Nicorette ads: Don't vape - quit for good (Jul 2014)

[Anjaffm]

Hey! The war on smoking has been won!!!
Nicorette now spends its advertising money on fighting the competition, instead of peddling its 97% ineffective stuff to smokers!

This ad was just found in the UK.

Big Pharma is scared. Very scared. So much scared that they now peddle their wares against the much more effective competition.


Don't vape - quit for good

Same advertising on Amazon UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/b?node=4933990031


I made a complaint to the ASA. Everyone can do it. Also from outside the UK.
Make a complaint - Advertising Standards Authority


After all, the ad advises smokers - and vapers - to inhale 13 ingredients, including hydrochlorid acid, in a product with a 3% success rate. Instead of inhaling 5 ingredients in a product with a much higher success rate.

6.1 List of excipients
Propylene glycol
Anhydrous ethanol
Trometamol
Poloxamer 407
Glycerol
Sodium hydrogen carbonate
Levomenthol
Mint flavour
Cooling flavour
Sucralose
Acesulfame potassium
Hydrochloric acid
Purified water

Nicorette QuickMist 1mg/spray mouthspray - Summary of Product Characteristics (SPC) - (eMC)


Now really. Never mind helping people stop smoking cigarettes. Naawwww.. better to spend one's ad money to go against the competition. And never mind that inhaling hydrochloric acid may not be completely beneficial and that your product has a 3% chance of actually helping smokers.

Watch for this crap cropping up in your country next.

 

[Kent C]

I've heard similar ads on radio in the US and it seems a new set of ads in my area for hypnosis to quit cigs, lose weight....

 

[Anjaffm]

@Kent C.
Well, the UK has a place where you / anybody can complain about advertising.
It might be worth a try for those Nicorette ads. After all, hydrochloric acid does not belong in anybody's mouth. Not by a long shot.

This girl here tried to use it as directed:
Nicotine spray reaction - YouTube

And yes, I believe the reaction. I had the same reaction once when buying some nasal spray that I saw in a pharmacy and that promised to head off a cold if used when the first symptoms arose. Eeewwwwwww.... I had the same reaction as the girl in the video! It felt as if my entire nose was filled with acid. Burned like crazy. Like that girl, I ran to the bathroom and rinsed and rinsed and rinsed. Ewwwww....

 

[TomGeorge]

I think its funny because I know a guy that has been using nicotine gum for 20+ years! That doesn't sound like the version of "quitting," they are trying to sell, to me!

 

[DrMA]

So now Nicorette is a vaping cessation therapy too? Thanks, but no thanks.

 

[Anjaffm]

I think its funny because I know a guy that has been using nicotine gum for 20+ years! That doesn't sound like the version of "quitting," they are trying to sell, to me!

Hahahahahaha! Yup
Say, has not your President been chewing nic gum for years now?

So now Nicorette is a vaping cessation therapy too? Thanks, but no thanks.

Hehehehehe I agree
Nothing like inhaling PG, VG, food flavorings and a little nicotine, plus various chemicals and hydrochloric acid in order to stop vaping PG, VG, food flavorings and a little nicotine *place throwing up smiley here*

 

[classwife]

Here ya go...

I would think tho that they would be jumping in line to sell vape kits...think about it...

 

[rothenbj]

hey, they're putting the word Vape out there for those that have had their heads in the sand. Not all bad.

 

[freeatlast!]

No vaper is going to fall for that!!!

 

[chellemmm]

It is kind of like the Chantix ads where they list one of the possible side effects as "suicidal behavior."

Yep, so much better to kill yourself than vape.

 

[NC_Fog]

I can't LOL enough. In other words "Dont ihale vapor, inhale mist". LOL, LOL, LOL!!!!

I so glad that BP didn't invent the e-cigarette, PV's woud cost $1000.00 and eliquid would be $100.00 per ml.

 

[Anjaffm]

Here ya go...

I would think tho that they would be jumping in line to sell vape kits...think about it...

Thank you!
Great smiley! Sums up my sentiments exactly about inhaling their crap

 

[Spazmelda]

hey, they're putting the word Vape out there for those that have had their heads in the sand. Not all bad.

That was my immediate thought as well. Someone who hasn't been paying much attention to electronic cigarettes, but has tried 'approved' methods repeatedly and unsuccessfully might just think, "Hmm, vaping eh? Maybe I should give THAT a try."

 

[spaceballsrules]

Levomenthol
Mint flavour
Cooling flavour
Sucralose
Acesulfame potassium (AKA artificial sweetener)

Flavor!? Clearly, this is being marketed to children.

Seriously, they are using all of the basic ingredients commonly found in juice (PG, VG, Nic, and flavor), but then they add:

Poloxamer 407 - blocks 80% of the pores in liver cells that absorb lipoproteins, leading to a 10-fold increase in plasma lipid levels, thus higher cholesterol levels
Sodium hydrogen carbonate - essentially it's Tums or Rolaids
Trometamol - a chemical buffer, most commonly used in the treatment of acidosis
Hydrochloric acid - a highly corrosive mineral acid AKA gastric acid. Wait, what!? WHY!?!?

 

[catlady60]

Lemme get this straight: Nicorette expects us to quit vaping and inhale their PUKE? Gettouttahere!

 

[DrMA]

Flavor!? Clearly, this is being marketed to children.

Seriously, they are using all of the basic ingredients commonly found in juice (PG, VG, Nic, and flavor), but then they add:

Poloxamer 407 - blocks 80% of the pores in liver cells that absorb lipoproteins, leading to a 10-fold increase in plasma lipid levels, thus higher cholesterol levels
Sodium hydrogen carbonate - essentially it's Tums or Rolaids
Trometamol - a chemical buffer, most commonly used in the treatment of acidosis
Hydrochloric acid - a highly corrosive mineral acid AKA gastric acid. Wait, what!? WHY!?!?

Nicotine is more easily absorbed in the blood stream under slightly basic conditions. That's why all those chemicals are added to maintain optimum pH. Idk about poloxamer.

 

[Hattivatti]

I have not seen the WHO study which claims 2/3 vapers stop vaping after a month. Probably those just stop it without returning to smoking. With NRT products returning to smoking is at least 95% sure.

 

[rothenbj]

Flavor!? Clearly, this is being marketed to children.

Seriously, they are using all of the basic ingredients commonly found in juice (PG, VG, Nic, and flavor), but then they add:

Poloxamer 407 - blocks 80% of the pores in liver cells that absorb lipoproteins, leading to a 10-fold increase in plasma lipid levels, thus higher cholesterol levels
Sodium hydrogen carbonate - essentially it's Tums or Rolaids
Trometamol - a chemical buffer, most commonly used in the treatment of acidosis
Hydrochloric acid - a highly corrosive mineral acid AKA gastric acid. Wait, what!? WHY!?!?

Why? Because they have medicine to treat side effects and additional medicine to treat any of the side effects that medicine might create. My, at the time, 93 year old mother's heart doc questioned what medication my mom was on. The list was mostly vitamins and nutritional supplements with a couple minor scripts. She made the comment, "No wonder you've lived so long". There was a lot of truth in that statement.

 

[Jman8]

Wow. BP showing up desperate and making it publicly known.

Here's my counter slogan to theirs

"Don't fail. Vape and enjoy life."

 

[Ridilen]

I just read the nic quickmist article on medicines.org.uk and this is the part that got me the most.

"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."

Again, Adults and Children over 12 years of age

Does this mean they are approving the use of a nicotine product for those under 12. And they say vaping is a problem. 99% of vape shops I go to in Ontario will not allow anyone under 19 inside. And if they do I am shocked. That is the minimal age for smoking here.

So what exactly are they saying?

Not to mention -

Lactation
The relatively small amounts of nicotine found in breast milk during NRT use are less hazardous to the infant than second-hand smoke. Intermittent dose forms would minimize the amount of nicotine in breast milk and permit feeding when levels were at their lowest.

So now they also approve of nicotine delivery to unborn children. What would a doctor say to this.