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Its not like skoal or snus the orbs are like mint flavor tic tac like nicotine that dissolves in mouth. picture http://consumerist.com/orbtictac.jpg (broken link)
The sticks are dissolvable mint flavor nicotine tooth pick like.
Great alternative to quit smoking.
I know two people who have used this method to quit smoking. They still use the strips but at least they aren't smoking, lol.
Yeah same here I quit smoking and switch to these when I discovered them in a Tent at Speed Street.
I want the nicotine it helps me relax.
Im glad they like the strips, they are great it relief fast, and probably good for people during a work setting or fast relief when one wakes up.
I always felt I was a better student when I was smoking. And all the writers I knew smoked like smokestacks "back in the day" in the news room . . . it was just something you expected: a writer who also smoked and drank gallons of coffee, lol.
So when I saw this study about 10 years ago . . . I went - AH HA! Now I know why writers liked to smoke! And also - why it was so hard to quit smoking when you have to concentrate, often in noisy situations, as a writer.
Also explains why baseball players love their "chew."
Smoking is a lot more than a social habit. For some, it really is a concentration enchancement, b/c of nicotine.
These data suggest that nicotine improves attention in smokers by enhancing activation in areas traditionally associated with visual attention, arousal, and motor activation," says lead author Elliott Stein, MD, chief of the Neuroimaging Research Branch at the National Institute on Drug Abuse-Intramural Research Program.
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Ani, I don't dispute that nicotine has potential health benefits, however I don't think its a good excuse to justify smoking cigarettes or chew tobacco...if one smokes or dips regularly they increase their chances of developing cancers significantly.
If people can use the patch or gum or mint to quit smoking, more power to them...
Ani, I don't dispute that nicotine has potential health benefits, however I don't think its a good excuse to justify smoking cigarettes or chew tobacco...if one smokes or dips regularly they increase their chances of developing cancers significantly.
If people can use the patch or gum or mint to quit smoking, more power to them...
Not trying to justify anything. Instead, it answered a question I had always wondered about, since starting to hang out in newsrooms at 13 - why did every writer I had known smoke - and insist that he/she can't write unless they have a cig in hand?
My point simply was . . . smoking is an addiction, yes, but the fact that it aids in concentration and focus explains why people with particular need to concentrate find it so very very addicting.
These little strips, etc. are a socially acceptable way of handling that need for some boost on the concentration side, for folks trying to quit smoking or for those who will gladly quit once they find a new way to get their nicotine. I know folks who have tried the nicotine gum stuff and hate it, so they keep smoking. This seems like a good alternative to smoking, to me.
"Mmmmm....baby....that was awesome. Can you hand me a nicotine strip?"
Doesn't have quite the same panache as lighting a smoke.
Yes, gives a whole new meaning to the idea of a "strip," doesn't it?
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