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Smoking ecigarettes will give you way too much nicotine for what you need, and you'll habituate rapidly (not to mention the social cost). Get gum so you can better regulate the dosage, or potentially get the liquid from the ecigs and just rub a bit on your hands to let it soak into your blood stream.
I don't find that there's much of a social cost to smoking e-cigarettes. Most non-smokers don't mind them as they don't smell, and where I live (the UK) you can smoke them inside in lots of places.
Flavoring is optional, but the vast majority of e-cigarette users use strong smelling flavored liquids. Some of them smell worse than tobacco IMO.
My understanding is that nicotine gum is bad for your gums and rubbing nicotine on your skin is hard to dose effectively. I don't understand what the issue with vaping is: just use diluted e-cig fluid and restrict yourself to a puff or two. That's what has worked for me: I bought a e-cig starter pack and still haven't gotten through the first cartridge over a year later (with occasional use). Do we expect delivery route to affect habituation?
I would expect dosage mechanisms that quickly bring the nicotine to the brain would be more addictive.
FYI, "habituation" is a technical term in psychology that does not mean "form habit". Got me confused there for a bit.
Seems plausible.
What I meant to say there was not"form a habit" but instead "tolerance", which is similar to habituation but for chemicals instead of external stimuli.
Oh, OK.