by Tdarcos » Fri Mar 20, 2020 8:51 pm
pinback wrote: Fri Mar 20, 2020 7:28 pm
Particularly, if you can do it without the nicotine gum, that's probably better, as it is expensive, and I'm guessing addictive.
Actually, nicotine is both poisonous and addictive. How poisonous? G. Gordon Liddy told on his radio show how the CIA trained him how to take a pack of cigarettes and extract the nicotine, as it would provide enough pure nicotine that if it was injected into a target, it would kill them.
However, in doing research on this, I discovered the commonly accepted lethal dose for an adult human of 60mg is probably untrue (as too low) as some smokers receive more than 60mg of nicotine in a single day, and I suspect Liddy never actually used the method as a means of assassination.
Some claim the lethal amount of nicotine for an adult human is more like 500mg or 1 gram. Even at that, it's still pretty lethal, for example, one gram of sugar is about 1/5 of a teaspoon. For comparison, the lethal dose of strychnine (rat poison) for an adult human is about 6 grams.
As for addictive, what I have heard is it's more addictive than heroin. In fact, when you smoke, nicotine gets into the bloodstream, and within seconds of the first puff, reaches the brain and triggers pleasure receptors (think of a key turning a lock) to release dopamine, producing euphoria. But it doesn't last long, whereupon your brain's receptors are crying out (more like screaming) for more nicotine, and the longer you smoke, the more receptors that want nicotine, thus it bcomes harder to quit.
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Particularly, if you can do it without the nicotine gum, that's probably better, as it is expensive, and I'm guessing addictive.
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Actually, nicotine is both poisonous and addictive. How poisonous? G. Gordon Liddy told on his radio show how the CIA trained him how to take a pack of cigarettes and extract the nicotine, as it would provide enough pure nicotine that if it was injected into a target, it would kill them.
However, in doing research on this, I discovered the commonly accepted lethal dose for an adult human of 60mg is probably untrue (as too low) as some smokers receive more than 60mg of nicotine in a single day, and I suspect Liddy never actually used the method as a means of assassination.
Some claim the lethal amount of nicotine for an adult human is more like 500mg or 1 gram. Even at that, it's still pretty lethal, for example, one gram of sugar is about 1/5 of a teaspoon. For comparison, the lethal dose of strychnine (rat poison) for an adult human is about 6 grams.
As for addictive, what I have heard is it's more addictive than heroin. In fact, when you smoke, nicotine gets into the bloodstream, and within seconds of the first puff, reaches the brain and triggers pleasure receptors (think of a key turning a lock) to release dopamine, producing euphoria. But it doesn't last long, whereupon your brain's receptors are crying out (more like screaming) for more nicotine, and the longer you smoke, the more receptors that want nicotine, thus it bcomes harder to quit.