Nicotine For Fat Loss

I know he is not the most popular guy around here, but I was going through old articles on the site and found one by Anthony Roberts that claimns that he used Nicotine to help a figure athlete shed some fat by controlling her appetite and estrogen levels. You can find the original article here:

There is also an article about Nicotine’s use for bodybuilding here:

http://www.mindandmuscle.net/articles/andrew_novick/nicotine

Anyone have any thoughts or experiences with this that they would like to share?