Electric cigarettes are designed to deliver comparably satisfying smoking experience minus the overwhelming health risks. In lighting up a traditional tobacco cigarette, noxious gases and other harmful materials are produced through the combustion of tobacco. These substances, which include carbon monoxide, are known causes of diseases to the organs and systems related to the respiration process. With electric cigarettes, the need to burn actual tobacco has been replaced with the use of a special liquid formula that delivers the smokers’ needed nicotine fix. The fluid is atomized and directly inhaled without producing the noxious gases, which are more popularly known as second hand smoke.

The specially formulated smoking liquid solution used by electric cigarettes is particularly helpful as a way of managing nicotine addiction. It was even claimed as a legitimate smoking cessation aid, being used as a safe and effective coping tool for people undergoing nicotine replacement therapy. Hence, it enables people to quit nicotine without the need to give up smoking habits. With no fire, tar, ash and stub, electric cigarettes can give smokers the satisfaction of getting the tactile taste sensations that tobacco cigarettes normally offer.

So what exactly is in the liquid nicotine solution of an electric cigarette? The answer would be propylene glycol. Aside from delivering the sensations delivered by nicotine, the solution provides flavor and variety to one’s smoking experience. To add variety to smoking experience, electronic cigarettes define a whole new range of smoking flavors. Aside from the conventional fruity cigarette flavors, electric cigarettes are available in more interesting flavors which include coffee, vanilla, mint and original tobacco. It gives out the sensation that smoker experience when inhaling tobacco smoke.

One great thing about electric cigarettes is that they effectively copy the actual smoking experience without causing the hassles that tobacco cigarettes normally bring. They do not produce clouds of smoke and they do not leave tobacco scent on the clothes of the smokers. This is why a number of European pubs and clubs have been promoting its use. Without the need to constantly monitor their patrons and at the same time safeguarding the health of their non-smoking customers, they see electric cigarettes as the best alternative to smoking traditional tobacco cigarettes.

Electric cigarettes are all about simulated smoking experience. In bringing the wonderful ingenuity of modern science, they successfully answer all smokers’ prayer for safer smoking alternative. They produce simulated smoke or vapor mist that looks, tastes and feels like true cigarette. These vapors are more directly delivered to the smoker, preventing the vapors from being given out in the environment. They deliver all these great things with absolutely no use for tobacco. Electronic cigarettes simply offer care-free, worry-free and guilt-free smoking experience.

]]> http://www.ecigarettes4u.com/electronic-cigarettes-the-less-harmful-way-to-smoke/feed 0 http://www.ecigarettes4u.com/giving-up-smoking-using-electronic-cigarettes http://www.ecigarettes4u.com/giving-up-smoking-using-electronic-cigarettes#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:39:16 +0000 Allan More http://www.ecigarettes4u.com/giving-up-smoking-using-electronic-cigarettes.htm I’m having great fun with electronic cigarettes, I feel healthier and think that I’m saving money, but am I living in cloud cuckoo land? We shall see.

Electronic cigarettes are healthier than smoking tobacco, can help you to stop smoking, they save you money. Claims made by e-cigarette companies and users but are they true or false?

Smoking Facts

I found out that normal cigarettes contain over 4,000 chemicals and to my horror approximately 40 that are cancerous and that is a proven fact.

Electric cigarettes contain Nicotine, Propylene Glycol, Water and Flavourings – a bit less than 4,000 chemicals don’t you think!!

I’m already addicted to nicotine so I can’t see that e cigs are more harmful in that respect. Propylene glycol is used to deliver vapourised nicotine and according to Wikipedia is used amongst other things as a moisturiser in medicines, cosmetics, food, toothpaste, mouth wash, and tobacco products. If propylene glycol is so widely used in those other products then it shouldn’t be harmful. Water shouldn’t hurt anybody and flavourings – most of our food contains flavourings.

Looking at those facts and unless electronic cigarettes contain substances that we don’t know about then I can’t see them being anywhere near as harmful as tobacco products. I’m no doctor or scientist, but having scoured the Internet the objections to e cigarettes don’t seem to be about what they contain, more that they are addictive and that young non smokers may turn to them because of different flavours available including chocolate and cherry.

I can see that point and really can’t see why flavours beyond the normal were introduced, except for profit of course.

Giving Up Smoking

I’ve tried many times and in different ways, the most successful was with nicotine patches but obviously as with over 80% who try to stop smoking with patches or gum they didn’t provide a permanent cessation of my nicotine addiction. Whether electronic cigarettes help me to stop permanently or not I don’t know and won’t for at least another year or two.

What I do know is that with patches you have a constant flow of nicotine into your body, some brands even recommend that you use them 24/7. I never smoked 24/7 and was never comfortable that nicotine was being constantly released into my body. With e cigarettes I have more control over my intake and like patches can gradually reduce the nicotine strength until I am smoking no nicotine vapour.

Healthy Or Not

Do I think that electronic cigarettes are healthier? Absolutely, I feel better in myself and although I’ve only been smoking e ciggies for a couple of weeks even after a short time I have noticed a difference in my breathing. I walk up a long steep hill every day – usually slowly and out of breath. Not now, I walk up there quicker and my breathing is easier.

I lay on my back and slept last night for the first time in years. Usually I lay on my side because the strange noises that my chest was making when I laid on my back not only kept me awake but also was frightening.

I stopped waking up coughing a few days ago.



Money Saving

There are claims of saving 80% of the cost of smoking normal cigarettes. I don’t think that’s strictly true. The initial outlay for a starter kit generally containing an atomiser, 2 batteries, charger and 5 or 6 cartridges can vary from about £20 to £100. Some companies claim that 1 nicotine cartridge is equivalent to 20 cigarettes – others say 6. I am finding that the brand I am using is probably about 10 cigarettes per cartridge.

An additional cost that isn’t mentioned on some of the sites selling e-cigs is that atomisers need changing fairly regularly and that you should have a spare one. Even so I estimate the saving that I am making to be at least 50% in money and perhaps far more in health.

I am not a law breaker, but if my government ban e cigarettes as some countries have I would have to strongly consider breaking the law rather than risk of going back to tobacco and certain deteriorating health.



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