There is a LOT of controversy surrounding e-cigarettes at the moment. Since I found out about e-cigs online and this site is about taking advantage of things online you can't get offline, then here we go on this subject.

I have been a smoker for over 35 years. About a month ago I read an article online about "e" cigs or electronic cigarettes. I read articles in the ecig forum for over two hours, written by long-term smokers like myself who had managed to quit smoking, some literally overnight, by switching to the e-cigarette. I had to give it a try. Two months of trying patches at nearly $60 a box was doing neither me nor my wallet, any good.

I ordered my electronic cigarette and was frankly impatient to give it a try. There is no doubt in my mind that cigarettes are killing me. From my research, removing the over 4,000 chemicals the FDA allowed cigarette manufacturers to add to tobacco was nothing but a good thing. Latest count is that 69 of them are KNOWN to cause cancer. Further research has proven...

...Nicotine, on it's own, is NOT CARCINOGENIC.

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So, all that garbage about nicotine and how bad it is for you is exactly that, garbage. Nicotine, like anything else, is bad for you if you over-indulge. A glass of wine is not necessarily good or bad for you, unless you over-indulge either but wine does not get connected to cancer like nicotine does. Nicotine is highly addictive. But again, it is obviously more addictive for some than for others - the same as alcohol. Bottom line...if you have never used nicotine, why would you even be on this page?

Try finding information on nicotine on the internet...you get a LOT of pages about smoking, NOT about nicotine by itself. This is another facade perpetrated by the FDA and those selling patches that are full of what? Nicotine. So, if corporations can make money from "nicotine replacement patches", they certainly would not be happy to find out that cigarettes not "smoked" but "vaped" using a nicotine liquid, are helping people quit smoking twice as fast and at half the cost of current, market and media pushed nicotine replacement therapies.

I don't plan on using the electronic cigarette for life. I wasn't sure when I ordered the e-cig if it would even help me quit smoking since that is NOT it's intended or advertised purpose. A lot of people buy e-cigs to enjoy in areas where smoking is no longer allowed like bars and restaurants. I read an article recently that an oil truck driver was pulled over by the police because he was "smoking" - unauthorized behavior for someone hauling oil. Apparently though, the driver was enjoying an e-cig instead. No flame, no fire, no smoke - no problem.

But within 4 days of receiving the e-cig I put out my last "analog" cigarette (as us e-cig smokers call them), and I have not touched one for 28 days. This is coming from someone who could barely go 30 minutes without a smoke and with a habit I started in 1972. Today is August 9th, 2009.

According to my Quit Counter, I have not smoked 703 cigarettes to date and have saved a tad over $172.00 US dollars. This does not include the close to $300.00 I spent on nicotine patches that did not work for the two months prior to discovering the e-cig option. Or, the $50.00 worth of aqua filters I tried using on the cigarettes I was continuing to smoke.

I have also now detoxed most of the 4,000+ chemicals like mercury, aresenic and formaldyhyde I was ingesting for all those years. Not sure about the condition of my lungs. I am sure it is not a pretty sight. But it's better than it would have been with 700+ extra cigarettes smoked.

These e-cigs are not toys. They are not manufactured for or promoted to non-smokers or for kids. Don't believe the crap online that is out there to convince you that e-cigs should be banned as bad right out of the gate. This media spewage is coming from the same sources who allowed RJ Reynolds and Philip Morris to add chemicals to cigarettes to GUARANTEE they would be addictive. Most of the chemicals the FDA approved, they approved as acceptable, but NOT as something that would be heated and smoked - which is how the manufacturers used them from Day One!

Do your homework, spend some time in the e-cigarette forum and decide for yourself. If you are a smoker, as I was, you will try anything to quit.

E-Cigarettes did it for me....

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UPDATE: September 16, 2009

Two months, 4 days and 2 hours since I quit "smoking" cigarettes. 1652 cigarettes NOT smoked and just under $406.00 saved. I consider this a complete quit-smoking success that I was unable to achieve before e-cigarettes.

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