[Flaming Conservative]

Using nicotine patches or vaping IS a good way to quit smoking, because at some point, the person gets off the patch or vaping. Naturally, they’re still getting nicotine, but there’s an end in sight. Cold turkey is probably the best way to quit, but not everyone can do that. You’re just being argumentative. Don’t accuse me of harming people, when you are the one giving examples of people who have smoked for 80 years or more, and are still healthy. That is the exception, not the rule.

[Wissa]

Using nicotine patches or vaping IS a good way to quit smoking, because at some point, the person gets off the patch or vaping. Naturally, they’re still getting nicotine, but there’s an end in sight.

I quit smoking and replaced it with orally consuming nicotine through nicotine fluid. I have no interest in giving that up. Ever.

In the first place, my body has developed a strong addiction to nicotine over the past 45 years or so of consuming it in pretty high quantities. The stress placed on my body of giving it up would most likely cause quite a bit of harm. (Maybe you should do some research on the effect of stress on health.)

In the second place, I have no more real reason to give up nicotine than I have of giving up drinking tea, where I get my caffeine. I haven't seen anything to indicate that nicotine is any more harmful to my health than caffeine.

[FredZarguna]

Argumentative? You made a claim that I was making things up. Your "argument" evaporated in light of the facts, because it is you who are making things up: nicotine has never been implicated by a serious clinical study in the etiology of heart disease. Never.

You accused me of believing in a "conspiracy theory." Nope. I actually have published, peer-reviewed research. All I want is truthful, scientifically founded evidence.

This "article" is a joke, and so is anyone defending it. You don't get a collapsed lung from an e-cig or a patch.