Stokes Picks Ingredient List: What Is in Every Pick

A Stokes pick has five ingredients. Here is each one and what it does.

1. American white birch

The pick itself. White birch is a light, smooth hardwood that grows in managed forests in the United States. It is smooth in the mouth, does not splinter easily and holds flavor well. After you throw it away it breaks down naturally.

2. Pure nicotine, 5 mg

The nicotine is pure and tobacco-free. There is no tobacco leaf in a Stokes pick. Pure nicotine has almost no taste of its own, so what you taste is the flavor, not tobacco. Every pick has 5 mg, in every flavor.

3. Certified organic flavors

The flavors come from real ingredients: vanilla and mint, lemon and ginger, cinnamon and clove, anise and fennel. They are certified organic. That is why a Lemon Ginger pick tastes like lemon and ginger, not like candy.

4. Organic monk fruit

Monk fruit is a small melon. Its extract is very sweet with no sugar and no calories. It gives the picks a little sweetness to round out the flavor. It is certified organic.

5. Vegetable glycerin

Glycerin is a clear, slightly sweet liquid made from plant oils. It carries the nicotine and flavor into the wood and keeps them there until the pick is in your mouth.

What is not in a Stokes pick

• No tobacco
• No sugar
• No sucralose or other artificial sweeteners
• No artificial flavors or colors
• No alcohol, including in the Absinthe flavor
• No plastic

Sugar-free and zero calories

The only sweetness comes from monk fruit, so every pick is sugar-free with zero calories.

Why so few ingredients

We wanted a product you could understand by reading the label once. Birch, nicotine, organic flavor, monk fruit and glycerin do the whole job. Nothing else is needed.

A note on nicotine

Nicotine is an addictive chemical. Stokes picks are for adults 21 and over who already use nicotine. They are not a medicine and not a product to help you quit.

Made in the USA

Stokes picks are made in the United States. The company is based in Louisville, Colorado.

Read how a pick works or see the four flavors.