SuppVersity: True or False: You Can (Ab-)Use Nicotine Chewing Use Nicotine Gums to Get Shredded Without Compromising Your Health

SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for Everyone: True or False: You Can (Ab-)Use Nicotine Chewing G...: Nicotine gums are made for smokers. Smokers are leaner than no-smokers. Chewing nicotine gums helps you lean out... broscience? Logic? Or ...



Bottom line - True! For healthy athletic folks! Just to make that clear. I am not, by any means recommending the use of nicotine gums for weight loss. All I do is to answer the often heard question whether the bro-scientific assumption that they'd help you shed body fat is true.

And, by the way, the study that would confirm that "dieting + nicotine" = greater weight / fat loss than "dieting alone" has not yet been conducted. If you want to do your own N=1 study, do it at your own risk. Next to potential (albeit for healthy people probably controllable health issues), it appears as if there was also a minimal risk of addiction for never-smokers (Etter. 2007) | Comment on Facebook!



If you want to try it, try this: 200mg caffeine + 1mg nicotine from chewing gums upon rising, another 200mg of caffeine and 1mg nicotine at lunch or pre-workout, additional 2x 100mg caffeine + 1mg nicotine between breakfast and lunch and lunch and dinner.



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