Nicotine, the Central Nervous System and Adrenal Medulla

An Australian wellness Survey conducted in 2011-2012, cogitate that 3.1 million Australians ar smokers. (Australian role of Statistics, 2013). This means that 14% of Australias population are soon smokers compared to more than than 40% in the 1980s a striking decrease with the smoking roll continuing to decline from each one year. Now there are many factors that can be considered for this drop much(prenominal) as the rise in prices or maybe less handiness but another gigantic factor is that its no longer seen in the kindred way socially desire it was back in the 1980s. With more and more anti-smoking products being created it decreases the pith of smokers and Im sacking to go into more information about 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 embitter that acts by stimulating or mimicking the parasympathetic nervous system. (Dor lands aesculapian Dictionary, 2013) Nicotine is also a nicotinic agonist. A nicotinic agonist is a drug that mimics the action of acetylcholine at nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (NCRs) (Henningfield, 2006). Nicotine is administered orally. The be reacts as soon as Nicotine enters the system. Nicotine affects two different areas of the carcass: the adrenal myeline and the primeval nervous system.\nThe adrenal medulla is part of the adrenal secretor found in the kidney. It has an stupor on the bodys energy, heart rate and metamorphosis as it secretes internal secretions, such as adrenaline and dopamine. The kidney absorbs the Nicotine through the furrowstream which then(prenominal) enters the adrenal medulla. The Nicotine then binds with the nicotinic receptors which causes adrenaline to be released into the body; this causes common symptoms of smoking such as an increase in heart rate and blood pressure.\ndopamine is a hormone which is influenced by Nicotine in the bod y. Dopamine is related to our addiction,...