Across 586 first-hand reports, people mentioned a side effect 194 times (about 33 per 100 reports). The most common: addiction, anxiety, nausea. User reports show what people notice — they can't tell you whether Nicotine is safe for you.
“For me it's like a less anxiety inducing caffeine, with a stronger focus enhancement...For me, nicotine is better than most nootropics. And is only small step down from adderall.”
“I craved it, but it also gave me dizziness, anxiety, and nausea at times which imo outweighs the cognitive enhancement.”
“I've used nicotine gum for focus going on 8 years now and never had issues with it. I'm up to 4mg pieces though.”
“It did help anhedonia initially, but very quickly I needed more and more... And the anhedonia is now worse than before I ever used nicotine.”
“Gum was helping but 1. It's expensive and 2. I felt like I was just trading one form of the addiction for another.”
“Avoid nicotine I tried using nicotine as a nootropic.. 10 minute high followed by massive anxiety.”
Conclusion: Cytisine shows greater efficacy than placebo and NRT, but more adverse events. It is comparable to varenicline, with fewer adverse events. This can inform clinicians and guidelines on cytisine for smoking cessation.
Conclusion: Social media use is associated with adverse health risk behaviours in young people, but further high quality research is needed to establish causality, understand effects on health inequalities, and determine which aspects of social media are most harmful.