With all the public banning of smokers, they’d be a nice club to join. It’s a social activity and commonality that I believe would be very useful.
I don’t smoke, but will go on smoke breaks with other people at work. You make friends. I’d expect it to be more generally useful to be able to join the little smoking islands in public.
Well, those particular two aren’t actually less dangerous to me, on account of a latex allergy.
(I don’t know if the gum -actually- contains latex, but it sure as hell tastes like it. Problem there is that nicotine tastes like an allergic reaction to me; both “taste” like needles stabbing into my tongue. Either way I’m staying well away from the gum, and using the patches, which merely cause me skin irritation, sparingly; mostly I use them for lucid dreaming, as they’re the only reliable mechanism I’ve found for inducing strong dream states.)
Trying to get accustomed to e-cigs, but they’re pretty harsh.
Nicotine patches seem to often contain latex, explaining your skin irritation, but the one gum I found docs on the issue, Nicorette, specifically says there is no latex in it.
I also wonder why you’d find e-cigs harsh—I was under the impression they were just water and nicotine and possibly a suspension like glycerol, which seem much milder and less irritating than the witch’s brew of tobacco smoke.
Either way, I’m not putting the gum in my mouth. Teaching myself to ignore the warning signs that could lead to my throat closing up doesn’t seem like a good idea. :-)
Lozenges are okay, albeit expensive. My favorite nicotine delivery system—although hard to find—is actually dissolving strips that stick to the roof of your mouth. (The only brand I’ve found thus far is NicoSpan.) Significantly cheaper the way I buy them, around five cents apiece compared to forty for the lozenges—I grab them on discount when they’re near the expiration date. Only issue is that the supply is very irregular. (Speaking of which, I should probably order more now, since Amazon actually has a couple of boxes right now.)
It’s not uncommon, actually—part of the issue is that you have to smoke them differently. (The draw is slower and softer.)
I haven’t. I did switch to a pipe, however, which works marvelously at delivering nicotine, in addition to smelling better, and carrying better social connotations. (Like snuff, it does carry a higher risk of oral cancer, but that’s not -quite- as deadly.)
Note, according to my 30 seconds google scholar search, it is dipping/oral snuff that causes a higher risk of oral cancer. Nasal snuff seems safer (or perhaps less well researched).
Just remember that you look like a character from a william gibson novel when you smoke them. I can’t wait to smoke e-cigs while using an occulus rift.
What does smoking do for you that something less dangerous like nicotine gum or patches would not?
With all the public banning of smokers, they’d be a nice club to join. It’s a social activity and commonality that I believe would be very useful.
I don’t smoke, but will go on smoke breaks with other people at work. You make friends. I’d expect it to be more generally useful to be able to join the little smoking islands in public.
Well, those particular two aren’t actually less dangerous to me, on account of a latex allergy.
(I don’t know if the gum -actually- contains latex, but it sure as hell tastes like it. Problem there is that nicotine tastes like an allergic reaction to me; both “taste” like needles stabbing into my tongue. Either way I’m staying well away from the gum, and using the patches, which merely cause me skin irritation, sparingly; mostly I use them for lucid dreaming, as they’re the only reliable mechanism I’ve found for inducing strong dream states.)
Trying to get accustomed to e-cigs, but they’re pretty harsh.
Nicotine patches seem to often contain latex, explaining your skin irritation, but the one gum I found docs on the issue, Nicorette, specifically says there is no latex in it.
I also wonder why you’d find e-cigs harsh—I was under the impression they were just water and nicotine and possibly a suspension like glycerol, which seem much milder and less irritating than the witch’s brew of tobacco smoke.
Either way, I’m not putting the gum in my mouth. Teaching myself to ignore the warning signs that could lead to my throat closing up doesn’t seem like a good idea. :-)
Lozenges are okay, albeit expensive. My favorite nicotine delivery system—although hard to find—is actually dissolving strips that stick to the roof of your mouth. (The only brand I’ve found thus far is NicoSpan.) Significantly cheaper the way I buy them, around five cents apiece compared to forty for the lozenges—I grab them on discount when they’re near the expiration date. Only issue is that the supply is very irregular. (Speaking of which, I should probably order more now, since Amazon actually has a couple of boxes right now.)
It’s not uncommon, actually—part of the issue is that you have to smoke them differently. (The draw is slower and softer.)
Have you tried snuff? It smells quite nice and can help clear your nose as well as deliver nicotine.
I haven’t. I did switch to a pipe, however, which works marvelously at delivering nicotine, in addition to smelling better, and carrying better social connotations. (Like snuff, it does carry a higher risk of oral cancer, but that’s not -quite- as deadly.)
Note, according to my 30 seconds google scholar search, it is dipping/oral snuff that causes a higher risk of oral cancer. Nasal snuff seems safer (or perhaps less well researched).
have you tried e-cigs?
Trying really, really hard to train myself to like them. Sigh.
Just remember that you look like a character from a william gibson novel when you smoke them. I can’t wait to smoke e-cigs while using an occulus rift.