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Comment author: gwern 06 September 2012 11:26:36PM 6 points [-]

And what about the fact that cuckolding is the second most common heterosexual interest in pornography, after (the unquestionably adaptive characteristic) youth?

links to http://www.billionwickedthoughts.com/ipad/index.html If that data really can deliver, that would be fascinating and the most valuable part of that post for me. (An endorsement from Pinker does carry weight with me.)

We are particularly likely to chew nicotine gum despite never having smoked cigarettes (which only scratches the surface of our drug use).

:) As far as I know, there are maybe 4 or 5 LWers total who ever use nicotine gum without having previously smoked. (Although I have no idea how common we are in general.)

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 07 September 2012 12:40:02AM *  0 points [-]

:) As far as I know, there are maybe 4 or 5 LWers total who ever use nicotine gum without having previously smoked. (Although I have no idea how common we are in general.)

Patches don't sting your throat and they are easier to cut into precise quantities. I don't plan on using the gum again. I have never smoked a cigarette and probably never will.

Comment author: coffeespoons 07 September 2012 04:27:35PM *  1 point [-]

Nicotine lozenges are much nicer than nicotine gum.

[I don't take them recreationally - I used them to give up cigarettes a while ago] .

Comment author: gwern 07 September 2012 01:08:27AM 0 points [-]

What about the patch evaporation problem, though?

Comment author: acephalus 07 September 2012 08:36:20AM *  1 point [-]

Keep them in the freezer perhaps?

Gum may be better suited for a DNB/Nicotine testing scenario though, if it acts faster.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 07 September 2012 02:13:56AM *  1 point [-]

My patches come in foil wrapping, so I store the unused part of the patch inside that and tape it closed. I'm pretty sure it still loses effectiveness over time (after opening), but the remaining sub-patches still have (quite noticeable) alertness effects.

Comment author: gwern 07 September 2012 02:50:15AM 0 points [-]

Hm. Maybe I should try out patches. (After my nicotine/DNB experiment, I'll be pretty low on gum.)

Comment author: drethelin 07 September 2012 02:44:29AM 0 points [-]

I'm surprised lower dose patches aren't available

Comment author: gwern 07 September 2012 02:49:43AM 1 point [-]

I'm sure there are, but IIRC, one is paying mostly for patches, not dosage (the marginal cost of nicotine being very small), so cutting up patches looks attractive cost-wise.

Comment author: ahartell 07 September 2012 12:55:08AM 0 points [-]

I use the gum without ever having smoked. I've never really minded the slight sting though.

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