Does Nicotine help with ur positive symptoms?

Nicotine helps me understand better when people talk and helps me have thoughts in my head and talk but its been so long since ive been off nicotine i can hardly remember if it helps with my positive symptoms. My doctor told me her patients tell her it does. I really need to quit nicotine but im just worried how ill be without it. I know i will hardly be able to talk and my thoughts when i have em will be louder and they will take me over but other than that i dont know.

What changed when u quit or use nicotine?

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After a couple of months I felt better because breathing was better. It’s a gradual thing but you’ll notice improvements if you exercise.

Yeah it will give you a cognitive hit but I argue that the addiction removes the benefits even in the short term. I was a hopeless nicotine addict for 25 years of my life and I regret that.

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Without nicotine I had to do additional JRE ( Jacobson Relaxation Technique )

which made me perform in my job,

when I took nicotine I got a promotion as well to QA,

but addiction to it made me lose the job as well.

Very small proportion of nicotine keep the cognition well.

Like only one cigarette a day,

more than that will crash my system of thoughts.

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I was in ward when I started it. They put me on too high a dose of haldol. Had a court order and lock up, could not refuse. Felt like ■■■■.

Nicotine has been proven to lower haldol blood levels.

I never smoked. But ordered nicotine ‘bandaids’ through the internet. Put them on my skin. The effect on me was that I got extremely dizzy and nauseous. Throwing up. And could not function for a few days. I have no clue what it does to my positives, for I felt too sick to notice.

I told the nurses my strategy. And how it worked out. We had a good laugh. They found it weird, but rather inventive and funny.

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