Abstract
Over the last 12 years our research group has carried out an extensive investigation into the effects of cigarette smoking and nicotine tablets on human mental efficiency. The consistent finding from this program has been that both cigarettes and nicotine favorably affect human information processing. The purpose of this paper is to consider the findings from this research in relation to, firstly, the ways in which smoking and nicotine improve mental efficiency and, secondly, how these effects might be produced.
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Wesnes, K. (1987). Nicotine Increases Mental Efficiency: But How?. In: Martin, W.R., Van Loon, G.R., Iwamoto, E.T., Davis, L. (eds) Tobacco Smoking and Nicotine. Advances in Behavioral Biology, vol 31. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1911-5_5
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