Electronic Cigarettes, Can They Help You Stop Smoking?
Written by Donnie Taberthino on April 28th, 2009If 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.
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.
Containing a taste of tobacco and apparently none of the harmful substances and chemicals found in standard cigarettes, they allow smokers to satisfy their cravings without taking in all those toxins. Is this too good to be true or can the electronic cigarette really deliver on its claims?
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. Eventually quitting altogether if desired.
A nicotine cartridge typically lasts the same time as 15 to 20 cigarettes, thus creating a huge saving to normal costs. Standard, medium, low and no nicotine at all are the various cartridge strengths.
A healthier option altogether it seems, though the benefits don’t end there. Due to the electronic cigarette not emitting any known dangerous substances, toxins or real smoke for that matter, they are perfectly legal to smoke in public. In winter in particular, normal cigarette smokers have to brave the freezing cold and the rain just for a quick smoking break but this alternative will allow them to stay in their offices, restaurants and pubs.
There are benefits for none smokers too as their smoking friends smoke an apparently much safer cigarette.
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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