E-cigarettes don’t, in fact, help you quit smoking, and may have the opposite effect

Yahoooooooo ^ | Jan 17 2016 | Lulu Chang

[TexasFreeper2009]

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.

[loucon]

Same here. Quit cigarettes in March of last year. Haven’t looked back and feel 200% better. Smoked for 45 years.

[MLL]

I started using e-cigs in October 2013. Havent touch a cigarette since. This study is a bunch of bull

[loucon]

- don’t plan on giving up caffeine or alcohol either.

[disndat]

You do take in nicotine but there are different levels of nicotine. You can tail off.

[Nickname]

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.

[equaviator]

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!

[redfreedom]

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.

[Steamburg]

So Harvard is still being financed by “Big Tobacco”!

[traderrob6]

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.

[Nifster]

There ya have it

[Nifster]

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

[Nifster]

I understand how they work. When someone claims to be off cigarettes I am trying to find out if they mean tobacco or nicotine

[Little Ray]

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.

[arthurus]

I work at a shipyard with a thousand workers, most of whom smoked heavily three years ago. Now about half of the old smokers are entirely or almost entirely on e-cigs. The actual consumption of nicotine must have decreased because most of the e-cig apparati are relatively bulky and stay in the pockets more than on the lips. Rarely one of these fellows will get a pack of cigarettes but it is rare at least in part because they realize just how much those damned things cost and many are discovering that they have some money in their pockets for the first time in many years. I notice that many of them are using the e-cigs less and less and that they tend to take them out of their pockets and take a couple of drags and then put them back in their pockets. You light a cigarette you smoke the whole thing. It is inconvenient and makes you feel you are exhibiting your poverty to pinch one out and put it back into your pocket.
To a liberal the image of someone smoking or vaping is what is obnoxious. The habit is one of relying on something other than government and liberals for feelings of well being. Drugs are okay because they ultimately produce dependency on liberals and government. The nicotine habit actually implies some detachment from the nannies and the bosses.

[Nickname]

I’d say I’m off of cigarettes but still using nicotine.

[djf]

Xlent!

To you and all quitters, I say XLENT!

[USCG SimTech]

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.

[Nifster]

Good enough.

I have no opinion one way or the other. I figure folks can do what they want

[DPMD]

Liberals will go their graves condemning e-cigs as causing people to smoke but denying that marijuana is a gateway drug.