Update:
Got my passion flower order the other day.
The pills did nothing. The first night I slept better, but the effect was so mild that it could have been anything.
The next day I tried the drops. Even though the bottle suggests 28-52 drops or so, I tried with just 10. It tastes NASTY, but that wasn't the biggest problem. They made me feel a bit wasted and seemed to steal about 30 IQ points - but did NOT really make me calmer. It was more like it jammed whatever chemical reaction that goes with the anger response...but let it go on far enough that I got all the other unpleasant reactions of being in the presence of irritating people
One thing the drops DO do is promote sleep, which is actually what seems to be the most well-known effect. Passion flower DROPS will go in my arsenal as a sleep aid. Best of all, by taking them at night, I get to skip all the
unwanted mental effects.
Many people on this forum said they vape the passion flower along with their juice. I haven't tried that yet. I had bought a couple of empty bottles so I could mix some without wrecking an entire bottle of ejuice, but they got lost, so that project's on hold until I find my empties again. I will say that it'll surely take a STRONG ejuice flavor to mask the nastiness of the passion flower extract.
I also hate feeling at all wasted, so I have my doubts that even the method of vaping a small amount of passion flower will end up working for me. It surely has something more than the MAOIs in it!
I wasn't at all pleased with the "lightly blazed" feeling it caused. People who like to drink or maybe smoke/vape...alternative...plant material would probably like it a lot more. As for me, I'm feeling glad that I woke up to my normal self today with all of its mind-altering effect worn off!
On another note:
I tried some of
SwedishFish's suggestions, and...
I had a free sample of 24mg nic that had come with my order from FSUSA, and I've found that an occasional hit on that will definitely fix any true nicotine desire. For sure!! But if I have more than a few hits of it, I get a headache, pounding heart and other nic overdose symptoms. It didn't calm me down in any way, but it did allow me to quit chain-vaping the lesser stuff.
I have some 18mg stuff hanging around too, but it's pretty nasty tasting so I won't bother with it. I got that with my ecig kit and it's a great example of the concept of hardware suppliers not knowing how to do juice. Maybe with my next order from FSUSA I'll get a couple of bottles.
Mods - I've been trying some cart mods, and while that's fun, it hasn't affected my physically. Right now I've got the blue foam in the carts and I'm waiting for brass screens to arrive so I can try the brass screen mod.
I think I'm just going to have to be more patient in getting 100% off of analogs. That's not the end of the world, but I would have been very bothered if I hadn't at least tried the passion flower.
Edited to add: I'm still at only 2 analogs a day, so it's a definite improvement over the 1 1/2 - 2 packs a day I used to smoke!