Nicotine e-cigarettes as a tool for smoking cessation.
2023
Kenneth E Warner, and
Neal L Benowitz, and
Ann McNeill, and
Nancy A Rigotti
Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. kwarner@umich.edu.
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D009538
Nicotine
Nicotine is highly toxic alkaloid. It is the prototypical agonist at nicotinic cholinergic receptors where it dramatically stimulates neurons and ultimately blocks synaptic transmission. Nicotine is also important medically because of its presence in tobacco smoke.