Do Cigarettes Calm People Down? Many people say that a cigarette will calm them down, but is that the case, or is it the nicotine in a cigarette limits the ability of the human brain to focus on more than one thing at a time. In Jon D. Kassel’s study of the affects of nicotine, he tried to prove that nicotine doesn’t make the problem go away, it just temporally distracts attention from …showed first 75 words of 492 total…

…showed last 75 words of 492 total…a cigarette with a low amount of nicotine, thus proving that nicotine is the primary substance that affects the degree of distraction of the subjects. The conclusion of this experiment showed that people who smoked cigarettes were not actually calmer after a cigarette, just blinded from the truth. The truth being that nicotine in cigarettes causes the human mind to lose its focus on a broad amount of things, falsely giving a feeling of calmness.