Immune system diseases (If you have kidney disease due to lupus, your doctor will call it lupus nephritis.) Long-lasting viral illnesses, such as HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C. Pyelonephritis, a urinary tract infections within the kidneys, which can result in scarring as the infection heals.
By Dr Ananya Mandal, MD. Nicotine has strong mood altering effects and can act on the brain as both a stimulant and a relaxant. Once within the bloodstream, nicotine may circulate around the body until it reaches the brain.
Nicotine causes dopamine release in the brain. Now, nicotine is not that bad of and by itself, except it addicts you to it and a lot of pleasure symptoms go through dopamine release. Sugar release is dopamine, sex release is dopamine, heroin release is dopamine, and nicotine from cigarettes does too.