So.......?
Nicotine patches (or gum) for everyone?

WellBelowAverage: So.......?
Nicotine patches (or gum) for everyone?

Yay!!!!

Didn't we already do this today?

chitownmike: Didn't we already do this today?

there's more than one smoke break in a shift...

Eat a bunch of eggplant.

They looked at 74 non-smokers with an average age of 76. Half got a nicotine patch of 15 mg per day for six months; the other poor bastards got a placebo. Neither group knew whether they had the real patch.

Really? I'm pretty sure even a non-smoker could tell if they're receiving a dose nicotine.

Not ironic. Nicotine was never the culprit that made smoking bad.

Article: There are limited situations during which nicotine may be beneficial.
Headline: NICOTINE CURES CANCER!

Time for big pharma to patent a left handed artificial version of nicotine. Should only cost about $20 a dose.

Here's a fun trick.

I gave up smoking about 2 years ago, using 4mg lozenges. However, I never totally gave up the lozenges, because a lozenge slipped between you gum and cheek at night will give you the most vivid, complex awesomely lucid dreams imaginable. I can remember what seems like hours of dreams when I wake up.


Genuinely awesome.

Bungles: Here's a fun trick.

I gave up smoking about 2 years ago, using 4mg lozenges. However, I never totally gave up the lozenges, because a lozenge slipped between you gum and cheek at night will give you the most vivid, complex awesomely lucid dreams imaginable. I can remember what seems like hours of dreams when I wake up.


Genuinely awesome.

Falling asleep with a piece of snus in your upper lip can do the same.

I haven't had a cigarette in over a year. I eat the losenges like they are pez though. Had to cut to the 2mg ones. Was going through a bottle/day and feeling nauseated (constant state of overdose). I love these things. All the nicotine, anytime you want it, no smelling like smoke.... Pure win.

so this is something i never understood. how is a lip full of chew any different than the gum or patch? Are there many other carcinogens in chewing tobacco that it is more dangerous than a patch or gum?

E-cigs?

ParagonComplex:

Falling asleep with a piece of snus in your upper lip can do the same.

So much this. Usually by accident following a few too many whiskeys. also (as far as research thus far is concerned) it doesn't have any of the other cancerous side effects of chewing tobacco or cigarettes. The one thing they found is that it is the nicotine that has the bad side effects, like diabetes risk and high blood pressure, which the article mentions.

Relatively Obscure: e-cig FTW.

DAMN RELOAD AND PRIMARY THREAD

What about tomacco?

King Something: What about tomacco?

Tastes like Grandma.

Okay, this reinforces my suspicion that the problems in smoking are the tar and other crap. Maybe I should switch to an e-cig, just for the tar.

wildcardjack: Okay, this reinforces my suspicion that the problems in smoking are the tar and other crap. Maybe I should switch to an e-cig, just for the tar.

You have a "suspicion" that the tar in cigarettes is bad for you? Do you sometimes worry that drinking bleach is bad too?

Wasn't there an episode of the X-Files where nicotine saves Mulder's life?

Mongo No.5: ParagonComplex:

Falling asleep with a piece of snus in your upper lip can do the same.

So much this. Usually by accident following a few too many whiskeys. also (as far as research thus far is concerned) it doesn't have any of the other cancerous side effects of chewing tobacco or cigarettes. The one thing they found is that it is the nicotine that has the bad side effects, like diabetes risk and high blood pressure, which the article mentions.

Same here, or bottles of Dos Equis. Fell asleep twice in a row last week while on vacation.

The strength training community knew this years ago. Nicotine is a commonly used performance enhancer and/or anorectic.

SumoJeb: so this is something i never understood. how is a lip full of chew any different than the gum or patch? Are there many other carcinogens in chewing tobacco that it is more dangerous than a patch or gum?

Much. Lots of people think chewing tobacco or snus or whatever is safer than smoking, and they end up losing their teeth, getting gum cancer, throat cancer, losing their tongue, etc.

I don't know of any negative effects shown from nicotine lozenges, except that after using them for a year, I can't taste cherry properly anymore. These are the cherriest cherry that ever cherried, to the point that it was overwhelming at first. Then I stopped noticing it. After a year I started smoking again to see if I could fix the glitch...

/they're awesome

Am I the only one that thinks the supposed nicotine patch shown on the picture in the article looks like a band-aid?

Nicotine patches do not look like band-aids.

In case no one said it:.....E-CIG