Could you poison yourself with nicotine anti-smoking tablets?

[sandyRoe]

I'm using 'Niquitin' 4mg tablets to stop smoking. I'm taking a lot more than the recommended dose. Are they safe?

[Sqad]

Well let me put it this way.....10 tablets a day will kill you.

Is there anything else that I could help you with?

[sandyRoe]

I'm taking about 24 a day. Would I be better going back to the 40+ a day Regal King size?

[rowanwitch]

so 40 mg would kill a non smoker.....?

[Sqad]

rowan....smoker OR non smoker.in my opinion.

[sandyRoe]

Who would like bequeathed a fairly new Zippo lighter in my will?

[rowanwitch]

a lot less messy than cutting your wrists and easier than paracetamol...

[wolf63]

I am sure that Agatha Christie used nicotine poisoning as a method of murdering somebody. Pretty unpleasant way to go.

[mike11111]

I don't know about anti-smoking tablets but I have been taking nicotine regularly in its traditional form for the past 48 years and I'm still here.

[The-HouseHusband]

Sqad << Well let me put it this way.....10 tablets a day will kill you.>>>

Where do you get such nonsense from, for a twenty a day habit the recommended dose is 14 tablets a day.

Without looking at the data sheet I cant be any more help, however keep on trying to quit the habit, it is not the easiest of things to do but it is possible.

I quit after roughly 25 years of smoking about 30 a day and I only needed about 8 of the 'Niquitin' 4mg tablets a day for the first month.

[sandyRoe]

You're all getting me worried now. The instructions say take no more than 15 lozenges a day. I'll cut down to that.

[snags]

''Who would like bequeathed a fairly new Zippo lighter in my will?''

Depends... is a can of lighter fluid and spare flints included?

[redman41]

Intended going to the Doctor myself sandyRoe, with the intention of trying to give it up.

[sandyRoe]

There are spare Swan flints but I put the last of the lighter fuel on a cloth and sniffed it. Can't see what they see in doing that.

[Sqad]

House husband...I don´t know what tablets you are talking about and I know nothing about Niquitin.

However, from pharmacological studies, 40 mgms of Nicotine is a lethal dose.........now I do not know how much of the 4mgms of the Niquitine is absorbed.........but if all of it is absorbed, then 10 tablets contain a lethal dose.

[sandyRoe]

"Niquitin 4mg Lozenges contain 4mg Nicotine in the form of a resin complex(nicotine polacrilex 22.2 mg)"

[rowanwitch]

I think it is because the dose is staggered rather than taken in one hit.. only having a half life of 60 mins at any one time you don't have anywhere near 40mg in your system

[Sqad]

rowan...exactly OR all the 4mgms in the tablet is not absorbed.

[rowanwitch]

But taking it in one dose should be enough ...