Confessions of a first-time DIYer (SNUS & Coffee experimentation)

[gyrixx]

This is really just another starting point, albeit with a specific focus, on people’s trials and errors in getting a good DIY juice from SNUS. (I know it’s all over the forums in different places here, but this may be a good "OOPS / DON'T DO IT THIS WAY" thread for everyone willing to TAKE THE PLUNGE into the DIY SNUS scene...

I'll go first...

I just purchased 1 can of Camel SNUS FROST.
After reading SEVERAL responses / advice on how to get the best flavor, nic levels etc... I decided to try something I found after googling "how to extract nicotine from tobacco."

1 - I took 5 of the mini-packs (FROST) flavor and dropped them into a TEFLON pot used for gravy (it's only about the size of my fist).
2 - I slowly added distilled water until I just barely covered the packets. (Actually I used spring water... and I'm sure there are WAY too many impurities in there, hence the reason people should use Distilled here)
3 - Then I hit HIGH on the burner and waited until I started seeing some steam form.
4 - I YANKED the mixture off the burner and poured it (packs and all) into an empty Deer-Park water bottle and put the cap on.
5 - For the next 5 minutes I SHOOK THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS out of the mixture (inadvertently breaking 2 of the packets in the process)...
6 - I put a coffee filter into the mini-Teflon-pot, poured the bottle's DARK LIQUID CONTENTS into the filter, squeezed the whole filter to get every last drop out and put the pot back onto the stove.
7 - Now AT LOW HEAT I left the mixture on burner to boil off as much water as I could (the Google results said I would eventually get "Pure Nicotine Crystals").... Which I did not.

Nows the part where everyone guesses what happened next... I LEFT THE POT ON THE STOVE FOR WAAAAYYYYYY TO LONG..... And (after about 30 min) realized this when I stopped smelling that minty smell I started out with....

It was pretty much charred now, in the bottom of the pot...

So, I did what anyone else would do... I just added a few drops of "distilled" water until I got a reasonable looking mixture, figuring I'd have as much nicotine as possible, then poured it into a small 10ml bottle, added some Rite-Aid Glycerin and proceeded to drop into a new cart.

The result was a JET BROWN / BLACKISH looking cart... that REEKED LIKE TOBACCO... And I panicked.. I assumed at this point I was most-definitely going to destroy one of my Attys.

But, I caved... popped the nasty looking cart into the atty, fired up my JS and puffed away...

RESULTS: Great Tobacco taste, WAY TO EXPENSIVE to be a good DIY alternative to other methods mentioned here, and ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA HOW MUCH NICOTINE I AM HOPPED UP ON RIGHT NOW!!!!

Anyone want to comment on my stupdity / share theirs? Perhaps this is what some people are looking for.. (probably not, but possible)...

I'm getting really antsy about using some distilled water, a half-cup of finely ground coffee beans inside a filter (tied shut with a twisty), and a nice long slow soak in similar conditions on my stove right now... (Also mentioned in another forum)

But I have to wake up at 5:00 am tomorrow, so that may not be the best idea.

[Hangtime]

Just curious, did you read any of those diy posts before trying this?

[gyrixx]

Ha ha.. Sadly, yes... But impatience and money got in the way... As well as a little curiosity