July 22, 2011. Bill Szydlowski
About 40 years ago we kind of thought that smoking wasn’t great for our health and a pack of cigarettes could be bought for about $.50. However in the time since we have discovered that cigarettes release over 4,000 dangerous chemicals when burned and that these chemicals are responsible for a number of different types of cancer including lung cancer.
These are not the only problems associated with smoking tobacco, it also damages the insides of our lungs, which makes it harder for us to absorb oxygen, over time this can lead to cardio vascular issues and even decrease brain function because of a lack of oxygen. The price of cigarettes has also increased by many hundreds of percent too, because the tobacco companies are trying to make up for lost customers and also because the government increase the taxes to try and make people quit.
There are quite a few stop smoking products on the market for people who want to stop. While most of these work pretty well when combined with other products or therapies, there is on that can work very well when used on its own. Electronic cigarettes are pretty new, they only came about 5 years ago, but they address an issue than most other products miss.
When you become addicted to smoking there is an ingrained mental habit that makes you light up a specific times. A lot of these times are times of stress, so if you don’t have something to take the place of the cigarette you can think that the withdrawal symptoms are actually worse than they really are. With an electronic cigarette you have a got a surrogate cigarette to use while you are reducing your nicotine intake. After you have kicked the nicotine addiction the mental habit will be a lot easier to kick. If you work on one problem at a time you will have more success at breaking the habit, if you work on both parts of the addiction you have a great chance of quitting.
Updated July 22, 2011. Published April 7, 2011. Bill Szydlowski
