Sunday, October 19, 2008

Can Electronic Cigarettes Help You Quit Smoking?

By Donnie Taberthino

Can electronic cigarettes help you quit smoking and what are they anyway?

Recently when I was asked to write about electronic cigarettes, I must confess I didnt even know what they were! It was interesting to do some research and find out that they are hugely popular at the moment. There were millions of results when i searched for electronic cigarettes on Google.

Many electronic cigarette distributers claim that this interesting item can both allow smokers to smoke much more healthily and also serve as an aid to help stop smoking altogether. They have been on the market for about three years already.

Electronic cigarettes are now in their fourth generation and have become much less cumbersome than some of the earlier ones. Now much smaller and far more user friendly, the mini is the most realistic e cigarette. Just like a conventional cigarette the length of the mini is 100mm.

An electronic cigarette contains a taste of tobacco but none of the harmful substances found in normal cigarettes allowing smokers cravings to be satisfied without inhaling the many dangerous toxins. Is it all smoke and mirrors? Or can this item really be the saviour it wants to be?

A renewable nicotine chamber allows the user to choose between different strengths of nicotine cartridge, so if desired they can incrementaly reduce the amount of nicotine they are absorbing. A smoke like vapour and glowing end when drawn add an extra dose of authenticity to the smoking experience. The battery and internal atomiser helping to produce this effect.

Distributrs of these electronic cigarettes have worked out that a typical nicotine cartridge can last as long as fifteen or twenty normal cigarettes would. This is an estimated 80 per cent saving on usual costs of smoking.

Appearing to be a much healthier alternative at least on the surface, dig a little deeper and more benefits seem reveal themselves. Smoking legally in public being one. As there are no known harmful substances being emitted from the electronic cigarette it does not fall into the same legal trappings of normal cigarettes. Smokers could remain in their warm office, restaurant or pub and smoke their electronic cigarette.

Social benefits can be found also as non smoking friends can remain present while the electronic cigarette is being smoked by their companions.

Upon reflection the electronic cigarette is a healthier, cheaper and environmentally friendly alternative to smoking and as the awareness and the market grows they have great potential to successfully replace the harmful cigarettes we have all come to know and many of us have come to dread and fear.

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