Has anyone tried Aeros Smokeless Cigarettes

[2-cardis]

Anybody wanna send me theirs so I can try it without wasting a small fortune on it? Sorry, it's kinda like that fould odor in the fridge that gets passed around the room, everyone sniffing it, making the face, agreeing it is foul, but you feel compelled to try it for yourself anyhow, knowing it must be pretty foul.

Are you off your meds again

[Vince1]

Will someone cut one open already and see if there is any tobacco inside or just chemicals?

[leaford]

There's a small piece of folded paper-like material. That's all.

[Vince1]

So there must be some kind of chemical bonded to the nicotine molecules that causes them to be released by the oxygen flow or more likely causes bonding to the hydrogen atoms as they pass through......very interesting. Either way I can see this causing a harsh reaction on the skin...unstable molecules and what-not.....

[nicowolf]

Are you off your meds again

Nope, all nicced up and rearing to go. I am not above a little mild masochism though, especially where throat hit is involved.

[lorieb48]

I bought them too...WASTE OF 30.00...tasted gross and all I can say is...uggggg..do not waste your money,,,I have some left...send me your address I'll give them to you.....

[lazylightning]

Almost 10 years ago, RJR sent me promotional stuff regarding Eclipse (coupons and literature). I tried them and I didn't like them. Just like the letter from Aeros says, I initially wanted a "real" cigarette after an Eclipse.

A couple of years passed and I came down with pneumonia (which had absolutely nothing to do with my smoking - my doctors told me this even though they disapproved of my smoking). It was at that point that I switched to Eclipse because it literally hurt to smoke normal cigarettes.

It took a little getting used to, but I soon found myself happy with them and after a year or two I found that if I smoked "normal" cigarettes I quickly developed a cough (found this out on a week-long business trip to a city that I could not find Eclipse in).

Sorry that I haven't mentioned Aeros yet, but I'm getting to it (right about now):

I got a pack of Aeros the Friday before last. I believe I can adjust to them better than most smokers since I've smoked Eclipse for such a long time. In my so far limited use, I can tell you that they definitely deliver the nicotine that we crave so much. I still prefer lighting something on fire and inhaling that, but it's COLD outside. I used Aeros at a bar Friday night - I had to have a 'real' cigarette right after the chicken wings I ate (which most of you probably don't even consider 'real' since it was an Eclipse), but after that I stuck with Aeros (it was snowing and windy outside - basically it SUCKED to "enjoy" a cigarette, but I had to have one anyway).

I've tried nicotine patches and didn't like them (too low of a dose over an extended period rather than the occasional strong injection delivered by a cigarette every 30 minutes or so). I've tried the gum (too hard to moderate the level of nicotine - before I knew it, I had too much). The thing I'm worried about with Aeros is that it's too easy to draw and I may end up increasing my addiction to nicotine. With a cigaratte (even an Eclipse), you light it, smoke it and then it's gone.

I have no idea how to tell when my Aeros is done. I have no idea when I'm done smoking. I take a drag here and there and it allows me to hold off on lighting a cigarette, but unlike a cigarette, I don't just put it out - I'm afraid that rather than having a cigarette every couple of hours (if I'm at work) or every 30 minutes if I'm drinking, I'll just constantly "puff" on the Aeros.As for those who say it's harsh, the literature I got with Aeros advised me to only inhale a little at first so I could see how it felt. I don't draw as hard on these things as I do regular cigarettes and I have not experienced this harshness at all.

As for cost, I don't have enough experience to tell how it rates with $52.19 a carton (what I paid yesterday), but if their claims are true it should be cheaper - and that $52.19? That's an increase of more than 10% in the past 4 weeks and I'm outraged by that. At the start of the year it was $47-something, then it was $48-something, then $49-something and then they took nearly a $3 increase.

Sorry 7-11 (the only store I know of around here that carries Eclipse) and sorry RJR, but you can't screw your customers around like that. RJR had the audacity to blame Obama and while I'm not a big fan of our newly elected president, his newly proposed tax increases have not yet taken effect.

Blaming increases in cigarette prices on taxes is ridiculous. They're 500% more expensive than when I first started smoking, yet if I look at the taxes I'm paying now (and imagine that there were no taxes when I started), they should only have risen about 150% at most.

I'm determined to quit smoking now - not just because a carton has exceeded the $50 mark, but because it's gone up MORE than 10% in about 4 weeks. If they had increased the price more gradually, I probably would have gone along with it, but they got too greedy and rather than increasing their profits they have lost a customer and I sincerely hope RJR goes out of business and if they ask for a government bailout, I'll say "Hell no" (just like I said for the banks and the auto-makers - fat lot of good that did, eh?)

[paintedlady48]

YUCK..A waste of 30.00 on my part...EWWWWWW

[skydvejam]

OK I know this is a dead thread, but to bring it out of the grave for those that are wondering, they do have tobacco in them, Aeros - Tobacco Products
Just if anyone is still wondering what is in these things.

[slybootz]

interesting.

A pack of Aeros can last as long as 1-3 Cartons or 600 conventional cigarettes.

still, i think i'm pretty happy with the alternatives to smoking i already have in place.