carped
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People who smoke traditional cigarettes might find electronic cigarettes very helpful if it were much safer, and especially if they had advantages above and beyond the drastic reduction of health risks. Many of us who smoke cigarettes, and those of us who used to smoke cigarettes, know that smoking can be a rather enjoyable activity. Just as cigar and tobacco pipe users enjoy their forms of smoking, many of us have known the joy of smoking a cigarette with our friends while we are out on the town or on a nice cool night after a hard day’s work. I know that for many years smoking was my guilty pleasure. Although I enjoyed it, I was filled with guilt wondering how many more cigarettes it would take before I found my self bed ridden in a hospital awaiting a life threatening surgery on my lungs. It was very difficult to quit but after many setbacks I managed to do it. Although I had overcome my nicotine addiction I still felt like something was missing so I decided to learn more about electronic cigarettes since they were becoming more and more popular everyday. I did my research about the health risks involved and found that they were practically none. The only thing that was remotely harmful about the “e-cig juice” was that it contains nicotine. Nicotine is not the substance in regular cigarettes that destroys your lungs–its all the tar and all the chemicals they put into those that make them so dangerous. The effect of nicotine alone from a cigarette or electronic cigarette in small doses is comparable in severity to caffeine in small doses everyday. So I said, hmm, I can smoke a little every now and then but without worrying so much about the health risks of regular cigarettes. So I decided to buy an e cig starter kit. When I got my Starter Kit I eagerly opened it up a started “vaping” (that’s what they call smoking an electronic cigarette). I will be honest about something, it was not the same as smoking a regular cigarette. I bought several different flavors including vanilla, cherry, and tobacco. The first two were great and actually resembled the taste of a hookah but the tobacco flavor was not exactly what I was hoping for. Don’t get me wrong it was good but it did not taste like a cigarette. I eventually got used to it and now I think I enjoy the new tobacco taste of an e cigarette more than the real thing. Here is the important point. I enjoy “vaping” now just as much as I had enjoyed smoking my regular cigarettes. I can “vape” at bars and pubs, in my office, or in my bedroom without worrying about stinking up the place or getting fined. The most important difference is that I have no guilt whatsoever when I do it. I am not worrying about the destruction of my one and only pair of lungs. I also made sure that if I was going to use an electronic cigarette that it was going to be a good one and that the “vapor juice” (as its called) was from a safe source. The people I bought from get their juice only from American suppliers that are FDA regulated and approved. The juice is made from Vegetable glycerin, which is a natural substance derived from veggies, and natural flavoring. You can choose to get your juice with or without nicotine and there are several different levels of nicotine available. I chose to get mine as a “light”, with a little bit of nicotine. So what do I have to say about electronic cigarettes? I think that if you are a smoker then you should definitely try them out for the sake of your health and for the sake of the enjoyment puffing on something can bring (oddly enough). Whatever you do, make sure you find a seller who uses FDA regulated suppliers for their smoke juice. There are only a few of them who use USA made juice. Share Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on Linkedin Share via MySpace Share on Orkut share via Reddit Share on identica Share with Stumblers Share on technorati Tumblr it Tweet about it Print for later Bookmark in Browser