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tion></figure><p id="9cfa">It is a crutch. But you know what? If you break a leg, then a crutch is exactly what you need to help you get back onto your own two feet. Crutches can be positive. Smoking can be a support, an aid in the healing journey.</p><p id="72db">My hope is that we can all heal the pain we have inside us. But until then, there ARE some positives to smoking that I would like to share.</p><div id="019f"><pre><span class="hljs-symbol">WARNING: </span>If you are a non-smoker, what are you still doing here? CLICK AWAY NOW. The following may be injurious to your health. Non-smoking can clog your mind with judgment. Further reading may: raise your blood pressure or give you an apoplectic fit.</pre></div><h2 id="6d5d">The Medical Benefits of Nicotine</h2><ul><li>It can help with stress by increasing alpha waves, which are associated with relaxation and calmness.</li><li>It can act as an anti-depressant by affecting the mood-regulating neurotransmitters, such as dopamine and serotonin.</li><li>It can help to repair body tissues.</li><li>It can help with the symptoms of ADHD by enhancing focus and concentration.</li><li>Alzheimer’s disease: nicotine is believed to protect the brain from degeneration and cognitive decline.</li><li>Parkinson’s disease: it may help delay the progression, and is often prescribed for patients who cannot tolerate Leva Dopa or Cocaine (Thanks to <a href="undefined">Selena Routley</a> in the comments section for this.)</li><li>Ulcerative colitis: reduces inflammation and ulceration in the colon.</li><li>Weight loss: it helps as an appetite suppressant and by increasing metabolism.</li><li>Schizophrenia: it is believed that nicotine helps to improve cognitive function such as memory, learning and attention.</li></ul><p id="3106">If any non-smokers have ignored the clear warnings and are still reading, then this is not a suggestion that you explore upping your nicotine intake. If it were, I would be quoting from <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Easy-Start-Smoking-Step-Step/dp/1841957445">The Easy Way to

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Start Smoking</a> and suggest you start with nicotine patches and work your way up. That is a joke, by the way.</p><p id="b650">Rather this is a gentle reminder that it is not ALL bad news.</p><p id="1b0e">I do have one useful tip I shall share. If you are a smoker then it makes sense to minimise the risks. The following is a true story.</p><p id="0384">A friend of mine was smoking on the QE2 ocean liner when an elderly American approached her. “Darling,” she said, “I have to tell you a story. My family is a family of Virginian tobacco planters and we have always all smoked. And my ancestors all lived into their 90s. My parents, my grandparents, my great grandparents — they ALL lived to a ripe old age UNTIL they started to spray the crops. Then they all dropped like flies. If you are going to smoke, smoke only organic tobacco.”</p><p id="7e2e">I smoke only organic tobacco.</p><p id="3d18"><b>Source:<a href="https://www.newhealthadvisor.org/positive-effects-of-nicotine.html"></a></b><a href="https://www.newhealthadvisor.org/positive-effects-of-nicotine.html"> Clicking on this link will take you away from Medium to a medical website detailing some of the positive effects of nicotine.</a></p><p id="e950"><b>DISCLAIMER</b>: The article is not meant to be taken as medical advice or as an encouragement to smoke more. I am not a medical professional. Do your own research, and remember that not everything you read on the internet is true.</p><h2 id="d9ba">If you are a smoker and would like help to quit:</h2><p id="8fdc">You will find plenty of support on the internet and from your healthcare provider. Giving up is easy. I have done it lots of times. I have given up after reading The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, listening to hypnotherapy tapes, and other methods. By far the best for me was the advice I found on the following website:</p><p id="4101">NB: Clicking on this link will take you away from Medium to Joel’s Quitting Cold Turkey website: <a href="https://whyquit.com/joel/index-articles.html">Joel’s Quit Smoking Library</a></p></article></body>

NOT SATIRE

This One Is for All The Smokers

The Medical Benefits of Nicotine

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Please don’t read this if you are a non-smoker. There is nothing here for you.

This article is aimed at smokers. And it is not meant to encourage you to smoke more or interfere with any desire you may have to quit. Instead, the purpose is to bring you a tiny bit of positive information to balance out the truckload of negative stuff you are subjected to daily.

The purpose is to make you feel a fraction better about your life choice rather than vilified.

And it is not satire.

It is my belief that any addiction, smoking included, is a response to trauma. It is a symptom of something unhealed within us.

And I do mean “us”. I am a smoker, and although I have given up for long periods of time, I always come back to it. It helps me to suppress pain and/or the effects of trauma when it all becomes too much.

As an autistic person with (I think) ADHD to boot, it can help me in ways that neurotypicals may not understand. It gives me a reason to escape from social situations when I am overwhelmed. It aids concentration when my mind is too busy and my brain too scattered. Smoking has kept me safe on long drives, keeping me focused and awake.

It has given me the gift of being able to feel connected because I have found, in other smokers, the non-judgmental acceptance I have always craved.

Me and my 4 sons, escaping from a busy social situation. One from the family album

It is a crutch. But you know what? If you break a leg, then a crutch is exactly what you need to help you get back onto your own two feet. Crutches can be positive. Smoking can be a support, an aid in the healing journey.

My hope is that we can all heal the pain we have inside us. But until then, there ARE some positives to smoking that I would like to share.

WARNING: If you are a non-smoker, what are you still doing here? 
CLICK AWAY NOW. 
The following may be injurious to your health. Non-smoking can 
clog your mind with judgment. Further reading may:
raise your blood pressure or give you an apoplectic fit.

The Medical Benefits of Nicotine

It can help with stress by increasing alpha waves, which are associated with relaxation and calmness.
It can act as an anti-depressant by affecting the mood-regulating neurotransmitters, such as dopamine and serotonin.
It can help to repair body tissues.
It can help with the symptoms of ADHD by enhancing focus and concentration.
Alzheimer’s disease: nicotine is believed to protect the brain from degeneration and cognitive decline.
Parkinson’s disease: it may help delay the progression, and is often prescribed for patients who cannot tolerate Leva Dopa or Cocaine (Thanks to Selena Routley in the comments section for this.)
Ulcerative colitis: reduces inflammation and ulceration in the colon.
Weight loss: it helps as an appetite suppressant and by increasing metabolism.
Schizophrenia: it is believed that nicotine helps to improve cognitive function such as memory, learning and attention.

If any non-smokers have ignored the clear warnings and are still reading, then this is not a suggestion that you explore upping your nicotine intake. If it were, I would be quoting from The Easy Way to Start Smoking and suggest you start with nicotine patches and work your way up. That is a joke, by the way.

Rather this is a gentle reminder that it is not ALL bad news.

I do have one useful tip I shall share. If you are a smoker then it makes sense to minimise the risks. The following is a true story.

A friend of mine was smoking on the QE2 ocean liner when an elderly American approached her. “Darling,” she said, “I have to tell you a story. My family is a family of Virginian tobacco planters and we have always all smoked. And my ancestors all lived into their 90s. My parents, my grandparents, my great grandparents — they ALL lived to a ripe old age UNTIL they started to spray the crops. Then they all dropped like flies. If you are going to smoke, smoke only organic tobacco.”

I smoke only organic tobacco.

Source: Clicking on this link will take you away from Medium to a medical website detailing some of the positive effects of nicotine.

DISCLAIMER: The article is not meant to be taken as medical advice or as an encouragement to smoke more. I am not a medical professional. Do your own research, and remember that not everything you read on the internet is true.

If you are a smoker and would like help to quit:

You will find plenty of support on the internet and from your healthcare provider. Giving up is easy. I have done it lots of times. I have given up after reading The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, listening to hypnotherapy tapes, and other methods. By far the best for me was the advice I found on the following website:

NB: Clicking on this link will take you away from Medium to Joel’s Quitting Cold Turkey website: Joel’s Quit Smoking Library