Great News from a "Powerhouse”, for e-cigs (and me too!)

[redrose]

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City is supporting me and e-cigarettes!
A little background first. Last year, by a seemingly cosmic coming together of extraordinary circumstances, a primary lymphoma was found where it shouldn’t have been by an amazing radiologist. Living close enough to New York City, I called Memorial Sloan Kettering. They treated me, and believed I was cured, just had to have yearly scans.
This year’s scan showed an enlargement at the base of my tongue, and after a head neck specialist determined it was nothing serious, he began the discussion of the importance of stopping smoking. I took out my e-cig, explained it to him and he got so excited! He asked lots of questions, told me he would suggest it to the doctors that smoked and asked if I would speak to the Smoking Cessation department about it. Of course I agreed.
I got a call from them today. They have starting researching it and they visited this forum! (Hi!) They told me they would love for it to have FDA approval and are looking into it. In the interim, they fully support my using the e-cigs to cut down on cigarettes and would like to follow my progress. They would like to see this become an approved method of smoking cessation and would like to monitor me, first to see if I will stop smoking analogs, then a slow, gradual decrease of nicotine strengths, and then later to see if I would be willing to set a "stop vaping" date. I am very excited and encouraged by their interest. They are a “powerhouse” and trust me, when they speak; those who we need hear us, listen. So keep up the good fight by all means suggested, and know there are powerful forces with us!
For anyone unfamiliar with Memorial Sloan Kettering, look here
Sloan-Kettering - About Us

ETA: Surprisingly, they were most concerned that I was getting enough nicotine with the liquid because the main reason nicotine replacement methods fail is because people do not get enough nicotine in standard replacement therapy to be effective!!

[jiuyueguizi]

glad to hear this good news of your better health and e-cig...

[Caesarea]

Well done, Redrose,

Hope they also realise that some heavy, very long-term smokers like me, with NO intention of giving up have accidentally given up from the first day of vaping. And do not want to go back to smoking.

Please ask them to really take that on board, and then surely they will do all they can to prevent the reversal of this excellent harm reduction.

Thanks and well done again.

[JamesD]

Well done, Redrose,

Hope they also realise that some heavy, very long-term smokers like me, with NO intention of giving up have accidentally given up from the first day of vaping. And do not want to go back to smoking.

Please ask them to really take that on board, and then surely they will do all they can to prevent the reversal of this excellent harm reduction.

Thanks and well done again.

Boy, Caesarea, you're right that some of us long-term die hard smokers started esmoking because we had no intention of quitting analogs--so we took up esmoking b/c it was a way of "smoking" when we couldn't fire up our analogs. After some period of time (a year for me), we simply found we preferred vape over smoke. We quit analogs w/o trying!

I know this is my story.

Right before the holidays, my wife and I went to an upscale cigar bar (the only restaurant in our town where you can still smoke). She's one of those "social smokers," and that's the only place she EVER smokes, which is like once a quarter. I lit one up and realized it had been about 3 days since I had an analog. It tasted gross. I pulled out my Janty Kissbox and vaped away with my martini. Got some weird looks from the waitstaff/cigarette/cigar smokers, but I've never looked back. Still have 4 unused packs of cigarettes and a whole carton of Swisher Sweet Little Cigars just sitting there. 5 1/2months now!

JamesD

[Caesarea]

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Still have 4 unused packs of cigarettes and a whole carton of Swisher Sweet Little Cigars just sitting there. 5 1/2months now!

JamesD

Yep I have 400 cigarettes just sitting there, plus the pack I had opened on March 6th. I haven't thrown them away or given them away, despite the disgusting taste of the last puff I took on 7 March and despite the massive health improvements I have had since then.

First I have to hear officially that I won't have to go back to them. They will sit there till then, I'm afraid.

[ladylost]

Great news redrose, for both you and the e-cig! I hope your health continues to improve!
I started with the e-cig a little over a week ago. I did have the intention of quitting analogs when I bought the e-cig, but figured I would wean myself off over a month or so. It took under a week, and in the past week, I was only smoking about 3-5 analogs a day. I couldn't be happier with how quickly it worked for me and I tell everyone that I know that smokes about it. I've converted one other person so far and many others really looking into it. I've tried everything to quit in the past 5 years, nothing worked.
Kudos to Sloan Kettering for taking notice!

[TropicalBob]

Great news, Redrose. It's terrific to have a prestigious institution interested in e-cigs. Do offer them a cartridge or liquid or whatever they need for any internal testing on e-smoking's components. I'm almost certain these will need FDA approval before Sloan Kettering would recommend them to smokers, but testing could show their safety to the institute. That would be an important step toward legitimacy.

[puff-puff-pass]

Great news, Redrose. It's terrific to have a prestigious institution interested in e-cigs. Do offer them a cartridge or liquid or whatever they need for any internal testing on e-smoking's components. I'm almost certain these will need FDA approval before Sloan Kettering would recommend them to smokers, but testing could show their safety to the institute. That would be an important step toward legitimacy.

Excellent suggestion Tbob.

Rose..I am sure you can find a vendor or 2 that will provide some hardware and juice for them. Heck...the vendor can even write it off as marketing and research.

[MonkeyMonk]

Great news RedRose! Thanks!!!

[runninlater]

Wow that's fantastic news. Good for you Redrose!!!

I started e-cigs 3.5 weeks ago and I've been totally analog free now for 5 days.

It was a little brutal the first two weeks but it got easier and easier to not light up as each day went by.

I agree with their concern on not getting enough nicotine to quit. I finally took the advice of others on this forum and bought some 32mg liquid. When I was really hurting for a cig I would vape some 32mg and that would ease the "pain."

The urge to smoke has subsided to an occassional thought as I merrily vape away!

I have been smoking for 34 years. For the last 8 years or so I smoked an average of 2.5 packs a day. That's a heavy smoker!

Here's vaping to your health Redrose!