Are E Cigarettes really the healthier alternative?

Quite a few people at my office gave these a go in an attempt to quite smoking, and some just so they could sit at their desks puffing away. I tried them a couple times and it did feel a bit like smoking. It was a fad that only lasted a couple months as everyone said they constantly leaked and ended up throwing them away. Not one of them gave up smoking.

E Cigarettes?

E cigs would never work for me. Too fake.

They worked for my brother in law while he was in the hospital and was unable to have a real cigarette. They are rather expensive, but I’d bet they’d work better than those fucking nicotine lollipops I tried. Those things sucked bad.

I’m a non-smoker, but it seems like a wonderful innovation to me. People will keep the addiction to nicotine but their lungs and bodies will be spared the other 4000 chemicals many of which are are highly toxic. There are not only substances like cadmium, arsenic, lead, tar, and cyanide but also plenty of pesticides.

I know many smokers who wash fruits and vegetables before eating them. The logical solution is switching to electronic cigarettes!

I’ll try answering this again (not sure what happened to my first, but if both of these show up, consider that I’m new here). I use e-cigs…doing so has cut my 2 to 3 packs a day of regular cigs down to 1 to 3 cigs. So, yes, I think they work.

They aren’t like smoking the real thing, but it takes little time to adjust. I’m breathing easier and do not get out of breath as fast now that I’ve switched. For more info, check out the forum: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/

The forum can be a little overwhelming but it’s worth the time. For one thing, the FDA’s stance can be compared to what others are saying (and not just the forum folks who are pretty upset by the FDA).

I highly recommend an e-cig over a real cig. How well one works depends on the brand you buy…oh, and, no, the cartridges do not last as long as the ads would have you believe.

It reminds me of a product I saw on the market some 30–40 years ago, called a “smokeless cigarette”. It was essentially a nicotine delivery system, a piece of plastic shaped and colored like a regular filter cigarette. It was held in the hand, and the user would draw on the “filter” end just like a normal cigarette, and inhale (I assume) some sort of nicotine mixture. I remember them being available for a short time, and then I never heard of them again.

Yetanotheruser, wow, 30–40 years ago. They were ahead of their time, I guess. Probably didn’t go over because smoking was still acceptable and cigs were cheap.

@SudokuGal Yeah, I was still smoking at the time, I had already “quit” about 5 times. I think the main problem, as you said, was that they were cheap (one time I quit was when they reached $3.00 a carton! Also, the product did not have any flavor that I remember.

There are many websites that describe the benefits (or lack thereof) of electronic cigarettes. A much simpler way of looking at the question is this:

The average smoker lights a cigarette and allows it to burn to completion. They intermittently inhale the smoke during the burning process allowing residual smoke to escape into the immediate environment.

An e-cigarette user (vaper) doesn’t burn anything. The vaper (some containing nicotine) is consumed by the user alone. The vapor that escapes into the atmosphere rapidly dissipates, affecting no one. Most remarkably, the vaping experience is akin to a smoker lighting, extinguishing, then relighting the same cigarette over and over until completion.

So, if the properties of the electronic cigarette were as toxic as the traditional cigarette (which it isn’t), the user would still be healthier because he’d consume less toxins.

(A good site to browse is The E-Cigarette Forum.)