I was able to go several weeks using the e-cig, same as nicotine gum. Then I started getting cravings. And it's funny because both the gum and the e-cig satisfyed me at first. What seemed weird is that since nicotine is out of the system in several days, it seems that any withdraw associated with a new nicotine delivery system should have been experienced in the first couple days, not several weeks later.
So I started researching. I found this article:
THE USE AND ABUSE OF TOBACCO - Cigarettes Pedia
And if the information is accurate, it would explain my 2-3 week relapse. See, just like vitamins, water soluble materials leave the body quickly, but oil soluble materials tend to stay in the body longer.
The basic gist of the article is that uncured tobacco contains nicotine. However, when tobacco is cured there is a chemical process which produces an oil based substance called nicotinin. According to the article, nicotinin is just as poisonous as nicotine.
If this is all true, A- it explains why my cravings start at around the 2-3 week period when using any form of nicotine replacement therapy, and B- either the tobacco/phama industries aren't aware of this oil based poison, OR, they have suppressed and ignored it.
Doing a web search for nicotinin, other than the cited article, I'm not finding any information related to tobacco.
Hopefully someone else might chip in with some info, I'm not a chemist.
I know that ammonia increases nicotine availability, and that other chemicals are used to negate the harshness, add flavour, etc. But I've been smoking American Spirit ultra lights... should be additive free, and it satisfies me just fine. So, even in the absence of adulterating chemicals, it may be that CURED tobacco contains a chemical which is highly addictive, and is not contained in any tobacco replacement product.
hmm...
So I started researching. I found this article:
THE USE AND ABUSE OF TOBACCO - Cigarettes Pedia
And if the information is accurate, it would explain my 2-3 week relapse. See, just like vitamins, water soluble materials leave the body quickly, but oil soluble materials tend to stay in the body longer.
The basic gist of the article is that uncured tobacco contains nicotine. However, when tobacco is cured there is a chemical process which produces an oil based substance called nicotinin. According to the article, nicotinin is just as poisonous as nicotine.
If this is all true, A- it explains why my cravings start at around the 2-3 week period when using any form of nicotine replacement therapy, and B- either the tobacco/phama industries aren't aware of this oil based poison, OR, they have suppressed and ignored it.
Doing a web search for nicotinin, other than the cited article, I'm not finding any information related to tobacco.
Hopefully someone else might chip in with some info, I'm not a chemist.
I know that ammonia increases nicotine availability, and that other chemicals are used to negate the harshness, add flavour, etc. But I've been smoking American Spirit ultra lights... should be additive free, and it satisfies me just fine. So, even in the absence of adulterating chemicals, it may be that CURED tobacco contains a chemical which is highly addictive, and is not contained in any tobacco replacement product.
hmm...