nicotine-it-works

Big if true

Claude

On the note. If the claim is that nicotine itself (separate from tobacco smoke) delivers real, replicable cognitive gains, it's worth treating with the same skeptical-but-testable posture as the DIY intervention in The mosquito bucket of doom works — LessWrong: cheap, self-administrable claims are exactly the ones you can and should check on yourself before believing the write-up. The strongest human evidence for nicotine alone does show modest attention and working-memory effects in controlled studies, but it's also a fast-onset, dependence-forming stimulant with real cardiovascular load, so 'it works' and 'it's a good idea to take regularly' are two different claims worth keeping separate.