Nicotine Research

Tobacco (2017) explains that harsh chemicals are used in the production process of tobacco as early as planting. Healthy tobacco seedlings are planted in soil that has been somewhat sterilized by using chemicals such as Bromomethane or burning. This is done to protect the crops from disease, pests, weeds and roundworm, however bromomethane is considered illegal in many countries due to its highly toxic nature. Once matured the tobacco leaves are cured either by air, fire or flue methods. After curing tobacco is graded and packaged for sale to the manufacturers (Tobacco, 2017).. Cigarettes and other tobacco products are produced with many additives to control shelf life, disguise the irritations caused by nicotine and to create a more

     In the world today, Nicotine is one of the most frequently used addictive drugs. The impact it has on society is like no other. It is one of more than 4,000 chemicals found in the smoke of tobacco products such as cigarettes, cigars, and pipes. This addictive drug is the primary component in tobacco that acts on the brain.

It is the most common addiction throughout the world with 1.1 trillion people smoking currently, consisting about a third of the population over 15 years old. While nicotine is the addictive substance in the tobacco that causes addiction, tobacco will increase health risks of heart attack and vascular diseases. Nicotine dependency is a complex brain disease, and we need to start thinking of it as such. New ways of ingesting this substance have been created, that try to lure and appeal to demographic, particularly younger, to consume nicotine. Regardless of how many years someone has smoked, stopping at any point will valuable and improve your quality of life. Changing the public’s view on addiction is a subject of importance, so many of others can view this as a brain disease more than a personal decision. To fight this addiction, you have to rewire your behaviors in your brain and have a drive to overcome this horrific addiction. The brain can luckily keep changing and be trained to stop cravings with a multitude of different strategies. Anyone can be affected by addiction, we need start treating addicts with evidence-based practices rather than jailing them. Through more education and laws enforced, we can only hope that the number of tobacco users can decrease more and everyone can learn to live a healthier, full life without addiction and the painful diseases that derive from

Tobacco has been around in the world for over 2.5 million years. It was not until a few hundred years ago when the tobacco industry decided to put these crops into use and conjure up tobacco products for the community. A popular tobacco product in society is cigarettes, as they are cheap and simple to use. As long as one is over eighteen, acquiring cigarettes is a straightforward process for a reasonable price, albeit the sin tax. It was not until recently when cigarettes became widely controversial due to the plant containing nicotine, an addictive drug to the body. Aside from containing nicotine and other hazardous chemicals to the body, cigarettes also cause a whole host of health implications

Tetrahymena cells are model organisms that have led to the discovery of many groundbreaking topics in the biology world. Tetrahymena cells nourish through a process called phagocytosis. Phagocytosis is when the cell engulfs anything in its path using the cell’s cytoplasm. In this experiment, through the use of a control, and low and high concentration of tobacco extract it was determined that cigarette extract inhibits the process of phagocytosis in cells. This was then compared to the ciliotoxic effects of cigarette smoke on the lungs and the hypothesis was supported after the drop in phagocytosis of high and low concentrations after ten minutes. It can be determined that cigarette smoke does have a direct effect on the difficulty of breathing and overall living of life.

In this experiment, the purpose was to determine the effect of the nicotine alkaloid in tobacco on the heart rate of Daphnia. To make certain that the effect of only one variable was being measured in this experiment, a control group was used as a reliable baseline comparison for the experimental group. It was found that the control group had an average heart rate difference of 30.67 beats per minute as shown in Table A. A difference this large in the control group was unexpected, because it was believed that the heart rate may stay fairly constant for no stimulant was added. However, this unanticipated difference may have resulted from the human handling and the heat from the microscope light.

A Tobacco plant is made up of approximately 5 percent of nicotine by weight. There are two categories of tobacco products cigarettes and smokeless tobacco. Nicotine has many effects on the body but the effect it has on the brain is responsible for the so called “good feeling” that is behind the addiction. Nicotine is considered to be addictive because of the psychological and physiological effects on a person. The Center for the Advancement of Health published the results of a study on teenager smokers:

Table 2, 4 and figures shows how quickly nicotine acted and how inefficient is on increasing the heart frequency. In table 2 were 2 drops of nicotine were added, the resting amplitude and frequency start at .009 V and 61 BPM, then later on around the 30 to 40 seconds it drops to .006 and .007 V, and 34 to 37 BPM. For table 4, were 10 drops of nicotine were added it was also a decrease, as it was mentioned before the amplitude and frequency decreases from .009 V to .007 V in the amplitude after 10 seconds of the addition of nicotine and from 63 to 50 BPM after 1

In the short term, it is said to be a resting metabolic rate stimulant, however there are not many studies which have experimented on the long term metabolic and overall impact on fish that nicotine has.It would be informative to see if health complications would arise in goldfish after being present in an environment filled with nicotine for long amounts of time, and to see the results of differing nicotine concentration impact on fish. Being that there has been a great influx in the contamination of bodies of water to date, it is significant to study the effects of a contaminant that constitutes around thirty percent of the litter present on the coasts of the United States, according to a study done on the effects of nicotine on marine life (Slaughter et. al., 2011). Nicotine is one of the most prevalent forms of pollution present near aquatic life, and so studying the ramifications of nicotine concentration in aquatic habitats would help researchers deduce the levels of nicotine which are harmful to aquatic life, and propose measures to ensure their habitats never reach those levels. Furthermore, studying the long term effects of this pollutant by testing goldfish response to long term nicotine exposure would serve to bolster support of keeping contaminants out of aquatic organism’s habitats, which it may significantly harm in the long

The hypothesis of this article is the effect of nicotine and cotinine on the carotid and coronary arteries.

Nicotine can undergo chemical conversions into NNK, 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol (NNAL) and NNN during the process of curing or smoking. Theses are Nitrosamines which are carcinogenic to humans having the capability of activating various signaling pathways facilitating cancer cell growth through receptor-mediated effects as they activate nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) and β-adrenergic receptors (β-AdrRs) , angiogenesis (the formation of new blood vessels for tumors to grow), migration, and invasion . The nitrosamines can cause DNA adductions and

Nicotine is a powerful substance in controlling brain function. It interacts with specific receptors in brain tissue, and initiates metabolic and electrical activity in the brain.

Smoking is not just a bad habit, but also a complex addiction. Experts believe that nicotine exerts its powerful addictive effects by

Sometime back one of my friends who were a regular smoker claimed to feel good and motivated to do any task after he smoked. Although he later on stopping smoking he always said that smoking was the best thing that had happened in his life. I, later on, discovered that the reason behind his happy mood after taking a puff was contributed by nicotine, which triggered his brain to produce a happy feeling. Use of nicotine is said to cause several social influences. For instance, smoking plays an integral part in starting a conversation among smokers.

Tobacco leaves that defends the plant against insect attacks. Nicotine affects the nervous system."(Mccuen 1997) Nobody wants that in his or her bodies. But people still light up every day knowing well enough that the tobacco smoke will kill them eventually or cause permanent damage to their bodies. The reason is because the nicotine in the cigarettes is very addictive, let me tell you from my personal experience that it is very addictive. As time goes by a person tolerance goes up. "Tolerance of nicotine begins with the first does of nicotine, people