E-Cigarettes Help Smokers to Stop Cigarettes
UncategorizedA man in IL had tried all he could to stop smoking cigarettes, but he continued to smoke three packs per day. No drugs or patches helped.
And then he discovered e-cigarettes and he has not touched a real cigarette in more than a year. His wife is thrilled, as he is now in better health and does not have to ask him to brush before kissing him.
An e-cigarette evaporates proylene glycol that contains nicotine, and it is then inhaled just like a tobacco cigarette. It gives the smoker their nicotine fix, but contains no tar, carbon monoxide and thousands of other chemicals that a tobacco cigarette contains that is harmful to health.
Many health agencies and health officials in the US are limiting use of e-cigs just as tobacco cigarettes, and this strikes many observers as foolish. There even has been e-cigarette legislation in IL in the last year attempted that would totally ban e-cigs anywhere tobacco cigs are prohibited. That failed.
Health officials are concerned that they do not understand how e-cigarettes affect human health yet. Propylene glycol and also vegetable glycerin are used in most e-cig liquids. Both chemicals are approved by FDA as food additives and also are used in toothpaste and soap.
Health officials worry that the many flavorings that e-cigarettes contain could be harmful to the lungs and heart.
FDA says that they have found low levels of cancer-causing toxins in some e-cigarette flavorings.
In the UK, the national health agency has actually recommended that smokers use e-cigs to stop smoking, noting that vaporizers are 95% less harmful than cigarettes.
FDA is concerned that e-cig users in the US are accepting e-cigarettes as a safe alternative to cigarettes, when not enough is known about them yet.
But many former smokers say that using e-cigarettes helped them to stop smoking, which we all know is incredibly harmful to human health. And they also say that after a year of not smoking cigarettes, they feel much better, cough less and have much better endurance.