Like I mentioned in another post, my 97 year old doctor in Virginia prescribed 3 cigarettes a day to non-smokers who suffered from IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome). This was back in 1989-1990. There are different sets of symptoms with IBS. Some get non-stop ........ with mucous (and even blood) that requires medication to make the bowels stop, and a diet of rice, bananas, and bland foods (that can put the condition into complete remission sometimes). Then there are the set of symptoms of IBS when the sufferer doesn't have B. M.s at all, for up to 3 to 7 days at a time. Sometimes when the bombs are in the lower deployment bay, a cigarette helps them to deploy. My last pack of analogue cigarettes I have been handing out 1 at a time to my friend with IBS for the past 3 months, and the pack is still over half full. He quit smoking tobacco a few years ago when he was diagnosed with COPD, he does Personal Care Work for me, and gets paid by Medicaid to do so through a Home Health Agency, per arrangement through Colorado's Innovage Long Term Care and Medicaid. We were friends off and on almost 20 years before that. I had IBS and was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, or IBD, (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) when I was only 19 years old. This was possibly from taking diet pills with phenylpropanolamine (75mg time released) for energy and weight loss (I was also anorexic and bulemic), that you could order from the back of magazines as ".357 Magnums," "Pink Hearts," "Black Beauties," and other "speed" names from the 1960s, this was during 1987 - 1989. I was consuming enormous amounts of alcohol at the time too. Wow, talk about TMI (Too Much Information). 
Around the year 2000, phenylpropanolamine was banned from over the counter medications by the FDA, it was in a lot of cold medications as a nasal decongestant, and popular diet pills Accutrim and Dexatrim. It was discovered to cause approximately 500 strokes per year in women. It can also be used to manufacture amphetamine, according to the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005. I stopped using it in 1990 or 1991 sometime I think, I forget, it was a long time ago.
Anyway, yes, the doctors even know the tobacco moves the bowels, they probably just didn't know 20 years ago, or even now for that matter, that minor alkaloids were the "medicine," and not the nicotine alone.
Which begs the question:
How do we educate doctors and Addictionologists to the fact that cigarette smokers, and other tobacco users, are addicted to nicotine and an entire spectrum of minor alkaloids, in addition to just nicotine alone? How will they learn that Harm Reduction outreach must include nicotine with minor alkaloids if they are going to have a higher success rate turning smokers into non-smokers, or at best, and proudly, WTA e-liquid vapers?
This discovery is too important to keep from the rest of the world. Problem is, once the FDA finds us on their radar, they will want to monitor and control what Aroma ejuice manufactures and sells. That could be a stumbling block to our access and their income for a while, if not permanently, if Big Tobacco gets their way, as they usually do. Does that mean we do our best to remain in stealth mode, and avoid an education campaign of the minor alkaloids in the field of addiction research and education?
Around the year 2000, phenylpropanolamine was banned from over the counter medications by the FDA, it was in a lot of cold medications as a nasal decongestant, and popular diet pills Accutrim and Dexatrim. It was discovered to cause approximately 500 strokes per year in women. It can also be used to manufacture amphetamine, according to the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005. I stopped using it in 1990 or 1991 sometime I think, I forget, it was a long time ago.
Anyway, yes, the doctors even know the tobacco moves the bowels, they probably just didn't know 20 years ago, or even now for that matter, that minor alkaloids were the "medicine," and not the nicotine alone.
Which begs the question:
How do we educate doctors and Addictionologists to the fact that cigarette smokers, and other tobacco users, are addicted to nicotine and an entire spectrum of minor alkaloids, in addition to just nicotine alone? How will they learn that Harm Reduction outreach must include nicotine with minor alkaloids if they are going to have a higher success rate turning smokers into non-smokers, or at best, and proudly, WTA e-liquid vapers?
This discovery is too important to keep from the rest of the world. Problem is, once the FDA finds us on their radar, they will want to monitor and control what Aroma ejuice manufactures and sells. That could be a stumbling block to our access and their income for a while, if not permanently, if Big Tobacco gets their way, as they usually do. Does that mean we do our best to remain in stealth mode, and avoid an education campaign of the minor alkaloids in the field of addiction research and education?
