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Katherine Heigl’s a fan of electronic cigarettes
Oct 20th
Source: http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/05/katherine-heigls-a-fan-of-electronic-cigarettes/
Cigarettes used to be a stress reliever for Katherine Heigl, but now the 31-year-old actress is definitively proclaiming that “smoking sucks” – except when it comes to electronic cigarettes.
Heigl, whose movie “Life As We Know It” opens on October 8, told Parade magazine that an electronic cigarette has been a life-saver for the past six months.
“I know it sound’s ridiculous, but it’s helping me not to actually smoke real cigarettes,” Heigl said. “You feel like you are smoking, and you get to exhale but it’s just water vapor and not nicotine.”
Now that she’s leaving her packs in the past, Heigl added that she’s developed an idea on how to talk to adopted daughter Naleigh about smoking, and is considering using an argument that goes past the familiar warnings.
“The one thing I would say to my kid,” Heigl said, “is ‘It’s not just that it’s bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn’t even really give you a good buzz?’”
Satisfying Smoke Reveal’s a New Study on Electronic Cigarettes
Oct 18th
Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/09/prweb4498764.htm
Piedmont, SC (Vocus) September 14, 2010
According to Health Life a new South Africa study shows 45 percent of South African smokers who used electronic cigarettes were able to quit traditional tobacco smoking within two months.The e-cigarette is an electronic device that delivers nicotine through water vapor without the harmful tar, carcinogens, smoke, or odor found in traditional cigarettes.
In the first local medical study on the efficiency of electronic cigarettes to help smokers kick the habit, a team of doctors supplied 349 patients with electronic cigarettes over a period of eight weeks. All participating doctors agreed that e-cigarettes are a more significantly healthy alternative to conventional smoking.
The study’s outcome revealed that:
- 6% of smokers quit within two weeks increasing to 45% within eight weeks.
- 52% of all patients reported both increased levels of energy and visible improvement in their physical appearance.
- When asked what factors about smoking tobacco cigarettes were the hardest to give up, 49% of patients said nicotine cravings and 24% reported the habit itself was the most difficult to break. Twenty-seven percent of all participating smokers said that a combination of all factors (the habit, nicotine, the taste and feeling of smoking) made it hard to quit.
- When asked if an e-cigarette could act as an agent to overcome all the physical and psychological challenges to quit tobacco smoking, all doctors said “Yes”.
Dr Clifford Hulley, one of the participating medical professionals in the survey, reported that “an e-cigarette is the most effective treatment method on the market for quitting tobacco smoking“.
Satisfying Smoke Customer Reviews
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“Satisfying Smoke has been a pleasant experience. It is like smoking a real cigarette. Also, my battery stays charged for at least a couple of days, and the filter has a long life. My children, who hate the smell of cigarette smoke, have even approved of it!! I would definitely recommend this product to others.” – Terri Gillespie, Rating: (5 of 5 Stars!)
According to Matt Salmon, president of the Electronic Cigarette Association (Eca) in the USA, available data indicates that electronic cigarettes reduce the risk of illness and death to under 1% of the risk posed by traditional tobacco cigarettes “which are responsible for 400,000 deaths per year in the US – more than AIDS, drugs, homicides, fires and auto accidents combined”.