Health Update

Smoking a pack of cigarettes every day could easily cost $1,500 or more per year. If you have tried to quit smoking you probably have tried just about anything. The patches, gum and anything else just don’t seem to work. If you or someone you know have tried to stop smoking before, you know just how hard it can be. The recent advancements in micro technology have allowed for an invention so revolutionary and so useful to smokers that it could not only save you hundreds of dollars each year, but could also save your life.

The invention is called an electronic cigarette (or electric or e-cigarette). So what is an electronic cigarette? An e-cigarette is a device that is used to simulate smoking. It gives the user the sensation that they are smoking but the e-cigarette doesn’t contain thousands of harmful chemicals like traditional tobacco cigarettes.

How are electronic cigarettes made? An electronic cigarette contains 3 parts, the battery, the atomizer, and the nicotine cartridge. When a user inhales on the end of an electronic cigarette like they would a regular tobacco cigarette, it activates the atomizer. The atomizer then heats up the nicotine solution into vapor form, much like a miniature fog machine. The vapor is then inhaled into the user just like regular smoke from a cigarette would. The vapor is only made up of nicotine and a few other elements whereas cigarettes are made up of thousands of deadly poisons.

When the user inhales on the electronic cigarette, the vapor gives them the same feeling of a regular smoke but does not contain thousands of poisons that cause cancer. When the user exhales the vapor, it appears very similar to smoke but evaporates very quickly. This leaves no smell that lingers and there is no way for someone to get second hand smoke.

Since the electronic cigarette does not contain tobacco, it is not able to be banned in certain areas in the United States where cigarettes are not permitted. This has allowed for responsible adults to get their nicotine fix in places they could not anymore. It is becoming more and more common for people to be seen using an electronic cigarette in places like bars, night clubs, and even on airplanes.

You can even save hundreds of dollars a year using an electronic cigarette because the price of the equivalent amount of puffs from an electronic cigarette is 75 percent less than the same amount from regular smokes. If you smoke a pack a day on average, you could easily save over $1,000 per year. Not only will you be able to get your nicotine fix wherever you want, you can save a lot of money at the same time.

Electronic cigarettes are quickly becoming popular throughout the world because of their unique ability to simulate smoking without all of the cancer causing agents in regular cigarettes. The innovative technology is spreading rapidly throughout the world. If you have never seen an electronic cigarette before, chances are that in the near future they will be everywhere you turn.