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!!
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!!
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