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Re: Facts You Should Know About Smokeless (Spit) Tobacco
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Glen, it's my impression that the evidence as to which is easier to stop using, cigarettes or oral tobacco, is mixed. It had been my belief that since oral users generally had higher overall blood serum nicotine levels, while smokers reached higher peak levels and far far quicker, that it was probably a toss up. This was reinforced by knowing that nicotine's blood serum half-life is identical for both, roughly two hours, and we'd seen no studies suggesting that re-sensitization or receptor count down-regulation was different for either group.
Recent focus has been on one major difference between smoke and all forms of oral nicotine delivery. We know that aside from nicotine stimulating dopamine pathway acetylcholine receptors, that some other still vague chemical in smoke somehow inhibits MAO A and MAO B (known as killjoy enzymes) whose function it is to clean-up dopamine (either break it down or return it) once released. This means that dopamine released by nicotine is allowed to linger longer for smokers than oral users. Does this help explain why oral users generally have higher blood serum nicotine levels than smokers, that oral users are battling higher levels of MAO A and MAO B? We don't know.
Your mention of none being remaining in the morning brought back memories of some medical records I was reviewing for a disability claim that included a sleep study. With the entire world watching, this guy awoke in the middle of the night, put a plug in his mouth and went back to bed. I must say, as a three pack a day smoker, although I always smoked heavily on both sides of sleep I can't ever recall getting up because I needed more nicotine. I found it fascinating that this guy did and wondered how common that was.
As for photos, I've been sent some horrible, horrible mouth cancer images from a cancer doctor in India but I've been reluctant to share them. I recall a couple of participants in smoking seminars saying afterwards that the few lung cancer images I shared were too much for them to handle and they were tame by comparison. Those images are out there and available but we certainly don't want to be chasing folks off. We're just trying to strike some balance.
Thanks for the firsthand input, Glen. As you know, regardless of how nicotine enters the bloodstream there's just one guiding principle that if followed provides a 100% guarantee to all of us ... no nicotine today!
Breathe deep, hug hard, live long,
John (Gold x11)
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