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Do coffee and cigarettes make you smarter?

Eric Barker
April 3, 2012

Yes.

Via Brain Candy: Science, Paradoxes, Puzzles, Logic, and Illogic to Nourish Your Neurons:

You already know that your morning cup(s) of coffee make(s) you a better person: more alert, more outgoing, increasingly optimistic, better looking, better smelling, nicer, etc. But did you know that coffee actually makes you smarter?

It does, really. But only for a short period of time, and when you come down, youâre dumber than you were before taking that first sip (unless you drink more coffee!).

Studies show that caffeine increases the speed at which we process sensory information. And with luscious caffeine jouncing happily through our system, we make faster decisions based on these stimuli. In other words, we see faster and we act faster.

Cigarettes make us smarter too. Or at least their nicotine component does: Itâs been shown to boost short-term working memory and executive function. Nicotine patches have also been shown to combat some of the effects of Alzheimerâs disease.

In other words, coffee makes us faster and nicotine makes us sharper. The crux is living long enough to enjoy these benefits.

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Title Do coffee and cigarettes make you smarter?
Author Eric Barker
Date April 3, 2012 5:34 PM UTC (11 years ago)
Blog bakadesuyo
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