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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

I've heard that but how else is one supposed to get nicotine in the system? Chewing gum? Patches? Vapes? Is it soluble in a substance that's safe to consume?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Nicotine is water soluble. You can take a wet tobacco leaf off the plant and it'll soak into your skin and get you a bit buzzed (or in my case when I discovered this mid harvest if you touch enough it'll get you massively high and nauseous). Imo one of the best ways to get some in relative safety is grow your own, they're really easy, and just put a leaf under your tongue for a bit then spit it out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 57 minutes ago

After that article the other day about caffeine in hand lotion, I'm now surprised they don't put nicotine in hand lotion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Its highly highly illegal to grow it in my country unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Nicotine in comparable or larger doses from non-toxic or much less toxic sources is arbitrarily limited for stupid reasons.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If u aren't already addicted, don't even bother. Nicotine is fucking insane

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Alright then. Hopefully you aren't like me though - constantly vaping 20mg nic salt throughout the day (I get cravings after like 10 minutes)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I smoked for pretty much my whole life. Quit with varying degrees of success many many times. I switched to nicotine pouches 2 months ago, and it's been fairly great at reducing the damage of cigarettes while not dealing with the actual addiction.

Still need to watch out for gum recession, so it's not exactly 100% healthy, but smoking causes gum recession anyway and I'm not destroying my lungs anymore, so pretty solid for harm reduction.