Nicotinum may be used as a Homeopathic or used simply as a micro-nutritional (alkaloid). Homeopathic potencies accredit their strength and efficacy to the electromagnetic signatures of the original substrate; these are scientifically created dilutions and succussions of medicines such that generally not even a molecule of the original substrate or medicine is present in the medicine.

As a Homeopathic or used simply as a micro-nutritional, Nicotinum has demonstrated effectiveness against the following symptomology: tobacco, effects of; -great aversion to tobacco and tobacco smoking (one prover, a smoker, was unable to smoke more than a few whiffs; another prover, a nonsmoker, could not approach any one who was smoking) (Clarke) Note: etiotropic similarity to causative agent of tobacco habit.