E-Cigarettes Give Poor Delivery Of Drug Smokers Crave

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E-Cigarettes Give Poor Delivery Of Drug Smokers Crave - Courant.com

Stop-Smoking Diary: Back And Forth Between E-Cig To Real Cig - Courant.com

[martha1014]

IMO they do deliver what is needed. I smoked 3 packs a day for 40 years and have been smoke free for 11 months. The only time I ever did without cigarettes was when I was in the hospital and then I had a patch to wear. I was never able to go more than one day without cigarettes. I thought I would never be able to quit cigarettes. I loved them more than life.

But I did quit and I find it amazing. Just read the forum. There are thousands of people who quit.

[BlueBloodedCatFan]

The Stop Smoking Diary sounds exactly like the experience I had.

[TropicalBob]

I'm like Jesse. No e-cig/liquid combination satisfies like a cigarette. I don't blame it on inadequate nicotine in my liquid and/or carts, not when 48mg is used. It's the other addictive alkaloids that are missing. Jesse finds them in the occasional cigarette; I get them from using snus and dissolvables at the same time I vape.

Given a chance, e-cigs will evolve and improve and find a combination that closely mimics the smoking experience. What a shame it would be to throw this baby out in the anti-bathwater. The promise is there, but the goal has not been reached. Jesse will continue to fret and feel the need for real tobacco and its alkaloids.

[ChipCurtis]

The thing that constantly amazes me about the e-cig is how it (finally) address the other issues about smoking habits that have been blatantly ignored since C. Everett Koop claimed that nicotine should be seen and thus regulated as a drug back in the late 80s, and the parallel staunch anti-smoking movement that it inspired.

I've claimed for years, at the incredulity of my best friends and colleagues, that my smoking habit was based more on the enjoyment of smoking than on nicotine addiction; not withstanding that nicotine is in fact addictive, it doesn't necessarily have to be the thing that's keeping one primarily attached to cigarettes in the way that they are. I've been in situations where I've had to give up smoking for months at a time, and I've never experience nicotine withdrawal to the extent that I see it in other people.

The e-cig is the first alternative smoking system that actually proves my stance. All of us are addicted to cigs for different reasons, or a combination of different reasons. That could include just nicotine craving, or craving for other chemicals added into the cigarette tobacco, or craving for other tobacco-based nitrosamines. Yet, sometimes the result shows up that it's just someone who was mentally addicted to the act of smoking.

[River]

What is the reporter from the first piece smoking?



"So which stop-smoking methods are most effective?

• Chantix, a prescribed medication that blocks nicotine receptors in the brain, has the highest success rate at 44 percent, Lerman said. Those who use Chantix and receive counseling can boost their chances of success by up to 10 percent, she said.

•Nicotine inhalers, another doctor-prescribed method, have about a 22 percent success rate, compared with 8 percent for a placebo.

•Zyban, a prescribed medication, initially was developed as an anti-depressant (Wellbutrin). For smoking cessation, it has about a 30 percent success rate.

•Nicotine gum, about 23 percent.

•The patch, 17 percent."

Let's just report the week 4 results as if the are the final results.

44% for chantix??? is that including or excluding the death toll???

If you are really interested in switching you will eventually get off whatever crappy beginner e-cig you bought because you don't know any better and after a bit more research move on to one that works for your individual habit better.

[St_Francisco]

IMO, you have to want to quit smoking when you come over to e-cigs. People think it'll be easy...it's never easy to get off cigarettes. But e-cigs are the easiest way to do it, I have no doubts about that. Still, it does require some willpower.

[HighHeeledGoddess]

It was not easy to switch to e-cigarettes. I was a royal %^(#& for 2 weeks. My husband was pleading, "Please, have a cigarette. Not for me, Honey, but for the other people I am afraid you may physically harm...."

I made my PV work for me in spite of it. Now that I have been off cigarettes for the most part since Sept, when I do have the odd one I do not like it or find it fulfilling in the least.

Eventually I'm going to cut out the nicotine, but I am scared I'll gain weight, so I am taking my time before beginning that task.

I smoked heavily for 11 years, and am now what I thought I'd never be - a non-smoker, thanks to my PVs.

[ChipCurtis]

IMO, you have to want to quit smoking when you come over to e-cigs. People think it'll be easy...it's never easy to get off cigarettes. But e-cigs are the easiest way to do it, I have no doubts about that. Still, it does require some willpower.

See my comments a couple of posts above. People are addicted to cigs for a number of different and overlapping reasons. Totally unexpected success stories abound on this forum, from people who had no intention to quit, but were gadget freaks or just wanted to check e-cigs out of curiosity. Many quit after their first day with the e-cig (including me). So depending on what was the nature of your cig addiction, the e-cig has shown amazing reults to the magnitude of 40+ years "hopelessly addicted" cig smokers, with no intention to quit, suddenly quitting on their first day of e-cigs. after 40+ years of relentless daily smoking.

I'm not a particularly impressionable person, but those results speak for themselves.

[Princessdee]

I have to agree with Chip.

I bought my first e-cig when the tax increase hit last Spring. I hoped to cut in half my 3 pack a day habit to save some money.

A bit later, I realized I hadn't had a cigarette in 3 days. The open packs were lying all over the house, so it wasn't like I even hid them from myself.

I was a stanch smoker and every time an anti commercial came on I lit one up "just because they wanted me not to" No one was going to heavy-handed force me to do something I didn't want to.