subject: Can You Quit Smoking With An E Cigarette? [print this page] What would happen if you quit smoking right now? Withdrawal. Definitely withdrawal. Cravings for a smoke, possible weight gain because you're trying to take your mind off of smoking and end up sucking on lollipops instead or munching on snacks, and other symptoms will definitely be felt. But all of those negative symptoms are temporary. Those feelings will eventually come to pass and you will start to reap the benefits of living a healthier and smoke-free lifestyle.
Sounds good, right?
The road to rehabilitation, however, is not as easy as it sounds. In fact, if it were easy, there wouldn't be millions of failed attempts at quitting the habit. There would only be a few, but out of the millions of people who attempt to quit annually, roughly 2 to 3 percent only make it out. The other 97 to 98 percent try again and again to quit, only to fail repeatedly.
There are many cessation products, therapies, and quit-smoking methods available to the smoker today, but there is also one smoking alternative that is neither a quit-smoking method nor a cessation product, yet has been hailed by many in the smoking community as the product that has already changed their life.
This smoking alternative is the electronic cigarette, or e cigarette for short, and is becoming a more popular device by the minute. It has already made headlines for both the positive and the negative, and many of the public hope that it will be made more readily available to anyone who desires to quit.
Although the e cigarette is not a cessation tool, it works much in the same way that other products do in the sense that it delivers doses of nicotine to the user. The e cigarette is battery-powered and relies on a liquid that can contain nicotine that is stored inside the mouthpiece. The liquid is heated up by the e cigarette's heating element and turns it into a vapor that can be inhaled. Since it does not require a lighter to use, there is no burning, no secondhand smoke, and no need to worry about ashes or forgetting about putting it out properly.
Because it takes the "benefits" of the smoking experience and strips it of its negative qualities, the e cigarette has proven to be a success thus far. Users have either dropped tobacco cigarettes altogether and use only the e cigarette or they use both equally and are gradually weaning themselves off of the real cigarette. Still, others have managed to not only quit the cigarettes but are reducing their usage of the e cigarette itself or lowered the nicotine dosage.
