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Did I Quit Smoking Or Not?
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Published on January 17, 2013
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I quit smoking cigarettes about 8 months ago. But I still smoke. How can I do that, you ask? Well, I started smoking an ecigarette or as some people refer to them ecigs. I call it my puffer. My husband has been using them for about 3 years now. People ask, "isn't that still smoking? I say yes, because the electronic cigarette uses a mixture of nicotine, flavoring and propylene glycol or vegetable glycerin.
You lose all the harmful chemical additives that are added into tabacco products. A Chinese pharmacist invented the first version of the electronic cigarette. A small battery heats a coil and turns the liquid into a mist that you inhale.
There have been no long term studies done on them yet. But I feel that if you have to choose, I would choose to smoke something with less chemicals. I am not as chained to smoking as my husband was. I use my puffer more casually than he does. I can leave the house without it and be fine. He totes his around the house where ever he goes.
But he is smoking a liquid with only 6 mg of nicotine, while I puff 18 mg of nicotine. Maybe that's why he puffs more than I do.
The cost of our smoking electronic cigarettes is about one fourth of our previous costs for tobacco products. But as new models and new e-juice comes on the market, we some times spend to experiment. Not all e-cigs are created equal.
And you have to watch out for a couple companies out there that offer those monthly deals, they will steal you blind. Ordering offline and ordering your own juice is way cheaper but a little more work.
And of course, so many people have quit buying cigarettes, big business and the government is noticing a difference in sales and tax profits, that they are now trying to ban them here in the U.S.
They have already been banned in New York.
They say its because they have not been studied enough, that drug users could possibly find a way to use them, Like banning something is going to stop a drug dealer already breaking the law.
I think the loss of tax money( over half the price of cigarettes is tax money) Last I checked pre-taxed price of a pack of cigarette was $1.89. The rest is tax.) And the loss of sales for the big tobacco companies is starting to hurt.
Anyway I say I am still smoking, but done tell my insurance company okay.
You lose all the harmful chemical additives that are added into tabacco products. A Chinese pharmacist invented the first version of the electronic cigarette. A small battery heats a coil and turns the liquid into a mist that you inhale.
There have been no long term studies done on them yet. But I feel that if you have to choose, I would choose to smoke something with less chemicals. I am not as chained to smoking as my husband was. I use my puffer more casually than he does. I can leave the house without it and be fine. He totes his around the house where ever he goes.
But he is smoking a liquid with only 6 mg of nicotine, while I puff 18 mg of nicotine. Maybe that's why he puffs more than I do.
The cost of our smoking electronic cigarettes is about one fourth of our previous costs for tobacco products. But as new models and new e-juice comes on the market, we some times spend to experiment. Not all e-cigs are created equal.
And you have to watch out for a couple companies out there that offer those monthly deals, they will steal you blind. Ordering offline and ordering your own juice is way cheaper but a little more work.
And of course, so many people have quit buying cigarettes, big business and the government is noticing a difference in sales and tax profits, that they are now trying to ban them here in the U.S.
They have already been banned in New York.
They say its because they have not been studied enough, that drug users could possibly find a way to use them, Like banning something is going to stop a drug dealer already breaking the law.
I think the loss of tax money( over half the price of cigarettes is tax money) Last I checked pre-taxed price of a pack of cigarette was $1.89. The rest is tax.) And the loss of sales for the big tobacco companies is starting to hurt.
Anyway I say I am still smoking, but done tell my insurance company okay.
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