Recent studies suggest that nicotine patches, typically used for smoking cessation, may offer off-label benefits for cognitive impairments like ADHD and Alzheimer’s. Research has identified their efficacy in treating brain fog, especially post-COVID symptoms. Slate writer Hannah Singleton experienced significant cognitive improvement after using low-dose nicotine gum. Experts believe that controlled doses of nicotine can stimulate brain receptors linked to attention, indicating a potentially new avenue for enhancing focus in various neurological disorders. However, traditional tobacco products carry many risks that nicotine patches help to mitigate with safer delivery methods.
We have found that nicotine patches are useful along a whole spectrum of impairments, like people with ADHD, Alzheimer's, and people with age-related memory and cognitive impairment.
...the patches are safer because they deliver nicotine, which stimulates brain receptors, in slow, controlled doses.
Within an hour, her "brain felt like it had come back online in a way it hadn't in months," and she became a convert then and there.
We know that nicotine receptors are involved particularly in attention - so the ability to focus and maintain attention, all of that seems to have an important role for nicotinic signaling.
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