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Study - E-cigs effective quitting aid - Health lobbyists stick fingers in ears
Turnbull2000
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http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/20/e-cigarettes-nicotine-patches-smoking-study
Sadly, the health lobbyist continue to wage their war! For example, Spain is now enforcing heavy restrictions and e-cig usage has plummeted. Apparently half of people now believe e-cigs are just as bad as regular tobacco thanks to health lobbyists scaremongering. A state in Australia has banned them altogether!
And then there's this lot...
Wonder if the health lobbyists and pharma are connected in some way?
The study, by a team from University College London, looked at attempts of nearly 6,000 people to stop smoking and found that, while engaging with the NHS smoking cessation services was the most effective way to quit, using e-cigarettes beat nicotine replacement therapy, as well as the efforts of people to stop with no help at all.
Professor Robert West of the department of epidemiology and public health, the senior author of the study, said that it was extremely important to find out how well e-cigarettes worked as a quitting tool. "It really could affect literally millions of lives. We need to know," he said
Sadly, the health lobbyist continue to wage their war! For example, Spain is now enforcing heavy restrictions and e-cig usage has plummeted. Apparently half of people now believe e-cigs are just as bad as regular tobacco thanks to health lobbyists scaremongering. A state in Australia has banned them altogether!
And then there's this lot...
Pharmaceutical companies such as GSK and Pfizer, which make smoking cessation drugs, are among the opponents of e-cigarettes. "They are losing sales hand over fist to e-cigarettes and are incentivised to make it appear they are not effective," said West.
Wonder if the health lobbyists and pharma are connected in some way?
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Currently vaping a lovely Blueberry flavoured juice.
Tobacco conglomerates and the taxman are livid.
But they are better for you, you don't smell, they are cheaper so I don't get what the problem is
I lasted about 3 weeks on them, best thing I ever did, tried off an on for years to give up smoking, I was an extremely heavy smoker, I would light one of another when I was drinking, a big 50g pouch of baccy would last me barley 4 days. Anyhow I haven't smoked since 21st July 2012 and vaped for around 3 weeks after that.
I would recommend vaping, it helped me to give up the **** been nicotine free now for almost 2 years,
or the greasing right poles
I said this a long time back on these very forums that the likes of Pfizer who basically fund ASH and are amongst the largest donors to Cancer Research UK and the BHF were against them as they were denting their sales of nicotine replacement products, these people have too much influence and unfairly so
Thats what makes me laugh about train companies and pubs who ban them as they say people think you are smoking a real cigarette, since when are we suppsoed to believe the people of this country allegedly become so thick that they cannot tell a real ciggie does not glow green or blue ?
Many are setting policy on the advice of the British Medical Association - who are fiercely opposed to e-cigs...
http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/rod-liddle/9026811/the-bmas-bizarre-jihad-against-e-cigarettes/
I suspect the BMA and it's members have deep (financial) links to Pharma. There's no other rationale for their crazy stance.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/public-health-bill-could-seminal-6988688
Just Google the BMA and e-cigs, and you'll witness dozens of news reports and blogs covering the BMA relentless campaigning against vapers. Unfortunately, these are the kind of people who have the ears of our policy setters.
Its not loss of sales of NRT what the pharmaceutical industry are scared of the profits from NRT products are tiny compared to the profits from drugs for the treatment for lung cancer and chronic respiratory disorders, big pharma don't want smokers to quit. Cancer Research UK and ASH should be ashamed of themselves putting their own interests before public health.
Also do you sit and smoke it like a real **** or it is more a couple of drags every so often?
I presume you are already a smoker.
If so you can buy a basic starter e-cig from most local convenience shops for around a tenner now, which contains the refillable vaporiser, battery and charger. A little 10ml bottle of e liquid should then cost around £3. That basic one should do to give you an idea of whether you will be happy to move over to e-cigs. The liquid comes in a myriad of flavours too, including standard tobacco, half strength, Virginia tobacco, menthol, cherry, chocolate etc. etc. etc.
Or you could try one of the single throwaway e-cigs that some places now sell. Generally around £4 and are roughly equivalent to 20-30 cigarettes.
You just take a few drags whenever you feel you want a smoke. How many drags at a time is up to you, but obviously the more drags the more nicotine just like smoking more cigs.
Yeah I am a smoker, I have a superking smooth cig every 2 hours, so would any of those options be a suitable replacement for that?
I do enjoy going out the back with my book and having a cig, so slightly worried that an ecig would take that away if I can just do it where I am sitting.