Maybe I can be clearer: I use 2mg nicotine rarely (15 times since December 2022), so on average about once a month, which I’ve edited in the comment above. It’s been really useful when used surgically. Why do you advise against it? The strongest counterarguments I’ve seen were in here.
I think there is some context missing. When I see “taking nicotine” I think “smoking a cigarette, but expressed using more science-y language to make it sound like a less awful idea”. Whereas you seem to be taking nicotine gum or something, which is a different proposition. (I think smoking is a very bad idea, with very high confidence. I think nicotine by other sources is also a very bad idea, but my confidence is lower).
Maybe I can be clearer: I use 2mg nicotine rarely (15 times since December 2022), so on average about once a month, which I’ve edited in the comment above. It’s been really useful when used surgically. Why do you advise against it? The strongest counterarguments I’ve seen were in here.
Pretty much all of those reasons—what it’s missing is that nicotine itself may also be a carcinogen- at least, it has the ability to be one: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10311-023-01668-1
Although there aren’t enough isolated studies done on nicotine in a long period to be conclusive: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5020336/
Some reviews disagree: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26380225/
I think there is some context missing. When I see “taking nicotine” I think “smoking a cigarette, but expressed using more science-y language to make it sound like a less awful idea”. Whereas you seem to be taking nicotine gum or something, which is a different proposition. (I think smoking is a very bad idea, with very high confidence. I think nicotine by other sources is also a very bad idea, but my confidence is lower).
Ah, agree on the cigarettes thing (edited it in).