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What are the effects? How long does nicotine stay Tolerance and Dependency

Nicotine causes wide range of effects including: in the body? Nicotine is a highly addictive substance. Use of
Nicotine can cause tolerance – this means the body
• Release of adrenaline • Altered taste Nicotine can be detected in the body for about needs a higher dose of the drug to achieve the
• Mild muscle relaxation • Coughing 3 to 5 hours, but this duration changes based on same desired effect. Repeated use can also cause
dependency, where a person has a very strong desire
• Nausea and vomiting • Laxative effects how frequently you use nicotine and individual to continue using nicotine (even if there are negative
• Reduced appetite • Increased heart rate body differences and may be detected for consequences) and may have difficulty stopping.
• Respiratory effects • Bad breath much longer.
• Increased blood pressure • Reduced fertility A person with a nicotine dependency may experience
When smoked Nicotine reaches the brain in withdrawal effects if they try to stop smoking, such
When smoked, Nicotine reaches the brain in about 10 about 10 to 20 seconds, and reaches full blood as cravings, irritability, anxiety, restlessness, increased
appetite and difficulty sleeping .
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to 20 seconds, and reaches full blood concentration concentration within 5 mins.
within 5 minutes . The Law
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Smokers tend to adjust (titrate) their dose of nicotine
to their preference by smoking more often, puffing Smoking
more, and inhaling deeper. Because of this, it is Risks products may
difficult to find out how much nicotine a person is only be bought
absorbing. Nicotine use is associated with some risks to health: by and sold to people
over the age of 18 years.
Interactions e-Cigarettes containing
Drug use, including nicotine, rarely involves one nicotine are not available
substance. People use multiple common legal drugs, for sale in Australia.
such as caffeine and alcohol, and some people may
use a combination of legal and illegal drugs – all of
which can interact in unexpected ways.

Tobacco Use In Australia, tobacco and nicotine laws differ
e-Cigarette Smoking has a wide range of risks to health, including between states and territories.

Use respiratory (breathing) diseases, inflammatory and Smoking products may only be bought by and sold
autoimmune diseases, bone density loss, gingivitis
There is not enough current and mouth ulcers, increased risk of infection, reduced to people over the age of 18 years. e-Cigarettes
research on the effects of fertility, and is linked to an increase in the numbers containing nicotine are not available for sale in
e-cigarette use. e-Cigarettes may and mortality of a number of different types of cancer. Australia.
cause different harms from smoking These risks increase the longer a person smokes. Many states have laws regarding where smoking
tobacco. e-Cigarettes contain fewer is permitted, such as whether you are allowed to
chemicals than tobacco, but still Pregnancy smoke inside a car with children or how far away
may increase the risk of many Smoking during pregnancy is harmful from a public door you must be.
to both the mother and unborn child.
respiratory and other It can disrupt the development of the
diseases. baby, and may cause miscarriage, low Australia has very strict laws regarding the advertising
and sale of smoking products including restrictions
birth weight or ectopic pregnancy. It is on what stores can display and compulsory graphic
safest not to smoke during pregnancy health warnings on cigarette packaging.
and breastfeeding.