E cigarettes

Go easy on that thing, monitor you dosage or you can end up smoking more when you start again.:-D

I liked the mint one best.

 

I have friends who swear by them, and I have friends who hate them. I have noticed the friends who swear by them use them at least 4x as much as they would have smoked, though, since they don't have to go outside to do it.

 

I don't smoke so I can't give you an opinion on them but I always thought it was a rather interesting concept.

I have read they can be more harmful than cigarettes though. Just go easy on them

 

I'm still trying to figure out how to hack into an e-cigarette. :-D

 

The trouble with them is the amount of nicotine in the liquid isn't regulated (yet, there is already legislation in the works). So for some people it actually is worse in that respect, although it doesn't involve inhaling smoke so it's better that way. I'm leery of them for regular use (my sister gets one every time she flies, where I buy nicotine gum...neither are as "good" as a cigarette for either of us, but they work in a pinch). They haven't been around long enough for the long-term effects to be known yet, whereas I know exactly what I'm in for by smoking.

 

I have a friend that swears by them. He was a heavy smoker in his 60's (I think), and HAD to quit smoking. I don't recall the details of his health problem, but he is doing much better now, and still gets his nicotine buzz via the e-sig.

Yeah, that is what we need:

MMM, tasty gubment approved foods. :-D

 

I surely wasn't saying the pending legislation is infallible, only that currently there can be anywhere from zero to way too much nicotine in the e-cigarette liquid.

 

On the radio here, they say they can regulate the amount of nicotine in the cig? I have no experience with that. Just don't see that as the gubment's roll, especially with past history.

Without getting too HBT, in the past, they raised taxes on smokes to pay for kids health care. And then they want smokers to quit. WTF, smoke for the children! :-D

 

I'm going nowhere near HBT. All I'm saying is that right now you have no way of knowing how much nicotine (or anything else) you're getting in the liquid. That scares me a little.

 

Not arguing with you, but is there a nicotine level rated in regular cigs? Also, when I smoked, it depended on how you much you pulled on the cig and how often for nicotine levels...

You can hot box an ultra light or kick back and barely puff on a full flavor unfiltered cig.

 

There are different levels, but the rules recently changed (nothing is allowed to be called "light" or "ultra light" any more) so I'm not sure what the parameters are any more.

And yeah, you can get around it if you want to. Pull the filter off. Block the holes that are supposed to make you inhale air along with the smoke. Pull harder and hold it in longer.

 

I got Blu e-cig. about 4 months ago. smoked on it for a months or 2, and slowly stopped. been smoke free for almost 2 months now. Was a smoker for almost 15 years b4.
Good luck to u all.

 

Hopefully, you don't end in something like this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18734753

More details here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18738402

 

From Maxwell's first linked article:

Some people's children are just to dang wussy. :-D

Glad to see the e cig is helping some of you quit!:cool

 

Wow Kestrel that is great my doctor recommended d I do the same thing quit with E-cigarettes and I tried them but went back to real smokes

 

Has anyone invented e-gin yet? Surely a market to get us alcohol swiggers off the bottle?
I gave up smoking 44 years ago with no trouble but I do like a drink, or two.

 

I thought nicotine was as safe as caffeine and that it was all the other things in tobacco that cause cancer...such as arsenic and tar.

 

Kestrel13, malware fighter and ecig tester.

Interesting....