What are the positive effects of smoking tobacco on the body?

Nicotine affects metabolism, speeds up metabolism. It also reduces appetite. Therefore, it is believed that when you quit smoking, weight can suddenly begin to increase.

To the above, we can add that according to the research results, even secondhand smoke protects well against the development of Parkinson's disease. However, if a smoker develops Parkinson's disease, his life expectancy with this disease will be less than that of a non-smoker.

Consuming safe amounts of nicotine appears to be beneficial for the central nervous system and beyond. And the main harm of smoking is associated with other substances of tobacco and tobacco smoke.

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Recently, Aleksandr Nevzorov spoke about the benefits of tobacco on the air of Echo of Moscow. He reported that nicotine is beneficial in treating Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's chorea, joint diseases and many other dangerous diseases. And this statement is confirmed by numerous scientific studies. For example, Israeli and Italian scientists came to the conclusion that smoking helps with Parkinson's disease, having published the results of their work in the journal Epidemiology. They studied the data of almost 700 patients and found that smokers developed Parkinson's disease 60% less often. American scientists have found that smoking helps in schizophrenia, and scientifically explained why after smoking a cigarette, schizophrenics experience a decrease in symptoms.
Back in the 90s of the last century, the Australian Bureau of Statistics published a report from which it followed that in general health smokers are better than quitters and nonsmokers. 11.4% of those who quit smoking, 6.7% of nonsmokers, and 6% of regular smokers had a heart attack. Former smokers - 16%, non-smokers - 13.4% and only 7.4% of smokers suffer the most from high blood pressure caused by stress. In addition, smokers suffer significantly less from high cholesterol levels than those who quit.
University of Washington's Dr. Harvey Chekoway found that smokers have a significantly lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, which is slowed down by the nicotine byproduct nornicotine. In addition, nicotine is very useful for allergic diseases and, as the portal med-news.ru wrote, it has a stimulating effect on the brain, improving memory and the quality of information processing.
Russian Medical Journal published a review with a list of diseases and conditions on which smoking can have a positive effect. Thus, smoking plays a protective role and inhibits the development of cancer in a significant number of human organs. As a result of a series of studies, it became known that smokers have a 40% reduction in mortality from myocardial infarction. Finally, it is well known that smoking contributes to weight loss and smoking cessation leads to excess weight gain.
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