'Nicotine, the Central Nervous System and Adrenal Medulla'

'An Australian wellness Survey conducted in 2011-2012, concluded that 3.1 one million million Australians are smokers. (Australian power of Statistics, 2013). This means that 14% of Australias state are presently smokers compared to more(prenominal) than 40% in the 1980s a dramatic decrease with the sens aim keep to decline each year. Now at that place are galore(postnominal) factors that can be considered for this drop much(prenominal) as the deck up in prices or maybe slight accessibility however another tremendous factor is that its no long-range seen in the alike way socially like it was prickle in the 1980s. With more and more anti- consume products macrocosm created it decreases the amount of smokers and Im pass to go into more depth some that later on in the presentation.\nNicotine is a parasymphatomimetic alkaloid from the nightshade family of plants called the Solanaceae. A parasympathomimetic drug is a drug or poison that acts by stimulating or mimic king the parasympathetic unquiet system. (Dorlands Medical Dictionary, 2013) Nicotine is as well as a nicotinic agonist. A nicotinic agonist is a drug that mimics the implement of acetylcholine at nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (NCRs) (Henningfield, 2006). Nicotine is administered orally. The ashes reacts as in brief as Nicotine enters the tree trunk. Nicotine affects 2 different areas of the eubstance: the suprarenal gland gland electric-light bulb and the central spooky system.\nThe adrenal electric-light bulb is part of the adrenal gland prove in the kidney. It has an dissemble on the forms energy, spunk rate and metabolism as it secretes endocrine glands, much(prenominal) as epinephrin and dopamine. The kidney absorbs the Nicotine through the blood stream which then enters the adrenal medulla. The Nicotine then binds with the nicotinic receptors which causes epinephrin to be released into the body; this causes common symptoms of smoking such as an increas e in heart rate and blood pressure.\ndopamine is a hormone which is influenced by Nicotine in the body. Dopamine is cogitate to our addiction,... '