A new study out of the University of London, has found that a genetic mutation which can cause mouth cancer can be worsened by the nicotine levels found in stop smoking products. Its too early to tell if smokers should be worried about the risk from these products but we can be sure that the cancer risk will still be much lower for a nicotine gum user when to compared to someone who continues to smoke cigarettes.

Its hard to say exactly what this means for those of use who use the E Cigarette as a nicotine replacement therapy. After reading the article my stance is pretty much as it has always, E Cigarettes are probably not the healthiest product on the market and should not be seen as a long term replacement for tobacco cigarettes. At the same time, using an E Cigarette for a few months as a stepping stone to becoming nicotine free is infinitely preferable to continuing to smoke and is currently the best way to quit smoking we have.

You might say that its easy to find a successful Stop Smoking Aid on the market, but which of them really offers a genuinely high chance of helping you stop. My guess is that the majority of people who manage to use most current NRT products would have been able to stop with or without their use. If you think about it, all they do is keep you addicted to nicotine without giving you the comfort of the physically smoking. That’s what sets the e cig apart from nicotine patches and gums and why its far more successful in helping us stop even if we continue to be addicted to this product instead.

No matter how bad they might tell vaping is in the media, there is no way you are going to convince the majority of the public that they even approach the dangers we are all to aware of in tobacco products.

The rest of the stop smoking industry isn’t really worth discussing either in my humble opinion. Quit Smoking Hypnosis has never worked for anyone I’ve talked to about it. Some feel after their session that they are free from their nicotine addiction but they all seem to end up back on the cigarettes a few months later. Most of the stop smoking books at your local bookshop and support groups are just as ineffective.

The only exception to the rule would be Allan Carr’s “Easy Way To Stop Smoking” technique which undoubtedly works for many smokers but there will always be those who are unwilling to take the effort to attend a course of read his book and for those people the e cigarette is the perfect option.

Read the original article HERE.

First of all, to the few E Cigarette sellers that this applies to, stop making claims that aren’t true! Any short term gains you make with cheap marketing tricks will be erased by the long term damage done to the E Cigarette industry. If you’re in this for the long haul doesn’t it make sense to play by the rules?

Secondly, if you’re an E Cigarette consumer, stay away from anyone making ridiculous claims about the health benefits of the E Cig. The truth is no one knows for sure just how safe these things are, and a company claiming that they are the answer to all your problem probably isn’t to be trusted. I for one am certain that the E Cig is a truly health giving product in comparison to the cancer sticks I used to smoke but everyone has to decide for themselves.

I’m always dubious about anything that comes out of the mouth of an international organization. Where exactly does the funding come from and what effect does this have on the neutrality of the information that they give out. When you take a closer look at the WHO’s Tobacco Free Initiative program you see that it receives 70% of its funding from the very pharmaceutical industries that supplies NRT products. How am I supposed to take anything such an organization says seriously when their sponsers have such a vested interested in the information being disseminated.

The organization states in the release that it “does not consider it to be a legitimate therapy for smokers trying to quit” and that the only way to know if they are a useful smoking cessation aid is to test.

Its glaringly obvious that E Cigarettes aren’t considered “legitimate” because their partners in the chemical industry don’t have their finger in the pie. Who after all, apart from Big Pharma, has the money to “conduct clinical studies and toxicity analysis and operate within the proper regulatory framework” to make E Cigarettes “legitimate”?

All this is par for the course I suppose, but its shocking to me that this information will be regurgitaed many times as gospel because it came from someone “respectable” at the World Health Organization. I’ll stick to making up my own mind about how to live my life based on my experiences and those of people I trust, you should do the same!