Giving Up Smoking Using Electronic Cigarettes

March 10th, 2010

I’m having great fun with electronic cigarettes, I feel healthier and think that I’m saving money, but am I living in cloud cuckoo land? We shall see.

Electronic cigarettes are healthier than smoking tobacco, can help you to stop smoking, they save you money. Claims made by e-cigarette companies and users but are they true or false?

Smoking Facts

I found out that normal cigarettes contain over 4,000 chemicals and to my horror approximately 40 that are cancerous and that is a proven fact.

Electric cigarettes contain Nicotine, Propylene Glycol, Water and Flavourings – a bit less than 4,000 chemicals don’t you think!!

I’m already addicted to nicotine so I can’t see that e cigs are more harmful in that respect. Propylene glycol is used to deliver vapourised nicotine and according to Wikipedia is used amongst other things as a moisturiser in medicines, cosmetics, food, toothpaste, mouth wash, and tobacco products. If propylene glycol is so widely used in those other products then it shouldn’t be harmful. Water shouldn’t hurt anybody and flavourings – most of our food contains flavourings.

Looking at those facts and unless electronic cigarettes contain substances that we don’t know about then I can’t see them being anywhere near as harmful as tobacco products. I’m no doctor or scientist, but having scoured the Internet the objections to e cigarettes don’t seem to be about what they contain, more that they are addictive and that young non smokers may turn to them because of different flavours available including chocolate and cherry.

I can see that point and really can’t see why flavours beyond the normal were introduced, except for profit of course.

Giving Up Smoking

I’ve tried many times and in different ways, the most successful was with nicotine patches but obviously as with over 80% who try to stop smoking with patches or gum they didn’t provide a permanent cessation of my nicotine addiction. Whether electronic cigarettes help me to stop permanently or not I don’t know and won’t for at least another year or two.

What I do know is that with patches you have a constant flow of nicotine into your body, some brands even recommend that you use them 24/7. I never smoked 24/7 and was never comfortable that nicotine was being constantly released into my body. With e cigarettes I have more control over my intake and like patches can gradually reduce the nicotine strength until I am smoking no nicotine vapour.

Healthy Or Not

Do I think that electronic cigarettes are healthier? Absolutely, I feel better in myself and although I’ve only been smoking e ciggies for a couple of weeks even after a short time I have noticed a difference in my breathing. I walk up a long steep hill every day – usually slowly and out of breath. Not now, I walk up there quicker and my breathing is easier.

I lay on my back and slept last night for the first time in years. Usually I lay on my side because the strange noises that my chest was making when I laid on my back not only kept me awake but also was frightening.

I stopped waking up coughing a few days ago.

Money Saving

There are claims of saving 80% of the cost of smoking normal cigarettes. I don’t think that’s strictly true. The initial outlay for a starter kit generally containing an atomiser, 2 batteries, charger and 5 or 6 cartridges can vary from about £20 to £100. Some companies claim that 1 nicotine cartridge is equivalent to 20 cigarettes – others say 6. I am finding that the brand I am using is probably about 10 cigarettes per cartridge.

An additional cost that isn’t mentioned on some of the sites selling e-cigs is that atomisers need changing fairly regularly and that you should have a spare one. Even so I estimate the saving that I am making to be at least 50% in money and perhaps far more in health.

I am not a law breaker, but if my government ban e cigarettes as some countries have I would have to strongly consider breaking the law rather than risk of going back to tobacco and certain deteriorating health.

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Electronic Cigarette Versus Regular Tobacco Cigarettes Part 3 – How Cheap?

March 10th, 2010

How Cheap are electronic cigarettes?

Smoking cigarettes isn’t cheap and because they are deemed and indeed proven to be harmful to health, cigarettes are an obvious target for price increases and over the last few years the cost for a smoker has risen dramatically. What about the new electronic cigarette that everyone is talking about? How do they hold in terms of price, against standard cigarettes?

Pretty well it would seem! Manufacturers and especially some distributors claim that smoking electronic cigarettes is significantly more afforadable than smoking tobacco cigarettes.  Some estimate that it could be as much as 80% cheaper to be an e cig smoker. There is no doubt about it, if that is true, then it is a massive saving and leaves the tobacco industry more than a little embarrassed.

One such online electronic cigarette distributor has an e cig price comparison graph that works out how much it would cost to smoke regular cigarettes as opposted to their product. They calculate that if you are a smoker who smokes forty a day, then you could save as much three and a half thousand pounds by switching to the e cigarette.

If any of these statisitics are to be believed then once more the electronic cigarette claims a significant victory over the tobacco industry. Regardless of the swirl of media coverage and controversy that plagues any new product, in an isolated one on one battle with regular cigarettes the case is becoming compelling. Score? Electronic Cigarette, three – Tobacco Cigarette, Zero.

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Electronic Cigarettes & Quit Smoking

March 9th, 2010

However, electronic cigarettes do include nicotine, leading many current smokers to view this device as one that may help them to quit smoking. Due to the fact that the FDA is not currently regulating electronic cigarettes, manufacturers cannot market them as “quitting smoking” devices.

What makes this revolutionary product so exciting is that these are not only tobacco free cigarettes, but are also smoke free cigarettes. All of this while still providing users with nicotine. This means that smokers will actually be able to beat smoking bans, while smoking a product that contains no tobacco and produces no smoke. Not only are tobacco free cigarette, but this product also does not contain any of the 4,000 carcinogens that are found in cigarettes.

While the actual ingredients of the electronic cigarette cartridges vary from product to product, the primary ingredients in all of the brands is propylene glycol. This FDA has reviewed this ingredient, and found it to be generally safe for human consumption in foods.

For some more experienced e-cig users who do enjoy the liquid, however, 21 Century Smoking also carries the Jackpot and the Pocket Ace. These two models are both compatible with liquid nicotine. The one constant is that all of these models are tobacco free cigarettes.

Brandon Duke, a user of the Blackjack, truly sees potential to help him quit smoking. “There is no other type of smoke free cigarette that has really allowed people the freedom to quit cigarette smoking.” Standing on a street corner in Portland he noted that, “A lot of people try to quit smoking in so many different ways, but what excites me about this electronic cigarette is just how easy it is to use.”

Whether someone is quitting smoking or just looking for an alternative to smoking, electronic cigarettes figure to be a potential avenue to kicking this harmful habit. At a minimum, many smokers have found that their consumption of cigarettes does drop dramatically when they begin using electronic cigarettes. While not technically marketed as a device that can be used to quit cigarette smoking, the hope is that the potential is there for this to be the case.

These electronic cigarettes do not produce smoke, and are actually smoke free cigarettes. What you do see coming out of the user’s mouth is an actual vapor, as opposed to smoke.

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Electronic Cigarette Versus Regular Tobacco Cigarettes Part Two – Cartridges

March 9th, 2010

The Nicotine Factor

An electronic cigarette has a cartridge based operation system. When you buy an electronic cigarette, you have to decide which cartridges you would like to use. The cartridge is where the nicotine is stored and comes in variable strengths, including strong, light and if you wish, zero nicotine.

Sure, you can buy tobacco cigarettes in varying strengths but you are still getting all the toxins from the tobacco itself. An e cig contains no tobacco, so when you are choosing your cartridge strength, it really is a matter of just the nicotine.

So, theoretically, a smoker could use the varying strengths in the nicotine cartridges to gradually reduce the amount of nicotine intake. This may offer a great oppurtunity to actually have a go at quitting smoking altogether whilst continuing with the physical, habitual motions of the addiction. Is it possible, that this may be a much less stressful way of trying to quit?

Some smokers, just want to be able to continue the physical habits of smoking, such as holding a cigarette and the oral fixation of having a cigarette in the mouth. All this is possible with the e cig and as we have seen above, it could be a much healthier alternative to smoking regular cigarettes.

Thanks to the electronic cigarette cartridges, it appears the that e cig has just won another round over its tobacco conterpart, although there are several rounds remaining for a fightback! The score so far? Electronic Cigarette, two – Tobacco Cigarette, zero. Tune in for the next episode soon!

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Green Smoke – Electronic Cigarette Review

March 9th, 2010

The Green Smoke electronic cigarette is a revolutionary new nicotine delivery device that looks, tastes and feels just like a cigaretteâ?¦but itâ??s not a cigarette.  Cigarettes contain over 4,000 harmful chemicals, many of which are known to cause cancer.  With Green Smoke, you can enjoy complete nicotine satisfaction, without inhaling thousands of toxins.

Free yourself from tar, ash, foul odor, complaints and other restrictions that tobacco cigarettes have you bound to.  Green Smoke gives you the freedom to go where you want, be who you want and smoke when you want.

With Green Smokeâ??s innovative 2-piece design, the days of messy liquids and clogged atomizers are gone.  Itâ??s as simple as unscrewing the filter cartridge and replacing it with a new one.  Each filter has a fresh and clean atomizer built into it.  This allows Green Smoke to provide more smoke avpor and better consistency.

Speaking of green, how does saving up to 60% more money sound? Each nicotine cartridge cost only $3.00 and last as long as 20-30 cigarettes.  With all the tax increases and cost of tobacco, that can add up to a huge savings.  Youâ??ll be saving money!

How It Works?

Green Smokeâ??s electronic cigarette consists of 2 pieces.  A rechargeable battery (with a LED light at the tip to mimic the lit end of a real cigarette) and a filter cartridge that contains the atomizer and nicotine solution.  When the Green Smoker â??puffsâ?, a sensor inside the battery activates the atomizer inside the cartridge.  This action heats up the liquid nicotine solution into a water vapor that looks like real smoke.  Itâ??s an ingenious, but very simple process that allows the Green Smoke electronic cigarette to deliver the most realistic smoking experience.

Vapor Is The Key

The liquid nicotine solution inside your Green Smoke cigarette cartridge consists on pure water, nicotine and propylene glycol (a common food additive used in food coloring and cake mixes0.  The nicotine vapor emitted by Green Smoke ensures no foul odor and dissipates very quickly.  Vapor gives you the key to open the doors to places that were restricted because of tobacco smoke.  With Green Smokeâ?¦Youâ??ve got the green light!

A Greener Planet

The â??Greenâ? in Green Smoke means environmentally-friendly.  We all want to do our part to help the environment stay green.  When you Green Smoke, you are ensuring that there are no cigarette butts, no foul toxic and no risk of fire.  Green Smoking is one way all smokers can pitch in to reduce the pollution to our planet.  At Green Smoke, they even recycle the cartridges.  One Green Smoke electronic cigarette can replace thousands of tobacco cigarettes.  Itâ??s one way they are helping to create a greener planet.

Your Favorite Flavors

Are you a chocolate lover?  Does vanilla move you?  What about coffee or menthol?  Maybe you just prefer the original.  Whichever you prefer, they have got a flavor you can savor.  Should you choose to change your consumption of nicotine, they have descending levels of 16, 8, 6, 4 or 0 milligrams.  So whether you want the full satisfaction of 16mg or just want to satisfy that midnight craving with a0mg, they have got you covered.

You don’t need to quit smoking today, just be a “Green Smoker”!

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Electronic Cigarettes: What Are They And Can They Help You To Quit Smoking?

March 9th, 2010

The objective of the existence of electronic cigarettes and cigars is to replace real tobacco. They can be used as a stop smoking aid, in public places where tobacco smoking is banned, long flights, or as an healthier alternative to smoking tobacco. They do not emit carcinogens and are therefore less harmful. The electronic cigarette is powered by a battery and the only chemical present that is also present in the real tobacco is nicotine.

The inhaled nicotine in alternative cigarettes is in the form of a vaporized solution that is also flavored to maintain the same physical sensation enjoyed when puffing a real cigarette or cigar. Apart from the normal tobacco or menthol flavours you can also get other flavours like chocolate, cherry, strawberry, almond and apple.

Electronic Cigarettes are relatively new and developing quickly. Initially they came in 3 parts and were longer than normal super kings cigarettes. The 3 parts comprised mouthpiece including nicotine cartridge, atomiser and battery. Now you can get mini e cigs which come in two parts and are around the same size as a king size cigarette. The two parts are battery and mouthpiece including nicotine cartridge and atomiser. Most are reusable devices and are refillable either with nicotine vapour or by replacing the nicotine cartridges.

There are four parts to an e cigarette: a heat element, a mouthpiece, a battery, and electronic circuitry. A mouthpiece or otherwise known as the cartridge is a small cup attached to the end of the tube. This tube contains an absorbing material that is wetted due to the absorbed flavored nicotine in a form of a liquid solution.

The second component of an electronic cigarette is the heat element or the atomizer. The purpose of an atomizer is to vaporize the liquid nicotine in the oral piece so that it can be inhaled. Other name for the atomizer is atty. Some models of electronic cigarette combine the atomizer and mouthpiece into a single component called cartomizer which is disposable. Those are the mini versions.

The largest component is the battery which is used to power the alternative cigarette. The kind of battery used in this device is a rechargeable lithium battery to power the heat element. The life span of a battery depends on the brand, size, usage, and the operating environment. It is best to have 2 batteries and then you can always have one charged, most useful – as I found out when I damaged one of my cartridges.

Electronic circuits of this device include a timed off switch to prevent overheating and a light emitting diode to signal the activation of the device. That light is usually red like a normal cigarette but you can get different colours if you are worried that you are going to be in trouble for smoking in public places. Electronic airflow sensor is also employed so that the device activates automatically upon inhalation. Smoke appears to emit from the e-cigs but that is just water vapour and completely harmless to the smoker and those around them.

Do They Work?

I can only speak for myself but I tried electronic cigarettes as a quit smoking aid last year. The flavour I got was fine and I felt that they were less addictive than regular cigs. Perhaps because instead of smoking a whole cig as normal I was having 2 or 3 drags and putting it back in my pocket. Eight months on I don’t smoke anything and feel much better for it. There are stressful times when I think about buying a packet of cigarettes but I remember that I’ve got an e-cig tucked away at home so I don’t need to worry about starting smoking again.

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Electronic Cigarette – The Next Smokeless Chapter on Quitting Smoking

March 8th, 2010

Well folks, the revolutionary electronic cigarette is still on sale, despite many attempts to ban or limit the device. Like everything in life, the electronic cigarette is sure to have its pros and cons, its supporters and it’s knockers but there seems to be no doubt now, that when they hear about its potential, people want to give it a try.

Smoking kills. We have known that for years and years but ideas and methods of quitting smoking (apart from good old will power) have been pretty slow to become a reality, with many ideas being quickly abandoned as hopeless by smokers the world over. However, it’s probably fair to say that the majority of smokers would indeed love to quit the smoking habit, but nothing has come close to really helping with the addiction side of things. At least, nothing that smokers have formed a concensus on.

When the electronic cigarette burst onto the scene just a few short years ago, many people laughed and mocked, thinking it to be just another pointless gimmick. Another marketing oppurtunity to make a quick buck. The e cig is still here though, and more and more people are hearing about other smokers who have tried it and love it, as they eliminate their tobacco intake completely. Prices are becoming more competitive and the issues surrounding the saftey of the e cigarette are mostly unfounded and seem to be being largely ignored.

An electric cigarette, according to manufacturers and distributors contains no tobacco at all and none of the harmful toxins associated with tobacco. Nicotine is present but this can be reduced as quickly or as gradually as the smoker wishes, thanks to a removable and replaceable cartridge system. The smoke that comes from the realistic looking cigarette device is not actually smoke at all but an odourless vapour, so no more clothes stinking of smoke!

Smokers who have turned to the electronic cigarette in the hope of being able to quit regular cigarettes are widely delighted with the product and many have smoked their last ever tobacco cigarette. There are other advantages of trading in the old regular cigarette for the e cigarette such as being able to smoke in public places, such as pubs, offices and even on aeroplanes! Because of course, there is no actual smoke coming from them, they are not included in the same public ban as tobacco cigarettes.

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Electronic Cigarettes Are The Latest Alternative To Smoking Tobacco

March 8th, 2010

Electronic cigarettes are giving smokers the ability to enjoy smoking without any tar, tobacco, carbon-monoxide and thousands of other harmful chemicals found in traditional tobacco cigarettes. With smoking bans happening all over the world, e-cigarettes are giving people the freedom to once again enjoy smoking in public places. The electronic cigarette is virtually odorless and the smoke-like vapor it produces evaporates in seconds so there’s no more issues about second hand smoke.

These new found freedoms are causing people to take their electronic cigarettes into places where tobacco cigarettes have been banned. Reports of smokers enjoying their e-cigarettes in restaurants and even on planes are occurring more and more frequently. Some restaurant owners are even establishing new policies to allow only electronic cigarettes to be smoked in their establishments. Others are excited by the fact that they can completely switch to electronic cigarettes on the first day and not feel any cravings for tobacco cigarettes.

The electronic cigarette is truly a new generation of smoking. Say goodbye to smelly clothes, say goodbye to yellow stained teeth. E-cigarettes are non-flammable, so no more burns in the furniture or car seats either. Don’t be a victim to tax increases, start saving money while you smoke. The benefits to smoking electronic cigarettes are just too great to ignore, find out more at LuckySlicks.com

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Electronic Cigarette Smoking

March 8th, 2010

There are many methods to quit smoking but only a few work. The patch may work for a while but sooner or later the smoker returns to holding the familiar cigarette that is part of the habit. There is one exception and that is the electronic cigarette. Recently the new electronic cigarettes have been in the news as a product that can reduce unhealthy smoke and help smokers quit. Millions of people all over the world are discovering a better choice to smoking and addiction.

Electronic cigarette pioneers like E-cig in 2003 started developing the E-cig and finally set a precedent for others in 2004 by marketing the product. In 2005 E-Cig.com established a world wide web site marketing electronic cigarette products. One fixed taste and one density of nicotine solution per electronic cigarette existed prior to the time of establishing a www site. Today there are several competitive electronic cigarette companies that offer a variety of cig features sizes from ones bigger & one that is exactly the same size as the traditional cigarette, one piece or two piece cigs, numerous selections of densities and tastes with or without an atomizer for the ultimate smoking experience.

People will forever smoke differently because of the new electronic cigarettes products. It is hard to believe but there is a device that looks feel and tastes like a cigarette and has little or no cancer causing chemicals, tar free odorless, nicotine vapor with no smoke called an electronic cigarette. How does it work you ask? The electronic cigarette or e-cig works simply using a battery, an atomizer, and a cartridge filled with a liquid nicotine solution. Heating the element inside of the E-cig occurs when the smoker inhales and powers the atomizer. The atomizer heat up immediately and vaporizes the liquid nicotine into a healthier vapor that appears to look and feel like smoke.

The electronic cigarette or e-cigarette has many great advantages since it works completely different than the traditional tobacco cigarette. The traditional cigarette requires the tobacco to be burnt and the smoke inhaled. Vaporizes a liquid nicotine mixture used by the electronic cigarette is a much healthier process. No Smoking Bans do not apply to the electronic cigarette because the fake smoke is vapor not actually deadly smoke. Now you can have an E-cig inside the bar, restaurant and space of your choice knowing you are taking better care of your body by reducing the tobacco smoking affect. The electronic cigarette has other benefits besides reducing the harmful chemicals and carcinogens while quitting tobacco smoking. Reducing the risk of fire is a huge benefit of the electronic cigarette along with odorless, non staining and less expensive make them a real bargain if you must smoke. If you have to smoke and you are trying to quit test an electronic cigarette with all the advantages of a healthier, non smelling & staining, safer, and cheaper alternative to smoking.

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Green Smoke Electronic Cigarette – Avoid Tax Hikes

March 8th, 2010

Those of you out there who smoke or keep track of tax hikes and budget cuts may be aware of the $.62 cent federal tobacco tax hike which was enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in mid 2009. This has taken the federal tobacco tax from the previous $.39 cent to a whopping $1.01. 

Keep in mind, this is the only the federal tax we are talking about, we haven’t even gotten to the state tax yet. State taxes have been steadily rising since 2002 and gone up from an average of $.43 cents to $1.34 per pack. It’s estimated that 1.2 million people will quit smoking due to this tobacco tax hike.

So what’s the bright side? It can’t be all bad, can it? There will be an estimated $9 billion dollars raised annually for state expenditures from the tobacco tax hikes.

$9 billion dollars seems like a large sum of money, and it is, but it’s a ripple in an ocean compared to the estimated $193 billion dollars in healthcare expenditures and productivity lost each year. The $9 billion combined with the potential for saved healthcare costs and unhindered productivity may very well be a small, but they are important step in bringing the country out of recession.

Now, for us smokers, that may sound all great, but unfortunately that’s not going to make me quit smoking. Well, then looking for something that helps fatten up our wallets, keeps the doctors away, maintain productivity, and lets us smoke might sound a bit impossible given the situation. May sound like a dream, but it really isn’t. There is an alternative that lets you get everything you want out of a cigarette, but without all taxes, chemicals, and smoke related health risks. Does it still sound too good to be true? Well allow me to explain. 

The electronic cigarette is a new piece of technology that you probably have never even heard about. With all those cheap gimmicks and false promises, it’s hard to think something as good as this could exist, but it does! The electronic cigarette is a personal vaporizer the size of a cigarette that cuts out all the middlemen. The vaporizer emits water vapor that is inhaled, feeling very much like cigarette smoke, except without the harsh, dry, scratchy feel. 

The Green Smoke electronic cigarette is by far the best available on the market. A smooth indistinguishable feel of smoking without the carbon monoxide, chemical additives… and taxes? (You must be kidding.) It’s even cheaper than tobacco cigarettes. (Oh, COME ON!) Nope, you don’t just have to take my word for it, better yet, go and check it out for yourself.

Here are a couple resources available with some additional information on the Green Smoke electric cigarette that may very well be the unexpected answer you were looking for.

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