Electronic Cigarettes, Can They Help You Stop Smoking?
Can electronic cigarettes help you quit smoking and what are they anyway?
I had to write about electronic cigarettes recently and not really knowing what they were I knew I needed to do some research. I found that not only were they real but that they are actually a phenomenom right now with nigh on five million results returned on Google.
In existence for about three years, the electronic cigarette is a unique device intended to allow smokers to continue smoking but with either none or vastly reduced health concerns. According to many electronic cigarette distributers they are also very helpful for quitting smoking altogether.
Now in a fourth generation, electronic cigarettes have become much more user friendly than earlier versions which perhaps were a little too large to encourage a mass market appeal. The “mini” is the most realistic e cigarette to date with its length of 100mm being the same as a conventional cigarette.
Containing a taste of tobacco and apparently none of the harmful substances and chemicals found in standard cigarettes, they allow smokers to satisfy their cravings without taking in all those toxins. Is this too good to be true or can the electronic cigarette really deliver on its claims?
A battery, an atomiser and a renewable nicotine chamber allows the smoker to hold and smoke the electronic cigarette just as they would any other cigarette, even creating a “smoke” like vapour and glow at the end as they draw. The nicotine chamber proves very useful as cartridges are available in different strengths, permitting the user to reduce the amount of nicotine they intake until if they wish, can quit completely.
At a time when money is tighter than ever, distributors of electronic cigerattes have estimated that a huge eighty per cent saving can be made compared to smoking normal cigarettes as a typical nicotine cartridge lasts as long as fifteen to twenty normal cigarettes.
Appearing to be a much healthier alternative at least on the surface, dig a little deeper and more benefits seem reveal themselves. Smoking legally in public being one. As there are no known harmful substances being emitted from the electronic cigarette it does not fall into the same legal trappings of normal cigarettes. Smokers could remain in their warm office, restaurant or pub and smoke their electronic cigarette.
None smokers also will benefit, as their worries about passive smoking are rendered null and void by the electronic cigarette. A much more sociable environment then!
Reflecting upon the electronic cigarette it is difficult to imagine them not being a much healthier alternative to their very dangerous real cigarette cousins. If they can genuinely be smoked safely and even help people to quit altogether, then the quicker they catch on the better.
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I love mine. I have been a smoker since I was 15 and tried every possible way to quit. Nothing worked because it doesn’t take care of the “action” of smoking. The e-cig does that though. You still get the sensation of smoking.
As far as whether it is safer for you than cigarettes or not, the anti-smoking groups and the WHO make arguments that they are not safe because they have not been thoroughly tested. But cigarettes were “thoroughly” tested and now are blamed for all of these health issues. If the anti-smoking groups really want to take on smoking completely, then they will fork over the hundreds of thousands to test these. Unfortunately, most of them just want us all to stop smoking all together and aren’t searching for ways to help, but to demand it be done.
If you haven’t tried one, there are a couple of videos out there that show you how they work. If you are also looking for more information, http://www.e-cig.org has an ongoing blog and stays up with what’s happening.