Pondering about Smoking

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<< I smoke, but can't say if it affects my CMT or not, I really don't think

so. But I would have to stop in order to know for sure wouldn't I? >>

I'm surprised by how many CMTers are smokers. The majority of the hundreds of

CMTers that I've met online SEEM to be smokers -- not that I know that

statistically. It's a curiosity. In real life I don't have any smokers among

my friends or relatives now. (That's not intentional, just the way it is.) I

quit in 1960, before many of you were born!

It has recently been discovered that nicotine helps some people who have

certain Central Nervous System disorders, (CMT is Peripheral Nervous System,

not CNS), such as Tourettes and Multiple Sclerosis. Now researchers are

rushing to find a way to use the benefits of nicotine without risking the bad

effects. They will probably administer it in a patch.

Depressed people often (unconsciously) self-medicate with chocolate. I wonder

if something similar is going on with smoking ... Just wondering. As I said,

nicotine has NOT been shown to help disorders of the PNS, but I don't know if

they have looked into it. I'm NOT saying smoking is good, just that who

knows what is going on? We know so little about so much!!

Kat, thinking out loud on Sunday