The document discusses research showing that smoking may help prevent canker sores. It notes that smokers and those who use smokeless tobacco or nicotine tablets get canker sores less frequently than non-smokers. Some patients reported getting canker sores after quitting smoking but saw them reduce again when they restarted smoking. While taking up smoking is not recommended, the document wonders if nicotine itself may help control canker sores and what chemical property it has that impacts canker sore formation.

2. Want to Stop Ulcers? Start
Smoking!

4. Don’t blink, you read that correctly.
It’s funny the things you run across
when doing research. I ran across
a document from the Journal of the
American Dental Association that
actually says that smoking can
actually help stop canker sores:

5. Patients suffering from RAS usually
are nonsmokers, and there is a
lower prevalence and severity of
RAS among heavy smokers as
opposed to moderate smokers.

6. Some patients report an onset of
RAS after smoking cessation,
while others report control on
reinitiation of smoking.

7. The use of smokeless tobacco also
is associated with a significantly
lower prevalence of RAS.
Nicotine-containing tablets also
appear to control the frequency
of RAS.

8. So, in English…
Overachiever.
Smokers get canker sores less than
non-smokers. Heavy smokers
actually get even less than light
smokers.

9. People who stopped smoking
have suddenly started getting
ulcers, which stopped when
they started smoking again.
Seriously. WOW.

10. Now, clearly going out and
developing a smoking habit is not
the answer. Although one could
joke that the stress from quitting
could have brought on the ulcers,

11. I can’t help but wonder if it’s the
nicotine, because it says that
nicotine “tablets” (whatever the
hell those are) appear to control it,
too.

12. I’m tempted to go out and buy
some nicotine gum. The bigger
question, though, is what is it
chemically in nicotine that is
reacting with the body to keep
it from creating canker sores?

13. Things to ponder…
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