Can vapes really quit smoking?

The most concerned issue for people who are new to vapes is "Can vapes really quit smoking?" Is "vape safe?" In fact, it is human instinct for the rejection and suspicion of new things instinct. The author's attitude towards the initial exposure to vapes is more cautious and more skeptical than everyone else. So I put a lot of effort into studying the principles and hazards of vapes. After three years of personal experience, I started from my own feelings, to tell you about whether vapes can quit smoking, and some aspects of vape safety and how to correctly understand vapes.

Quitting smoking is actually a complicated and difficult process. Like drugs, cravings are divided into physical and psychological aspects. Most smokers don't even know that physical smoking is actually very good. Nicotine's withdrawal response is very mild and does not cause obvious pain. It only brings a psychological "emptiness". It is often said that "noisy", always feels "empty" in the heart. When you ignite the next cigarette, it is not actually to satisfy the cravings, or to relieve the pain in the body, just to "fill the psychological emptiness." If this emptiness is not satisfied, the psychological symptoms will increase, manifested as nervousness, irritability, self-confidence and self-control.

This is why many people often ignite cigarettes when they are nervous, making and receiving important calls, irritability, and making important decisions, in order to alleviate psychological tension. Once the cigarette is ignited, the smoker will be supplemented with nicotine in just a few seconds, and the previous emptiness will disappear, allowing the smoker to relax. Although many people do not want to smoke, they often have to ignite cigarettes in their hands or put them in an ashtray, because the moment they ignite cigarettes, they feel psychologically happy. This particular psychological phenomenon cannot be explained at present.

Therefore, the most difficult thing to quit smoking is to quit smoking (also can be said to be a habit). It is clear that the body does not need nicotine, but smokers are constantly trying to light cigarettes. Nicotine lozenges, nicotine patches, including vapes, are just a way of nicotine replacement, and whether it is possible to completely quit smoking, the most important thing is to look at the self-control and determination of the quitters. People with strong perseverance can quit smoking without any measures.

Whether electronic cigarettes can help to quit smoking, the key factor is nicotine. Smokers smoke for nicotine and increase dopamine release. The principle of smoking for electronic cigarettes is to supplement nicotine, which increases dopamine levels, in a healthier way, ending people's desire for cigarettes.

Nicotine causes dopamine in smokers, and supplementation with dopamine is the ultimate way to help smokers quit, and smoking cessation is beneficial. Although the physical habit of smoking is also a behavioral addiction, this “feel good” drug is the fundamental driving force for smokers to return to smoking habits when stress occurs.

Vapes give smokers a smoky experience that visually replaces smokers' physical addiction to cigarettes. A new generation of closed vapes using nicotine salt technology provides the possibility of nicotine reaching the blood and brain in a time that is close to real smoke, and is expected to physically replace cigarettes.

The absence of nicotine is basically ineffective in quitting smoking. Russell's famous saying: People smoke for nicotine but they die from the tar. As for the effect of smoking cessation of cigarettes, the main factors are: nicotine intake balance, and nicotine transmission efficiency.

Early vapes quit smoking were bad because the two factors about nicotine were not met. This is related to oil spills. The problem of battery power was once called the three major constraints of the development of the electronic cigarette industry. The question about nicotine was qualitatively improved after Juul first used nicotine salt in 2015. The electronic cigarette developed by Juul with this technology quickly occupied the large-scale smoking cessation market in the United States.

So, what is the nicotine intake balance? To put it simply, if smokers want to effectively replace cigarettes, the level of nicotine obtained with vapes needs to be roughly equal to the level of nicotine obtained by smoking.

Then let us give examples and data.

Take a study by an Iranian scientist as an example. An average smoke of 8 mg nicotine is 1/4 = 2 mg for a cigarette, 160 mg nicotine for a pack of cigarettes, 320 mg for two packs of cigarettes, and 480 mg of nicotine for three packs of cigarettes.

Then for a heavy smoker (2 to 3 packs a day), his daily use of vapes requires a nicotine content of 80-120 mg.

The early e-liquid nicotine content was 6 mg/ml, 12 mg/ml, 18 mg/ml, and 24 mg/ml. Because the traditional free base nicotine is volatile and irritating, 18mg is already extremely aggressive, and usually 24mg/ml has reached the upper limit of inhalation. The actual intake of nicotine is very small. According to nicotine's self-titration and compensation mechanism, smokers have to ingest a larger amount of PG, VG atomized mist in e-liquid. Balanced smoking nicotine intake is difficult to achieve in early vapes.

Can vapes help stop smoking? The answer is: Yes.

According to official data and actual measurements, the number of mouthpieces that can be sucked by a cigarette can be basically the same as the number of mouthpieces that can be sucked by 2 to 3 packets of cigarettes. The average smoker of a pack of cigarettes per day can be used for about three days, and the smokers can basically reach the balance of nicotine intake.

What is the transmission efficiency of nicotine? Smoking delivers nicotine to the brain in 7 seconds and quickly reaches the bloodstream. According to Professor Bernd Mayer, smoking a cigarette will result in a mean arterial plasma nicotine concentration of about 3g/ml.

This means that the basic equivalent amount of nicotine intake should be substantially the same as the basic equivalent amount of smokable mouth. The intake of each nicotine should also be roughly the same.

How does vape compare to other smoking cessation products?

Smoking causes 7 million premature deaths each year, including 1 million second-hand smoke victims. Smoking is hard to eliminate as one of the most serious epidemics in the world. Traditional nicotine replacement therapy is inefficient and has a limited audience (only those who want to quit smoking seek treatment), and the success rate is closely related to the behavioral intervention of the GP. Vapes are a consumer-driven health revolution that is epoch-making for the eradication of cigarettes, a global epidemic.

For the sake of simplicity, let's make a table comparison. For example, a smoker with a pack of cigarettes a day consumes about 40 mg of nicotine per day. The NRT drug nicotine patch is recommended for a group of cigarette smokers per day. The recommended amount is 21 mg nicotine patch for one day; the nicotine chew is mainly divided into 2 mg. And 4mg, usually a pack of cigarettes a day, need to start with 4mg chewing tablets, about 8 to 12 tablets a day, a total of about 30-40mg.

Since the birth of electronic cigarettes, nicotine has been at the heart of all problems. This includes all kinds of love and hate with tobacco companies, whether vapes can quit smoking, whether vapes are harmless, and the new problem that has emerged in the country recently is the question of who is the vape orthodox.

Vapes are more accurate than smoking cessation. Because the success of smoking cessation will vary depending on the user's own differences, but the effect of “replacement of cigarettes” and reduction of smoke is very obvious and universal. In the author's own three-year experience in electronic cigarette use, the initial use of electronic cigarettes is often the most effective, and can significantly reduce the number of cigarettes smoked. On the first day of using vapes, I reduced from two packs a day to ten. After a week, you can do not smoke cigarettes every day, only use electronic cigarettes. Not because I have perseverance, but because of three reasons. First, my physical condition has not allowed me to smoke cigarettes again, and I have a certain determination to quit smoking. Second, vapes can meet the physiological and psychological needs of those who quit smoking. Third, after using the electronic cigarette, and then smoking the cigarette, the taste will become very strange, completely without the previous alcohol and taste, but will be somewhat disgusting.

In order to better use vapes to quit smoking, it is recommended that you use electronic cigarettes to quit smoking before you can learn about some of the successful smoking cessation experiences of vapes, because vape manufacturers will not give detailed smoking cessation methods on vapes. At the same time, I wish you all the Premium to use vapes to quit smoking and get rid of the dangers of cigarettes as soon as possible.