Electronic cigarettes may offer an alternative for smokers

While electronic cigarettes may be a long-term alternative to the real thing for some smokers, Penn State College of Medicine researchers suggest medical providers should continue to encourage more traditional smoking cessation methods.
The study found that 78 percent of long-term users were no longer using tobacco and planned on using their e-cig instead. Interestingly, only 8 percent were using the most widely marketed style of cigarette-shaped e-cigs. Most had learned that these do not deliver adequate nicotine and had used online forums and personal experience to find out which types of e-cigs deliver a satisfying effect capable of keeping them off real cigarettes, the researchers reported in a recent issue of the International Journal of Clinical Practice.

The researchers investigated this growing phenomenon through a survey of 104 long-term e-cigarette users. E-cigs typically consist of a cigarette-shaped device with a battery, a heating element and a cartridge containing propylene glycol and nicotine. Users puff on the mouthpiece to activate a circuit that heats the atomizer and produces a vapor. The users then inhale. Produced by C Roy Parker

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[julie27278]

How anyone can refer to Chantix as "safe" is beyond me. Frankly, I think it's almost criminal the way health care professionals are pushing a drug that is linked to such serious side effects (although I hesitate to call death a "side effect"). And, even more inexplicably, they denounce e-cigarettes, which have not been linked to any serious adverse health events.

Almost 3 years smoke-free thanks to e-cigarettes.

[LandlordRusty]

Ecigs are recreational nicotine with a reduced harm profile. They WORK.! If you want to stop smoking but need your nicotine, they are the best thing out there. If you want to quit nicotine, use will power :) 

[imaginewhatyoucando]

I smoked 3 packs of cigarettes a day for over 40 years...my sister recently died of copd and Christmas I almost died I have had copd for over 20 years...a friend told me about the Joye egoC ecig...I purchased it and immediately i was better no coughing up handfuls of phlem...completely quit regular cigs and just vape on my ecig. This was the only way for me to quit...believe me I tried all the other ways and failed!

[AfflictedEvents]

I lol'd at this video and the idiot that made it. Yeah, let's everyone get on Chantix or even the nicotine patch and risk the side effects or even death over an e-cig? Are you f'n kidding me? This guy must getting paid off from the prescription companies or under the table from the FDA.

[mageac]

@JVDnh3 i agree the 510 is perfect for most people, i personally moved onto the ego, because its more customizable

[AABigPapa]

I did not start using the electronic cigarette to stop my nicotine input I started to use them as an alternative to cigarettes. On any website I purchase my E-Cigs, Mods and juices none claim that it is a way to stop smoking. It is an alternative that has worked for over eight months now and I plan on continuing to use them. I feel much better and they do not stink up the house or my vehicles. I had smoked for 35 years one E-Cig and I never went back to Cigarettes. They miss my tax dollars!

[mb2ttu]

I've now been using one of the "larger" battery e-cigarettes for a month, having ditched one like the model shown in the video. Tried 4 times quitting cold turkey before that. I have not smoked in over a month! E-cigarettes are amazing, it's a shame he was not more favorable towards them. After the evidence he gathered it makes me wonder who paid for his research. Surely he wouldn't prove them effective then not endorse them if his research funds weren't on the line?

[JVDnh3]

I recommend the joye510.

[74orangebeetle]

I have an even better alternative for smokers. It's called "not smoking." The best part about not smoking is that it's free!

[x78340]

@AjStylesTNACR7 lol

[MegaVelvetElvis]

As the first study of it's kind, I addressed some criticism toward the researcher for not citing power consumption in terms of watts. Addressing the relative safety of these devices depends on researchers collecting this data, and experimenting with it. The battery size isn't going to tell me the popularity of 1.8% @ 4.5 watts vs .9% @ 9 watts, and future researchers need to know this trend.

[upStomp]

So this researcher completes a great study, and draws the exact wrong conclusion.

"Bigger batteries are much more effective than smaller ones, so health professionals should continue pushing the patch."