Health & Happiness Transcript Series — Clarity · Curiosity · Commitment
Why We Still Believe Nicotine Is Addictive
Why do we accept certain “truths” in medicine without ever checking their origin?
Because repetition feels like proof.
For three decades, “nicotine is addictive” has been treated as gospel — echoed by media, doctors, and policy alike.
The Hidden History Behind the Myth
But history has a strange way of rewarding the story that sells best, not the one that holds up to scrutiny.
In The Other N-Word (Nicotine), Dr. Bryan Ardis unpacks how that narrative was built — brick by brick — through congressional theatre and selective science.
How Pyrazines Created a Manufactured Addiction
He traces the timeline from the 1994 U.S. hearings, where tobacco executives became public villains, to the quiet 2015 Harvard study that found the real culprit: pyrazines — chemical additives designed to hack the brain’s reward system.
The molecule nature made neutral was chemically weaponised, then publicly blamed.
What You’ll Learn Inside This Transcript
Ardis walks you through the biochemistry that the soundbites missed.
Nicotine alone doesn’t hijack dopamine; it stabilises acetylcholine — a neurotransmitter essential for focus, mood, and memory.
It’s the synthetic modifiers that create the craving loop.
The video embedded below takes you inside that shift — slide by slide, study by study — showing how “addiction” was engineered in the lab, not the leaf.
Dr Bryan Ardis Reveals the Real Science
What if the enemy isn’t the compound, but the corruption of it?
What if nicotine’s natural form was never the problem — only the profit model built on its demonisation?
This is the question that starts the Health & Happiness Transcript Series — one that calls for clarity before judgment.
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Every slide from Dr. Ardis’s presentation - part 1. I broke up the 3 hours in 3 parts, which makes it more accessible.
Commentary decoded into plain language.
The transcript - has a clear TOC and live research links. Get it here: [Link]
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This first part reframes addiction as a design, not a destiny.
It’s not about defending smoking — it’s about defending truth.
Other links:
The full presentation on Rumble - 4 Nov 2024 [Link]
Website Dr. Ardis: (not findable in G oogle) https://thedrardisshow.com/
Free resources - the Nicotine PDF on the Dr. Ardis Website: [Link]
