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I am currently struggling with the idea of going back to vaping, having quit 3 years ago following covid, because nicotine has consistently shown to be a strong drug for fending off parkinsons.

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Do you have any sources? Or did you mean that ironically, because as a smoker you die earlier than the average gets Parkinson's?

It's well established that nicotine fends off parkinsons (but won't do anything if started when sympoms appear)

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C31&q=nic...

Seriously? You can't think of a more efficient use of the time and money?

Would nicotine patches help?

I could do that, but I smoked cigarettes for 7 years and then vaped for 9 years. So I don't know if I could jump back into nicotine but hold off on the smoking/vaping aspect of it.

Funny tangent, I quit vaping on 2 Jan 2020 after the worst flu I have ever had (after a flight abroad.. early COVID?) and while I was finally successful after a decade of quitting, it killed all my motivation and energy.

Then I got diagnosed with ADHD, got stimulant meds which restored the energy and then some, and it was clear I had been self medicating all my life with nicotine and I was completely lost without. If one day I lose access to stimulant meds, you better believe I'm back on the patch and/or the vape.

But in general dude, do not joke about nicotine. You are 3 years clean, it's incredibly hard to quit. If you done it once, it doesn't mean you'll do it twice. Maybe avoiding Parkinson's by vaping is a terrible excuse. You've never known addiction if you believe this time you'll be able to control it.

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