nicotine is mainly transmitted by breathing or tasting
but i know that working in a tobacco field and making contact with the tobacco also transmits nicotine
so why not buy your favorite brand and tape or bandage the tobacco to your skin
2006-11-10 04:43:53 · 4 answers · asked by Kanis 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
nicotine patches have liquid nicotine in them, cigarettes have a lot less nicotine in them. Taping tobacco onto your skin will do nothing for you.
2006-11-10 04:46:12 · answer #1 · answered by Jer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Medicated patches are manufactured to constantly deliver a set amount of drug over a certain period of time. This is researched and tested. Just applying tobacco to your skin would cause erradict amounts of nicotine to reach your skin. Different species of tobacco leaves would have differently levels of nicotine in them. For that matter, different leaves from the same species will vary. You'd have to consider species, condition of the plant, time you picked the leaves, processing, and a hundred other variants. Even if you could come up with a standard amount of nicotine how would you deliver it? Would nicotine from a leaf be absorbed accross the skin? Remember, nicotine is a powerful drug. Too much can kill. The lethal dose is really not that much. Basically, you have the same problems the herbal industry has. No standard product or delivery system.
Then there is the question why go through all this? A number of companies have already done this work and sell this product without the need for a prescription.
2006-11-10 05:26:46 · answer #2 · answered by ontopofoldsmokie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because nicotine patches are made with carefully measured doses of nicotine. If you try to make your own you can actually end up overdosing on nicotine and getting poisoned.
2006-11-10 04:46:15 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A pinch of long cut moist snuff applied to the forearm and kept in place with tape seems to deliver a bit of nicotine into the system - enough to take the edge off. Black electrical tape (the stretchy type) seems to work well for this.
2015-07-18 07:29:37 · answer #4 · answered by coltrane 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If its not around the patch site I don't really see why it would be caused by the patch. It could be a bug bite. But get it checked out if it bothers you too much.
2016-03-19 06:09:31 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋