Stop Smoking Alternatives

Usually if a smoker starts thinking seriously about giving up smoking cigarettes, they can come up with at least few reasons they think are good enough to postpone it for just a little while longer. They might begin to have symptoms of an anxiety attack just from thinking about it. It will likely be enough to make them jump up and light one. It might sound silly to non-smokers, but there are not many things in life that are harder for a smoker to give up than cigarettes. It is not even the fact that they really want them, it is because they can not stop. At least not on their own.

This is a misconception however. Smokers can stop on their own if they want it bad enough. Now, there are other harder drugs, like heroine, that really do require intervention because there can be serious physical side effects that an addict can go through. They can even be life threatening if they stop using this drug without help and supervision. This is no so when it comes to giving up nicotine. There is not likely to be any physical side effects that a smoker can not handle on their own. The emotional side effects can be the part that is so difficult to deal with.

The anxiety, the nervousness, and irritability are the most common emotional issues they have to face. Usually even these symptoms will only last for a week or less. When the nicotine is purged from their system, even these problems can subside somewhat. The first several days to a week is the most crucial when a person is trying to stop smoking. It can be very difficult to make it through this period without a cigarette, but if they can get that far, they stand a fighting chance.

Of course, there are many stop smoking aids that are supposed to help a person quit, but many times they only work as long as the person is using them. Many of them still supply the smoker with nicotine and as long as the body is receiving nicotine, it will continue to crave it. It is probably better for most that want to quit is to go ahead and just tough it out through those first bad days and get it over with. At least a lot of people think so. It is the emotional ties to smoking that will be the roughest to give up. It is always recommended that you discuss with your doctor the fact that you really want to stop smoking. He or she will be able to advise you whether or not you might be able to stop on your own or if you might need some help. It might not be drugs that you will need, but your individual help could come in the form of a support group or just a few regular doctor visits temporarily so your progress can be monitored.

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Used by permission from the commenter: The following was a comment on a blog post that was slamming e cigarettes, smokers in general and just being plain out assholes to smokers when they bear the burden in life and money for their actions. Maybe it is time for the smokers and ones trying to quit to stand up and tell them “ENOUGH”~ Admin

“E-Cigarettes Will Revolutionize The Face Of Tobacco Smoking And Could Pose A Threat To the Smoking Cessation Market”

This is why there is a lot of flak an media spin to get the anti-smoking Nazi’s feathers ruffled. And yes, the anti smoking system is modeled after Hitler in the NAZI regime. Look it up.

Now, back to the quoted title, it was a title of a topic for a major pharma company board meeting early this year. They have donated 99 MILLION dollars to fund the anti smoking fundies and their main agenda is, and I quote “(1) the Foundation encouraged its grantees to be activists; (2) advocacy was emphasized to bring about policy change”, and in their own chilling words, they “provided financial support and, in particular, funds to help lobbying efforts which the Foundation could not support directly.”

So, all of you hitler followers need to educate yourself and see what road you are heading down with your self rightous attitudes. Our government protects big tobacco and the pharma companies to protect their profits and taxes, they sin tax the smokers, but keep it legal.

Pharma has lobbyist full time in washington to protect their interest, which is a 2.3 billion dollar a year cessation market for trash products that work on less than 2% of people who try to quit.I had spent thousands trying to quit over a 20 year out of 25 year smoking habit, so any moron that says I was not serious is insane.

Do you think that 2.3 billion a year is commitement to quit by more than a handfull of smokers?You people do not think past the end of your noses. I quit after 25 years with the e cigarette, my mom quit after 45 years with them, and there have been a total of six now that I have given them to that have quit using them.

Next, there are health studies on the nicotine, what is absorbed and the likes. First off, there is 1/10th to 1/20 the amount of nicotine in an e cigarette compared to a regular tobacco cigarette. Over 98% of the nicotine is absorbed in the throat, the rest in the lung, and only a trace amount is exhaled, so nobody else is getting any, so that boat dosen’t float.

There is a reason that the pharma companies are scared, because they know it works. Don’t be stupid and try to help stop the one chance that smokers have to get large numbers to quit forever.

Politicians and health officials in the United States want to ban products known as e-cigarettes, without submitting any proof that they are unsafe. While e-cigarette manufacturers have submitted their products for testing to laboratories who have released studies stating that the products are safe and healthier than tobacco cigarettes, health organizations blast the studies as biased due to who funded the studies.

E-cigarette studies released in the United Kingdom and in New Zealand state that e-cigarettes are safer than tobacco cigarettes by 100 times. Tobacco cigarettes emit over 4,800 chemicals (including arsenic, formaldehyde, and many others), according to the CDC, and e-cigarette mist contains none of that.

Further, studies have concluded that bystanders do not have to worry about being exposed to secondhand mist, due to the fact that the mist dissipates within seconds after it is exhaled. It does not hang in the air like smoke does because of its low temperature and weight. Heat rises and unless the mist is exhaled upwards, it does not stay at the person’s breathing level; it sinks. In fact, e-cigarettes only emit 10% of the heat tobacco cigarettes do and when they are not being puffed on, they do not heat up at all.

Aside from e-cigarettes being better for the body than tobacco cigarettes, they also pose no fire hazard, since they do not combust tobacco and are not on fire. An e-smoker can put their e-cigarette down anywhere they want to without concern that it will burn the surface or themselves. Store it in a shirt or jacket pocket like a pen and take it out as wanted. It’s ready to use, but not difficult to put down, unlike tobacco cigarettes that require ash trays and other proper places to dispose of them. Why smoke an entire tobacco cigarette when you can take a puff off an e-cigarette and put it away? Nicotine is absorbed into the body faster through e-cigarette mist, so the craving for the nicotine is killed much faster. No commitment to smoking an entire cigarette just because you don’t want to waste it and odds are, you’ll end up smoking LESS!

While many e-cigarette manufacturers have put their products to the test, the FDA and other organizations still have not performed their own studies on the products, despite the products’ availability and having had ample time to research the products on their own. Smokers are waiting for them to step up to the plate.

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The FDA estimates that close to 100,000 e-cigarettes have been sold in the United States, despite the organizations attempt to bar the products entries into the country via U.S. Customs. Organizations such as the American Legacy Foundation are also bent on pulling the products off the market for illogical and outrageous reasons, including the accusation that the products are being marketed toward children due to the fact that the cartridges are available in many flavors.

The accusations that the products are being marketed toward minors is completely baseless considering the fact that most e-cigarette sales are made online and it is rare for websites to accept checks or money orders as forms of payment these days. PayPal requires that a user be 18 to create an account and to become verified, they must have a bank account tied to it. So, two hurdles that require a person be 18 would have to be overtaken by children who have much easier access to tobacco cigarettes.

Another misconception that organizations like the American Legacy Foundation have is that adults do not have tastebuds. Most adults will tell you that they like fruit flavors just as much as children do, so the flavors = intended for children argument loses validity there.

Some organizations are convinced that it could draw children into the habit of smoking, but e-cigarette kits run anywhere from $50 to $150, depending on the brand purchased. Tobacco cigarettes are only $5 a pack and it is more feasible for children to get their hands on grandpas $5 smokes than Mom’s $150 e-cigarette.

Then there is the supposed risk of nicotine poisoning. E-cigarette cartridges are no more likely to cause nicotine poisoning than tobacco cigarettes and it has been noted on numerous medical websites that children go to the emergency room all the time because they ate cigarettes or cigarette butts. Consumers are being warned by many e-cigarette manufacturers to keep cartridges out of the reach of children and pets, just like they are warned to keep cigarettes out of reach. There is no elevated risk of nicotine poisoning, either for the user or for children and pets.

Even concerns about inhaling nicotine have surfaced, even though nicotine has been inhaled in cigarettes for centuries and through inhalators that have been on the market since the 1990s. The safety of nicotine inhalers has not been questioned to the extent that e-cigarettes has.

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