or "How to Quit Smoking".
With the idea of WTA rattling around the forum the last few weeks some very good ideas came up that perhaps have gotten buried in that long and fruitful thread. If you haven't read the thread it has gotten very long, but worth the read.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/nicotine/44958-so-we-getting-we-not-nicotine.html
It appears PV's have a failure rate of about 25% according to DVap , and perhaps another 25% that struggle to quit smoking (correct me if this is wrong please). It would be a good guess that for those that are struggling the long time failure rate will be on the high side. It's a good bet that a WTA based liquid would have a much higher success rate, but at the moment there is no WTA extract products on the market (and we don't know if there ever will be).
So what to do until we can get some. Perhaps a more pragmatic approach to quitting smoking using all the reduced harm products as needed would have a much higher success rate. The idea has been bantered about a good deal on the forum but now there is some sound science backing up the idea.
The quadrant idea that DVap came up with would be an excellent starting point.
Don't quite know where this thread is going but I thought it might be a good idea to split off from the "Are we getting it thread" to explore ideas of what we can do in the here and now with the information we have. Perhaps a list of common problems that indicates that the purified type nicotine isn't working.
A few things I have observed that you may be missing the full range of alkaloids
Panic attacks
Higher then normal anxiety
Cognitive issues (a long list)
No doubt there are others. Perhaps with the new information on whole tobacco alkaloids we can put together a more effective way for people to quit smoking, and especially those for whom e-cig are not the whole answer.
With the idea of WTA rattling around the forum the last few weeks some very good ideas came up that perhaps have gotten buried in that long and fruitful thread. If you haven't read the thread it has gotten very long, but worth the read.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/nicotine/44958-so-we-getting-we-not-nicotine.html
It appears PV's have a failure rate of about 25% according to DVap , and perhaps another 25% that struggle to quit smoking (correct me if this is wrong please). It would be a good guess that for those that are struggling the long time failure rate will be on the high side. It's a good bet that a WTA based liquid would have a much higher success rate, but at the moment there is no WTA extract products on the market (and we don't know if there ever will be).
So what to do until we can get some. Perhaps a more pragmatic approach to quitting smoking using all the reduced harm products as needed would have a much higher success rate. The idea has been bantered about a good deal on the forum but now there is some sound science backing up the idea.
The quadrant idea that DVap came up with would be an excellent starting point.
We can probably agree that nicotine is psychoactive and also variably addictive. We can also agree that tobacco MAOI's are psychoactive and also variably addictive.
The psychoactive character of both nicotine and MAOI's should be, IMO, considered beyond debate. Both do work in the brain to alter perception in one way or another.
It's the variably addictive character that makes things interesting.
Imagine a two-dimensional graph:
The x-axis represents a person's predisposition toward nicotine addiction, exclusive of any other factor. At the far left of the axis is "low predisposition", at the middle is "moderate predisposition", and at the far right is "high disposition".
The y-axis represents a person's predisposition toward tobacco MAIO addiction. At The bottom of the axis is "low predisposition", at the middle is "moderate predisposition", and at the top is "high disposition".
We could then define 4 quadrants, clockwise from the lower left.
Quadrant 1: Low nicotine predisposition, low MAOI presdispostion.
Quadrant 2: Low nicotine predisposition, high MAOI predisposition.
Quadrant 3: High nicotine predisposition, high MAIO predisposition.
Quadrant 4: High nicotine predisposition, low MAOI predisposition.
Accepting that each person smokes more or less for nicotine and more or less for MAOI's, how might individuals in each quadrant stop smoking tobacco in a most appropriate and satisfactory manner?
Individuals in quadrant 1 might be expected to do well vaping a low to moderate strength e-liquid as an alternate to smoking.
Individuals in quadrant 4 might be expected to do well will vaping a higher strength e-liquid as an alternate to smoking.
Individuals in quadrant 2 might be expected to have a fair deal of trouble with vaping alone as an alternate to smoking. These individuals might find satisfaction with a low to moderate strength e-liquid supplemented by snus.
Individuals in quadrant 3 might be expected to find vaping wholly unsatisfactory as an alternate to smoking. These individuals might find satisfaction with a higher strength e-liquid supplemented by snus.
It should be noted that since snus contains both nicotine and tobacco MAOI's, some individuals may find that they prefer snus to vaping, and quit vaping or smoking entirely. There appears to be a fair deal of anecdotal evidence for this in the snus community.
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Don't quite know where this thread is going but I thought it might be a good idea to split off from the "Are we getting it thread" to explore ideas of what we can do in the here and now with the information we have. Perhaps a list of common problems that indicates that the purified type nicotine isn't working.
A few things I have observed that you may be missing the full range of alkaloids
Panic attacks
Higher then normal anxiety
Cognitive issues (a long list)
No doubt there are others. Perhaps with the new information on whole tobacco alkaloids we can put together a more effective way for people to quit smoking, and especially those for whom e-cig are not the whole answer.
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