to have a few cigarettes (which really alleviates the symptoms) safe in the knowledge I wouldn't end up smoking full-time, as I had snus to stop me doing it.

Part of the reason I still smoke now and again is to keep the UC under control, that and they go well with beer.

Taking up snus also helped my depression, which I suffered from for a few years, again during my nicotine free years.

[Ansel]

Taking up snus also helped my depression, which I suffered from for a few years, again during my nicotine free years.

When i gave up smoking and went on to NRT (which i never managed to get off easily) mild depression exacerbated into deeper depression coupled with some anxiety for good measure.

[muddyfunkstar]

When i gave up smoking and went on to NRT (which i never managed to get off easily) mild depression exacerbated into deeper depression coupled with some anxiety for good measure.

In fairness, I also had a LOT of bad things happen in my life over the course of a couple of years that contributed to the depression, but within six months of starting on tobacco, I came off the anti-depressants and have never looked back.

It may be a coincidence, but I do think nicotine helped somehow.

Trouble is, I'd be too scared to ever quit again lest the colitis and the depression take over. I suppose at least with snus it's the safest delivery system.

[precious007]

this is why I use SNUS!

hoping to get that Odens in my mail box sooner :-)

[marin]

I knew the five benefits of tobacco.1:Smoking lowers risk of knee-replacement surgery. 2:Smoking lowers rosk of parkinson's disease.3:Smoking lowers risk of obesity.4:Smoking lowers risk of death after some heart attacks.And the last one is smoking helps the heart drug clopidogrel work better

[hokiehi82]

Shhhhh! Don't let the surgeon general hear you say any of this.

[SnusoMatic]

my grand dad who was born in 1910 had asthma and he smoked hand rolled cigarettes. Before he went to bed he would roll up 2-3 cigarettes. when he woke up in the night with an asthma attack he smoked them to settle his attack. everyone would laugh at him for doing it because we just figured it was an excuse for smoking. then a couple of years ago i read online that smoking actually helped some types of asthma and its listed on that wikipeda page too.

he smoked cigs since he was ten, then switched to cigars, and then to chew, drank whiskey until he was 48. He ate fat back (lard) on biscuits made with (pork) lard and butter milk, fried food at every meal, drank cokes every night, chewed tobacco constantly. fell over dead at 82 year old when his generation averaged maybe 60.

My dad (grand dads son) smoked up to 5 packs of cigarettes a day from age 12 until 72. ate anything he felt like. drank whiskey for decades and the switched to at least 6 diet pepsi's a day. as of yesterday he was still kicking around at 85. he does have lung cancer and according to the docs he should have been dead a year and a half ago.

i smoked cigs for 35+ years, drank enough whiskey to float a boat, switched to snus, eat a low carb diet, no pork, hardly any beef, lots of veggies. Sometimes I wonder if I will make it to 95 or die in a couple of years from eating wrong and not smoking enough.

[Brugs]

My paternal grandfather smoked a pack of luckies a day, drank like a fish, ate like he wanted to die (his favorite part of prime rib was the gristle, a preferred dish was 'soppy'- white bread fried in mutton fat) worked outside his entire life, and died at 83, never having had anything but melanoma.

My grandmother died of Alzheimer's close to a year ago. The way I look at it, nothing could be worse than such severe dementia and two of my primary vices (nicotine and caffeine) seem to prevent it to some degree.

Russian roulette, it seems to me

[Elzbieta]

My grand pa smoking tobacco since many years, He is fit right now and don't have any sign of cancer and other dangerous disease. But one positive thing is here he does regular morning walk 40 to 60 min.
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