About those Japanese special cigarette things

[bombastinator]

So I had a sudden thought, and since it is highly doubtful I (or most people for that matter) have ever had an original thought in my life, if this works, someone is already doing it, but with the move to sheet tobacco, which loses all of its nic in the manufacturing process and the Nic has to basically be sprayed back on, coligarettes are effectively just really lousy shredded paper. If you spray Nic and pg onto paper and then heat the paper isn’t that just more or less a wick? This means you could use something like pith (this stuff they had before styrofoam and the reason pith helmets are called pith helmets) or even just a “used” special cigarette, and soak it in vape juice, dry it (would take quite a while and probably some heat) you could just “smoke” it again. And again…

 

[TheSingularity]

I'm unfamiliar with the particular product, but I think the limiting factor would be the chemical in which the nicotine is suspended. Being as it's water soluble, I presume that the process would either use super high concentrate nic in water, or perhaps a VG carrier.

Your premise is solid, but the application might require tweaking to get right. Having used nicotine liquid on some *ahem* rolled 'cigarettes' in the past, I can attest that it can get awfully unpleasant in the wrong ratios...more like a candle than a cig.

 

[bombastinator]

I'm unfamiliar with the particular product, but I think the limiting factor would be the chemical in which the nicotine is suspended. Being as it's water soluble, I presume that the process would either use super high concentrate nic in water, or perhaps a VG carrier.

Your premise is solid, but the application might require tweaking to get right. Having used nicotine liquid on some *ahem* rolled 'cigarettes' in the past, I can attest that it can get awfully unpleasant in the wrong ratios...more like a candle than a cig.

I don’t know what they use to adhere the nicotine to the chopped sheet tobacco. There might not be one. It might just stick. AFAIK they are “special” straight cigarettes which are heated rather than burnt. The tech was developed by the cigarette companies. The only place it stuck was Japan. So a bit like zima. The things I understand work ok.

 

[TheSingularity]

I don’t know what they use to adhere the nicotine to the chopped sheet tobacco. There might not be one. It might just stick. AFAIK they are “special” straight cigarettes which are heated rather than burnt. The tech was developed by the cigarette companies. The only place it stuck was Japan. So a bit like zima. The things I understand work ok.

Strange. I'm having a bear of a time finding an example. Can you provide some help, so I better understand the subject?

Nicotine evaporates at, like, 86F or something crazy low like that, so I suppose this sort of use makes sense from a flavor *and* health standpoint.

 

[bombastinator]

Well there’s this CDC article here. I guess this was about the CDC thing. They say they are not the same. Legally this is true. Functionally I’m not sure how different they actually are though as the “tobacco” is basically just paper made from tobacco leaves.

Heated Tobacco Products

Sometimes marketed as heat-not-burn products, heated tobacco products come in many forms. Heated tobacco products heat actual tobacco leaf.

www.cdc.gov

 

[classwife]

Moved this out of the Modding Forum...it isn't something you made