I've got an E-fag, that I bought out of curiosity. This one isn't rechargeable, or refillable, but it was pretty cheap, at about a fiver. The package claimed it was equal to around 40- 50 fags, but it seemed fairly weak and a bit irritating on the throat and chest. Does look neat though, having a glowing LED light where a regular smoke would be lit.
Has anybody tried nicotine mouth sprays? I get those nicorette mouth sprays on rx, for free, fortunately, as they are usually bloody expensive. These are the strongest nicotine product I have ever tried, subjectively speaking, although others contain more nicotine by weight. I am a smoker, but I still find these sprays recreational, I imagine, due to the speed with which they are absorbed. It contains 1mg of nicotine per spray.
Other nicotine containing products I have used are the following:
Rollups, unfiltered, just using a roach. I normally smoke these, amber leaf being my tobacco of choice, although I will smoke golden virginia if no amber leaf is to be had. I've had some good effects by spraying the nicorette over a rollup fag and letting it dry out a bit, the solvents are volatile enogh to allow this. Its a mixture of propylene glycol and anhydrous EtOH (and yes, it stings when sprayed into the mouth)
Regular filter cigarettes, and menthols. When smoking these, I tear the glue strip from a rolling paper, lick it, then wrap it around the filter end over those tiny holes which reduce the amount of smoke on e inhales, then pull the filter cotton itself out and throw it oit before lighting up.e
A pipe. I occasionally smoke a pipe, got a couple of nice glass pipes. Hits pretty hard. Nowhere near as strong as the oromucosal spray however.
Cigars. I like a nice fat, juicy cuban cigar. I prefer the darker and stronger tobaccos, I like the way they cause a tingling sensation in my lips and tongue when my cigar has been smoked down to a short stub and saturated with previously vaporized. Short of the spray, big, fat buggers of a cigar are the strongest nicotine product I've ever tried.
Nicorette inhalators..basically a plastic fag with a replaceable cartridge inside with a little wad of some porous material soaked in nicotine base. Not particularly strong, nor all that subjectively heavy hitting. Pretty much 'meh' IMO.
Patches. Crappy. They fall off and won't go back on, obviously very slow to release. Irritating to my skin, and in general, annoying.I've never bought or been rx'd them, but I have been given them. No plans to buy any, ever, nor to ask for a script. They were crap IMO.
Gum. Again, not fantastic. OK, but not fantastic.
Lol, I got quite the nasty shock when I first got my regular scripts with the nicorette mouth spray added to them. The nurse and I were discussing NASAL sprays ( which I have never tried), that was the original plan when I first discussed the options for nicotine delivery systems with my doc (there is the most idiotic prescribing procedure...the nurse is meant to handle the quitting smoker's needs, after first having an appointment with the GP...who sends the patient to a nurse. Yet the nurse cannot write the prescriptions, so has to send the script back to the GP who then prescribes it. And now, I do not ever see the nurse. Only saw her the once to begin with, and now its my GP who writes up the rx for me along with my other meds every two weeks)
But the nurse, accidentally wrote the script for a mouth spray, not a nasal one. I was expecting what I got to be a nasal spray, and when I got out of the pharmacy, aimed up my nose and sprayed a couple up there. And immediately wished I hadn't. Anhydrous EtOH/propylene glycol and nicotine mix burns like fucking fury when put up one's nose. It was like getting chilli peppers up there.
The effects are quite pleasant. Somewhat of a body buzz, calming, relaxing, some analgesic effects. I've sprayed it onto my bad hip before, and the area of my bad knee that has the neuropathy and nerve damage to some success, transdermally. Very relaxing, when 4-5-6mg or so of nicotine is taken transmucosally. Especially if I have a rollup just after, its mint flavoured, the spray, sort of, although it tastes strongly of nicotine also. So its srt of like smoking what menthols SHOULD be (rather than piss-weak fuckers that are impossible to get a drag from without wrapping the cut off gum strip from a rizla around those blasted holes punched in and ripping out the filter cotton with my teeth, or a haemostat if I am at home where they are available.
The best effect however, is it causing REALLY vivid dreams, that are so realistic that I can't tell if I am awake or asleep. I think I am going to have to try it with a good strong dose of valerian extract, which also has such an oneirogenic effect, to see if they synergise or potentiate said dreaming effect.
For completeness of this bioassay report, my other meds are as follows:
Pregabalin, nominally 100mg TDS, although I sometimes take more, sometimes less, for neuropathic pain, although I use it more to control myoclonus.
Tizanidine (an alpha2 adrenoreceptor agonist like clonidine, although with a shorter duration of action) For preventing overloads, as I'm classically autie. And I like it that way, although I could do without overloading. And plugged, for a very effective sleep inducer, as I have a naturally monstrously high resistance to benzos and most other GABAergics. It does however, when plugged, seem to inhibit dreaming, when I take it at night, plugged, I never, ever remember my dreams. Dose is nominally 8mg/d although I vary it as and when I need.
Two benzos, which I use occasionally, loprazolam 1mg tablets and 5mg moggies.
Chormethiazole, a barbiturate-like downer, IIRC fairly similar, electrophysiologically, to pentobarbital, one of the few GABAa PAMs that do much to me. 192mg caps, 1 per day, although I am scripted them for once daily, I don't take them every day, I don't want a physical dependence on GABA drugs. Instead, I take a few of them occasionally, as needed.
Gaviscon to protect my stomach from indomethacin, a strong NSAID (at 300mg/d), the gaviscon as needed.
And lastly, a xylometazoline nasal spray, to counteract the effects of the tizanidine, locally restricted to the nasal lining/sinuses, as tizanidine makes my nose really stuffy and blocked at higher doses, dose as needed.
