Introduction
The electronic cigarette gained its popularity to both smokers and non-smokers since this revolutionized smoking device was brought to the public in the year 2003 from China. Actually, the e-cigarette fastly sweeps across all nations around the world and became famous in different names such as e-cig, e-cigarette, smokeless cigarette, vapor cigarette, and personal vaporizer.
Why Vape?
It simply looks and feels like a real cigarette except that it is battery operated, does not burn tobacco, does not produce smoke but water vapor instead, may or may not contain nicotine, and offered in different flavors. And because of that, most of the smokers now switch to electronic cigarettes.
Currently, we have a growing number of smokers who joined the band wagon of giving up smoking and switching to ecigs. If asked why, respondents of the survey conducted by surveymonkey answered these two top reasons: (1) to continue to have a smoking experience, but with reduced health risks, and (2) to use as a smoking cessation device to quit the nicotine addiction completely.
The first answer basically tells us that the smokers who use e cigarettes believe that e-cigs are safer alternative to smoking tobacco products. They contain no tar, no carbon monoxide, nor harmful toxins that are found in the traditional cigarettes. Many of the individuals who use ecigs notice that their skin as well as their breathing is getting better.
The second answer explains that most of the users use this device because they want to cut their tobacco cigarette addiction, evetually if not that easy and too fast as compared to using patches, gum, nor going cold turkey. Since you can monitor and choose the nicotine level of your ecig, some starts from higher amounts then gradually reduce to lower nicotine content, to zero or non-nicotine cartridges, until they reach the stage of weanning off.
Over 1 in 20 of the 40 million Americans who smoke traditional cigarettes either switched to e-cigarettes or have quit smoking because of e-cigs.
Whats next?
For people who enjoy using it and has no intentions of stepping off the act of vaping, some of them, amateurs or veterans, make modifications, or mods as termed by others, to personalize their electronic cigarettes. Common reasons of modifying are to improve the battery life of their device and to produce more vapor. Actually, many modders make it their enjoyable past time activity or habit and some of them even put advanced features into their devices.
Others, also find pleasure in making spicing up the flavors of the cartridges by experimenting and making e-juice or e-liquid recipes. The regular and common flavors offered in the market are tobacco (just the flavor but no actual tobacco content) and menthol. E-liquid is an important factor in enjoying your e-cig since the atomizer uses this to produce the actual vapor. The contents of e-liquid are flavoring, propylene glycol, and nicotine (if desired). Once the device runs out of flavor, users has the choice to refill the same flavor or use another exciting taste until getting the most satisfying flavor that the tastebuds would love. There are a lot flavorings manufactured by different e-liquid companies. You can mix up different flavors like chocolate chip and menthol to get chocolate mint flavor or caramel, cotton candy, chocolate, butter, and rhum to have the butterfinger flavor. With imaginative minds and experimentation skills, you can get some yummy recipes. You can find a lot of instant and easy recipes over the internet.
Aside from modding and making e-liquid recipes, vapers who use electronic cigarettes just to substitute smoking the traditional cigarettes and has no plans of quitting, saves a lot of bucks. If you are the type of vaper who does not spend a lot in modding and buying different bottles of e-liquid, you must then be saving a lot of money. Generally, anybody who swtiches to using electronic cigarettes will definitely save money. Take this case for example, yearly:
Spendings of a regular tobacco cigarette smoker Spendings of an electronic cigarette smoker
1 pack/day x $8.00 x 365 days = $2,920 1 starter kit = $75 (price varies per brand)
1 cartridge = 1 pack of regular tobacco cigarette $2.50 x 365 = $912.50
Total spent over 1 year = $987.50
Savings in this basic example is $ 1,932.50 for a year. And with this, you can already buy a used car or great gadgets. You actually opt to save money and save your health at the same time.
As been stated earlier, the second top reason why people switched to it is for cessation reasons. A lot of smokers chose to use ecigarettes to help themselves to eventually kick off the habit or oral and physical gratification smoking brings. Though it is manufactured not as a cessation device, somehow it still plays a great help in weaning the addiction. But just like with tobacco cigarettes, users of eciggis may also need some help to quit. Once you get the hang of dragging and vaping your favorite e-cig flavor, it might be difficult to surrender the habit especially if its clear with your mind that it actually is safe and does no harm with you nor the people around you. It is helpful to switch to non-nicotine cartridges, drink a lot of fluids to keep your sugar up to avoid desperate withdrawal symptoms, chew a sugar free gum when craving strikes, and/or consult a good group support to seek helpful advices.
In the present time, electronic cigarette found its niche in the market and the smokers are now in full control of what they want to use and how to achieve their goals regarding their smoking life style.
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