Posted on 01/18/2016 3:26:19 AM PST by Drango
The controversy surrounding e-cigarettes was previously muted by the promise that, despite their flaws, they do help smokers quit smoking. But now, even that silver lining has been disproven. As per a new study, not only do e-cigarettes not help you kick the habit, they may have the exact opposite effect â as it turns out, e-cigarette smokers are 28 percent less likely to quit than individuals whove never used these devices at all.
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It’s the burning that causes cigarettes to be cancerous, so why are we complaining or do we care if someone came up with a way for people to get their nicotine without getting cancer and without making a bunch of stinky cancerous smoke everyone around them has to smell and breathe.
Same here. Quit cigarettes in March of last year. Haven’t looked back and feel 200% better. Smoked for 45 years.
I started using e-cigs in October 2013. Havent touch a cigarette since. This study is a bunch of bull
- don’t plan on giving up caffeine or alcohol either.
You do take in nicotine but there are different levels of nicotine. You can tail off.
The vaping liquids contain varying amounts of nicotine all the way down to 0%. You just order the strength you prefer.
If you’re just starting, be sure to get a high enough nicotine content that you don’t go into withdrawl and start smoking again.
Smokers and vapers still have something in common- they all suck on those things and I wonder what the average time is that a person sucks per implement. They say that the average cigarette takes approx. 7 minutes to consume. If the sucking motions are added together, separate from the inhalation and exhaling, it adds up. I think its fair to estimate that the average cigarette is sucked upon at a rate of 40-60 seconds per cigarette. Imagine how much sucking that would be per day if you smoked multiple packs a day!
Quitting smoking, drinking or maintaining a certain weight or staying within budget all take one major ingredient: Will Power.
My personal opinion of the quit smoking aids is very low. If you wanna quit, just quit. I went from a 2 1/2 pack Winstons per day to 0 per day overnight. That was 27 years ago.
Now that I look back, smoking was one of the stupidest things I have did in my life.
So Harvard is still being financed by “Big Tobacco”!
Bullsh!t. I tried quitting for 10 years. Tried everything gum, patch you name it.
Finally tried replacing cigs with and E-cig and I have not fired up in going on 3 years.
There ya have it
I am asking about you specifically. I know how they work
Did you tail off to zero? Or is your claim that you quit smoking tobacco
I understand how they work. When someone claims to be off cigarettes I am trying to find out if they mean tobacco or nicotine
eCigs are not supposed to help you stop smoking.
They are simply a safer way to deliver the drugs, like nicotine. That is all they are or were ever intended to be.
I’d say I’m off of cigarettes but still using nicotine.
Xlent!
To you and all quitters, I say XLENT!
I personally know several people that never smoked that have taken up chewing nicotine gum for the buzz while at work and on the job. Vaping at armed forces installations is still banned unless it’s at a designated smoking area.
Good enough.
I have no opinion one way or the other. I figure folks can do what they want
Liberals will go their graves condemning e-cigs as causing people to smoke but denying that marijuana is a gateway drug.
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