🗑️ 🧵 should I use nicotine before a test
Anonymous at Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:12:08 UTC No. 16243822
I've been smoking for a year now, been planning on quitting, tried and failed a lot. I wonder, would it be beneficial to smoke before going in to an important exam? would it boost my focus and memory or should I quit as soon as possible?
Anonymous at Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:36:21 UTC No. 16244032
>>16243822
nicotine makes you braindead you brairndead fucj
Anonymous at Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:39:18 UTC No. 16244037
Nicotine reduces stress when you're addicted. Do you want to be more stressed or less during your test?
Me, I wouldn't smoke because diamonds are made under pressure.
Anonymous at Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:41:43 UTC No. 16244040
>>16244037
Blow me, fag.
Anonymous at Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:59:59 UTC No. 16244051
>>16243822
Yes. Even if you've never been exposed to nicotine it's nootropic and offers many cognitive benefits:
>nicotine boosted IQ scores in a small sample of smokers, specifically scores on the RAPM12 (possibly related to its increasing global connectivity since IQ is being increasingly reified as measuring the global connectivity of multiple brain subsystems), although Schuberte t al2 018 finds that nicotine merely makes their subjects faster at reaction-time tasks but not IQ testsreaction time is improved, as is inspection time and visual search (but perhaps due solely to faster motor reaction?)pilots’ performance enhanced 4⁄5 as much as donepezil does; improves late-day pilotingdriving performance enhancedovernight performance on various memory & attention13 tasks (“These data suggest that when performance is being measured overnight, smokers show little or no impairment, whilst the performance of non-smokers showed performance decrements.”)faster performance on Stroop and word classification“…acute nicotine administration may exert direct beneficial effects on novelty detection and subsequent memory recognition”in smokers, improved prospective memory (things one intends to do); Rustedet al20 05can improve handwritinghelps ADHD (Connerset al19 96; or Levine t al1 996 - as well as OCD, see previous footnote): “Results indicate significant clinician-rated global improvement, self-rated vigor and concentration, and improved performance on chronometric measures of attention and timing accuracy.”
https://gwern.net/nicotine#benefits
You're stupid not to use nicotine in this situation.
>>16244032
Objectively false and the opposite is true. If any drugs make someone brain dead with regular or even infrequent use its alcohol and cannabis.
>>16244037
Midwit reasoning.
Anonymous at Thu, 20 Jun 2024 17:20:18 UTC No. 16244304
>>16243822
you sure do seem to like talking about yourself on social media
Anonymous at Thu, 20 Jun 2024 18:30:09 UTC No. 16244378
>>16243822
Yes, it will help you stay focused, at this point you won't do too well without it. Just don't overdo it because then it will have opposite effect.
Anonymous at Thu, 20 Jun 2024 19:05:44 UTC No. 16244423
>>16244378
what about when I decide to finally quit this shit? I heard it takes around 4 weeks for the brain chemistry to go back to normal
Anonymous at Thu, 20 Jun 2024 22:25:17 UTC No. 16244668
>>16244423
Yeah, sounds about right. But keep in mind that its the biological part. You won't have unpleasant sensations anymore, but that doesn't mean you are not vunerable, you can start again just because you feel like it, out of boredom or habit. That part takes way longer to beat.