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Experiment: Nicotine And Reaction Time
Nicotine and Reaction Time

Introduction: Nicotine is a drug, nerve poison, sedative and also a stimulant. It is said to have stimulating and relaxing effects, but it depends on the dosage of nicotine. As it was mentioned above, Nicotine is both a stimulant and a sedative; this means that straight after you have ingested nicotine, it gives you an adrenaline rush and also helps you to relax afterwards i.e. crash. This means that if I conduct my experiment straight after the smokers have ingested nicotine, they will have a faster reaction time, and the more they ingest, the faster their reaction time will be. The rush of adrenaline from the nicotine will stimulate the body and cause a sudden discharge of glucose and can cause smokers to be slightly …show more content…
Harm - Suffocation. Control - Be careful when chewing the gum and make sure you use it properly (don't swallow it)

Method:
1. Tell the smokers not smoke any cigarettes or ingest any nicotine for 24 hours so that there will be no nicotine in their body.
2. Collect all necessary equipment including Nicorette Gum 2mg, x6 30cm rulers
3. Get the smokers to complete the test without any nicotine in their body first as a control experiment and record the results in the results table. (Test is below)
4. Have the smokers to chew the Nicorette Gum for 30 minutes. Be sure to tell the smokers to follow these instructions when chewing the gum: a. Chew the gum slowly until the taste becomes strong or until you can feel a tingling sensation. It should take less than a minute. b. Rest the Nicorette Gum between your gums and cheek so that the nicotine can be released into your body from the mouth lining. c. Start chewing the gum again when the taste has faded or the tingling is almost gone. Repeat and keep doing this for 30 mins.

6. Get 2, 30-centimetre rulers for each non-smoker and tell them to hold it 1 centimetre above a smoker's
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