Smoking In The UK
Stop smoking products were first introduced in the early 1980´s but there are still now over one billion smokers worldwide. This means that one in about 8 people are daily taking over 4,000 poisonous chemicals into their system and taking years and years off of their lives. And because of the new stop smoking initiatives pushed by federal governments, cigarette smoking is banned in all public places and the cost of cigarettes has more than tripled during the past 15 years. This problem is especially troubling in countries like the UK that have socialized medicine. Smokers and smoking related illnesses create serious budget problems and can actually cost non smokers health care that the government cannot afford to provide because of the huge cost of treating smoking related illnesses or conditions.
One product, the e cigarette, UK, seems to be an answer to at least some of these problems. Instead of burning tobacco, and inhaling all of the toxic chemicals produced by a lit cigarette, all you inhale is a water vapor containing nicotine from the electronic cigarettes and they are also much less expensive than cigarettes. So much less expensive in fact that many past smokers are saving as much as 85% on their smoking bills each month.
Electronic cigarettes, instead of having literally thousands of toxic chemicals, only have nicotine suspended in a glycerin solution. This means that the only toxic chemicals you are inhaling are nicotine. Since they are not burning anything there are also no fumes that can affect anyone nearby and can be used anywhere, even at work or in a restaurant. Finally, although not advertised as a stop smoking aid, e-cigs can be used to quit smoking in the same way as the ever popular nicotine replacement products on the market, like nicotine gum or patches. Instead of trying to quit both the physical and mental habits of smoking at once however, e-cigs allow you to gradually reduce your nicotine intake while still have a œcigarette to appease you mental conditioning of smoking during certain stimulus.