Nicotine has a powerful neuroendocrine effect. Does nicotine cause or protect against migraine attacks? What are the mechanisms involved?
Antimigraine action of nicotine: theoretical basis and potential clinical application Gupta, Vinod Kumar European Journal of Emergency Medicine 14(4):p 243-244, August 2007. | DOI: 10.1097/MEJ.0b013e32816679fe
The discussion on cigarettes smoking causing migraine has no definite answer, yes or no. Some factors have to be considered before confirming or refuting such assertion. One of the factors is individual differences which remains a significant factor on how individuals respond to certain stimuli.
For now I want to submit that the link between smoking and migraine is speculative.
Otu O. Essien, Ph.D
University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State,
Nigeria.
The beauty of science is that it cleaves the way between yes and no, between wind and water, between knowledge and its absence, between measurable and immeasurable, between fact and fiction, between belief and unshakeable robust phenomenological truth...a tool designed to endlessly seek definite holistic answers.
It is in politics or other allied fields that yes AND no are spoken off in the same breath.
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