The Advantages of Opting for a Kit

As a new item on the market, it is expected that not everyone will know how to use it nor will they know what comes with it. In fact, it may only be a few individuals who are familiar with electronic cigarettes. Some, who think of buying all features that come with an e-cig, might end up wasting their money on things that are not useful or compatible with the other products that they bought. That can be a great de-motivator for someone who bought this device with the decision to stop smoking. So, to avoid spending on unnecessary items, purchase a kit where everything in it is already put together, and you are sure that all items in it are compatible with one another.

What is Included in the Kit?

Basically, a kit includes the essentials for using electronic cigarettes. So, first you will have the device (electronic cigarette), along with extra cartridges (about 4, usually), and the USB charger. Depending on the kit, there are some that come with only one unit of electronic cigarette; others go with two or three. Of course, the more items are included in the kit, the higher the price. Some also include a case that looks like a cigarette box where you can have your e-cigarette, spare batteries, and spare cartridges. This is quite handy if you’re always on the go.

Where to Find an Electronic Cigarette Kit?

Electronic cigarettes can be bought at your local stores, specialty stores, and online. If you live in areas where stores don’t sell these items, you can order them online conveniently. The leading brands of electronic cigarettes are easily found on the web. So if you are interested, it’s just a matter of a few clicks with your mouse.

Electronic cigarette kits can be a practical way for you to buy when it’s your first time. You don’t have to worry about the cartridge’s compatibility with the device and all that. And kits usually come in the form of packages and are cheaper to buy that way. If you buy the items individually, it can cost a bit more – in most cases, but not in all. So if you are thinking of trying out electronic cigarettes, consider buying the most basic kit first. And then later on, you can simply upgrade with any feature of your choice.

It seems that there’s no uniform method for cleaning electronic cigarettes atomizers no matter what is the model of e-cigarettes. There are some preparations for atty cleansing on the market, but they aren’t always cost effective. Some users search for ways of adding life span to their atomizer by using different chemicals. Others find their own way of cleaning corresponding to the taste and flavor they prefer in some cases. In both cases they use homemade mixtures and methods for cleansing. Here are some of them:

1. The atomizer is poured with hot water flush, then shaken and blown dry. Though this method is helpless with putting the mint taste out.

2. The atomizer is boiled for 5 minutes in water with a little vinegar or oven for 10 minutes. Users claim that this method can kill the mint and menthol taste in the atomizer.

3. There are e-smokers using the so called “cola soaking method”. The atomizer is left in a glass with cola for 24 hours. Then it’s rinsed with hot water and dried. The main flaw of the method is that it takes more than a day and a half to take effect.

4. Vodka is also used as a cleaning tool. The atty is blown before cleaning. Vodka is poured in the cart end, then the openings are covered with fingers and the whole thing is shaken gently for 2 minutes. Then the atty is rinsed with hot water. It can be left to dry out at night. This method is mainly used for eliminating strong-tasting liquid.

5. Another method is leaving the atty on a paper towel upside down. In the morning some liquid is run out.

6. Running the atomizer under warm water, adding a little detergent, rinsing well, drying it with a hairdryer and leaving it unused for a night is an option tried out by many users.

7. The e-smoker fills the atomizer with vinegar almost to the top. Then shakes it and repeats the process. Then it’s put under extremely hot water – nearly boiling. The atomizer is being blown and rinsed again. Then dried with a hairdresser.

Still there are some e-smokers who don’t like to clean their e-cigarettes too much. They state that the alcohol cleaning leaves the taste and smell of itself for weeks on. Others stress on the filtering of e-liquids before using them for vapor. Anyway this means a lot of homebrew stuff which few e-smokers possess at home. Let alone that it takes quite a lot of time too.

Some e-smokers find out that the super clean taste following some of the methods displayed above is not satisfying their taste. It’s just TOO clean for them. It even chastens the sharpness of the flavor chosen for vaping afterwards. It probably needs some sludge for odor “just like eggs need some grease to get savory”, shares one e-smoker. Whatever cleaning method you prefer – with special preparation or home made, make sure it suits your taste and that it’s of no danger for your health.

Medical Conditions and Electronic Cigarettes

Individuals with known allergies or those with sensitivity to nicotine should abstain from using the electronic version of the regular cigarettes. The new product contains nicotine and hypersensitive persons may experience allergic reactions such as swelling of the face, throat, lips, or tongue, difficulty breathing, hives, dizziness, headache, watering eyes, itching, and dry mouth, among other symptoms. Furthermore, individuals with unstable heart condition should abstain from ‘vaping’ or at least discuss the issue with a medical practitioner. Persons with serious or chronic respiratory illnesses should also refrain from using the new product. So – better safe than sorry.

E-Smoking and Expectant Moms

Research has demonstrated that what expectant moms consume has directly impact on the normal growth and health of their unborn children. The intake of medications should be discussed with a doctor in advance. It is recommended that substances such as caffeine are kept at a minimum or not used at all. Clearly, the use of tobacco products is strongly discouraged with expectant moms. Scientists have found out that the intake of nicotine results in unnatural regulation of the flow of about 200 neurochemicals inside the mind and body of unborn children. These include adrenalin, dopamine, and serotonin. Among other things, the use of nicotine may result in pregnancy complications, low birth weight, and increased risks of future respiratory illnesses.

Obviously by ‘vaping’, smokers avoid inhaling the many poisonous substances found in regular tobacco products. Yet, they still contain nicotine which poses hazard to the health of unborn children. Even the package of electronic cigarettes displays clear warnings that pregnant women and persons with respiratory illnesses should abstain from using the product.

First, you have to charge its battery for about four hours before you use it the first time. Keep on charging your e-cig even if the light on its charger has turned green before 4 hours have elapsed. Then, keep the Electronic Cigarette vertical – cartridge on top, with battery below it. If you don’t have anything suitable to keep it upright, then you may lay it on a table or another flat surface. In any case, try to keep the cartridge higher than the battery.

If fluid enters your mouth, try to take slow and steady drags, with each drag lasting just a couple of seconds. You may also want to dismantle the Electronic Cigarette and dry its cartridge out. In fact, you should clean your electronic cigarette from time to time, even if it’s working just like new.

You need to remove the mouthpiece, together with the battery and the depot. Wash the atomizer all over and shake it so that water gets out of the unit. Let it dry in full, leaving it aside for a day or two. Don’t use a cotton wool or any other cloth to dry the atomizer. If you can’t wait to use your electronic cigarette, you can try drying it with a hairdryer instead. When the e-cig is all dry, put the parts back together, and you are good to go. Keep in mind that the first ten to fifteen draws may be somehow week, but then ‘vaping’ will get back to normal.

In addition, if you really need a puff here and now but the Electronic Cigarette doesn’t give out the usual amount of vapor, you may try the dry smoking technique. Just remove the mouthpiece and take out the nicotine filler. Put the mouthpiece in place and take several puffs. You shouldn’t overdo dry smoking: the atomizer may overheat and get damaged.

First, it is a myth that the ban on smoking can solve the problem. As of 2008, the number of regular smokers has gone up in the USA despite the large scale anti-smoking campaigns. Obviously, no reasonable approach may force people to quit against their will. Policy makers should accept this reality and come up with alternative and innovative approaches to prevention and awareness raising, assistance and greater availability of methods for quitting, and well as research on products that pose less risk to human health.

Anti-smoking activists also claim that electronic cigarettes are sold to children and adolescents. In fact, the product is intended for use by regular smokers who are of legal age to purchase tobacco products. Manufacturers advocate appropriate labeling of the product and urge retailers to request their customers’ identification cards on purchases. Furthermore, representatives of the industry have noted that online electronic cigarette retailers should validate customer’s age prior to approving transactions. Finally, with an average price at around $100, few children can commit their weekly allowance to buying it.

Thirdly, electronic cigarette opponents argue that the product comes with many flavors in order to attract adolescents. Manufacturers have responded that preferences (in general and for flavor) are universal rather than limited to any particular age. Products of almost any kind offer a great variety of shapes, colorations, sizes, and flavors. Furthermore, to suggest that such a diversity of flavors is devised with children in mind is the same as claiming that cinnamon and mint smoking cessation gums are freely available to children. Both products are intended to be used by smokers who are of legal age to smoke. Moreover, electronic cigarettes are marketed to regular current smokers rather than non-smokers. No evidence has been found that other substitutes for regular tobacco products increases both, sale and consumption.

Litter statistics and research on environmental damages caused by smoking are rare. However, if each of the estimated 1.2 billion smokers was to flick just two cigarette butts per day, more than 2.4 billion butts would pollute our Earth on a daily basis. This will make for about 900 billion butts discarded and absorbed by mother Earth each year. Yet, scientists have found out that it takes around quarter of a century before the chemicals, contained in a cigarette butt, decompose. Unfortunately, many of the 4000 or so chemical compounds that pollute the soil and air are known carcinogens and toxins.

Furthermore, every 100 cigarette butts contain around 30 mg of nicotine and other dangerous chemicals. When rain pours down, these substances are absorbed by the soil, eventually reaching and polluting the rivers, lakes, and fresh water supplies. Furthermore, accidentally discarded lit butts are responsible for many of the devastating forest fires which result in the death of animal and plant species. Soil pollution endangers the flora and fauna and has negative effects on the quality of agricultural production.

In addition, factories that specialize in cigarette production are responsible for the felling of countless trees. Each hour, four miles of paper are needed for the rolling and packaging of the cigarette produce. The poisonous fumes that cigarette producing plants emit add to the already heavy air pollution.   This said, we not only inhale poisonous substances but pose real risks to the health of people who had never lit a cigarette in their lives.

Electronic cigarettes, on the other hand, use a vaporized solution that does not emit dangerous substances. Hence, the new e-cig poses less risk to human health and is much more environmental-friendly.

In fact, some bar owners claim that more than 90 percent of their regular clientele smokes while non-smoking customers don’t mind the ones that do. Bar and pub owners complain that they are already loosing some of their customers to the ban on smoking. Further, they point that unlike restaurants and eateries, bars are adult-only places. Kids are not allowed in bars and therefore not exposed to the harmful effects of the tobacco smoke. Besides, smokers and non-smokers alike don’t like being told what is best for them and what to do.

Some bar owners have already started looking for ways to accommodate their smoking customers. They see few alternatives: placing heaters on deck areas, offering or selling electronic cigarettes, or a combination of all. They are adding speakers to the outdoor sections so that smokers enjoy music and live shows. In USA, a recently reopened Duso’s Bar in Bay City sells ‘vaporettes’ to bar customers as a smoking alternative. The kits sold here come with changeable filters, containing zero, four, six, and eight milligrams of nicotine. Some of its customers have even purchased the kit as a smoking cessation aid.

Hotels have also begun to supply electronic cigarettes in order to cater for their smoking clients. A spokesman of US-based Smokestick explained that their mini-bar electronic cigarette was very popular with hotels in the United States. They supply hotels with units for every room, and the product is available for use by the clients for free. Hotel guests only pay for the used cartridges, found in the mini-bars. Furthermore for hotels, the product turns to be a no-risk venture: units are paid to the supplier only when they sell.

Hotels, bars, and various establishments look for various ways to comply with the ban and keep their clients all happy. New approaches and products, such as electronic cigarettes, invariably appear on the market, partly as a response to changing arrangements and circumstances.

It came out that it’s possible after the invention of electronic cigarettes in 2003. This revolutionary invention changed and continues to change smokers’ lives to better.

How do e-cigarettes contribute to the smoker’s health?

• According to studies nearly all e-smokers have previously tried cutting down on smoking either by pharmaceutical products or relying on their will. Also very few of them buy the device without the hope of quitting the habit. E-cigarettes help in alleviating nicotine cravings and its increase in the blood. Also no combustion, being the main reason for the harm of smoking, is applied when using the devices. Thus e-cigarettes help switchers to improve their health – either by quitting the habit or by transforming it into a healthier form. As the results are 45 % success rate of smokers who have given up smoking, this is encouraging. It’s another question if those results are consistent. Only time can prove or disprove it.
• E-cigarettes reduce significantly the usual morning smoker’s cough.
• E-cigarettes improve the smoker’s ability to exercise because they ameliorate the lung’s capacity to breathe more intensively and this is in favor of the smoker’s health.
• The sense of smell of the smoker is bettered and the e-cigarette users can catch slight smells more easily.
• The sense of taste is also improved and e-smokers can tell between two similar tastes. This is an ability that the regular smoker often loses.
• Smoking e-cigarettes definitely feels different and there’s no way that it doesn’t produce a different sensation – mostly reported as exciting by switchers
• E-smoking serves as an energizer, because it provides the needed nicotine for the blood without the body suffering the other harms of tobacco.
• The outer appearance of e-cigarette switchers improves visually into a healthier one. The wrinkles, black spots around the eyes, yellowish skin, etc. gradually fade away.
• The socializing effect with e-cigarettes is even greater as you can talk to friends – smokers or non-smokers in a non-smoking environment while smoking. This is how the device creates a calmer, inspiring environment for your psyche.

There are still areas in which the e-cigarettes’ impact on the smoker’s health are not being studied. Yet one thing can be confirmed for sure: they can only help – less or more, but cannot cause harm to smoker’s health.

Benefits of Electronic Cigarette

The e-cigarettes obviously have a lot of advantages compared to traditional ones. Some of them include:

* E-cigarettes are non-flammable
* E-cigarettes don’t emit second-hand smoke
* E-cigarettes are free of carcinogens, tobacco and tar
* E-cigarettes are reusable, because they are designed to use a rechargeable battery

Electronic Cigarette  Flavors for Different Tastes

Nicotine cartridges of the e-cigarettes are produced in a wide range of flavors. E-cigarette starters can buy an initial starter kit, then order replacing of the nicotine cartridges in flavors they choose. Some of the options include cigar flavor, flue-cured tobacco, French pipe, menthol. Some producers offer also flavors of distinguished cigarette brands as Marlboro, Hilton, Mild Seven. Another group of flavors consist of fruit or liquid scents like coconut, coffee, apple, caramel, cream, peach, strawberry, chocolate, red tea, Red Bull, vanilla, cola, pineapple, etc. There’s even a healthy flavor that contains a combination of ginseng with vitamins. For unpretentious smokers there are, of course, tasteless nicotine cartridges. Marketers of e-cigarettes should be aware that according to statistics tobacco and menthol are the most common flavors of e-cigarettes.

Controllable Levels of Nicotine

The Nicotine levels in e-cigarettes vary a lot and range according to the milligrams of nicotine in a cartridge. They can have low level – 6 mg, medium level – 11 mg, high level – 16 mg and extra high level – 24 mg. This provides the option for consumers to gradually decrease nicotine level and that way reduce the negative effects of smoking. The marketer of various types of such cartridges will actually give broader options to his potential buyers.

Costs of Electronic Cigarettes

The costs of e-cigarettes vary a lot, but in common an e-cigarette cartridge is equivalent to 1.6 packs of regular cigarettes. Of course, there’s an initial price that should be paid for a starter kit. It includes usually 2 e-cigarettes, 1 charger for an electrical outlet, 5 cartridges, 1 charger for computer. Additional devices are also offered, but they are uncommon for starter kits. The marketer should stress on the fact that e-cigarettes even with the initial investment of a starter kit are cheaper than traditional cigarettes.

Health issues

This is one of the mostly underlined points in the marketing strategies of companies selling e-cigarettes. The device is not healthy taken alone, but it’s a healthier alternative to smoking traditional cigarettes. Sometimes e-cigarettes are used as help in the process of quitting smoking, but the marketer should make it clear that they are not meant and not designed for such purposes. Even though they may influence beneficially to heavy smokers who are fighting the habit.