Can electronic cigarettes help you quit smoking and what are they anyway?
Asked recently to write about electronic cigarettes, I have to confess that I had never heard of such a thing. Some internet research later and I discovered that electronic cigarettes are very much a quickly growing concern. A Google search revealed there is no smoke without fire as almost six million results just for the phrase “electronic cigarette” were returned.
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.
An electronic cigarette contains a taste of tobacco but none of the harmful substances found in normal cigarettes allowing smokers cravings to be satisfied without inhaling the many dangerous toxins. Is it all smoke and mirrors? Or can this item really be the saviour it wants to be?
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!
Upon reflection the electronic cigarette is a healthier, cheaper and environmentally friendly alternative to smoking and as the awareness and the market grows they have great potential to successfully replace the harmful cigarettes we have all come to know and many of us have come to dread and fear.
spidergoose
http://www.articlesbase.com/quit-smoking-articles/the-electronic-cigarette-story-683982.html
Whatever next … ‘Electronic cigarettes’! (a story on our local news this evening)?
Yeah ive heard about them. seems wierd but apparently they do a really good job at helping you quit! Heres where you buy them: http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/gamucci-micro-electronic-cigarette/index.html
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Explain please? What are they and how do they work?
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Non smoker
They have been around for quite a while now, and seem to work.
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They have been around for a while
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_cigarette
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how do they work?
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Are they mains powered….that would stop you…
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It seems to work for them and the publican supplying them claim the pubs profits are back up.
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Can u give more information about them? Sounds interesting?
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More info please
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Is there an equivalent for spliffs? Electronic spliffs?! Ha!
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My friends have tried them they don’t recommend them.
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£39-00 is a lot for a ciggy.
http://www.smartsmoker.co.uk/
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you can try them for free in my local.
i believe they will cost about £20
didn’t try it myself as i quit smoking after my illness
rather weird looking and the end glows red and flashes when you draw on it.
enjoy the day
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Seeing as nicotine and all the other chemicals are inhaled and the exhaled, they are an expensive gimic that still affects all the non smokers in the vacinity of the user
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The electronic cigarette is composed of three parts: a battery, an atomizer, and a nicotine cartridge. When you take a drag off of the e-cig, it causes the battery to activate the atomizer which heats up the nicotine solution and turns the nicotine solution into an odorless vapor which can be inhaled and exhaled.
They are fantastic because they are tobacco free which means there is no second hand smoke AND since there is no tobacco and only the nicotine is removed from the plant, all of those carcinogens and additives are not included.
Currently, they are untested on humans, however, they are becoming wildly popular in the US and have been world wide for 2-3 years. Smokers have determined for themselves that they are willing to take their chances on their safety because when you put tobacco cigarette ingredients side by side with the ingredients of the nicotine cartridges, they appear 150% better.
As they are tobaccoless, they are not included in the smoking bans so can be smoked in any public place where the owner has no issues with it. Units range from between $75 and $200 and nicotine cartridges are available in zero, low, medium and high nicotine strengths.
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http://www.e-cig.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco – scroll to curing and you will see what makes a cigarette so bad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_cigarette