Does anyone know anything about this website:
January « 2011 « A Public Participation Forum for the FDA Advisory Committee (TPSAC)
A Public Participation Forum for the FDA Advisory Committee (TPSAC).
I have been looking around on the net to find wesibtes where I can leave comments. Does anyone esle feel that this something worth doing?
Here's the comment that I left:
I was 24 yrs. old when I first started smoking and I began smoking to relieve stress. I smoked a pack a day for the next 25 yrs, made multiple attempts to quit smoking during that time as well. In 2001 my mother died of cancer at the age of 59, that was her second battle with cancer only that time she lost the battle and she smoked until her last day. I still continued to smoke even after watching her lose the battle. I am also a nurse as well, and worked for 5 yrs. as a hospice nurse, so have seen the effects that smoking can have on someone thousands of times, and yet I continued to smoke.
Then the end of February of last year I had a mild heart attack, I knew then that I absolutely had to stop smoking somehow. Over the years Ive tried the gum (left blisters in my mouth), the patch (smoked while using those) and Wellbuterin (side effects left me unable to function). Absolutely refuse to even consider Chantix because of the severe side effects known to happen with that one.
In July of this past year my husband and I happened to see a commercial about electronic cigarettes and decided to give them a try as he also wanted to stop smoking after over 35 yrs. On July 19th our electronic cigarettes arrived, thats the last day I ever smoked a regular cigarette. 2 weeks later my husband had his last regular cigarette, we have not looked back since then.
We both continue to use our electronic cigarettes daily and have no desire to return to smoking regular cigarettes. Our doctor is very supportive of our using electronic cigarettes as he is smart enough and progressive enough to realize that these are much healthier for us than smoking. During the past 6 months I have been able to stop using both of the blood pressure medications I had been on as well as the medication I was on for a rapid pulse rate.
Perhaps if we hadnt been lied to for the past 30 yrs. concerning the safer use of smokeless tobacco products we would have switched over to those and possibly my mother would still be alive as well if she had had a safer alternative to use for nicotine consumption that smoking. Electronic cigarettes offer my husband and I the ability to get the nicotine that we are dependent on and also satisfy the actual hand to mouth habit as well.
Nicotine in the safer form of smokeless tobacco products and electronic cigarettes is no more addictive than caffeine is for those who simply cannot function without that cup of coffee every morning. Yes it is a stimulant and vaso-constrictor and there are some minor cardiac risks but they are hundreds of times safer to use than actually smoking a cigarette. Its past time that the continued lies about smokeless tobacco products being just as dangerous as actually smoking be put to an end. How many more people must die to keep those lies alive?
