{"id":854581,"date":"2026-09-20T18:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854581\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T18:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:20:08","slug":"im-a-pulmonologist-heres-why-new-wellness-claims-about-nicotine-worry-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854581\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m a pulmonologist. Here\u2019s why new wellness claims about nicotine worry me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MYMH2MOBRNB5DN6VBYCMKCOFZA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOoLDlYDqZZ\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social media<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-comprehensive-health-benefits-of-nicotine\/id418368811?i=1000669798439\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">podcasts<\/a>, wellness communities and tech start-ups, <a href=\"https:\/\/daveasprey.com\/?post_type=post&amp;s=nicotine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">prominent wellness influencers<\/a> are now portraying nicotine as a misunderstood compound whose potential benefits have been overshadowed by its <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.nlm.nih.gov\/spotlight\/nn\/catalog\/nlm:nlmuid-101584932X202-doc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">negative association with cigarette smoking<\/a>. These advocates, many of whom support the Make America Healthy Again movement, are touting an addictive substance linked to tobacco use as a natural product that can be used for everything from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/bmj-2026-491423\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">improving focus to protecting against cognitive decline<\/a>. This trend includes using nicotine alone in noncombustible products such as nicotine pouches or in combination with caffeine and <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/nu14163367\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nootropics<\/a>, or \u201csmart drugs\u201d marketed to enhance cognition.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Across social media, podcasts, wellness communities and tech start-ups, prominent wellness influencers are now portraying nicotine as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-854581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}