Is there a study you can point me to in regard to nicotine improving memory? That sounds interesting! Did not know that!
Go to this Web site and start searching:
PubMed Home
Typing "nicotine memory" in the search field (label="for") returns 670 articles. Not all are relevant, but most are.
When the search terms = nicotine "cognitive dysfunction"
there are 46 results. I don't recomment searching on "cognitive" without pairing it up with another term such as "dysfunction" or "impariment" because you will get lots of results about CBT (cognitive behavior therapy).
These two back-to-back results (search term = nicotine treating memory) shows that there appears to be a dose-related response to nicotine. The 2 mg gum did not cut the mustard!
Cigarette abstinence impairs memory and metacognition despite administration of 2 mg nicotine gum.
Kelemen WL, Fulton EK.
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol. 2008 Dec;16(6):521-31.
PMID: 19086773 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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Efficacy of a nicotine (4 mg)-containing lozenge on the cognitive impairment of nicotine withdrawal.
Atzori G, Lemmonds CA, Kotler ML, Durcan MJ, Boyle J.
J Clin Psychopharmacol. 2008 Dec;28(6):667-74.
PMID: 19011436 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]