Posted on 07/27/2017 12:12:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Those who vaped were more likely to succeed for at least three months than those who did not – 8 percent versus 5 percent.
People who used e-cigarettes were more likely to kick the habit than those who didn’t, a new study found.
Nicotine patches, gums and medications are known to aid smoking cessation, but there’s no consensus on whether vaping devices can help anti-smoking efforts. The U.S. research is the largest look yet at electronic cigarette users and it found e-cigarettes played a role in helping people quit.
“It’s absolutely clear that e-cigarettes help smokers replace cigarettes,” said Peter Hajek, director of the health and lifestyle research unit at Queen Mary University in London, who wasn’t part of the study.
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I don’t care what anyone says. I tried patches, gum, Chantix, cold turkey, mint chews, etc. Everything short of hypnosis.
The ONLY thing that worked for me was the ecig.
With everything else, I went back every time. Reason was, I had no conditioning to make me NOT want to go back. Just stopping is easy. Making your body lose interest is the hard part.
I started on 24 mg nicotine. At that level, a hard puff off of the ecig would just about take your head off. Cigarettes became pointless, and I began using the ecig entirely.
Weaned myself down to 12 mg, 6 mg, 3 mg, and 1.5 mg. Then, 0mg. That was last summer.
Then I started noticing some weird things. I’d lose my ecig. I’d set it down for hours at a time then suddenly realize that I hadn’t hit it in a while, and then I wouldn’t be able to find it. Started forgetting to take it with me when I went out. Started leaving it at home when I went to work.
Eventually, my fancy voltage controlled, giant nerd battery died. I said, “I’ll just order another one tomorrow.”
Tomorrow turned into days, days into weeks, weeks into months. Never found time to place that order. I’m coming up on one year since the last time I put nicotine in my body. This winter, I’m going to be coming up on one year without inhaling anything except air pollution and campfire smoke.
I have no desire to pick up a cigarette. I’ve been offered on many occasions and I always turn it down.
What’s left of my ecig sits in a drawer. I keep it as a reminder of the electronic ball and chain I used to have to carry around with me. It was some of the best money I’ve ever spent.
Stopped the real cigs over a year ago with the aid of vaping. Slowly dropping my nic level. Result: My new car kept that “new car” smell. There are no burn marks in said car. There is also no yellow film over the whole interior. Yes still an addict but I’m also addicted to FR.
Don’t worry. They always find another reason to run control on others. Its a psychosis. Tobacco is just an excuse. The point is not benefitting society. The dogooders simply need someone to look down on.
That was a highly accurate description of your most deeply held ideological belief. If it is an ad-hominem to you then you feel insulted by your own mirror image.
Great job.
Keep at it.
I quit in January 2003. Smoked my last 1/2 pack and refused to buy any more.
Cravings subsided over time. However, at 6 months they hit again. I resisted. After about a month, they subsided and have not returned.
I do get an urge — but not a real craving — when I see someone smoking. But I do not give in to the urge.
One leads to 2, which leads to a pack, which leads to a carton, which leads to the habit. So, I avoid that first one.
Not to mention the tobacco growers, and other companies, who are heavily invested in traditional cigs.
Vaping is cutting down on smoking. I know many who used it to wean themselves off cigarettes.
That’s exactly how my husband quit smoking, after battling it for many years. Bought a vape, and just kept dialing it down until he got to 2, and then quit. It’ll be 2 years in November.
its always about the money...always...
“We are not saying e-cigarettes are more hazardous than cigarettes,” he said. “We are only looking at one chemical. … The jury is really out on how safe these drugs are.”There are more than 8,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke, so it’s hard to pinpoint whether formaldehyde is the main culprit in cigarette-related cancers.
I guess I was wrong about there being 59 chemicals in cigarette smoke too.
I’m not really sure changing delivery systems is quitting.
It goes both ways. The government got a lot of people smoking by giving it free to soldiers, etc. Plus, the industry has been heavily subsidized by government.
Caffeine is more addictive than nicotine. You never hear these do-gooders insult coffee and tea drinkers or want to institute taxes and bans on them simply because caffeine is addictive. It’s a neurosis.
“http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/you-vape-high-levels-formaldehyde-hidden-e-cigs-n290826
Formaldehyde, a carcinogen, is present apparently...”
I don’t believe that.
Do you know how many times they’ve come up with stuff that was supposedly in ecigs that later turns out to be bogus? Remember dicetyl and “popcorn lung”?
Besides. Its NBC news. If they said it was raining, I’d walk to the window and check for myself.
When our boys light up, the Huns will light out.
Seems ecigs are a better choice than cigs and neither is better than no cigs of any kind.
If you smoke, you’d be better off vaping (assuming it doesn’t explode).
If you vape, you’d be better off quitting entirely.
TigersEye jumps the shark...
Who are so completely intertwined with government it's hard to tell which one calls the shots on tobacco policy.
Five weeks. Lots of mints. Prior to that two months of smoking Lee on Friday nights - lots of nicotine lozenges. But you can overdose on the lozenges and have problems.
When I remarried after the death of my late-wife, I knew she was a smoker, but she was willing to not smoke in the house or in the cars. We went for a number of years like that until my step-daughter got her her first e-cig. She's been on them now for over four years and going strong. She hasn't touched a cigarette in all of that time and we've been dialing down the nicotine slowly over time.
I don't even mind her vaping in the house and the cars now. I don't know about anyone else, but, to me, the vapor from the e-cigs .. and she smokes the Marlboro substitute liquid, not any of the "flavored" stuff .. well, it smells like cotton candy. Whatever the liquid base for the nicotine is, when she vapes, it makes me think of county fairs and parades when I worked in the DeMolay snack van and was running the cotton candy machine. It doesn't get much better than that ...
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