what adverse effects does nicotine replacement have?
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Nicotine has health risks but not nearly as much as smoking.  The object of nicotine replacement therapy is to decrease the amount of nicotine slowly so your body adjusts to the decreasing amounts.  If you find yourself addicted to the nicotine replacement just decrease the dose per day of nicotine a little bit each week. The gums or lozenges are better for small decreases than the patch.
698353
Perfectly normal. Nicotine numbs the throat lining and the hairs that stop you inhaling loads of dust etc. After 3 days this effect no longer works and the cough mechanism work properly again. The sore throat is because you can now feel the damage the smoke does and should ease off after a couple of weeks. that stuff from you lungs by the way will probably keep coming up for a few months but it will lessen with time. It is you body repairing itself stick with it its doing you good
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Contrary to popular belief, clove cigarettes, also called kreteks, contain tobacco — they are made up of 60 - 70 percent tobacco and 30 - 40 percent shredded cloves (a spice). Considering their tobacco content, clove cigarettes are probably as harmful and dangerous as regular cigarettes. As a matter of fact, kreteks may hold even more risk than ordinary smokes. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), clove cigarettes produce at least twice as much nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide as regular American cigarettes brands.\n\nPlus, there may be an additional risk due to their clove content. The major active ingredient in cloves is eugenol, which is a topical anesthetic used in dentistry. The short- and long-term health effects of eugenol are not well known, and little inhalation toxicology research has been done on this substance. However, when smoked, eugenol numbs the throat and impairs the gag reflex. This anesthetizing effect could cause some problems; for example, liquids and/or food could more easily go down the wrong pipe. Smokers may not feel the harshness of the smoke as strongly, so they are more likely to inhale the smoke more deeply and hold it in the lungs for a longer period of time before exhaling. As a result, it's possible, or even likely, that eugenol has the potential to facilitate lung infections, respiratory illnesses, or allergic reactions in certain users, especially in smokers with existing breathing problems and/or other sensitivities.\n\nAlthough clove cigarette smokers share some adverse health symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, allergic reactions, bronchitis, pneumonia, and coughing up blood, the cause-and-effect relationship between smoking clove cigarettes and these symptoms has not yet been definitively established. Regardless, it seems reasonable to assume that clove cigarettes are as harmful and dangerous or even more so than standard cigarettes.\n\nClove cigarettes are one of several kinds of alternative smokes. Others include bidis (tiny, inexpensive, flavored dark tobacco containing cigarettes hand rolled with a dried tendu leaf), herbal or vegetable-based cigarettes with no tobacco and nicotine, and additive-free, natural tobacco cigarettes. Often, alternative cigarette smokers are part of the under 30 crowd. People smoke the "alternatives" because they think that they are cool and/or safer, healthier, and more natural to smoke than standard smokes. Cool or not, smoking alternative cigarettes can be as harmful and even dangerous to one's health as regular ones.
872043
Yes, horrible, sweating, wake up screaming nightmares.\n\nI quit using it, I ended up smoking to calm myself because I was so freaked out, and I desperately needed some sleep.
189539
It doesn't seem very appealing--it can involve dietary restrictions, especially on the larger patch sizes (the ones with higher dosages), which seems like it would have a negative affect on one's mood anyway. It will, of course, get the standard list of depression medication side effects, so I really wouldn't choose this over any others, especially ones that seem to have positive side effects (like Wellbutrin, which can increase one's chances of quitting smoking).
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No , but there are terrible consquences of smoking like heart disease, stroke and lung cancer, go to the following sites for more info:\n\nhttp://www.quitnow.info.au/ (best anti-smoking site)\nhttp://www.quit.org.au/\nhttp://www.nsma.org.au/facts.htm\nhttp://www.healthinsite.gov.au/topics/Health_Effects_of_Smoking\n\n(They are australian sites because i'm from there_)
880827
Yes, it would definitely cause some damage to your lungs (not really sure how serious) and it can also stunt your growth. You also need to consider what if you become addicted and end up smoking more than a pack a week and for longer than a year.
812152
nicotine patches have liquid nicotine in them, cigarettes have a lot less nicotine in them.  Taping  tobacco onto your skin will do nothing for you.
335676
I haven't heard of any side effects. You could try Google?
387035
Both menthol and regular cigarettes can cause that through heart disease and bad blood flow. At the Princess Margaret Hospital (Toronto) I heard there was a sign that said if you smoke we will see you, if you smoke menthol, we will see you sooner.
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The side effects are that of hyperventilation for most people. Above normal oxigen levels is toxic to the body. If only mildly over oxygenating, it's helping the injury/illness for the pre-hospital setting more than it's hurting the body.\n\nI've seen new EMT's give oxygen to a hyperventilation patient thinking that the patients complaint that they "couldn't breath" was the indication to give oxygen.  This causes various symptoms such as numbness or tingling in the hands, feet and lips, lightheadedness, dizziness, headache, chest pain, slurred speech and sometimes fainting.\n\nOxygen therapy must be prescribed with caution in COPD. In healthy people, breathing is triggered by rising levels of carbon dioxide in the blood. However, in people with severe COPD, breathing may become controlled by an alternative system in which breathing is triggered by falling levels of oxygen in the blood. In this case, inhaling oxygen will tend to shut down breathing, with dangerous consequences.
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ANY amount of smoking is harmful to your body. \nThis is from an article by Marie Claire magazine called "what smoke does to your body"\n*Causes strokes. Nicotine reaches the brain 10 seconds after you inhale\n*Gives you bad breath and yellow teeth. Associated with gum disease and mouth cancer\n*Gives you a two times higher risk of heart attack than a non smoker. Just one to five cigs a day can double your risk\n*Raises risk of breast cancer if you started smoking within 5 years of your first menstral period\n*Raises risk for stomach and peptic ulcers\n*In addition to lung cancer, smoking raises risk tenfold of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), a collection of fatal lung diseases\n*increases the odds that you wont ovulate or concieve. Smoking when pregnant increases miscarriage risk by 39%\n*Smokers have more severe PMS and 50% more cramps\n*the longer you smoke, the higher your risk for cervical cancer and colar rectal cancer\n*Hardens your arteries, raising odds for high blood pressure and heart attacks\n*Smoking can dampen libido by constricting blood flow to your clitoris\n*smoking may make bones thinner and more fragile, raising your risk of fractures\n*prematurely ages your skin by 10-20 years
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Cigarette smoke contains many things besides nicotine (the addictive substance which gets a really bad rap...). Nicotine affects the nervous system by binding to receptors on nerves called nicotinic receptors.  The result is stimulatory and becomes addictive like other drugs like opiates (heroin, morphine etc.) and alcohol (which produces opiate like substances upon ingestion in many people and especially alcoholics)\n\nUpon burning, tobacco and tobacco paper give off many toxins, some of which are carcinogenic (cancer causing).  In the not so distant past, and even today, additives such as ammonia and other chemicals are added to cigarettes for various purposes.  Tar is a major offender and reeks havoc in the respiratory system (you can take it from me... my cadaver in medical school was Rod Serling).\n\nThe mechanisms that cause cancer are largely unknown, but are a combination of heredity (genetics), environmental exposure, and lifestyle.  Cancer is not one disease but a host of diseases which share as a common factor the abnormal growth of cells and disruption of normal cellular processes.  By far and away, the chief cause of lung cancer is smoking (especially in post-menopausal women).\n\nPeople that smoke their whole life may not get cancer because of a genetic predisposition or protective factor that we have yet to discover, however we do know that the drawbacks of smoking are numerous both on health, life events, behavior, and life events.\n\nJeez.  Who wants yellow teeth, coughing, weight loss, circulatory effects, shortened life span and the whole laundry list of maladies suffered by smokers?  \n\nNot me.  It's not very attractive to boot.
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I used to help people quit smoking, and while I think that medically, it probably wouldn't kill you, the problem is...realistically, it's impossible to stay at just one for the rest of your life. Nicotine is highly addictive, and the more you get used to it, the more you'll need to keep you feeling the effects. I wouldn't try it...it would be so hard to quit if you do get hooked and chances are strongly against you that you could keep to one cig a day.
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Cigarettes contain more than 4000 chemical compounds and at least 400 toxic substances.\n\nWhen you inhale, a cigarette burns at 700°C at the tip and around 60°C in the core. This heat breaks down the tobacco to produce various toxins.\n\nAs a cigarette burns, the residues are concentrated towards the butt.\n\nThe products that are most damaging are:\n\n    * tar, a carcinogen (substance that causes cancer)\n\n    * nicotine is addictive and increases cholesterol levels in your body\n\n    * carbon monoxide reduces oxygen in the body\n\n    * components of the gas and particulate phases cause chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD).\n\nThe damage caused by smoking is influenced by:\n\n    * the number of cigarettes smoked\n\n    * whether the cigarette has a filter\n\n    * how the tobacco has been prepared.
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If you are responsible about it, none.\n\nSight effects may include: eye damage, leg pains, arm craps, sprained clicking finger, atrophe of every muscle in the body, refusal to leave the computer to urinate or defecate, retinal bleeding, nausea, indigestion, upset stomach, malnutrition, lowering of school grades, loss of job, and excommunication.\n\nComputers are not for everyone. Consult your doctor before use.\n\nPhAtM4N for more questions
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Cold turkey.\n\nPlease visit http://www.whyquit.com and read about nicotine replacement therapy (gum, patch, etc.) to see why it doesn't work well.\n\nRead a few sections of "Why do people smoke?" and "How to quit smoking."  The site even tells you what to expect (accurately) during the surprisingly short physical withdrawal period and how to minimize the symptoms.\n\nVisit http://www.whyquit.com\n\nIt is really quite eye opening.