DIY tobacco& nicotine flavor... without tobacco

[Mihai]

Found something pretty nice for those that want to make a juice that resembles as much as possible to the smoke:


Development of A Flavor System An Nicotine Mimic for Acceptability to Smokers of Candidate Potentially Less Hazardous Cigaretts

they tested hundreds of recipes with professional 'noses' and came up with a bunch of recipes.
It's a big document but you can just read a bit at the beginning to see what criteria they used then go for the last pages where you can find the goodies





btw, for those that have the time and interest that site is a gold mine of information. Here some examples I found:

Chemical and Biological Studies of New Cigarette Prototypes That Heat Instead of Burn Tobacco.

Conceptual Design of Alternative Smoking Articles.

New Cigarette Prototypes That Heat Instead of Burn Tobacco

Ideal Smoke Program

Subchronic Nose-Only Inhalation Study of Propylene Glycol in Sprague-Dawley Rats.

A Review of the Literature Pertaining to the Toxicology of Propylene Glycol. (Cas No. 57-55-6).

Final Report on Propylene Glycol Subchronic Inhalation Toxicity. Volume I. Report and Summary Data. Volume II. Appendices with Individual Data.


enjoy

 

[Nazareth]

cool find- I certainly wouldn't know where to get any of those incgredients though, or how to measure out .0075%, but it's neat to read the experiments they did

 

[jigtg]

Nice find, Mihai.

With 3ml pipette, 1ml is about 22 drops.
Solving equation (1/22)/(x+1/22) = c/100 by x(amount of liquid needed),
where c is concentration % you want, you get
x = (1/22)*100/c - 1/22

Taking 233J(Oil of Rose N-59 0.15%, Oil of Anise N-4 0.15%),
you get c = 0.15*2 . So one drop of that mix to 15.106 ml. Not bad.
If assuming 233H, c = 0.05*2 , x = 45.409 ml. Smaller pipette or modifying
pipette to make smaller drops could be the answer.

Just wondering what "Too high" on "Total Flavor score" means.

 

[jigtg]

~42 drops(of water) per ml with a modified 3ml plastic pipette. Just heated the tip and pulled it away so that it closes entirely. Then cut it open carefully with a safety razor. Need steady hand when measuring drops per ml because even slightest squeeze makes a drop. Later, when you know how many drops there are in one ml, squeezing on the shaft is much more accurate.
Also tried drilling 0.25mm hole to closed tip and got ~60 drops per ml. Slow to operate but accurate. So it is a trade-off between operation speed and accuracy.

BTW, concentration ratios they presented probably do not apply to e-cigs.

 

[dp earl]

i did a little digging myself-too high means the score was +/- 5 on the scale and was disgarded due to the controls that were set.

 

[Zitan17]

i let a pinch of pipe tobacco soak in PG for 24 hours, filtered it and then used a few drops to flavor a 10ml batch. it actually turned out well. dropped in a splash of french vanilla to bring out the flavor. i will take it to work tomorrow for testing and let yall know if i die.

 

[Scubabatdan]

Wouldnt a more acurate mesurement be by weight? Drops come in sorts of sizes, using a scale such as this one: SALE Salter Glass Electric Scale 1018 SVDR at KitchenKapers.com This would allow someone to duplicate the effort exactly everytime.
Dan