Reducing the number of cigarettes smoked is recognized as an effective way to eventually stop smoking altogether: Smoking reduction with oral nicotine inhalers: double blind, randomised clinical trial of efficacy and safety -- Bolliger et al. 321 (7257): 329 -- bmj.com
"Conclusion: Nicotine inhalers effectivel.y and safely achieved sustained reduction in smoking over 24 months. Reduction with or without nicotine substituti.on may be a feasible first step towards smoking cessation in people not able or not willing to stop abruptly."
Perhaps some subjects in this study would have stopped smoking altogether had the nicotine dose and flavor been under user-contol, as they are with e-cigarettes. A CASAA consumer survey showed that 89.6% of users are older than 25, 50% use high dose nicotine, 80.3% have tried fruit or candy flavors, and 70.1% use them occasionally or more often.
Flavored nicotine gum and lozenges allowed me to cut the number of cigarettes I smoked in half, but not to stop. When I added using an e-cigarette to the NRT, I finally stopped inhaling smoke! I have been smoke-free almost two years now thanks to this invention. When I switched from "
tobacco" to fruit flavors, I lost all taste for smoke. Within a few weeks of going electronic, the wheezing disappeared, along with the productive morning cough. The best part? No 30-pound weight gain like I experienced when I became nicotine-abstinent (under medical care) for six miserable, excruciating months 20 years back.
