why giving up tobbacco is great

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Hi Everyone

When I was on day 3 without tobbacco, on e-cigs, I came accross this article/report, which I found very informative, about the chemicals in cigarettes and their effects. Nobody wants to read this when they smoke cigarettes, but when you have given up, it gives you motivation to know you have stopped polluting yourself (and those around you) with all these chemicals. It also helps you realise why you feel so rough when you stop smoking cigarettes, and how cleverly the tobbacco industry have kept us hooked.

Hope others find it interesting or useful.


Pharmacological and Chemical Effects of Cigarette Additives

 

[jpintaz]

Great info. thanks

 

[WickedSick]

Thank you for the info

 

[Carolina Vapoor]

why giving up tobbacco is great......

While all the other stuff matters my focus was my kids. I can now go outside and play with them for longer than 30 seconds and not be out of breath!

 

[Gramurai]

Thanks for the info! I know not stinking around the kids was the first thing on my mind that has helped me stay away from analogs.. the health benefits are astounding.

 

[Jason McRoy]

Good information! I have heard people talk about the additives in cigarette tobacco but I have never bothered to actually read it myself, probably because I was smoking so much I did not want to.

I switched to American Spirit (marketed as 100% additive free) about a year ago and I still went through withdrawal from the Marlboro cigarettes I smoked prior to that. About 2 months after smoking American Spirits, I tried a friends Marlboro and it was super nasty! There was a definite difference in the taste.

However, I know that the American Spirits still have the same old harmful toxins in them, just from the fact they are cigarettes still.

Either way, in about 2 days I plan to be totally smoke free and just vaping instead. I am so tired of that nasty cough!

-Jason

 

[Accomplice]

I was surprised by the first sentence.

"ACCORDING TO THE WORLD Health Organization, there were approximately 1.3 billion smokers worldwide in 2003, and that number is expected to increase to 1.7 billion by 2020."

I would have expected it to be going down. Guess I'm not the Only Stubborn one!

 

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Yes me too, they were delighted when I gave up cigarettes and although I only smoked in limited areas in the house, vaping removed the guilt that you feel for subjecting kids to tobbacco smells etc and for doing something that could possibly shorten my life.

I also went for my first long walk as a non smoker and couldn't believe the energy I had.It's like I had been suffocated all those years. Its great, I really hope that vaing is the future and cigarettes will become a thing of the past.

 

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yes I had a few days "transition period", while I was using both, while I was waiting for my good e-cig to arrive, but once I found the e-cig that I was happy with (which is skycig at the moment), I found that I actually preferred to have that than smoke the cigarettes, and found the cigarettes nasty to smoke, although the smell of cigarettes if someone is smoking near me, is still an attractive smell.
When I stopped smoking cigarettes I had a few dizzy/weak/feint spells, so decided to look up if this was related to giving up, and that's how I stumbled on this information, and it helped me understand why I was getting "sugar level dips". I didn't know that tobbacco had so many different chemicals and enhancers in, and including glucose itself, and enhancers that stimulate the liver to release insulin into the bloodstream, raising the blood sugar level within 7 seconds of inhaling!! No wonder you feel so crap when you don't use it!!!
On this information I altered my diet to balance my blood sugar levels, and this really sorted this problem out.

Me too - there is NO WAY I would have even looked at this information when I was smoking, in a kind of denial like I didn't want to know the nasty truth!!!! Good luck with the vaping, it great (-:

 

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Yeh - unbelievable. Hopefully not if the vaping has anything to do with it, fingers crossed. Lets just hope that vaping remains far cheaper than smoking so that it has an added incentive - when I smoked tobbacco the health benefits of giving up was just not enough - I don't know why, but it just wasn't.
I also read somewhere that governments will not give vaping the green light because it would put tobbacco industries out of business and there would be so many job losses. It's worrying that the economy is more important than health to them.

 

[DaveP]

The second week I gave up cigarettes, I coughed up stuff from my lungs like I had a cold. That went away and I lost that little hack cough I always had while smoking. It gets better as you go on. You don't smell like burned tobacco all the time, your fingers don't stink, and those little brown edges around your fingernails go away. You eventually gain the ability to breathe in deeper and exhale without wheezing.

There's no downside to replacing smoking with vaping. It's all good.

 

[Gsnuff]

for me its all about no-more-bad-breath!!!

Hi Everyone

When I was on day 3 without tobbacco, on e-cigs, I came accross this article/report, which I found very informative, about the chemicals in cigarettes and their effects. Nobody wants to read this when they smoke cigarettes, but when you have given up, it gives you motivation to know you have stopped polluting yourself (and those around you) with all these chemicals. It also helps you realise why you feel so rough when you stop smoking cigarettes, and how cleverly the tobbacco industry have kept us hooked.

Hope others find it interesting or useful.


Pharmacological and Chemical Effects of Cigarette Additives

 

[Qew]

Thanks very much for the link, I plan to pass it on to a few stubborn friends! (I was very stubborn myself!)

I am on my 21st smoke-free day after decades of smoking, I can't believe how easy it was for me to switch to vaping! I ordered my Volt and still had a few packs of cigarettes on hand when it arrived. Still have 3 packs unopened, maybe I will give them away but feel sort of guilty doing that......

 

[Chrissie]

Thanks very much for the link, I plan to pass it on to a few stubborn friends! (I was very stubborn myself!)

I am on my 21st smoke-free day after decades of smoking, I can't believe how easy it was for me to switch to vaping! I ordered my Volt and still had a few packs of cigarettes on hand when it arrived. Still have 3 packs unopened, maybe I will give them away but feel sort of guilty doing that......

Well done QRXT

 

[thuktun]

I can't wait to start vaping, still researching which route I want to go. And trying to decide on a way to still get nicotine since I'm in Canada.

 

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Great, well done!!! I still had a packet with 3 in and threw them away, in an outdoor street bin, it felt wasteful but liberating at the same time, and made me determined not to ever buy cigarettes again.
Reading the article about all the chemicals and enhancers made me annoyed with the tobbacco companies, they have spent millions on research as to how best to keep us hooked - just one small example, vanilla fragrance triggers a chemical in our brain that reminds us of Mum's home baking, so the emotions linked to that memory are also triggered - comfort, security etc, so it makes it very hard to let go of that - because it's deeply implanted in our memory that the cigarette gives you relief of that wanting. OOOh grrrr there are so many more examples of how they have tricked our brains!!!
At least we know exactly what the nicotine in vapour does, and I've seen on here we only take about 30% of the nicotine through vaping as from cigarettes, so we have also given up nicotine by more than 50% by vaping as well!!

 

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Oh, is nicotine illegal in Canada?

 

[SpyderBite]

for me its all about no-more-bad-breath!!!

Same here! And no more stinky fingers, clothes, etc. On a smoke break at work it would take longer to de-smoke myself (purell, axe/cologne, binaca) than to smoke the stupid cigarette.

Losing the stink was my number one motivator as well. The $$ savings didn't hurt either.

 

[Starrchine]

The smell was my main reason as well - I'd already switched to rolling my own to kick the marlboro habit (which was hard to do) and now I'm day 7 into vaping. I get new flavors in tonight after work - CAN'T WAIT! But, I have a new grandbaby and love that I don't have to go outside when babysitting her - as well as the fact that I work in a hospital and we can't smoke on campus, so I'd have to drive elsewhere over my lunch. Now I don't have to worry about any of that! I wish I'd learned about vaping a long time ago!

 

[billyb1122]

That's crazy that you can't buy nicotine in Canada.
http://www.canadavapes.com/health/canadian-e-cigarette-laws.html