“Go on, try it!”
“I am not sure I want to. Isn’t it addictive?”
“Not really, this is a much better way of doing it. I’ve been doing it for months and I’m fine aren’t I?”
The pressure was incessant. I did not think I would succumb to peer pressure at the age of twenty twelve, but I was weak with post-rugby semi-final euphoria and so considered taking what was on offer.
“Go on Angry, just give it a big sniff!”
“But I’ve never even been a smoker, I don’t think I am cut out for this sort of thing.”
“Just do it will you!”
With those words ringing in my ears I put the tube up my nose and sniffed for all I was worth.
“Akk! Eurghg! akkKK!”
One side of my face went numb, and one eye started watering like that time I tried a kamikaze tequila shooter. But I was definitely not crying. Definitely not. The faces around the pub table looked at me.
“So?”
“So, what?”
“What do you think?”
“I feel like I’ve just snorted pepper and I want to cry.”
I do not think I am going to take up Nicotine nasal sprays any time soon.
No tags
Duck · October 16, 2007 at 10:08 am
Did you snort the kamikaze shooter as well instead of drinking it?
Billygean · October 16, 2007 at 11:04 am
I’m addicted to those and I’ve never even smoked. What can you use to wean you off the nicotine patches?
pesk · October 16, 2007 at 11:36 am
They gave me nosebleeds. It’s coke for the poor. Without the high.
Eliza · October 16, 2007 at 1:44 pm
try salt, it’s more-ish
bittersweet me · October 16, 2007 at 2:05 pm
bless …. here, have a hankie
la cubana gringa · October 16, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Probably for the best…you’d get so hooked on those that you’d need cigarettes just to wean yourself off.
TheBoy · October 16, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Nicotine Nasal Spray?
Just why were you trying this?
Admin comment by Mr Angry · October 16, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Duck – of course, how else would you take them?
Billygean – Crack?
pesk – I avoided the nose bleed.
Eliza – Too much salt is bad for you.
bittersweet – thanks.
LCG – That was a consideration during my “coming down” period.
The Boy – because of PEER PRESSURE. I have two friends giving up smoking, and they are using them. I was drunk and happy after the rugby, so I am pleased it was just this they gave me.
It could have been pork scratchings or anything.
Dr J · October 16, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Round these parts Coke is way cheaper than these blasted nicotine insufflator thingies (or so I am reliably informed– must be what with Ambridge being twinned with Bogota or some such).
And where’s the point in inhaling nicotine to help you to give up inhaling nicotine anyway eh!
Four Dinners · October 18, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Since when do nicotine nasal sprays have white powder in ‘em?