... but In Reverse
Nicotine patches (like NicoDerm and other brands) help smokers quit smoking, by providing a controlled infusion of small doses of nicotine to the person. It's like they're smoking very tiny cigarettes, and slowly, their body will ween off the addictive substance. Makes sense, and it seems to work.
But what if you've never regularly smoked? What if -- if you can humour me for a bit -- what if a non-smoker used the patch regularly? Would the body start getting used to having nicotine in the system? Would you effectively get addicted to smoking, then??
The things that flirt through my head.
3 comments:
You wouldn't get addicted to smoking but to the nicotine. The patch and other thigns like it is to help smokers break the habit of actual smoking. It's a whole oral fixation thing. Nicotine clears from your system in about 2 hours.
KT
So if you're addicted to nicotine, where else (besides the patch that got you hooked, and cigarettes) could you get it? What else has nicotine in it?
Nicotine might clear out of the body in two hours, but the addiction doesn't. So maybe just a fresh new patch every two hours, then. I imagine that costs more than the $0.25/cigarette for smokers, though at least you don't get the smoke in the lungs thing.
i think there's a load of nicotine in beatlenuts... u know.. that red thingy ghetto TWnese guys spit out? :)
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