Infographic: The Truth About Nicotine

As the wife of an ex-smoker and current vaper, I like to think I know quite a bit about nicotine and its effects on the body. However, I was surprised at some of the facts in this infographic from VIP Electronic Cigarettes such as nicotine has been shown to slow down or halt the neuronal damage that stems from Parkinson’s disease and it has been shown to improve task performance on patients with Schizophrenia.

Tobacco is the biggest cause of preventable death in the UK, killing more than 100,000 people per year, so despite being addictive nicotine does not cause cancer and people trying to give up smoking have a great alternative in e-cigarettes which administer a dose of nicotine without the other harmful substances in normal cigarettes.

Learn more about the truth about nicotine in the graphic below: