Originally Posted by pornlaw

Years ago it was proven that smoking was beneficial to the treatment of dementia... basically nicotine helps the brain function better...

Then the anti-smoking lobby got involved and now its transdermal patches with nicotine are helpful for the treatment of dementia...

This is where science and factual findings part company.

Nothing is better than inhaling a drug to beat the brain-blood barrier.

If there was, crack would be distributed in patches and not rocks smoked in pipes.

So yes smoking cigarettes helps with dementia - the onset of and the treatment of... but that has to be weighed against cancer and heart issues... so probably patches, while not as good as smoking, would offset the other health issues.

Smoke'em if you got'em