E-cigarettes, an even more sinister method of creating addicts

Rune

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Since quitting rather abruptly a few weeks back, I have utilized all available forms of nicotine replacement. I started with a month of Zyban before stopping.<br>I then for irrelevant reasons increased my intake of ciggarettes to 3 packs of full strength 100s a day. Shortly I could hardly breathe and was hospitalized and treated for congestive heart failure. I couldn't breathe because my heart couldn't keep my lungs from filling up with liguid. Once being stabilised and released after 7 days, and lots of meds,<br>I have continued not smoking by using the patch as well as nicotine gum and finally nicotine inhalers or e-cigarettes.  <br><br>Since I am incredibly addicted to nicotine, I have tried pretty much every e-cig available. <br>Some are so similar to real cigarettes as to be virtually interchangable. <br><br>The problem is that one can dramatically increase one's intake of nicotine without suffering the ill (and to some extent limiting) effects of tobaco.<br><br>Therefore I fear that an even more insideous addition to nicotine than that produced by tobaco is possible.
 
Since quitting rather abruptly a few weeks back, I have utilized all available forms of nicotine replacement. I started with a month of Zyban before stopping.<br>I then for irrelevant reasons increased my intake of ciggarettes to 3 packs of full strength 100s a day. Shortly I could hardly breathe and was hospitalized and treated for congestive heart failure. I couldn't breathe because my heart couldn't keep my lungs from filling up with liguid. Once being stabilised and released after 7 days, and lots of meds,<br>I have continued not smoking by using the patch as well as nicotine gum and finally nicotine inhalers or e-cigarettes.* <br><br>Since I am incredibly addicted to nicotine, I have tried pretty much every e-cig available. <br>Some are so similar to real cigarettes as to be virtually interchangable. <br><br>The problem is that one can dramatically increase one's intake of nicotine without suffering the ill (and to some extent limiting) effects of tobaco.<br><br>Therefore I fear that an even more insideous addition to nicotine than that produced by tobaco is possible.

2 mg/kg of nicotine can kill you. Will cause seizures and send your heart into fibrillation. The physical addiction to nicotine isn't as powerful as the psychological addiction to cigarettes
 
Since quitting rather abruptly a few weeks back, I have utilized all available forms of nicotine replacement. I started with a month of Zyban before stopping.<br>I then for irrelevant reasons increased my intake of ciggarettes to 3 packs of full strength 100s a day. Shortly I could hardly breathe and was hospitalized and treated for congestive heart failure. I couldn't breathe because my heart couldn't keep my lungs from filling up with liguid. Once being stabilised and released after 7 days, and lots of meds,<br>I have continued not smoking by using the patch as well as nicotine gum and finally nicotine inhalers or e-cigarettes.  <br><br>Since I am incredibly addicted to nicotine, I have tried pretty much every e-cig available. <br>Some are so similar to real cigarettes as to be virtually interchangable. <br><br>The problem is that one can dramatically increase one's intake of nicotine without suffering the ill (and to some extent limiting) effects of tobaco.<br><br>Therefore I fear that an even more insideous addition to nicotine than that produced by tobaco is possible.

Rooting for you!
 
Weird, I always thought those things were a serious tool in the fight against addiction...

:cig:

Nahhh...just a healthier alternative. You still get the nicotine and the inhalation effect. So it's more of a replacement than a tool for quitting.
 
Since quitting rather abruptly a few weeks back, I have utilized all available forms of nicotine replacement. I started with a month of Zyban before stopping.<br>I then for irrelevant reasons increased my intake of ciggarettes to 3 packs of full strength 100s a day. Shortly I could hardly breathe and was hospitalized and treated for congestive heart failure. I couldn't breathe because my heart couldn't keep my lungs from filling up with liguid. Once being stabilised and released after 7 days, and lots of meds,<br>I have continued not smoking by using the patch as well as nicotine gum and finally nicotine inhalers or e-cigarettes.  <br><br>Since I am incredibly addicted to nicotine, I have tried pretty much every e-cig available. <br>Some are so similar to real cigarettes as to be virtually interchangable. <br><br>The problem is that one can dramatically increase one's intake of nicotine without suffering the ill (and to some extent limiting) effects of tobaco.<br><br>Therefore I fear that an even more insideous addition to nicotine than that produced by tobaco is possible.

I used nicotine chewing gum, it worked for me.
 
ecigs are fantastic, been using them for about three and a half years now....rather than increase my use of nicotine I have reduced it.....when I first started I vaped at 24mg/ml which is approximately the strength of a Marlborough Red......now I am somewhere between 3 and 4 mg/ml which is significantly less than any ultralight cigarette on the market......
 
Since quitting rather abruptly a few weeks back, I have utilized all available forms of nicotine replacement. I started with a month of Zyban before stopping.<br>I then for irrelevant reasons increased my intake of ciggarettes to 3 packs of full strength 100s a day. Shortly I could hardly breathe and was hospitalized and treated for congestive heart failure. I couldn't breathe because my heart couldn't keep my lungs from filling up with liguid. Once being stabilised and released after 7 days, and lots of meds,<br>I have continued not smoking by using the patch as well as nicotine gum and finally nicotine inhalers or e-cigarettes.* <br><br>Since I am incredibly addicted to nicotine, I have tried pretty much every e-cig available. <br>Some are so similar to real cigarettes as to be virtually interchangable. <br><br>The problem is that one can dramatically increase one's intake of nicotine without suffering the ill (and to some extent limiting) effects of tobaco.<br><br>Therefore I fear that an even more insideous addition to nicotine than that produced by tobaco is possible.

Rooting for you Rune. I quit cigarettes finally but had tried all of the gum, patches and e-cigs along the way. At 46 years old the e-cig put me in the emergency room with an accellerated heart rate and shortness of breath. I finally quit by using Chantix and going to counseling. Most difficult thing I have ever done but I have finally kicked the habit.
 
Rune maybe you should try hypnosis. I have several friends who say that it worked great. In fact, my brother quit that way too. I am thinking about having myself hypnotized into forgetting that JPP exists.
 
LOL darla,


every human body is different.

I feel for the people who have a system that is so vulnerable to certain addictions.

Good luck in ending your addiction.


I know its a hard road.

do what ever you can to end it
 
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