Somebody give me an answer please

[dotma]

So this morning my daughter (who is pregnant and never really listens to anything i say and pregnancy doesnt seem to stop her from using cigs), told me that her cousin said that e cigs are worse for you during pregnancy because they have synthetic nicotine instead of "real" or natural nicotine like an analog. I don't know anything about synthetic nicotine, not sure what to say.

Anybody who knows (because i know this forum is full of brilliant, well informed people), please help me with an answer. Thank you!

 

[Hoosier]

Synthetic nicotine exists, but is horribly expensive. I know it is used for experiments, but I have never seen it used for a consumer product.

Getting it out of tobacco is a well established process and much less expensive. Why would anyone pay 100 of times more for the same thing? How would that marketing campaign even go? (Our juice is really expensive because we use only the best lab built nicotine molecules. One by one built just for you instead of grown in dirt like cheap nicotine.)

 

[dotma]

What do you mean by lab built nicotine molecules?

 

[Hoosier]

What do you mean by lab built nicotine molecules?

Synthetic=lab built molecules Combine ten atoms of carbon, fourteen atoms of hydrogen and two atoms of nitrogen in the right order and you have nicotine.

 

[dotma]

Oh duh, i just realized that the part in parentheses was in jest. Thank you so much for your answer, Hoosier!! I appreciate it!

 

[Hoosier]

Sorry, I tend to do that.

 

[wv2win]

My daughter is an RN Labor & Delivery nurse in a high risk women's and childrens hospital. They encourage their patients who smoke to switch to vaping. She tells me it is definitely the much safer alternative.

Plus, from everything I have read, including verified by the FDA tests done on eliquid in 2009, the nicotine in eliquids is from tobacco, not synthetic. As Hoosier indicated, they are not going to use the synthetic nicotine purely from a cost stand point.

I would suggest you join (and definitely support) CASAA and send them an email asking for documentation that proves your daughter obviously does not know what she is talking about.

 

[thehangdude]

The nicotine is not the worst thing in cigarettes. In fact, there are many reports that say nicotine is good for you (in moderation). I would be more worried about the smoke and all the cancer causing chemicals in cigarettes. They use one chemical to keep the cigarette to burn evenly and one to keep it from smoldering.

I remember when they put the smolder-proof chemical in. It changed the flavor. The government required this chemical to prevent fires from people falling asleep or throwing out butts.

Even with e-cigs the nicotine is not the part that concerns me most. I am more worried about inhaling the heated flavorings.

All this said, even if you have proof positive that e-cigs were good for you, your child would believe her friend over you. Maybe just let her know that the child will be born craving a cigarette. With e-cigs, your daughter can gradually reduce the nicotine so maybe the baby won't have cravings.

 

[dotma]

Thank you all for your assistance! Hangdude, youre right, she would probably still believe friends over me. WV, info from a labor and delivery nurse -- awesome!!

 

[Kemosabe]

good luck! get her some vapor

 

[dotma]

oh i have set her up and she does it exclusively when she is home but when she is out and about with her friends, it all goes down the toilet. Gonna have to try harder!

 

[CrystalClaire]

Kinda reminds me of this:

 

[Sicarius]

Study done on Nicotine Patches.

While the nicotine patch lets at least one of the potentially harmful chemicals found in cigarettes enter a woman's body, Ogburn believes it's still far less harmful than smoking.

"Nicotine is not the most harmful chemical associated with cigarettes, and if you can avoid all the others you are at least giving your baby some protection," says Ogburn, who presented the study at the recent annual meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine in New Orleans.

I'm no doctor, but I am also not too stupid to do the math. If you can avoid the other chemicals then why no at least try ?

 

[dotma]

Crystal -- OMG, priceless!

Sicarius -- I know right? Thats what i was trying to tell her.