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Replace Tobacco With The Electronic Cigarette
Posted on March 7th, 2010 No commentsThere 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.
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Parts Of The Body Cigarette Smoking Destroys
Posted on March 7th, 2010 No commentsSometimes 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.
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Resisting The Temptation To Smoke
Posted on March 7th, 2010 No commentsBoy, 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.




