Three years ago Reece Dean, of Nashville's Bellevue community, retired at age 69 from a career as a busy truck driver. With her husband of 49 years home more consistently, Mary Ann Dean began to ...

University of Chicago researchers Daniel McGehee, Huibert Mansvelder, and Russel Keath revealed a novel effect of nicotine on the brain in a paper published in the March 14 issue of the journal Neuron ...

Medicines like nicotine replacement therapy (NRT; such as gums, patches), varenicline, bupropion, and cytisine, which help people to stop smoking, could also be used to stop vaping. Behavioural ...

Cigarette smokers become addicted to nicotine, a highly addictive substance that is absorbed through the skin, mouth, and lungs when a person takes a puff. It then travels to the brain, and stimulates ...

Medically reviewed by Mary Choy, PharmD Key Takeaways Nicotine has a half-life of about two hours and can stay in the blood ...

Some research suggests using gum as nicotine replacement therapy can raise blood pressure. However, for some people, the benefits of replacing smoking with nicotine gum may outweigh the risks. Chewing ...

Nicotine gum, such as Nicorette (nicotine polacrilex), is a type of medicinal nicotine replacement therapy. It’s a smoking cessation aid, meaning that people chew it on a short-term basis—typically ...

Given that nicotine reduces negative affect, one would expect nicotine to have different effects on brain responses to emotionally negative stimuli than it does on responses to emotionally neutral or ...

Will Llamas wasn’t a regular tobacco user when a friend first introduced him to Zyn nicotine pouches. “I had convinced myself, because there wasn’t any tobacco, these were pretty safe,” Llamas, of ...