Month: September 2022

PLEASURE STIMULATION is clearly something that tobacco companies have an advanced understanding of through their research. As experts in the pleasure business, it is of no great surprise that as they diversified, they move laterally into the junk food business, which is also about engineering non-functional neural pleasure responses. View in LinkedIn

NICOTINE MODULATES MOOD. "Nicotine induces pleasure and reduces stress and anxiety. Smokers use it to modulate levels of arousal and to control mood. Smoking improves concentration, reaction time, and performance of certain tasks. Relief from withdrawal symptoms is probably the primary reason for this enhanced performance and heightened mood." https://lnkd.in/dydNq5e View in LinkedIn

THE BRAIN REWARD PATHWAY. "The addicted brain is distinctly different from the nonaddicted brain ... Changes in brain structure and function is what makes it, fundamentally, a brain disease. A metaphorical switch in the brain seems to be thrown as a result of prolonged drug use." https://lnkd.in/dwvyVSV View in LinkedIn

MENTHOL AS BRAIN STIMULANT, along with other herbal ingredients. Read this informative EU Commission report. https://lnkd.in/dA4Edem View in LinkedIn

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO. "Chief among BAT's considerations were thoughts of diversifying as a drug supplier to help fill the ever-growing needs of an increasing population for mood-affecting drugs ... that the taking of other mood-affecting drugs (valium, tranquilizers, marijuana) might become "socialised like alcoholic drinking and tobacco smoking." https://lnkd.in/dGX7-Ud View in LinkedIn

"COCOA is added to cigarettes for flavour enhancement. The ten psychoactive cocoa compounds were theobromine, caffeine, serotonin, histamine, tryptophan, tryptamine, tyramine, phenylethylamine, octopamine and anandamide." It is one of the highest additives by weight in cigarettes. No accident. https://lnkd.in/dFgigNc View in LinkedIn

COCOA PYROLYTIC BYPRODUCTS. "The combustion products of the amine psychoactive compounds, such as serotonin, tryptophan, tryptamine, tyramine and phenylethylamine, inhibit the enzyme mono amine oxidase (MAO). These MAO-inhibitors have anti-depressive properties and may thus increase the addiction to cigarette smoking." https://lnkd.in/dFgigNc View in LinkedIn

CIGARETTES FOR CONSTIPATION. "Nicotine acts on receptors in the bowel wall to speed up contractions that moves food through the gut. Similarly, it can affect the major pushing movements that characterize the defecation process. Naturally when you quit smoking the process is slightly disturbed from what you were accustomed to." http://www.neednicotine.com/constipation-and-altered-bowel-habit-after-quitting-cigarettes/ View in LinkedIn

QUITTING AND CONSTIPATION. "Clinicians treating smokers need to be aware of a possibility that one in six quitters develop constipation, and that for about one in 11 the problem can be severe. Descriptions of tobacco withdrawal syndrome should include constipation." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14616182 View in LinkedIn

BRONCHODILATORS added to tobacco open the airways, including theobromine (in cocoa and chocolate) and glycerine (in liquorice), adopting a nutraceutical tactic to avoid FDA regulation, because they are less concerned with claims than effects. Open airways increase nicotine uptake. https://lnkd.in/dvrbqmZ View in LinkedIn