Aikanae, couldn't have said it better myself.......actually said much better!Thank you for expressing our feelings so eloquently and with passion. You did nail it!
But it's being shipped from Canada or the UK.
What I meant to say is, one can't buy it in the U.S. It has to be imported.
I really want to be wrong on this one, BTW. I've been waiting for the FDA to approve it.
Alas, I couldn't find any evidence that the FDA has approved the Mist.Directions (verbatim) from Nicorette QuickMist (Johnson&Johnson):
"Adults and Children over 12 years of age
Use 1 or 2 sprays when cigarettes normally would have been smoked or if cravings emerge. If after the first spray cravings are not controlled within a few minutes, a second spray should be used. If 2 sprays are required, future doses may be delivered as 2 consecutive sprays.
Most smokers will require 1-2 sprays every 30 minutes to 1 hour."
And the list of ingredients:
Propylene glycol
Anhydrous ethanol
Trometamol
Poloxamer 407
Glycerol--(that's VG for those who don't know)
Sodium hydrogen carbonate
Levomenthol
Mint flavour
Cooling flavour
Sucralose
Acesulfame potassium
Hydrochloric acid--ewwwwwww....
Purified water
Aikanae, 10mg per cartridge but only 4mg delivered......Where does 6mg go?
I don't know, the press on both seem very ironic in that they both describe attempts to do exactly what ecigs successfully do but obviously less so (still maintaining apx 3% quit rates long term) and at far higher prices with the same + more (questionble?) ingredients. They all have approval by orgs like ALA and ACS too, of course.
Little wonder the facepalm has become my most used emoticon since these deeming regulations appeared.
Could it be... that people like FLAVORS??? And even more outrageous... THEY LIKE TO CHOOSE THE FLAVORS THEMSELVES???
The mist, and the nicotrol inhaler, apparently taste like "mint." Well, there's mint and mint -- spearmint, peppermint, and wintergreen, basically, and I detest spearmint; I quit smoking menthol cigarettes at the age of 16, because I just dislike walking around tasting mint all the time! Maybe if they'd made those things taste like TOBACCO! they'd have been more successful! But even there, there's a HUGE range of tastes -- I despise most tobacco, except Virginia.
I think if either the mist or the inhaler had caught on to this basic fact -- that people have TASTE BUDS! -- they'd both have been a lot more successful. Heck I learned to swallow pills at the age of 6, to get away from that rancid cherry flavor they use in all kids' medicines -- that stuff is NASTY, and turned me off cherry flavor for DECADES.
Andria
You've just told my story better than I could have ever said it! Now all I see when I look at cigarettes is how ugly they are. I see all these cigarette butts littering the grounds, smell that awful smell, see the tiny burns in clothing, the tar staining on hands & fingernails, and remember my own medical cost! I never want to be a slave to that cycle again and I'm angry that a politician will decide my fate!
I just keep telling myself," By the people, for the people" and pray the majority in DC remember that also.
Kayta, they came out recently (yesterday?) with a new possitive study in England that concluded e-cigs are 60 percent more effective than any other NRT!!!! 5,000 people in study over 5 yrs.......Think that's right.Well, ta dah! ta dah!
Just think what that means to Australia, Canada, and England! Even to us! It's being posted in a lot of places. It will give you a warm feeling all over.
