Electronic Cigarettes Can Help Smokers Quit
It looks like a cigarette and feels like a cigarette, but it’s not a conventional tobacco cigarette. Electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes simulate the smoking experience without the stench, expense and health problems of tobacco products. The electronic devices can be integrated into a smoker’s stop-smoking program. Many smokers have successfully stopped smoking tobacco with these devices.
What are E-Cigarettes?
These are small, cigar-shaped wands run by lithium batteries, which often can be recharged. Inside the chamber are a vaporization unit and a disposable nicotine cartridge. The nicotine is the addictive chemical in tobacco that gets smokers hooked. An e-cigarette releases nicotine water vapor into a smoker’s mouth, simulating the effect of smoking and delivering needed nicotine without also releasing tobacco smoke.
Nicotine cartridges are made with varying concentrations of nicotine. Over time, a smoker is supposed to use less and less concentrated nicotine until they do not need any at all. A smoker still needs will power and a support network of friends and family to quit, but having a substitute cigarette can help smokers that repeated fall off the wagon after failed attempts to go cold turkey.
Taste Sensations
Not many smokers become addicted to cigarettes because of the tobacco taste. But taste can be used in e-cigarettes to encourage a smoker to quit. Liquid nicotine cartridges come in many different flavors, including cappuccino, spearmint and cola. Comforting flavors can help stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain and help a smoker to reach for an e-cigarette rather than a tobacco cigarette.
February 17, 2012 at 6:07 pm Comments (0)