e cigs, e-cigs

Give A Smoke Free Life To A Friend With Electronic Cigarettes

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:41:31 +0000

If you are searching for a perfect present for someone that smokes cigarettes, the answer could be really simple. If you can not make them give up their nicotine habit all together, giving them an electronic cigarette could be the next best thing. You would still be helping to stop smoking tobacco and use something that will still let them have their nicotine, but they would not be getting a lot of the other harmful things with it. This could be a gift you can give that will not only make the recipient feel good, but yourself as well. You could be giving them something that can truly change their life.

The good things about electronic cigarettes is not just the fact that it will save them money in the long run, but is has other attributes as well. Did you know that an e-cigarette produces no tar when it is used? If you do not smoke yourself or ever have, you might not know the extent of damage the tar alone from a cigarette can cause for the smoker. It is the sticky, brown substance that stains the walls of a house and makes it smell so bad. This is what it also does to the lings of the smoker and of course, if you get close to them, you can not help but know how it makes them smell too.

For the same price that you can buy them a nice new sweater or some other trivial gift that they might not ever even use, you can purchase them an entire electronic cigarette starter kit with everything they will need to be able to get tobacco out of their life. With the e-cigarette there is not tar, no odor, no residue, no real smoke so there is no secondhand smoke either. If you are going to give someone a gift, it might as well be a gift that they will at least try to use.

You have no idea what getting tobacco out of the life of someone that smokes can mean to them. They might be eternally grateful to you for thinking of something that could mean so much to them. There is no telling how badly they might have wanted to stop using tobacco and how many times they might have tried. It is not so easy to give up the nicotine and the habit of holding a cigarette in your hand. What they might be able to do without is the tobacco part of the equation and believe, that is a whole lot better than nothing at all.

Basic Instructions For Electronic Cigarette Use

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:38:40 +0000

Many times when a new user receives their electronic cigarette, whether it is a disposable or a fully equipped starter kit, they might have reservations about how to use it correctly. The starter kits usually come with full instructions on how to use the device correctly and safely, but sometimes the disposables come with limited instructions or no instructions at all. Some e-cigarette websites that sell the disposables are adding user friendly videos tutorials to their sites to show new users how to operate the product. Look for websites that offer these videos for the disposables so you will know exactly how to go about it. Disposables come ready to use, but are only designed to last for a certain lengths of time and a certain estimated number of puffs.

The electronic cigarette starter kits, although still easy to use, require some assembly. Assembly is easy enough for anyone to accomplish because there are only three parts. The e cigarette battery stick, the atomizer and the filter. The battery stick supplies the energy to make the device work, the atomizer is activated by the battery stick and heats the air and nicotine liquid that is in the filter. The only challenge is knowing which part of your electronic cigarette requires some maintenance when it stops working properly. This is easy enough to pinpoint as well since there are only three parts to contend with.

When you battery stick is charged fully, the tip on the end will glow when you inhale on it just as it would with a traditional cigarette that is lit with fire. Only there is no fire involved with the e-cigarette. When you are not inhaling on the device the tip will not glow. When the tip begins to flash when you inhale on it, it means it is time to change your battery stick for a fully charged one. Your starter kit comes with two battery sticks so you can have a freshly charged on at all times. The batteries will need to be replaced from time to time especially if you use your e-cigarette heavily.

The atomizer heats the air and is what makes the nicotine liquid in the filter feel like real smoke. If you r battery stick is working well and you have a fresh nicotine filter in place, but you can not get any vapor to form, then you might be having a problem with your atomizer. Most e-cigarette distributors offer replacement atomizers and it is a good idea to have an extra one on hand. It is also a good tip to place one drop of nicotine liquid on the end of the atomizer when you use refilled nicotine filters. This will help to keep the atomizer from drying out and burning up prematurely. If you have been using a filter all day and can not get any vapor, always try a new one before you automatically assume it is your atomizer gone out.

You can of course, order you nicotine filters pre-filled in packages, but many e-cigarette users prefer to purchase a bottle of nicotine liquid and refill their their used cartridges to save even more money. You simply follow the instructions that come with your bottle of e-liquid and your filters will work just like brand new ones.

E Cigarette Kits Means More For Your Money

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:10:25 +0000

Some tobacco smokers might be a little alarmed when they first see how much it cost to buy an electronic cigarette starter kit. They usually run around one hundred dollars or less for most of them, but you have to consider what you get for the money you spend. The starter kits come with everything you need to use the product and the nicotine filters you get will equal about ten packs of tobacco cigarettes. The nicotine filters alone makes up about fifty dollars of the purchase if you bought ten packs of tobacco cigarettes instead.

The nicotine filters that you use with the electronic cigarette cost about two dollars or so a piece. Each nicotine filter is equivalent to about one pack of tobacco cigarette. This means that you can spend two dollars instead of about five dollars for your nicotine. If you smoke one pack of tobacco cigarettes a day, it will normally cost you about five dollars a pack. It makes much more sense to use one nicotine filter as day and only spend two dollars instead.

When you order an e-cigarette starter kit, you will also receive a charger and two battery sticks. This means that you can have a fresh battery ready all of the time and you should never have to wait to use your device. When one battery runs down, put it on the charger and it will be charging while you are using the second one.

There is a small metal object called an atomizer that also comes with the kit. This piece fits in between the battery stick and the nicotine filter. It is what heats the e-liquid and makes the vapor that tastes and feels like tobacco smoke. The only thing is that there is no real smoke or tobacco. The e-liquid is made up of water, nicotine, flavorings, and a few other chemicals that are thought by most researchers to be relatively safe for users.

So when you consider all that you get for this reusable product, less than one hundred dollars is a pretty good deal. You are able to order new nicotine filters as you need them or you might choose to save your filters and purchase the nicotine liquid and refill them yourself. This can make using the e-cigarette even more economical. Extra battery sticks, atomizer, and even car chargers are available as well. Once you have tried the product, you will likely never want to go back to smoking tobacco. Many smokers have already converted to using the e-cigarette because it is more economical, more convenient, and is thought by many to be a better way to get their nicotine.

Why Is There Controversy About Flavors For Electronic Cigarettes

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:08:47 +0000

For those that are enjoying using their new electronic cigarette, there is something you should consider tat you might like very much. The nicotine liquid that is used in the e-cigarette filters can be purchased in different flavors. Now, in the beginning there was a lot of controversy surrounding this flavor availability because a lot of criticizers were trying to say that they were being targeted at children. This is absolutely ridiculous because there are flavors available in so many other products that are for adults only.

There are so many different flavors of alcoholic beverages available for adults to buy and no one says very much at all about that. Why should those who use an electronic cigarette not be able to have a flavor in their nicotine liquid if they chooses to? We will not even get into the fact that there are also plenty of other adult products like lubricants and things that come in flavors for sexual pleasure. Everyone knows that these products are not for children and they do not say anything about them being targeted at children.

What flavor you are able to get your nicotine liquid in might depend on what brand of electronic cigarette you buy. Some distributors offer more flavor varieties than others. Some of the popular flavors are cherry, apple, strawberry, among others. Of course, you can also get menthol and the the various strengths of nicotine that you like the most. Also a flavor in your vapor liquid might be a great idea for those that use the electronic cigarette filters that have no nicotine in them at all.

Variety is the spice of life, that is for sure. So why not try a little more variety in your electronic cigarette. You can order them one box of five at a time and if you get one that you really like you can stick with that. If you get a flavor that you do not like, give the unused filters to a friend or family to try in their electronic cigarette. They might like the flavor even if you did not. You might not want a flavor like cherry or chocolate all of the time, but you could keep several of your favorite flavors on hand just to use when you feel like it. You will never know what your favorite is until you try a few and find out for yourself.

Replace Tobacco With The Electronic Cigarette

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:36:34 +0000

There is a lot of people that are saying that the electronic cigarette will help you to stop smoking, when in fact the electric cigarette was designed to be a replacement for smoking tobacco. You can give up smoking tobacco if you use your electric cigarette regularly and put the tobacco aside, but no one ever meant that this device would not make you want the nicotine that you are used to, it is simply a different way to get it. The e-cigarette does provide you with the nicotine you crave and it is a much cleaner way to get it.

The e-cigarette does not produce any tar because it is never lit with fire. The nicotine solution is heated by a tiny little heater called an atomizer. The atomizer is powered by a rechargeable battery stick. When air is drawn through that atomizer and warmed it heats the nicotine liquid that the user inhales. It is not real carcinogenic smoke, but a water vapor mixed with the nicotine solution. The vapor evaporates very quickly when it is exhaled and does not produce deadly secondhand smoke for harm others around you.

The purpose of the electric cigarette is to allow you to have your nicotine, mock the act of smoking tobacco, but without a lot of the annoyances that come with tobacco use. There are no ashes to deal with using the e-cigarette. There is no stinky odor to smell up you home or car. Since there is no sticky tar residue involved, it will not stain your skin, clothes, or other items in your home or car.

The nicotine filters you use with the device are almost equivalent to one pack of tobacco cigarettes and on filter should last you all day if you are accustomed to smoking one pack per day. One fully charged battery stick should also last you all day if you use just one filter. You never have to worry about where you can put out your e-cigarette because there is no fire. This also means that there is no risk of burning anything and starting a fire even if you fell asleep with it in your hand. If you drop it in your car while you are driving down the road, there is absolutely no reason to panic like you would if it were a burning tobacco cigarette. You simply let it lie where it landed until you stop and retrieve it.

You can continue to use tobacco cigarettes if you choose to, but it is better if you switch to the electric cigarette completely if you really want to reduce the risks of health damage that is caused by tobacco smoking. Using the electric cigarette does not mean you are giving up your nicotine, you are just changing the way you are getting it.

Parts Of The Body Cigarette Smoking Destroys

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:33:37 +0000

Sometimes cigarette smokers are under the impression that it takes many years for the habit to do any real damage to their bodies, but that simply is not true. Cigarette smoking begins to have detrimental affects on your body as soon as you start doing it regularly. Granted, it might take a lot of years for you to get a serious smoking related disease, but that does not mean that damage is not being done long before that. If you are wondering specifically which parts of the body smoking can affect, that is simple to answer, almost everything.

The damage from smoking cigarettes begins with the mouth, throat, larynx since that is where the smoke goes first. It can cause throat irritation and irritation to the gum. After you have smoked for a while, you might notice that your voice sounds raspier, this is because it is affecting your larynx. Next the smoke goes into the lungs. It can cause excess mucus and narrowing and swelling of the airways. It can cause the lungs to be less able to clear themselves of poisonous substances. You will cough more and after a while wheeze as well. It causes permanent lung damage.

Smokers realize that smoking causes problems with their breathing because this is one of the smoking side effects that they notice the soonest. It does not mean that are things are not being affected as well that they can not feel. The blood can be stickier and carry less oxygen. The blood pressure and the heart rate will many times begin to be affected. This raises the risks for blockages which can lead to strokes and heart attacks. The linings of the arteries can be damaged causing atherosclerosis which is a build up of fatty deposits on the artery walls. This causes poor blood flow.

These are the damages that most smokers might also know can happen to them. The things they might not know anything at all about is are the facts that it can reduce male sperm count and normalcy, reduce female fertility, cause skin wrinkles, early menopause in women, reduce male sex hormones, cause male impotence, contribute to cervix cancer in women, and osteoporosis. The list goes on and on and on. Smoking can affect the unborn baby in pregnant women, it can make it harder to get over colds or the flu. There is no end to the types of cancer you can have develop because of cigarette smoking.

The sad thing is that there is no certain time gage when you will develop disease from smoking. For some people it might be thirty years, for others it could be twenty or even ten. The longer you smoke, the more at risk you become. The good news is the sooner you quit, the better chance there is that your body will heal itself. If you wait until disease has already set in before you quit, you might have already waited to late to reverse any damage.

smoking cessation benefits, Benefits Of Smoking Cessation

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:05:51 +0000

I hate to be the one to tell you the truth on this matter since the whole world has been led to believe that the FDA approved smoking cessation products really work, and when people find out that they do not work, they state that the products do indeed work, but that is an open lie.
The vast majority of the FDA approved smoking cessation products do not work any better than the everyday sugar pill. The national average success rate for FDA approved smoking cessation products range between 2% and 5% depending on what bullshit study they throw at you, but what I want to ask you is, do you know of any other field or industry that has a 2 to 5% success rate that stays in business long? I think not!
So, what is going on in the cessation market that is approved by the FDA and supported strongly by the anti-smoking nazi groups like ASH? Before we get into it, let’s get some basic information straight. The smoking cessation market is a 2.3 billion a year industry for the pharmaceutical companies, that is not millions, but BILLIONS each year they make selling crap that does not work for 98% of smokers trying to kick the habit.
So, how do these products get approved with such a low success rate? Follow the money and you will soon see the monopoly that these companies have created through buying laws to protect their markets.
Once clinical trials are completed (which are corrupt by the way, see this link for more information), the FDA creates and advisory board to decide if the product or drug is going to be approved based on “evidence” from the clinical trials. But who sits on these advisory boards? Surely it would not be people who work for big pharmaceutical companies directly or indirectly, would it? Well, it is. So, in essence, we have the fox guarding the henhouse, and that can in no way be good for the hens, now can it?
Next we have what is called NGO’s, or non-governmental organizations that do research and “studies” to support their activism for policy change(policy change is a fancy way to say, get some laws changed in their favor). These NGO’s are directly started and funded by both the federal government with tax money, and the pharmaceutical companies who benefits from these “policy changes” that they are funded to lobby for.
One pharmaceutical company in particular has a money trail of 99 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to these special interest groups or NGO’s. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has an estimated 700 million worth of stock in Johnson and Johnson, whose products are probably found in your medicine cabinet at this very moment.

The two main points of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations were that “(1) the Foundation encouraged its grantees to be activists; (2) advocacy was emphasized to bring about policy change”, and in their own chilling words, they “provided financial support and, in particular, funds to help lobbying efforts which the Foundation could not support directly.”
So, knowing that if the smoking cessation company itself was to lobby directly, there would be a public outcry, so they fund NGO’s that are run by their people, to create policy change(write new laws) to protect their 2.3 BILLION a year industry.
If you checked the links, it is easy to see that they are just playing you and millions of other smokers for profit, and they do not want a product on the table that works, or they would not lobby for laws that keeps the competition out of the market.
Now, I read a post on hubpages that makes the most sense in the world concerning why most smoking cessation products do not work and why this person thinks that there is a product that does work for most, but the information above is the basis for this product getting a lot of organized resistance from the same groups listed above in the links.

Resisting The Temptation To Smoke

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:19:46 +0000

Boy, it seems like the very minute that you decide to stop smoking tobacco cigarettes is the very time when the cravings seem to double. The thought of quitting will put the cigarettes at the forefront of you mind and it is going to be harder than ever to resist the temptation to light one up. This is where your willpower and determination will have to some into play. You are going to have to be able to resist most of these temptations if you want to be successful in quitting.

There will be suffering associated with quitting. Of that, there is no doubt. You will likely feel like you are wanting one more often since you have decided to start the quitting process. Actually this might not be true. All of the times that present you a temptation to smoke is probably just how often you were smoking before. If you are used to smoking once an hour and you skip an hour, you will think of that cigarette several times during the hour you do not have one. This is where your strength comes in. You must resist, resist, resist. Once you have passed the time you were not supposed to smoke and reached the time you set to have a smoke, go ahead and have it then. Do your best to put it out a puff or two sooner than usual.

There are certain times of the day when you will want to smoke for sure. When you get up, while you drive to work, after you eat and a lot of other times during your day. You have to learn to put off smoking for as long as you can especially during the peak times of your smoking, so to speak. If you can wait at least half an hour to smoke when you wake up in the morning, this is great. It is progress. If you can wait half an hour or an hour to smoke after you eat, this is progress. Not smoking a cigarette right before you go to sleep is progress. Set a time at night when you are going to have the last cigarette of the day and stick to it. It needs to be at least an hour before you lie down and try to make it a little earlier every few night so you continue to make progress.

How fast or how slow you choose to get the tobacco out of your life is up to you. The entire process is not going to be any fun or easy, but you can do it if you make your mind up to do it. Keep up with the number you smoke each day and try to reduce it by one more cigarette everyday if you can and if this pace works for you. Some might be more comfortable cutting out an additional cigarette once every two or three days. As long as you continue to reduce the numbers of smokes and work on waiting to have those smokes for as long as possible, you are making progress and that means you are still on your way to quitting.

American Made E Liquid, Truth Or Lie?

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:05:07 +0000

I get really upset anytime that someone claims to have American made e liquid for the electronic cigarette, mainly because it is either fraud, a lie or a deception.
There is some serious issues with what some are calling American made e-liquid here in the US because it may be mixed here, but every single product that is made and put into this e-liquid is made, produced, manufactured or processed overseas. So in reality, there is no such thing as American made e liquid and it is nothing more than a marketing tactic that is a misleading advertisement to sell something that is in fact not a product of the U.S..
Back in the 1980’s, there was a big media push on made in the USA, and several companies were advertising their products as made in usa, but they failed to mention that usa was a town in Japan. There was a lot of heat on the companies that were doing this, but since then, it has become common practice for the less credible companies in the U.S. ,but when the truth comes out, the people who use them under false assumptions or that have been mislead by these less than admirable companies stop doing business with these companies.
Any chemist can mix the products that are bought in China, but what is scary is that there are a lot of garage chemist that are buying the raw materials and mixing them without any formal schooling, licensing or checks systems to make sure that these garage chemist are not doing things that may hurt the users of the electronic cigarette.
Products that are consumables that are made in China are done in real labs and by formally educated chemist in controlled environments that are conducive to properly run and safe lab procedures.
I am a full supporter of the electronic cigarette, but the people need to get a checkup from the neckup and see this misleading advertising for what it is, and that is misleading advertising. Any legitimate supplier can show you the certificates from the labs and credentials of the chemist and/or companies that produce them if you just ask.

Free Netbook, Free Netbooks

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:57:13 +0000

Can I Really Get A Free Netbook?

With the economy in the state that it’s in today, a large number of people are wondering how they can get things for little or no money and the subject of netbooks and laptops is no different. YourFree[Wii/Playstation 3/Xbox360/Netbook/Laptop/Ipod].com has been around for years, promising a free whatever if you’ll just sign up, complete one of their offers, and then get several other people to do the same thing. But, does the whatever end up being free at the end of the day?

The answer to that is, of course, no. However, the little amount of money that you can spend on getting a free netbook or laptop is negligible considering the actual cost of a brand new item. In most cases, you couldn’t get a used one on eBay for the cost of one from a program like this. You really can get a brand new netbook or laptop really cheap using this method.

So, How Does Getting A Free Netbook It Work?

When you sign up, you will be likely be prompted to fill out some surveys and after you are done with that, you will be asked to complete one of the many trial offers that they have available at that time. Many of these will be 7, 14, or 30 day trials of a product or service, like Gamefly.com, Netflix, etc. When someone signs up for one of these offers, the website owner gets paid for bringing the service or product a new customer, which is often a sum of anywhere from $25 to $100+, depending on the offer. Consider the fact that you have to bring in several other people to complete one of these offers, as well, and you will understand how they can afford to buy you a new netbook or laptop.

But, How Do They Make Money Giving Away Free Netbooks?

Of course they are. No one would go through the trouble to put up a website like that and keep it running long term without making any profit, right? Most of the profit that they make is due to people signing up, completing one offer, then getting a couple of other people to complete an offer, and for some reason, they stop getting others to sign up and they never get their free product.

What Should I Sign Up For To Get A Free Netbook?

You should always sign up for something that interests you. You’d be surprised how many trial offers are products or services that you were considering trying out, anyway. Netflix or Gamefly are prime examples of this.

Can I Cancel The Trial Offer After I Sign Up For It?

I wouldn’t encourage that, since it’s a violation of most terms of service to do so when participating in a program like this. If the website doesn’t get credit for you completing the offer, they’re obviously not going to give you a credit toward getting your free product. If you put your sign up link on a page that encourages people to cancel their offers after receiving credit for them, you could have your account deleted and be unable to have another one.

How Do I Get Others To Sign Up, Too?

Getting others to sign up isn’t as easy as some services might make it out to be, but it can definitely be done. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and a myriad of other social networking sites are good places to try and find people to sign up. Forums are another place, but you need to check their posting rules before leaving a link anywhere. Most companies will not tolerate link spam; that is, going into a forum for the first time, posting your link, and leaving. Your account can be deleted for this.

Can I E-Mail A Bunch Of People My Link?

You can, but it’d better be people that you know personally. Spamming their link out to a load of people you don’t know is a dangerous prospect and this could also get your account deleted.

Is It Really Worth It?

Whether you’re looking to get a free netbook, free laptop, free Nintendo Wii, or whatever you’re looking to get, it will take some time to get what you want and a little money. Nothing in life comes free, but you can get pretty close.