Gasman
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Quite. OP, are you sure you're not confusing nitric oxide with nitrous oxide? If that's the case then maybe a toot of poppers is what you need.
Plus, if you're using it in training and it's not proscribed then why be all secret squirrel about it anyway? Just hook up a tank and chug it down.
No, I think he's got it the right way round. Nitric oxide (NO) is a fairly toxic atmospheric pollutant although physiologically, it also turned out to be Endothelium-derived relaxing factor. Inhaling it in very low concentrations can cause dilatation of pulmonary vessels improving blood flow through the lungs and oxygen carriage. This would, however, require equipment slightly more sophisticated than a pocket sized canister.
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a mild analgesic and weak anaesthetic. The 'intoxicant' effects are not due to N2O itself but are a result of inhaling it in such high concentration that the user ends up receiving insufficient oxygen and suffering from partial asphyxia. I suspect that this would more than cancel out any performance enhancement due to the user feeling a it 'high'.