When I first started out trying new methods to alternative smoking there were the familiar nicotine gum, patches, and those God awful nicotine inhalers that were just plain silly.  My goal was not to quit smoking but to not do it as much due to it’s proven bad health habits.  However nothing really satisfied me as the electronic cigarette does, it gave me the almost same experience as smoking a regular (analog) tobacco cigarette.  I inhale and poof, there is smoke (which is water vapor) and a flavor that is so uncanny to tobacco it still freaks me out.  Was not expecting this when I got my first electronic cigarette starter kit from Green Smoke, I thought it was going to be a joke. Continue Reading

You have been smoking cigarettes for years and are used to the habitual rituals that comes along with puffing, holding, dangling, and even the way you blow smoke has been part of the daily lifestyle and is a hard habit to break, believe me I know!

You don’t want to quit smoking, but are worried about the continuing bad health effects associated with tradition tobacco smoking.  So what alternatives to smoking are available?  Well there are the gross nicotine patches, the nasty tasting nicotine gum, and then there are these cool gadgets called e-cigarettes.

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My personal review of the Green Smoke brand electronic cigarette starter kit. These ecigarettes offer a great alternative to smoking as they provide a very cost effective alternative and they are considered “tax free cigarettes“, hence no tobacco. These esmokes use flavored nicotine cartridges which produce water vapor that simulates “smoke”.  I give Green Smoke a thumbs up!

Here is how to avoid an electronic cigarette nicotine overdose…

This is something I needs to be pointed out as I myself and several people have told me is that you need to pay attention to how much nicotine you consume while using these alternative smoking devices we know as electronic cigarettes.

As far as I am aware Luci and Blu Cigs have a shut off mechanism to help you avoid nicotine over consumption if you are puffing away too quickly, Green Smoke however does not.

Nicotine is very powerful and addictive, that is a fact.  The problem lies is the habitual part of the smoking experience, a tobacco cigarette has smoke burning from it’s tip and for some reason it helps us refrain from sucking all the smoke out of it way to fast.  I have found in my own experience that I do smoke these ecigarettes fast, hence the buzzed headache I received the other day.  Maybe it is just me but I find myself not slowly enjoying the vaping process as I speed through it for some reason. Continue Reading

A very popular gadget is gaining momentum and it is called the electronic cigarette. There are a lot of different manufactures and distributors of the battery operated device that potentially offers alternatives to smoking the standard tobacco cig. Of course we are all well aware of the hazards of smoking tobacco but continue to puff away anyhow. Some blame the addiction to nicotine but I will be honest and will say I enjoy smoking, although not happy and very aware of the health problems that they have been proven to cause.

Today we have alternatives to smoking cigarettes with some silly products like the nicotine gum which taste like a minty moldy tree and a hideous patch to deliver a nicotine jolt.  There are more products that will help you quit your addiction to cigarettes but none really offer an alternative to smoking except the electric cigarette. Now you can do more than simulate smoking, you can actually smoke, but without the smoke. Sounds strange doesn’t it? Basically a battery operated pen style ecig produces water vapor or fog that resembles tobacco smoke, it even taste and looks like it as I was amazed by this at the first puff. Skeptical was I, enlightened I became.

Electronic cigarette smoking uses a battery to engage an atomizer when you inhale to turn the liquid in the optional multi-flavored nicotine cartridge into a vapor that appears as smoke, it is thick and white and bellows out of your lungs as if you took a drag on a Marlboro or whatever your poison and there are many great companies selling the e-cigarette.

The electric cigarette has come under fire for containing “anti-freeze” but don’t be fooled!  The ingredient they speak of is the nicotine diluted in propylene glycol or glycerin, both common food additives, read that again “common food additives”.  Even still some companies are starting to use vegetable glycerin as a replacement additive rather than propylene glycol.  The FDA just recently lost a court case blocking distribution of electronic cigs so it seems the balance of power is shifting and there is even the formation of the ecassoc (Electronic Cigarette Association).

So, if you want to try something new and not looking to quit there is an alternative to smoking with electronics cigarettes as they offer many flavors (tobacco, cherry, apple, etc), levels of nicotine, and styles available to suit even the most persnickety smoker.