Posted on 08/26/2013 5:55:35 AM PDT by Olog-hai
E-cigarettes are more dangerous than thought and can cause cancer, the September edition of a French magazine has claimed.
“Electronic cigarettes are far from the harmless gadgets they’re sold as by manufacturers,” wrote monthly magazine “60 Million Consumers” following a study of some 10 reusable and disposable e-cigarette models.
“It’s not a reason to ban them, but to better control them,” said Thomas Laurenceau, chief editor of the magazine, which reports the findings of France’s national consumers' institute (INC).
The INC has relayed its findings to the authorities, Laurenceau told AFP. …
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
yes!!! i forgot to mention that- good exercize makes you not want to smoke too...
My hubby dumped good old snuff via the patches.
He quit the cigs cold turkey.
And no, he wasn’t fun to be around for a while
I quit smoking tobacco cigarettes in February. I smoke low nicotine e-cigs as a substitute. I do not miss cigarettes at all because of the many benefits. My blood pressure which was not really considered high but in the high normal range that has decreased to lower normal and my pulse rate is consistently in the low 70s, whereas when I smoked it was in the mid 80s. Any shortness of breath I may have had is gone.
I quit cold turkey 5 years ago. I watched my friends on the patch. They failed and failed. In the end...it’s discipline.
I know it’ll be hard, a torture, but I’m thinking of quitting not smoking.
That all sounds great in theory, but in reality smokes become such an ingrained part of life the craving never really goes away. Yeah you don’t have the withdrawal symptom, but you have the holes in your life habits, all those times when you would have had a smoke: first thing in the morning, after a meal, driving to work, after an annoying meeting at work, anything bad or annoying in life. I knew a guy that had quit all kinds of stuff, 25 years later the one thing on his list he still wanted every single day was a cig.
You are correct, I am only trying to help people who may not understand that there is a medical reason for what is happening to them when they try to quit smoking.
Once I realized that it was actual WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS, it made it better for me- and many others that I helped to quit.
If you dont know there is a medical reason for what is happening, the insomnia and nervousness that has you crawling the walls is hard to take.
The withdrawal symptoms from different things are different- for me, withdrawal from COFFEE gave me huge headaches, followed by barfing my guts out. For heroin it is actual bodily pain.
This is the same reason they tell you not to STOP taking certain prescriptions without telling your doctor.
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