Recreational Nicotine Use

[riddle80]

E-cigs are currently intended for recreational nicotine use, so I've been doing a bit of digging to find out more on this subject. I found a few interesting links to check out:

Here's one from 2003 (pre e-cigs) that's a great read regardless of the age. There might be some good contacts in here too:

Cancer experts back sale of nicotine hit to beat smoking | Sunday Herald, The | Find Articles at BNET

http://www.uknscc.org/2006_UKNSCC/presentations/ann_mcneill.swf

Another older (2000), yet very relevant article. Notice the mention of "cigarettes that provide vapour but not smoke".

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1748341&blobtype=pdf

Another key word in many of our e-cig usage is "Nicotine Maintenance". Here's a definition:

Nicotine maintenance is the strategy to provide tobacco users concerned about their health with a new option to substitute, in place of conventional combustible cigarettes, the long-term use of another, potentially less dangerous nicotine-delivery product that can still satisfy the user’s addiction.

Here's yet another older article on that subject (notice the last bullet):

Science Blog -- Billion-Dollar Nicotine Maintenance Market Emerging

Estimating the health consequences of replacing cigarettes with nicotine inhalers:

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1747720&blobtype=pdf

 

[harmony gardens]

Good finds, Riddle.

Here we have more articles stating that nicotine is not the greatest risk to a smoker's health, and that an alternative that removes every other factor than nicotine would be better as an overall health policy.

While it's true that ecigs haven't been completely tested,,, every study I've seen so far, shows them to be safer.

I'm pretty sure that ecigs will eventually be found to be safe, and will be eventually embraced by health authorities. If they read their own research on nicotine,,, how can they toss out an alternative that is being embraced by smokers and actually is effective in keeping people from smoking cigarettes.

 

[Vicks Vap-oh-Yeah]

These are very good finds. I am still digging through the info, but very interesting....

Thanks for the links!

 

[gep]

but I'm gonna ask it again.

If ...... addicts can have methadone, why can't we have our nicotine?????

(Rhetorical question...just venting a little. )

 

[strell]

From the title I thought this would have tips for getting a better buzz and ways to potentiate nicotine.

 

[harmony gardens]

From the title I thought this would have tips for getting a better buzz and ways to potentiate nicotine.

lol,,, yeah, I don't quite see nicotine as "recreational", but it is pleasurable.

 

[taz3cat]

but I'm gonna ask it again.

If ...... addicts can have methadone, why can't we have our nicotine?????

(Rhetorical question...just venting a little. )

Just as soon as Big Pharm develops a fake nicotine to replace nicotine, like they have ...... we will get it.

 

[Angela]

Does synthetic nicotine count?

 

[taz3cat]

Does synthetic nicotine count?

If big phrams makes it and wants to sell it we can have it. Whether it is good for us or kills us. There is nothing wrong with being a RX drug addict everybody does it. We just can't have real nicotine and a few other things because it is not respectable.

 

[Chasm]

If big phrams makes it and wants to sell it we can have it. Whether it is good for us or kills us. There is nothing wrong with being a RX drug addict everybody does it. We just can't have real nicotine and a few other things because it is not respectable.

not to mention Far Too Affordable (=Cheap)

 

[IANAN]

In just bout every country, but the US, the Nicotrol Inhaler is OTC... This study date coincides with requests to the FDA to make it OTC in the US. I think that was their goal.

The more rabid anti-smoking activist (you know the type- the ones that warn about reduced harm products and want to ban smoking outside) have too much power in the US though and claimed that children would buy the inhalers and get hooked and smokers would just switch to the inhaler over smoking tobacco and never quit so it never happened. That and the inhaler, and any OTC NRT treatment, has a low success rate at 6 months, 1 year, and even lower at 5 years.