1. What is an electronic cigarette?
First of all, real cigarettes and e-cigarettes are two different things, and most people don't know this concept. In terms of smoke, one is solid particles produced after combustion, and the other is fog produced after liquid atomization at high temperature. The former is smoked bacon and the latter is drinking oil, which are purely two concepts. Another fact that is easily misunderstood is that e-cigarettes are not smoking cessation products, but can only be regarded as smoking cessation AIDS at most, just substitutes for cigarettes. Its principle is to solve physical addiction with nicotine, and solve psychological addiction with simulated smoke and simulated smoke taste, so as to achieve the effect of real smoke.
Another situation is that the real cigarettes really quit at last, but the e-cigarettes are addicted. This situation is actually very common, and my friends in the e-cigarette enthusiast group basically belong to this situation. At first, most friends may think it is not as good as real cigarettes, because cigarette oil itself has no tar, and its taste is still different from real cigarettes to some extent.
Second, why choose e-cigarettes?
The difference between e-cigarettes and real cigarettes is roughly as follows:
1. E-cigarettes do not contain tar, carbon monoxide and other harmful substances that almost all cigarettes have. They only contain nicotine, and nicotine itself is harmless. This is just an addictive thing. Of course, you can't take too much. If you smoke 8 packs of real cigarettes a day, you will get nicotine poisoning. Of course, it is also possible for you to go directly to heaven with other ingredients before poisoning.
2. E-cigarettes hardly produce second-hand smoke, but the amount produced is relatively small, which will not cause unpleasant fog. Compared with the second-hand smoke of real cigarettes, the impact on people around you is almost negligible.
3. E-cigarettes can artificially control the nicotine content, gradually reduce the nicotine content during use, and finally achieve the effect of quitting smoking according to your own wishes.
Why choose e-cigarettes? Domestic smokers say this.
Mr. Huang once smoked e-cigarettes. His understanding of e-cigarettes is that "there is no ordinary cigarette to smoke". At first, he felt a little unaccustomed to smoking. After smoking for a while, he felt less about the consumption of ordinary cigarettes, but he still felt that he didn't eat enough.
Why choose e-cigarettes? Foreign smokers say so.
Several former smokers said that after using e-cigarettes for a few days, they gave up ordinary cigarettes. "Breathe freely and sleep well." Greg Hurst, 42, said. He worked in information systems in Atlanta and smoked for more than 20 years. The aforementioned e-cigarette seller, Ms. Baskeros, started smoking at the age of 14 and used to smoke two packs a day. She tried to use nicotine patches and other things to help quit smoking, but none of them succeeded. Until the beginning of 2009, she began to buy electronic cigarettes, which have been used until now.
Why choose e-cigarettes? The manufacturer said so.
She used to be a computer consultant. She said, "E-cigarettes have changed my life. I really want to introduce it to more people." She started a "smokeless" company last year and has sold 6.5438+0.5 million electronic cigarettes. The company's website does not shout health slogans, but only describes e-cigarettes as "wonderful tobacco substitutes". E-cigarettes can help smokers quit smoking easily. Nicotine is the main component leading to smoking addiction, which will make people feel euphoric and dependent on it. By gradually using smoke bombs with gradually decreasing nicotine concentration, smokers can unconsciously quit smoking while maintaining their smoking status, so as to achieve the goal of easily quitting smoking.
Why choose e-cigarettes? American scientific research institutions say so
Dr Joel Nitzky, from the Tobacco Control Group of the American Association of Public Health Physicians, said that e-cigarettes may be the most promising smoking cessation product on the market at present. He said that products should be controlled to ensure production standards. Some scientists also believe that e-cigarettes avoid the process of tobacco burning, so the harm may be much less than ordinary cigarettes, because cancer and diseases caused by smoking are mainly caused by toxins produced during tobacco burning.
Third, the harm of electronic cigarettes
E-cigarettes are heated to steam, which contains liquid nicotine. So when it comes to lung cancer, e-cigarettes are definitely much safer than traditional cigarettes. However, e-cigarettes are heated by liquid nicotine. The key word of this sentence is nicotine. Nicotine is harmful to your health, no matter how you use it. According to researchers, nicotine constricts blood vessels and increases blood pressure, but it also puts pressure on the heart. Because in essence, e-cigarettes are harmful to health, because they can cause heart disease and stroke. The difference between e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes is that the former may cause cancer and heart disease, while the latter may cause heart disease. You should also pay attention to the risk of heart disease and take preventive measures, such as exercising, eating low-fat food and taking care of yourself. In a word, e-cigarettes are harmful to health, or at least can. But overall, they are much less harmful than ordinary cigarettes.
If we want to compare with the harm of traditional cigarettes, we should talk more about the harm of its manufacturing raw materials, cigarette oil and other supporting products, especially the harm of inferior electronic cigarettes.
1. First of all, in order to achieve better results, some unscrupulous merchants may illegally add harmful substances, such as diethylene glycol instead of propylene glycol, nitrosamines, plasticizers, heavy metals, etc., which will cause great harm to the human body. According to personal preference, spices such as chocolate and mint are also added to tobacco oil, and the quality of spices directly determines the harm of tobacco oil.
Secondly, the batteries used in some e-cigarettes are of poor quality. This kind of lithium battery has not passed the compulsory safety and quality certification. Putting such a lithium battery in the small size of an electronic cigarette is like putting a time bomb in your mouth. The explosion of electronic cigarettes in smokers' mouths in the first half of the year in the United States was the disaster caused by this lithium battery.
3. In addition, some businesses add too much nicotine to e-cigarettes, which may cause dizziness, nausea and vomiting of users, and even lead to poisoning in severe cases.
4. In addition, many e-cigarettes in the market say that "seven days to quit smoking is successful, but no refund is successful", exaggerating the auxiliary functions of e-cigarettes unilaterally, boasting that they can quit smoking after smoking, which leads many smokers to have high psychological expectations and misunderstand the purchase. After using it, I found that it was not as magical as advertised, so I was extremely disappointed and had a great misunderstanding about the product. They lit cigarettes again and returned to the arms of harmful cigarettes.
5. There are counterfeit and shoddy products in the e-cigarette market, with frequent accidents: counterfeit and shoddy products have appeared many times at home and abroad, and serious accidents caused by quality problems have attracted the attention and criticism of media in various countries.
Fourth, preventive measures.
Knowing the principle, the preventive measures are very clear. Try to choose electronic cigarettes produced by legal manufacturers, especially cigarette oil produced by legal manufacturers. Tobacco oil is generally marked with nicotine content. Choose tobacco oil with low nicotine content instead of tobacco oil with high nicotine content. Don't covet cheap, stay away from fake and shoddy.
I hope my answer is useful to you. Thank you for your adoption.