It has recently been discovered that decreasing nicotine in cigarettes to lower levels, capable of not triggering dependence, can reduce the number of consumption of cigarettes and other products that contain tobacco, without risking the individual's mental health.
The information comes from research carried out by researchers at Penn State College of Medicine and Harvard Medical School.
see more
Japanese company imposes time restriction and reaps benefits
Alert: THIS poisonous plant landed a young man in the hospital
Read more: China bans production of flavored e-cigarettes across the country
According to the idea provided by the researchers, the reduction of nicotine in cigarettes can help the addict to decrease exposure to toxic substances and further increase the chances of stopping smoke.
To this day, tobacco remains the leading preventable cause of early death and disease in the United States. Therefore, new guidelines regarding limiting the amount of nicotine in cigarettes began to be developed, reaching the point of finding minimally addictive levels.
Projects are coming from the US Food and Drug Administration as well as the New Zealand government.
While the idea may seem incredibly wonderful, there is still not a lot of evidence related to the fact that reducing nicotine in cigarettes can help smokers positively, since there are doubts about how people who have affective disorders, such as depression and anxiety, a group that makes up 38% of the population of the United States, will react to this change.
Jonathan Foulds, a professor of public health sciences and of psychiatry and behavioral health, commented that most smokers who have some mental health problem tend to be more susceptible to severe symptoms, for example, nicotine withdrawal, as well as less success in quitting addiction.
In the midst of the study process, the researchers in question came to study 188 smokers in the research, who had in their chips or even presented some kind of mood disorder, anxiety and who had no plan to stop smoke.
The experience was developed with voluntary participants, chosen completely at random and divided into two groups. One group received cigarettes produced by the researchers, with little nicotine, and the other received cigarettes having a usual amount of nicotine.
Right away, the researchers decided to measure the levels of cotinine, a metabolite that belongs to nicotine, in addition to levels of harmful chemicals and addiction rates, as well as some health-related measures mental.
No difference was found with regard to the individual's mental health in both groups.
According to Foulds, a researcher at the Penn State Cancer Institute, this was a big step:
“Our data showed that there was no significant difference in measures of mental health between the groups, suggesting that reducing nicotine cigarettes may not have adverse psychological effects on this population".
Lover of movies and series and everything that involves cinema. An active curious on the networks, always connected to information about the web.