How can an inhaler or nasal spray help me quit smoking?
There are multiple ways to get nicotine into someone's brain. You can do it through the skin with a patch. You can do it through the mouth with either the gum, the lozenge, or a nicotine puffer. The puffer, instead of having something you keep inside of your mouth that dissolves, like, gum or a lozenge, is a little gel filled capsule. And, that capsule, you breathe in, so that there's a vapour absorbed in your mouth, or the back of your throat, or your palette. It has nicotine in it, and you can feel the tingling and peppery feeling. It's absorbed exactly the same way as the nicotine gum or the nicotine lozenge. There's another way to get nicotine into your blood system and that is by squirting a spray of it up in your nostrils because the nasal mucous membranes absorb very quickly. And you get a higher absorption rate, and therefore a higher rate of nicotine to your brain by using the nicotine spray. But, both routes, puffing it into the mouth with a nicotine oral inhaler puffer, or through the nasal spray, just delivers nicotine as you need it - when you feel a craving to control withdrawal symptoms throughout the course of the day, based on how your brain is responding to your course of treatment.