Smoking Starter
How to Quit Smoking
There is no getting around it: nicotine is one of the most addictive, harmful and widely available drugs in the world. Although responsible for around 440,000 deaths each year, cigarettes and tobacco related products can be purchased at almost every corner store, supermarket, or liquor store in the country.
Nicotine
Nicotine is a drug found naturally in tobacco. It is highly addictive — as addictive as heroin or cocaine. Over time, a person becomes physically and emotionally addicted to, or dependent on, nicotine. Studies have shown that smokers must deal with both the physical and psychological dependence to be successful at quitting and staying quit.
Start with some pre-preparation by ensuring that you really do want to quit smoking and understanding why you smoke. Are these reasons powerful enough to motivate you when you are faced with those tricky situations? Write down your reasons for quitting. You may want to take a look at some of the benefits of quitting.
Set yourself a date for quitting. Try and choose a date that will be stress free but when you can find plenty to do to keep yourself busy. Try and set a date within about two weeks of reading this.
Ask your doctor for advice. This is especially important if you have health problems or are concerned about issues such as weight gain.
Hurting Others
Smoking harms not just the smoker, but also family members, coworkers, and others who breathe the smoker’s cigarette smoke, called secondhand smoke or passive smoke. Among infants up to 18 months of age, secondhand smoke is associated with as many as 300,000 cases of bronchitis and pneumonia each year. In addition, secondhand smoke from a parent’s cigarette increases a child’s chances for middle ear problems, causes coughing and wheezing, worsens asthma, and increases an infant’s risk of dying from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
Methods to help you give up
Whilst Cold Turkey is the most popular method to quit smoking, only 3% of people succeed using this method. Other treatment options to stop smoking are available and you can find information about these methods on this site. Remember, for the best advice on how to stop smoking, there’s few substitutes as good as seeing your doctor to discuss the full range of options available to you. If you’re stuck about what to say, try our conversation starter.
Consider using nicotine gum, patches, spray or other pharmacologic therapies. Nicotine is the drug that is in tobacco. You can use nicotine patches, lozenges or gum, available without a prescription at your local pharmacy, to quit smoking. It is a two-step process. First, you learn to live without smoking, but not without nicotine. On your quit day, you discontinue smoking and start using the patches or gum. Then you slowly cut back on the nicotine over 6 – 8 weeks.
Zyban and Chantix are prescription medications that can be used to help you quit smoking. Both medications should be started about 7 – 10 days before your quit date. Ask your primary care physician about using either of these medications to help you with quitting.
Join a quit-smoking program. You may prefer to be involved in an organized quit-smoking program while you are using the patches, gum, Zyban, or Chantix. None of the nicotine replacement products, Zyban, or Chantix are a miracle cure. You still need to learn to live without cigarettes in your daily life. Your personal decision to quit smoking combined with learning the skills to be smoke-free can help you be successful. Some people do better in a formal class with a set of instructions to follow. Group support is another reason to consider a formal quit smoking program. Others quitting at the same time provide support and encouragement for each other. Remember, the aim is to quit smoking. It does not matter how you do it.
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Electric Vaporizer
Vaporizer Buying Guide
Things to consider when purchasing your first vaporizer, in what most consider to be order of importance:
- PRICE! How much does price drive your choice? You can get a very good vaporizer for as little as $150, or you can spend upwards of $700 if price is of no concern. Just remember, more expensive does not equal better in the vaporizer world.
- Delivery system. In what social settings will you vaporize the most? If you’re a big social user, then consider a bag delivery system (Extreme, Volcano, Herbalaire, Vapormatic, etc.). All of these units also have an option to use the whip, except the Volcano.
- Efficiency. Do you have tons of tobacco or herbs and just want the biggest inhales attainable, or are you more concerned about making your tobacco/herbs last, or are you somewhere in between?
- Manufacturer. Make sure to buy something from a reputable manufacturer (All the vaporizers for sale on VapeNow.com are manufactured by reputable companies with which we have frequent contact). Don’t buy something cheap that you don’t know where it came from. Chances are it may have come from China, where it has been confirmed that some models are made with lead paint in the vapor path.
- Learning curve. Do you want something easy to use (usually means less temperature and delivery options, but not always), or are you comfortable with a steeper learning curve?
- Temperature control. Do you want a digital control with the temp readout, an analog control with just a dial, or no control using a unit that is preset at the factory? Any vaporizer worth its salt will produce vapor regardless of the temperature control feature, but more control can be good if you will be vaporizing different types of tobacco or herbs.
I suggest you sit down and answer these questions yourself before buying anything. Start with price, because if it’s out of your price range, none of the other variables matter.
Once you have answered the above questions, it’s time to start reading about different vaporizers in our Staff Review Section and online forums. Fuckcombustion.com is an especially good forum. Don’t jump to a thread and post your questions without first reading the thread or, at least, using the search function to find answers. Most of your questions have already been answered in these threads. If you can’t find the answer to your question, go the ‘Ask the Vaporists’ forum and post it up there. Most of the members here want to help you, but don’t want to clutter up model specific threads with repeated questions.
Here are our opinions on a couple of units to give you an idea of how to think about a vaporizer when purchasing it:
Purple Days
- Pros: Great company, great price, unbeatable efficiency.
- Cons: Not the best party vaporizer, but it can be done.
- Neutral: It has no temperature control, which can be a good thing. The lack of a temperature control makes the learning curve easier, but makes it less adaptable for other herbs.
Extreme
(Store Listing)
- Pros: Has a whip and bag delivery system, great customer service, very versatile with tons of bells and whistles like a remote, moderately efficient.
- Cons: Is not the best on the market for either whip or bag delivery, but is the best at doing both.
- Neutral: It is a new design that is going through some growing pains in terms of manufacturing defects, but the company’s unsurpassed customer service more than makes up for it.
VaporGenie
- Pros: Good company that will send free replacement screens and mouthpieces, truly portable and does not need electricity, great price, moderately efficient.
- Cons: Can use up a lot of butane, can burn your tobacco or herbs, semi-steep learning curve.
Silver Surfer
(Store Listing)
- Pros: Cool design, good price, might be the thickest vapor available on the market, customizable.
- Cons: Low efficiency.
This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of good vaporizers or their features. We have used all of these vaporizers, so the points made here are from experience. This list was done to give you an idea of how to best think as someone who is new to vaporizing. Good luck, and remember to post a review of whatever you buy, especially if we don’t already have one on the site for the model you chose!
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Smoking Electronic
Smoking Tobacco Kills but Smoking Electronic Cigarettes Doesn’t
If you smoke tobacco, then you will agree with me that it has over 4000 chemicals which are harmful to your health, it also has poisons like hydrogen cynide which are harmful to your health.
However there has been an introduction of a safe cigarette known as electronic cigarette. The cigarette contains none of the harmful chemicals and is much friendly to the environment; it’s also important to note that tobacco has been proven to cause lung cancer among other deadly diseases to its users; electronic cigarettes on the other hand don’t contain any chemical which can cause the cancer in your body. This defines clearly well that tobacco is more harmful to your health as compared to electronic cigarettes which are friendlier, and safe.
Electronic cigarettes, better referred to as e-cigarettes, contain a small amount of nicotine which only surrounds the smoking ban, tobacco on the other hand has a large content of tar and nicotine plus the many chemicals which cause nothing less than destroy your health.
What is exciting about e-cigarettes is that it tastes, feels and looks like ea cigarette but offers so much more than tobacco. In addition to that, is that the harmful components produced by the combustion of tobacco are not found in e-cigarettes.
In fact, within the first 7 days of smoking e-cigarettes, your sense of smell and taste will have changed, much surprisingly, at the end of the first day, your body will start repairing itself, you will feel a great relieve in your lungs, what your doing is inhaling water vapor which has no harm to your health, not at all.
Smoke from electronic cigarettes are less smelly and do not affect the people around you, just like tobacco do. It has no carbon monoxide which can be harmful to your brain and also can leave you feeling drowsy.
Nicotine from tobacco is extremely risky especially pregnant women, those breastfeeding or those people with unstable heart conditions, the probability of causing major complications or even death is high e-cigarettes on the hand cause less irregularities though it is always to recommended that you seek medical advice before you start using e-cig,especially when you have such complications.
The product is basically a thousand times safer than tobacco, it is legal and can be taken at any other place, pubs, restaurants, public places, name them.
It is also important to note that tobacco blocks free flow of blood to various parts of the body which is equally risky and has in the past caused many deaths. This is just one of the e many harmful effects of tobacco. Electronic cigarettes retain the normal functioning of your body, which include proper flow of blood to various parts of the body.
Lung cancer is one disease caused by tobacco smoking, but it also causes other cancers and illnesses. Close to 42,800 people die from tobacco related illnesses each year, 29,100 die from chronic lung disease mostly caused by tobacco smoking.
It plays safe enough to consider electronic cigarettes as a better way of staying healthy.
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Smoking Aid
Quit Smoking Aid – The Quit Smoking Today Nlp Program
The unhealthy habit of smoking is more and more widespread these days and most people are still not aware of high risks of developing certain severe illnesses and even cancers from smoking.
Most people fail to quit smoking and you might be in the same situation. One of the main reasons is because you aren’t choosing the right quit smoking aid that will guarantee your success whilst your will power and determination is definitely the main key! Most individuals I’ve seen struggling to quit relapsed after their first few attempts so you’re aren’t alone. Becoming smoke-free without seeking for professional help is pretty impossible unless you’re the type of ‘quitting cold-turkey’ and you might already have done it a few times before.
What’s the point in quitting cigarettes just for a certain period of time? There is NO point at all. I would recommend you try the Quit Smoking Today program. A guaranteed aid that is based on hypnotherapy and NLP created by Rob Mellor an expert in Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is a pretty new branch of psychotherapy that will help you quit smoking without having to suffer the horrible cravings and nicotine withdrawals.
The Quit Smoking Today is a complete MP3 audio file (38minutes long). The main idea of the program is to help you to quit for good without having to suffer from cravings or the withdrawal symptoms. As far as I know and what the author claims that over 5000 people worldwide have used this technique successfully. Meanwhile relapsing is out of the equation.
Do not get tricked into thinking that the Quit Smoking Today program is some kind of smoking aid miracle because it isn’t. You need to follow the guide correctly and comprehend the entire audio recording in order to quit smoking systematically.
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