OK, so I shouldn't even be mixing my own liquids yet, and here I am asking for advice on dealing with extracting some nice flavours and alkaloids from tobacco...
Anyway, my main motives for wanting to play around with tobacco are (in order of importance):
1. Other alkaloids apart from nicotine. In just a few weeks of vaping it is very clear to me that I will never be able to give up smoking completely or even achieve 95% smokelessness (currently at about 45-50% compared to before I tried vaping, slight backslide from around 60% at the beginning). The nicotine is important sure, but there must be other things in smoked tobacco that my brain and nervous system really REALLY like.
2. Taste. Though I still have many, many, many flavours (both tobacco and non) to try mixing and vaping, I figure it doesn't hurt to have an even larger palette to paint from.
3. Concerns about possible bans on nic-liquids (already banned in my country (except theoretically with a medical prescription), thank Monnet for the EU!).
So I am looking for advice here, and especially pertaining to reason number 1. I know this is a very tricky area, and most of the knowledge will be anecdotal at best, and can hardly be anything else since the tools needed to test exactly what you can get out of tobacco are incompatible with the kitchen-methods I will be using.
(I am of course also verrry interested in any leads on buying extracted whole tobacco alkaloids, preferably concentrated, not ready made e-liquid).
As you can see I tend to be very wordy, so I'll leave this as an introduction, and put my questions and updates on my wacky experiments in separate posts in this thread.
Anyway, my main motives for wanting to play around with tobacco are (in order of importance):
1. Other alkaloids apart from nicotine. In just a few weeks of vaping it is very clear to me that I will never be able to give up smoking completely or even achieve 95% smokelessness (currently at about 45-50% compared to before I tried vaping, slight backslide from around 60% at the beginning). The nicotine is important sure, but there must be other things in smoked tobacco that my brain and nervous system really REALLY like.
2. Taste. Though I still have many, many, many flavours (both tobacco and non) to try mixing and vaping, I figure it doesn't hurt to have an even larger palette to paint from.
3. Concerns about possible bans on nic-liquids (already banned in my country (except theoretically with a medical prescription), thank Monnet for the EU!).
So I am looking for advice here, and especially pertaining to reason number 1. I know this is a very tricky area, and most of the knowledge will be anecdotal at best, and can hardly be anything else since the tools needed to test exactly what you can get out of tobacco are incompatible with the kitchen-methods I will be using.
(I am of course also verrry interested in any leads on buying extracted whole tobacco alkaloids, preferably concentrated, not ready made e-liquid).
As you can see I tend to be very wordy, so I'll leave this as an introduction, and put my questions and updates on my wacky experiments in separate posts in this thread.