Try a vape, preferably an unflavored one. Or something administered orally, like nicotine pouches/gum or snus. Anything but smoking actual tobacco.
It makes your bones more porous and lighter, like a bird
Is that good?
If you want to use muscle power to fly then it might get you at least partly there. Especially if you smoke excessively and avoid any calcium uptake.
Cigarettes are a nootropic which increases your cognitive ability, increases free testosterone, helps with weight loss too.
My grandfather grew his own tobacco and drank a flask of rum and smoked a cigar every day and he lived to 102, don't listen to all the CDC FUD in the thread!
Are you aware that not a single "nootropic" has ever been shown to make a difference in controlled studies? Forget just nicotine, even using the word "nootropic" is like saying "detox juice" or "chakra alignment". It immediately lets everyone who hears you know that you're the most gullible person in the room.
Mostly, it helps you look cool - very cool. Cool and potentially cancerous, but, cool nonetheless.
It does I started to look cool and because my girlfriend wanted me to lose weight, I mean all the people and icons back in the fifties did it and they were fine.
Healthcare in the US is absolutely bonkers. Here in the UK I've paid 0 (!) quids for my lung transplant. They only required me to take a break from smoking for about 6 months (that sucked, lol).
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