What is the role of nicotine in fear and anxiety?

Might help: When a cigarette is smoked, nicotine-rich blood passes from the lungs to the brain and stimulates the release of many chemical messengers such as acetylcholine, norepinephrine, epinephrine, vasopressin, histamine, serotonin, dopamine, autocrine agents, and beta-endorphin. The release of neurotransmitters and hormones is responsible for most of its actions. Endorphin will calm u. Very addictive.

natural anxiolytic: Nicotine is your body's own natural anti-anxiety treatment. Nicotine is released to help calm the body in times of stress. Too much nicotine, as in cigarettes, floods the body with nicotine and the body stops making its own. That's why smoking addiction starts so quickly and you feel tense, stressed, and jittery when you begin to withdraw from the cigarette drug.