Misconceptions about e-cigarette safety might be stopping smokers using them to quit

I switched from cigarettes to ecigs last year and i feel great. Used to have breathing problems and also was coughing a lot. It has gone since i am on Vapour2 so i am sure that ecigs are better option. And the best is i do not need high nicotine anymore. I am on 0,6 and to go down was not even hard. So i would say in few months i can just let my ecig go and i am free of smoking and vaping.

Nice post! This is a great resource for electronic cigarettes flavor. thanks for sharing this article.

I was in and out hospital when smoking around once a month . sinse stopping smoking and using esigs I haven’t been in hospital for few years so I think esigs are a safer option , like everything else it has to be used sensibly , to take the edge off the urge to smoke , but I’ll stick to my esigs

My husband gave up smoking for 2 years but then took up E-.cigarettes .He was then diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer . I still wonder if e- cigarettes triggered this off .I don’t believe they are safe.

I’d like to know how much it costs to use e-cigarettes instead of tabacco. 40 cigarettes costs about £18 per day so how would that compare to enough “vapes” ?

I know people who have never smoked but are vaping. I have not seen popcorn lung mentioned by you. People use it as a dummy

I tried EVERYTHING, and vaping is the only thing that worked for me. I make my own vape so I can control exactly how it tastes, and I am reducing my nicotine concentration by 1mg per month, which is hardly noticeable. I do not intend to vape for life, and reckon I will be off the vape in 2 years, without having to go through any traumatic withdrawal. After smoking heavily for 25 years, I seriously doubt a few years vaping will be doing any more significant damage to my lungs. It has been one year since my last cigarette and my lungs haven’t felt this good since I was a teenager. The thing which grates me is NOT being allowed to vape in some public buildings, and being shoved outside with the smokers – NOT helpful, especially if you are struggling with giving up. Vaping indoors is NOT against the law, and this should be campaigned for to assist those who vape to do so sucessfully.

Well I’ve started smoking again due to the pressure of loosing family I loved deeply.
And have thought about trying this method to quit you may have swayed me to try

My husband has been using e-cigarettes for 5 years now to stop him smoking tobacco. I have noticed how little he coughs now and that he has not had a chest infection since using e-cigarettes. I do worry that we discover that there are different health issues with e-cigarettes and would like them to be regulated properly.

Why do you have to have any of the tools to help smokers give up where is their will power as a smoker 35 years ago my husband and I just gave yes it was hard but was the best thing we did.

It does seem to me that we’re sumply swapping one harmful addiction for another one, the harmfulness of which we don’t really know as yet.
It may seem now that e-cigs are an improvement on normal ones but time and history have a nasty habit of proving things not to be as they first appear.
Surely we’d be better to aim as much positive help as we can at people that wish to quit rather than encouraging them to trade addictions?

I don’t think Cancer UK should be promoting e cigs as a way of quitting smoking. You don’t know for sure of the long term effects of vaping and the chemicals used. A bit like when tobacco came to prominence and the government was handing it out to soldiers in the trenches, (tobacco was considered harmless), look where we are now. You do not know the long term effects because it’s a relatively new habit. I have also seen teenagers hanging around outside school vaping, they’re not giving up smoking, they’re too young, they’re acquiring an addictive habit.
When I gave up smoking I chewed Nicotine gum for a while, gave it up when headaches started and just went cold turkey. It’s the only way to quit. You don’t quit by acquiring another habit which may be just as harmful.
I think Cancer Research should in no way advocate vaping.

It would perhaps be useful for the general public to be updated in respect of the vapour which is expelled from e-cigs, especially with regard to the millions who suffer from respiratory difficulties who are bothered by the clouds of vapour

It’s quite useful information i like to stop smoking but don’t no which place is reliable to buy the e-cigarettes can someone email reliable place.thanks

Very informative.?

Up to date trial tests

none

E-cigarettes receive a bad press in the eyes of the non-smoking public for 2 reasons (I believe) 1 being scepticism on their long term safety because of the chemicals and 2 the way the smokers insist on surrounding everyone in copious amounts of vapour.

I am the one who the ecig really helped to. It made me to stop smoking cigarettes and i have even lowered nicotine intensity in my Vapour2 to minimum. So i am glad and can not complain. I am sure there is some harm caused by ecig but in my opinion it is minimum and i can see it on my health. Would really recommend to try it

E-cigarrete has a bad image in the eyes of non-smokers. This can only be fixed if proper knowledge is installed in the minds of tobacco users. They should see that e-cigarette is not as harmful as the regular cigarette and it helps a lot of smokers who want to quit to easily stop their bad habits.

5 years smoke free for husband and I. Thank you e-cigarettes. My husband has COPD I know that trading cigarettes for vape saved his life. We are both smoke and nicotine free. Have not used an e-cig in 3 years. I keep thinking there is no way it was that easy.

5 years smoke free for husband and I. Thank you e-cigarettes. My husband has COPD I know that trading cigarettes for vape saved his life.

My mother is one of them who thinks or is convinced that e-cigarettes are as harmful as tobacco cigarettes. She is 2,5 pack/day smoker, she can’t stop smoking but she wouldn’t try e-cigarettes because she is convinced “they would find something bad about them (e-cigarettes) over time”.

its most concerning that “thousands of smokers who could quit with the help of an e-cigarette are being put off due to false fears about their safety.”, as I said in my last comment i have seen this myself when a smoker declaired to me that e-cigarettes are worse then smoking. GOV UK & PHE needs to do more to get the word out that e-cigs are far safer, they were quick enough to do anti-smoking adverts on TV, perhaps a similar campaign regarding e-cigs would be useful.

Hi M Walker,
Thanks for your comment.
Quit success is measured as giving up cigarettes, rather than nicotine – because it’s the tobacco that causes the major harms of smoking. Behavioural support and medication, which is offered by local Stop Smoking Services, gives smokers the best chance of quitting successfully. Some people attending Stop Smoking Services choose to give up smoking with support only and no medication. And they can have similar success to those using medication.
Best wishes,
Carl, Cancer Research UK

I know for the fact this is true, at my workplace where we e-cig users have to share the smoking area cigarette smokers one chap was coughing his heart up and I mentioned to him that he ought to try e-cigs and his very response was “no way, they are worse then smoking cigarettes”.

Does the research indicate that e cigarettes help people to give up smoking cigarettes or helps them give up the addiction to nicotine. Surely educated cold turkey is the best way to give up the latter?

A “classroom” of children are becoming hooked on smoking every day, according to a charity chief.

Jackie Brock, chief executive of Children in Scotland, said existing educational approaches are not enough, with 36 children taking up the habit daily.

Research shows many young people in the most deprived parts of Scotland take up smoking.

This, she says, can lead to health and wealth inequality following children for the rest of their lives.

https://stv.tv/news/scotland/1407901-classroom-of-children-taking-up-smoking-every-day/

I would like to say 2 things:-

1E cigs have a bad reputation because the kind of shops that sell them use advertising similar to alcopops and seem to totally aim at a hipster / gadget / market with their flavoured and attractive names. E cigs should be regulated as medicines if they are to help smokers cease.

2. Research, by it’s very nature is historical. On our high streets and around our schools in the UK there are kids mixing liquids and trying e cigs when they have never smoked. Peer pressure and “coolness” needs to be urgently removed from this product. We have plain packaging for tobacco products while e cigs are advertised with all the colour and attractiveness they can muster. Cancer research, and other bodies should be careful how E cig businesses use their words to advertise!!