The FDA has proposed limiting the amount of nicotine in cigarettes to minimally addictive levels, but there's been concern that the drop in nicotine could exacerbate anxieties in smokers who might already battle mood issues.
FRIDAY, Nov. 4, 2022 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed limiting the amount of nicotine in cigarettes to minimally addictive levels, but there's been concern that the drop in nicotine could exacerbate anxieties in smokers who might already battle mood issues.help anxious or depressed smokers quit, they do so without adding to mood or anxiety problems that led them to smoke in the first place.
Smokers with mood and anxiety disorders showed no signs of"over-smoking" the very low-nicotine cigarettes, nor was there any sign that switching to them made their mental health worse, Foulds said. "It would be appropriate for the protection of public health to move forward with implementing such a regulation as soon as possible," he said."It is now over 50 years since it became clear that cigarettes are lethal and addictive when used as intended. It is time to take action to minimize the addictive part of cigarettes."
For the study, Foulds and his colleagues studied 188 smokers who had mood or anxiety disorders and didn't want to quit. They were randomly assigned to smoke cigarettes with the usual amount of nicotine or those that had nicotine content reduced in stages over 18 weeks.
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