Meanwhile, nicotine is a staple of my day-to-day. I quit smoking a long time ago, now I stick to Swedish snus and vaping. For a period I was chewing gum too. Definitely lots of ways to get it without smoking.
Does Swedish snus made in some way so that this doesn't happen? If so, I need to try it!
Note: If you want a good experience, import it. Do not try Camel snus. Also, you may want to try packets first instead of loose.
[1]: http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/documentStore/m/a/u/mau01c00/...
Edit: > which means even smaller doses quickly restore it close to previous levels
Not for me it doesn't. I'm quite aware of how much nicotine I have in my system and what effect it's having.
Just passing it along since I tried 5-10 brands before settling on Thunder. To each their own.
Doesn't it cause oral cancer?
One thing that really makes a difference is that the vaporized nicotine is actually somewhat hot, like cigarette smoke, when you breathe it in. Standard pre-packaged e-cigarettes didn't cut it for me specifically for this reason.
You mean pre-packaged e-cigs provide a bad user experience with 'cold' vapor ?
Some of the off the shelf disposable / prepackaged e-cigs aren't powerful enough to have a strong vaporization of the solution. When you're refilling yourself, it becomes substantially cheaper (maybe a few dollars for a month of heavy usage?), and with the higher end kits you can program your voltage / amperage settings on curves for your preference as you in inhale.
Too hot, I found, with the first such device I tried - way hotter than cigarette smoke. With the one I have currently (a bottom coil design, I think it's called, though I'm not into the technical side of the things really) it's pretty accurate.
The name "vaping" is something of a shame, though, for something that's a much less harmful alternative for smokers -- it sounds to me like a combination of "vapid" and "gaping".
Nicotine levels also vary and can be customized.
[1] We have lovely billboards in SLC on 1 hour of hookah == 100 cigarettes, which is based on a poorly designed study by the CDC which measured volume of vapor in hookah as a comparative to "what if it was the same volume of cigarette smoke", as a paraphrase.
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/tobac...
If I get a response, I'll have more time later to pick this apart.
Note many times the studies are based around "traditional" such as Tombak tobacco, which is placing the coals directly on the Shisha (tobacco), versus more standard practice (especially in US / hookah bars (across to Vietnam, etc.)) of tinfoil or steal as a heat diffuser.
I imagine e-cigarette smokers must get this stunned reaction quite frequently.
I did double take when I saw her e-smoking in the terminal though. ;)
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Funny way to put it, because human beings have been smoking something for as long as they've walked on earth, as evidenced by older cultures, so it's arguable what would be "natural".
Its obvious they had functional societies, which isnt possible when people spend all day using psycoactives, like Europe on heroin or Asia on opium days.
Do a little research beforehand, but the average cup of coffee has ~100mg caffeine. So 5x50mg caffeine pills for a week or two, and gradually decrease, and it becomes very easy to quit. I've done this successfully (and also chosen actively to get back on caffeine for performance/training reasons, which once lapsed, I then used the method again successfully).