Chinup, yeah, I know the whole fruitless chasing the high, I've read a lot of accounts about it.
And plan is, when I buy my 20-rock or MAYBE 40 rock, IF I'm flushed, MAYBE, at most, one good hit, after I've first done a test-dose to gauge the effect it has on me, as I really am a naive user when it comes to crack smoking. One at a time, although I'd like to try two, and three, three once, and only once, to gauge just how the diminishing return scales, but two, yeah, because I've never HAD two hits of crack sequentially.
But other than that, I'll be saving it, and using it now and again, until it's all gone. When it is, then there'll be no more until possibly, my birthday next year and xmas next year. Unless someone offers me a bit for free, as my homeless, rock-smoking H user, that I had for a H connect, gave me once, I'll accept a free piece, but buying more, is not going to happen.
Save it as long as practical, spin it out, to have good hits, but timed so as to BE good hits. Two in a session, maximum. Three, four will be experimented with, a single time, to investigate the scaling of the classic diminishing return. That, once done, isn't going to be repeated. Merely curious about how rapidly it does so.
No, I know, not typical crackhead behaviour. But then, I've never been, and never will be, a crackhead. Not expressing disdain for those who are, as long as they behave in such a way, as to be decent human beings. Smoking stone in and of itself, earns no judgement on my part. Robbing, mugging, etc. yes, I'll despise such behaviour and look down on people for doing it to feed a habit. I refuse to do so, in opioid WD, I know that it's a consequence of my being a chronic pain patient that it'll happen at times. But I won't steal for a bit of relief. I'll improvise, cough mixtures, dihydrocodeine to 6-monoacetyldihydromorphine, but I won't take from others what is not mine and what is not freely given.
Smoking tobacco...ugh. Have you tried an e-fag apocalypse-when? it isn't quite the same, nicotine alone. But it does help a lot, helped me knock the fags on the bonce, my old man, after my pestering him to try one, got one, and he's not smoked since.
Advice being blend your own e-juice. Use the nicotine, buy in bulk, in propylene glycol alone as diluent, and use only PG if you wish to dilute it further. Flavourings, add, make juice.
Cheaper, you have better control over strength, and that way, it's glycerine-free. Glycerine, when dehydrated, ends up as propenal, also known as acrolein. Its highly toxic, and also, it is EXTREMELY irritating. Virulently lachrymatory, tear gas on steroids. Made some once, as a wee kid, using in that case, bisulfate and dry-distillation with a mix of glycerine and bisulfate with a blowtorch and test tube.
Poured what wasn't used down the sink (forgive me for this, I was a child at the time and knew little better), not much, about an inch or two in a test tube, flushed it with water. Stupid as fuck, turned the tap the wrong way, HOT water went down, acrolein came back up, sending me reeling, eyes on FIRE, lungs feeling as if they'd been turned inside out, and marinated in chili pepper sauce made from chili peppers and battery acid, god damn...everything felt like it'd been bloody blowtorched before being ripped out through my eyesockets.
Acrolein can be thermally created from glycerine overheating. I know that smell, I know that foul taste and I know the lachrymatory, caustic, choking sensation it produces.
And I have tasted it in overheated e-fag liquid, especially when a tank runs near dry without noticing, and also on high voltage settings if it's a variable output model. And I've choked on it. The last bits, if glycerine is in the liquid, get too hot easily, and then you choke and cough and splutter.
Because you pretty much took a toke of teargas, only one too damn poisonous to be used by the military or the filth.