Thursday 29 January 2009

Electronic Cigarette Do They Help To Quit Smoking

If you are trying to quit smoking can electronic cigarettes help?

I had to write about electronic cigarettes recently and not really knowing what they were I knew I needed to do some research. I found that not only were they real but that they are actually a phenomenom right now with nigh on five million results returned on Google.

The electronic
cigarette
has been in existence for almost three years and is a clever device aimed at providing smokers with a healthier option. Apparently also useful in helping to reduce and indeed quit smoking altogether.

Now in a fourth generation, electronic cigarettes have become much more user friendly than earlier versions which perhaps were a little too large to encourage a mass market appeal. The "mini"
is the most realistic e cigarette to date with its length of 100mm being the same as a conventional cigarette.

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?

The electronic cigarette can be held and smoked just like any other cigarette, right down to the smoke like vapour and glowing end when drawn. A battery, an atomiser and a renewable nicotine chamber creates this cigarette effect. Cartridges are available in different strengths, which slot into a nicotine chamber.
These allow the smoker, if they so wish to gradually reduce the amount of nicotine they take in and eventually to quit
smoking
altogether if desired.

A nicotine cartridge typically lasts the same time as 15 to 20 cigarettes, thus creating a h
uge saving
to normal costs. Standard, medium, low and no nicotine at all are the various cartridge strengths.

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.
About the author:
As with most new things, controversy seems to follow the electronic cigarette yet smokers seem to be turning to it as an aid to quit smoking.

No comments:

Post a Comment