Some of its components, particularly tobacco-specific nitrosamines, are known carcinogens
But in the long run, chemicals kill your brain cells and stop new ones from forming
Brief opportunistic smoking cessation interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis to compare advice to quit and offer of assistance
In each study, CHANTIX-treated patients were more likely to maintain abstinence throughout the follow-up period than were patients treated with placebo (Figure 2, Table 8)
Long term consequences of prenatal exposure to gutkha were demonstrated in mice, where the adult male offspring exposed to a high fat diet developed histological evidence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in addition to significant alterations in hepatic fibrosis-related cytokines (interleukin (IL)-1b and IL-6) and in hepatic collagen mRNA expression levels compared to control (non-exposed) group (Doherty Lyons et al., 2020)
Chewing tobacco is sometimes known as smokeless tobacco or spitting tobacco