https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/does-nicotine-affect-muscle-growth
There is data to show nicotine might have a performance increasing effects on people. However, the idea is more that you ingest a safe amount via methods that are not smoking/chewing.
THAT’S WHY I DRINK A SUGAR-FREE REDBULL WITH EXTRA CREATINE, PROTEIN POWDER, AND PROBIOTICS MIXED IN WHILE CHEWING SEVEN ZYNS BEFORE EVERY 15 MINUTE SET. I NO LONGER SLEEP AND MY HEARTBEATS CANNOT BE DISTINGUISHED. MY LUNGS ARE PERFECT AND MY BODY IS PRISTINE!
Your heartbeat is measured in Hz
Come to think of it, a normal heart rate would be like 1-3hz depending on activity
That’s 1000 to 3000 mHz!
Thanks for clarifying that
Im stealing this for if my brother complains about his heartbeat after staying up for like 18 hours on six cans of red bull again
Nicotine itself is hardly worse than say caffeine. But obviously the negative effects of burning and inhaling a cigarette (with all that it contains), especially the carcinogenic agents, is absolutely stupid to think it’s an even trade to pump your workout
Oh, nicotine is way worse. It may not harm your health directly, but addictiveness is exponentially worse.
Wikipedia: Caffeine - Dependence and Withdrawal: Moderately physical dependence and withdrawal symptoms may occur upon abstinence, with greater than 100 mg caffeine per day, although these symptoms last no longer than a day
Wikipedia: Nicotine withdrawal: Symptoms are usually strongest for the first few days and then dissipate over 2–4 weeks (…) In a minority of smokers, cravings may persist for years.
Edit: Left out the “Caffeine” in “Caffeine - Dependance and Withdrawal”
Edit to add: Caffeine withdrawal causes you to be annoyed for a day. Nicotine causes real, actual cravings (you know you need nicotine, whereas for caffeine you’re just generally “moody” - most people don’t feel “i need caffeine, now”, and even if you do, chances are, if you run out of coffee and can’t get it within less than a day, the “craving” just stops).
For some, many of whom I know, quitting nicotine is downright impossible due to the cravings. For quitting, toning down is key. Those that quit either relapse momentarily in times of stress (usually for about a week or so), or complain of very strong cravings every few weeks/months.
Additionally, nicotine isn’t the only addictive compound in cigarettes, and from what I’ve heard, vaping, gum, etc. just isn’t it for some - people also get addicted to cigatettes themselves.
Not to mention, vaping causes pneumothorax and all the other alternatives cause some harm as well, although much less than cigarettes proper.
I smoked cigarettes for four years, then quit for a decade. I was incredibly stressed out and had 2-3 cigarettes for a couple days in a row and now I’m addicted again. I hope I will be able to quit soon, I just have to stop working where I am first, because I need the five minute breaks and don’t get them otherwise.
Is switching to vaping an option? You’d still be getting the nicotine, but not the smoke/tar
It is, but I feel like the additional harm to myself is worth not getting a vape with all of the environmental drawbacks to the casing and battery, especially because I really think it’ll only be another few weeks. I already have a new job lined up, and I won’t be able to smoke during that really at all.
As a long time daily coffee drinker, that is definitely not accurate about caffeine withdrawal. Every time I try to quit caffeine I go through multiple weeks of depression and physical weakness symptoms.
And as a former smoker, nicotine is still significantly worse. Never touch the stuff, not even once. For a lot of people, there just is no going back from it. It claims you.
I’ve smoked cigars occasionally, maybe as many as 2-3 per week for 2 weeks in a row and then just stopped with no signs of addiction. Nicotine is often described as one of the most addictive drugs and I sometimes wonder if I just never took enough to get addicted in the first place or my experience is a result of lower than average susceptibility to nicotine addiction.
Probably both. They’re not mutually exclusive
I’ve heard that but how else is one supposed to get nicotine in the system? Chewing gum? Patches? Vapes? Is it soluble in a substance that’s safe to consume?
Nicotine is water soluble. You can take a wet tobacco leaf off the plant and it’ll soak into your skin and get you a bit buzzed (or in my case when I discovered this mid harvest if you touch enough it’ll get you massively high and nauseous). Imo one of the best ways to get some in relative safety is grow your own, they’re really easy, and just put a leaf under your tongue for a bit then spit it out
Its highly highly illegal to grow it in my country unfortunately.
Don’t let laws stop you from doing harmless shit.
Unless, of course, your country aggressively enforces that and has extreme penalties.
Part of the problem with using tobacco this way (basically diy dip) is that tobacco leaves themselves contain carcinogenic nitrates that will still have long term health impacts. If you’re going to consume nicotine, it’s best that your source is as close to chemically pure as you can get. Synthetic nicotine is by and large the safest option outside of simply not consuming nicotine in any form. It’s still incredibly addictive and cardiotoxic
After that article the other day about caffeine in hand lotion, I’m now surprised they don’t put nicotine in hand lotion.
Nicotine in comparable or larger doses from non-toxic or much less toxic sources is arbitrarily limited for stupid reasons.
Profits of tobacco companies isn’t a stupid reason when ur a lobbyist for the tobacco companies
It interacts with nicotinic receptors in your stomach, and you’ll have the liver first past effect after that. Eating it is a bad idea.
Edit: I forgot to mention, absorbing it by your esophagus can irritate your vagus nerve and cause uncontrollable hiccups.
I smoked for pretty much my whole life. Quit with varying degrees of success many many times. I switched to nicotine pouches 2 months ago, and it’s been fairly great at reducing the damage of cigarettes while not dealing with the actual addiction.
Still need to watch out for gum recession, so it’s not exactly 100% healthy, but smoking causes gum recession anyway and I’m not destroying my lungs anymore, so pretty solid for harm reduction.
Still need to watch out for gum recession
Boof it
I mean, we are talking about a crowd where steroid abuse is super common. Taking some nicotine to get a pump isn’t really anywhere near being outside the realm of an unreasonable health risk, to a large portion of this demographic.
If you just smoke two (for the health benefits) you don’t even need to work out.
Well if I smoke four (for the health benefits), then it’s like I worked out twice!
Unfortunately they don’t allow it at the casino so I can’t smoke while I gamble (for the health benefits)
Army commander says “smoke 'em if you got 'em” right before we enter battle, but I already have (for health benefits).
Smoking doesn’t increase testosterone … it makes your voice sound like you have more testosterone
I once called a friend at home, back before mobile phones were common, only to have some older man answer. Shit, did I call the wrong number? My mind started racing: his mom is divorced and doesn’t have a boyfriend from what my friend told. It’s unlikely my friend’s voice dropped 3 octaves overnight… Fuck, did somebody murder them and picked up the phone? Am I ne… Oh wait, his mom is a living chimney, ah… ‘Hi *friend’s mom*’.
So if I have more testosterone, at one point I’ll be coughing?
Are you John Wayne?
Gotta confuse the lungs babe
Either that, or retarded is fucking him
Retarded do be fucking a lot of us… Without consent, I might add.
And no lube either
me too
What listening to Andy Taytay does to you.
Smoking cigarettes for health benefits is like messing with an angry bear, so that you can have a jog.
There is like that one illness where smoking actually helps. I totally forget what it’s called though.
Well, no, but actually yes
The purpose of working out is to look cool… Now that I’ve discovered cigarettes that’s mission accomplished.
Ive seen people talk about how to increase their testosterone level(or avoid decreasing it), but arent there pills with the purpose of increasing it?
my dad has a testosterone gel. because without it he cannot gain hardly any muscle at all, like I worked out for like 2 months and could lift more than he could in over 1+ year of working out 5 days a week.
Yep. Completely retarded.
Dr Gundy follower in the wild.
