u/MisterIceGuy

I remember all the talk a few years back here and on Huberman about nicotine being a cognitive enhancer, and some folks even chewing nicotine gum while they worked.

I was recently reading about the painter Balthus and came across this quote which was before its time on the subject;

"I intuitively understood that smoking doubled my faculty of concentration, allowing me to be entirely within a canvas,"

I found the negative to outweigh the positive for me, but it’s interesting how many artists seemed to use nicotine as an enhancer before it was known.