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Nicotine as a Stimulating Agent

    Determination of Nicotine abuse as a Stimulating Agent.

    Nicotine has a stimulating effect, increasing the pulse rate and blood pressure, but also the release of sugar in blood and the release of adrenaline. Nicotine also induces relaxing effects, reducing stress, increasing alertness and improving cognitive function. 

    Thus, the consumption of nicotine as in smokeless tobacco products can benefit the practice of sport, without the health problems generally associated with smoke. Indeed, the use of snus and chewing tobacco is increasing, especially among winter sports such as ice hockey and skiing, but also in other sports like football or basketball and even fencing or shooting. 

    However, only vague estimates of these nicotine consumption patterns are reported and this potential problem is underestimated, as it is not on the WADA Prohibited List or in the Monitoring Program.

    As a first step, this study should help to establish the prevalence of nicotine use amongst a population of athletes and to evaluate the intervariability of this consumption. Then a source inference model will be developped in order to distinguish the metabolism of nicotine between smoke and smokeless tobacco.


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    Catégorie

    Training/cognition , Sociology/society/management

    Mots clés

    Nicotine , Snus , Tobacco , Stimulant

    Sports concernés

    Hockey sur glace

    Personne reponsable

    Prénom :
    François
    Nom :
    Marclay
    Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses
    Ch. des Croisettes 22
    1066
    Epalinges


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