I Tried Nicotine As A Nootropic (Lucy Experiment)
This is NOT an endorsement for tobacco products!
Nicotine is just one of many substances found in tobacco products. Nicotine however is a NOOTROPIC! Nicotine has some fascinating benefits for your brain. Nicotine is a nootropic that has some great benefits for your focus, memory, and mental energy.
In this experiment, I test it out.
I used a product called Lucy to test nicotine as a nootropic and judge whether or not it’s worth it or not.
For the record, it tastes delicious (like normal gum) and the nicotine effect is very subtle and not intense like smoking a cigarette or chewing tobacco. (both of which I have experience using previously).
Is it worth it as a nootropic, I’m not sold on it. As a tobacco replacement product… ABSOLUTELY.
I think eventually we’ll reach a point where nicotine is found in many nootropics, but we’re not quite there yet.
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20 Comments
Nuhad
Don’t forget that the placebo effect plays a great role in this.
L D
you arent supposed to be drinking 15 minutes prior or post using the gum.
David Ryan
Highly addictive.
Holypikemanz
When you mention the brand, then this is all salesmanship for the brand, and who can trust anything you say?
kiraPh1234k
All nootropics are addictive.
Sam S
I’ve tried lucy gum and I think vapes are better
Jonathan LaRiviere
Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV. Holy moly IT’S WORKING. Lol jokes aside, today is my first dosing on nicotine using gum. I broke a 4mg piece of gum in half today and chewed them a few hours apart. I feel energized but not necessarily “good” (but not necessarily “bad”), it’s a bit of a distracting feeling. I’m going to follow the Lucy method of “parking” tomorrow. Thank you!
newbietubie
Great video and thank you for making and sharing it. You noted that there are other better and safer options. Can you share what those are? I have contemplated using nicotine gum but as an ex-smoker it seems too much like a stepping stone into murky territory.
Robert Ferraro
As an FYI, I smoke like a chimney. 20 to 25 a day for 44 years. I can sit in front of a computer screen focused for 18 hours non-stop if I need to, and often do. I recently discovered nicotine pouches, was given a sample pack for free upon buying a carton of my American Spirit which was a great marketing ploy to get smokers onto pouches. Anyway, these pouches clearly increase my cognitive function way beyond what cigarettes do. I am taking 4 mg pouches and noticed an immediate effect of perfect clarity. I also live with this condition where I always get this urge to yawn but I am unable to reach that yawn satisfied point. As soon as I take the 4 mg pouch this problem goes away. It is very interesting. The nicotine is obviously opening up something in my airways or altering some kind of reflex that makes me need to yawn. Anyway, I find my cravings to light up a smoke definitely disappear for an hour or two after using the pouches and will be great if and when I want to quit smoking. Also I do not believe you get that much of a hit of nicotine through cigarettes. I smoke the strongest, and they have nothing like the effect of the pouches do. So much would get destroyed by the heat of the burning of the cigarette.
John Irby
I'd figure a doctor would know that nicotine is a stimulant and a nootropic drug. You know…from the thousands of studies on nicotine…maybe a slight hint.
Darla
How do you chew without getting cold sweats
Hoyt1k
Turn up the music I kept hearing someone mumbling
Rob ert
I like rouge wintergreen nicotine pouches
Rusty Arsonic Brigz
Nicotine is a terrible nootropic. It stays in your system for like 30 min then you go into withdrawal reducing focus. It’s a nasty cycle.
T 100
i hope you start smoking
a8lg6p
I've been diagnosed with ADHD, and have been on practically every psych med there is, stimulant and nonstimulant… Adderall and other stimulants only make more obsessed with things I don't really need to be doing. Nicotine is the only thing that ever helped me actually sit down at the computer and focus on work for hours on end. I find patches are actually best, because it's like a sustained release version… Even with gum, it just comes and goes quickly and I find myself wanting more, but with patches, I have never felt any desire or need to go up in dose, and I can easily stop doing it any time. I have stopped many times because I just don't feel like using it anymore, but then start again when I realize how much more productive it made me.
Matthew Arnspiger
Most 'addiction potential' studies for nicotine are based off of cigarettes, which also contain MOA-B inhibitors that when paired with nicotine skyrocket the addiction potential.
Travis
I'm enjoying Lucy as a nootropic and help to not want to vape or smoke. Just gradually work your way up so you don't make yourself sick I did the 4mg and oh boy did they hit too hard spit em out and start with the 2mg gum.
Michael Parise
Hello I watched the whole video if it's not quite there yet what is going to change … the compound (*molecule) of nicotine is the same thing a thousand years ago or in a thousand years … If you want a different drug I can understand or a different delivery system… But it's not going anywhere or changing soon it doesn't seem
Danny O
Nicotine via a 2mg lozenge has been a literal game changer for my Chess game. I quit smoking 15 years ago, a tremendously great decision, but I noticed a reduced capacity to win at chess.