How to Live Longer Without Quitting Smoking

Cigarettes have been viewed as evil throughout the world’s history. Think about its negative effects on your health like damaged lungs, dark lips, yellow teeth and bad breath. Think about its effects on the environment such as the emission of carbon monoxide and other toxins harmful to people’s health. This is not to mention the various inconvenience for smokers to actually deal with stuff like “no smoking area” or smelly clothes.
Finally, here comes a revolutionary innovation intended to cater to one of the world’s oldest habits- cigarette smoking. The Electronic Cigarette is a ground-breaking technological advancement that has been around since 2002, but recent improvements allow smokers to experience real smoking minus the evils of combustion, flame, tobacco, carbon monoxide, residue, chemicals, toxins, carcinogenics and even smell typical in real cigarettes.
The product even lets you inhale and exhale a real smoke "vapor" that imitates real cigarette smoke.
Green Smoke is an amazing healthy alternative to traditional cigarettes. Imagine, in this day and age, anyone could easily satisfy his or her oral fixation or call it cravings with a water vapor device that features realistic tobacco taste, look and feel. It’s a great goodbye to smoke smell on your clothes, in your home or work and indeed a great hello to a whole new healthy lifestyle, without quitting smoking.
This revolutionary Electronic Cigarette is devoid of tobacco and thousands of other harmful chemicals and toxins associated with traditional smoking. The water vapor being released by the smoker looks like real deal second hand smoke, but it is only water vapor, making it possible for people to smoke anywhere, even in smoking-prohibited areas.
Basic Information:
An electronic cigarette gives inhaled dosage of nicotine through a vaporized solution. Simply known as a personal vaporizer, it is a battery-operated gadget that makes a great alternative to smoked tobacco products, like cigarettes, cigars, or pipes. Aside from nicotine release, this vapor also affords the smoker a taste and physical sensation similar to that of inhaled tobacco smoke while none is actually involved in its process.

E-Cigarettes resemble the physical look of real smoking products, are reusable with replaceable and refillable parts. Furthermore, it also saves the smokers thousands of dollars from purchasing traditional cigarettes and of course in the long run, from health problems associated with smoking.
This is what the world has been waiting for. An all-in-one solution to the dilemmas brought about by the smoking habit. The “quit smoking” slogan is now a thing of the past. A switch to electronic cigarettes is your key to a whole new healthy, responsible lifestyle! 

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Which Electric Cigarettes Are Compatible With Eachother?

I get a lot of emails asking me about which brands and styles of electric cigarettes are compatable. Can you use a battery from brand "A" on a cartomizer or atomizer of brand "B"? In this article I will try to outline some of the brands that I know to be compatable. Please feel free to post a comment if I have missed anything or mistaken anything.

The E-9 Style or Two Piece Designs

The E-9 style is one of the most popular styles because of it's ease of use and two piece design. Unlike the three piece ecigarettes that have a separate atomizer, the E-9 style has the atomizer built in to the disposable cartridge. The "E" stands for "electric" and the "9" refers to the 9mm thread pattern. I would recomend this style to anyone who is new to the world of ecigarettes.

E-9 Brands That Are Compatable With Eachother

Some companies that provide the E-9 style are:
Green Smoke - They sell exclusively the E-9 style and they do it right. In my opinion this is the best company out there. The product is top quality, the customer service is un-beatable and the free shipping is super fast.
Smoke 51 - They sell two different styles, one of them is the E-9 style. They call it the Duo because of the two piece design.
Premium Ecigarettes - This one is also the E-9 style, They also offer a really cool USB charging case that no other company offers for the E-9 style ecig.
E-Cig Brand - They offer many different styles, One of them is the E-9 style. This company probably has the least expensive ecigarettes but you can only order them directly from china. They also offer a simple starter kit for $19.95 if you are curious about ecigs and want to try them out without spending a lot to begin with. This kit comes with 1 rechargable battery and two cartomizers. You can buy a charger later if you enjoy the ecig.
Zero Tar - They offer a few different styles of ecig, one of them is an E-9 style that they call the E-Vaporizer Kit That pretty much covers what I know of about the E-9 style and which companies provide them.

The Trio or Three Piece Designs

The three piece design is the second most popular design. The difference from the two piece design is that they have a separate atomizer, unlike the duo design which has the atomizer built into the nicotime cartridge.

Trio Brands That Are Compatable With Eachother

These are some of the three piece designs that I know of that will work with eachother:
The Blu Ecigarette - This ecigarette is one of the highest quality on the market and a good starter for someone new to ecigs. The starter kit includes a charging case that is exclusive to the Blu Ecigarette and that no other company offers anything quite like it. The case will ensure that you always have a fully charged battery.
Smoke 51 Trio - The Smoke 51 Trio is another high quality three piece ecigarette. the starter kit comes with everything you need to start vaping and even includes one extra nicotine cartridge.
The Luci Ecig - Yet another high quality three piece electric cigarette. They offer four different versions of their starter kit, each with different amenities.
The Instead eCig - Instead is one of the only companies that sell their kits with e-liquid so that you can refill the cartridges. Most of the other companies just want you to buy the pre-filled cartridges.
The Dragonfly ecig - This one is not fully compatible with the above brands but I decided to include it because the battery has the same thread pattern. The cartridges slips into the atomizer rather than onto the atomizer. but you can use the battery with any of the above models.
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We Cought Up with Carl Phillips of the Tobacco Harm Reduction Institute at the University of Alberta To Talk About The Safety Of Electric Cigarettes

ECD: Given what we know about the ingredients and carcinogens contained within the electronic cigarette, is there reason to believe it could be a safer alternative to regular cigarettes?
Carl Phillips: I think that's quite an understatement. I think there's absolutely no doubt that it is a safer alternative to regular cigarettes. Now safe, that's a word that implies there is absolutely no health risk from something, and that doesn't really apply to anything. But our estimate is that it is probably in the order of 99 percent less harmful than smoking, I think there's little doubt that it's down in the neighborhood.
ECD: Professor Michael Siegel suggested that if we banned electronic cigarettes based on the carcinogens found in the FDA study we would have to ban peanut butter. Is that something you would agree with?
Carl Phillips: At least! We'd have to ban half the foods that are available. I mean, the FDA study really didn't find any cancer risk. That study was basically pure propaganda.
ECD: Is there any danger of passive smoking with electronic cigarettes?
Carl Phillips: Probably not. As far as we know, the vapour, the propylene glycol vapour, has no human health risks at low concentrations, so it's possible that there's some miniscule risk, far too small for us to have ever noticed it or measured it. The amount of nicotine that escapes out into the air is also quite trivial and nicotine itself has such a low risk profile... so again it is never proper science to say that there is absolutely no risk from something, just as it is not proper science to say simply that there is a risk from something without trying to quantify it. But I guess there is no serious risk from second hand vapour as I guess it would have to be called.
ECD: In your opinion, could the electronic cigarette aid smoking cessation or be of use as a tobacco harm reduction product?
Carl Phillips: Yes, not only could it but it clearly is already being used for exactly that. Self reports suggest that thousands, tens of thousands of smokers have quit smoking by switching to the electronic cigarette which is the perfect proof that it does work as a smoking cessation aid and a tobacco harm reduction tool. A good example of a reliable ecig brand is Endless Vapor, not only is it  the highest quality ecig on the market, but they also donate a percentage of profits to cancer reaserch.
ECD: Electronic Cigarettes have been in use for several years now, and there are a few organisations which are concerned about them. What side effects have been found so far?
Carl Phillips: As far as I know there hasn't been any discoveries of acute side effects, which of course is good news. There is no reason to expect any but you never know quite what is going to happen with a new exposure. You can have reports that start to trickle in of a case here or there of something very strange happening. I'm not aware of any such thing. We of course know that long term use of nicotine poses a small, a very small but non-zero risk of some cardiovascular diseases so I suppose you could call that a side effect which is predictable for the long run, but that's a total risk which is down in the range of drinking coffee, nothing remotely similar to the risk from smoking cigarettes.
ECD: What's your biggest concern with regards to the electronic cigarette?
Carl Phillips: Well, we don't know too much about the manufacturing process and there's not enough quality control, or at least there is not enough guarantee of quality control in the process. Now, this of course varies from manufacturer to manufacturer, but with reasonably free entry that just about anybody with an appropriate factory in China can start manufacturing these and start putting them out under some brand name there is worry about contamination. I mean this is not a plastic toy or something like that, which alone generates a lot of worry about Chinese manufacturers. This is something that is delivering chemicals into the body in a way which is definitely going to be absorbed so it doesn't take much of a production mishap to create something that is very harmful. And I really fear that it is going to happen one of these days if we don't get some effective regulation and it is going to give the entire product line a bad name which of course would be inappropriate but quite understandable. I have to reference endlessvapor.com again because the manufacturing standards are very high so there are no worries about contamination.
ECD: Following on from those concerns about the quality of production, let's talk about the FDA. The FDA carried out tests on electronic cigarettes in which they found diethylene glycol in one "Smoking Everywhere" e-cigarette and traces of tobacco specific nitrosamines in both Smoking Everywhere and NJOY electronic cigarettes. So what are the significance of those findings?
Carl Phillips: There's no significance of those findings whatsoever from a scientific or health standpoint. From a political standpoint the fact that they did that was quite significant. So on the first point the fact that there are any detectable levels of any small molecules that can be found in the tobacco plant in the e-cigarettes is not surprising at all. The nicotine comes from tobacco and our ability to detect a few stray molecules of contamination means that basically any molecule that is small enough to be a contaminant that is found in the tobacco plant will also be found in e-cigarettes. It'll also be found in nicoderm, nicorette, any product that contains nicotine that has been extracted from a tobacco plant. So that's completely meaningless - the quantities of the nitrosamines in the electronic cigarette were so many orders of magnitude smaller than those, say, in smokeless tobacco, which has been shown to not cause a measurable risk of cancer, so we know that this doesn't matter. Now, there is some more significance in finding contamination in the carrier chemicals, not that there was enough in this particular case that it was going to be harmful but because there is not supposed to be anything other than the propylene glycol and the water there, it does mean that there is a manufacturing problem - a manufacturing problem under some circumstances could be quite a bad thing. Now what really is the biggest problem is the politics that this reflects.This shows up in all sorts of harm reduction type situations and the basic rule of thumb is, if you ban something or if you're trying to ban something, declare war on it, then you can't regulate it, you can't make it safer. So if you have a war on injection drug use and you simply want to forbid it and don't want to admit it is happening in any way, you will prevent needle exchanges from happening which would save a lot of lives. If you want to have a war on prostitution and just absolutely forbid it and pretend it doesn't exist then it is impossible to impose rules that force prostitutes to get health exams and so forth. Similarly if the FDA is intent on declaring war on electronic cigarettes and simply forcing them from the market then they are going to be abdicating their responsibility to make sure that the electronic cigarettes are what they are supposed to be and keep them safe and that goes back to this quality control problem. The FDA would really be the perfect entity to help impose some quality control on ecig manufacture even though they are manufactured in a different country but it looks pretty bad in terms of the possibility of them doing that.
ECD: What health benefits, if any, might smokers find if they smoked electronic cigarettes, or changed to electronic cigarettes?
Carl Phillips: The health benefits of switching are almost exactly the same as the health benefits of quitting, and this applies to electronic cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and pharmaceutical nicotine. If a smoker can manage to switch from smoking to one of those other products the benefits are approximately the same as quitting - they lower their cancer risk, they lower their cardiovascular disease risk, they get rid of acute symptoms of lung and airway problems, a risk that comes from smoking for pulmonary diseases and so forth. Switching is so close as good as quitting that from a health point of view there is no point in worrying about the difference.
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About smoking addiction

The addiction to smoking

, which implies addiction to the substance nicotine has several components. The better one is aware of these components and understand them, the better is the chance for succeeding in stopping the smoking habit. Here is a survey of the components that addiction to smoke consist of.
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THE SOCIAL COMPONENT
To some extend the habit of smoking is a product of socialization. Socialization is simply the tendency to repeat patterns of behaviour one sees other persons in the society exhibit. Socialisation is one major way children and young people learn social skills. Children and teenagers learn skills necessary to live and work in the society by a socialisation process. Unfortunately also bad habits and bad ways of thinking are learned the same way.
If one lives or works together with other smoking individuals, one will more or less automatic adopt these individuals’ smoking habits. If one then tries to break out of the social structure, one will feel anxiety for not being accepted any more by the social group one is a part of.
If the other individuals also make moves to threaten or freeze out an individual trying to brake this bad social standard, the difficulty of breaking out of the habit will be even greater. The threatening actions may not even be very serious to frighten a person from braking out of such a socially standardized habit, and may not even be meant as a threat.
 THE NEED FOR SUCKING AND CHEWING
Every person have a need for sucking and chewing. This need is necessary in early infanthood, but it also persists into adult life to some degree. Some persons use cigarettes or other smoking devices and the smoke as a means to satisfy this need. There is a hypothesis that this need is greater by some adults then by others because this need, or some other similar basic need, has not been fully satisfied in early infanthood.
If you want to stop smoking, you can try to satisfy this need by other means, for example by always keeping something in your pocket that you can put in your mouth to chew at when the need for smoke appears.

AUTOMATIC REPEATING
When a person have done something many times and frequently enough, there will be created a pattern of automatic repetition of that particular behaviour. This is especially true if the particular action is done in a distinct recognizable situation.
The pattern of automatic repetition also have the effect of making a person feel safer in the daily life and routines.
Such a pattern of automatic repetition is always a component in the smoking habit. It you want to quit smoking, you should make an investigation to find out in which situations and which environments you usually take a cigarette.
Then try to avoid these situations or environments where you use to smoke, or to deliberately alter these situations.
NICOTINE USED AS A SELF MEDICATION
Nicotine has a tranquilizing effect upon nervous feelings. At the same time it has some anti-depressive effect, at least in the short run, and it makes a person feel more awake. A person suffering from nervousness or from depressive symptoms may feel that the smoking helps him against his mental symptoms.
However, gradually there will be a need for steadily higher doses of nicotine to give these good effects, and if there is a lack of nicotine in the body, the nervous or depressive feelings will be greater than before.
This gratification, but with the need for steadily higher doses to get the good effects is a major incentive for the smoking habit. You should consider if this anti-depressive or tranquilizing effect is a reason for your smoking. Then you should try to find other ways to achieve the same effect. Engaging in some sport or outdoor life will often make you feel less depressed. If the depressive feelings are more serious, some appropriate treatment can be necessary.
THE PLEASURE COMPONENT
There is to some degree a plain and direct pleasure connected with smoking. This pleasure is in itself a good effect. This good effect is probably in most cases too small compared to the painful effects of smoking, but will gives a temptation for an individual to continue the habit. However, also this pleasure effect will gradually be difficult to obtain without increasing the doses.
If the plain pleasure of smoking is a main reason for your habit, then you should try to find other sources of pleasure instead, for example some good food, some good music or some erotic action.
THE GENETIC COMPONENT
Not all people get equally easy dependent of nicotine. There are factors yet not fully understood that make some people more easily addicted than others. Perhaps some persons have receptors on their nerve cells that more easily get trigged by nicotine than others, or perhaps some people have more receptors with the ability to get trigged by nicotine, and this is inherited in the genetic code.
THE NERVOUS MECHANISMS WORKING BY ADDICTION
The normal brain has signal substances with a tranquilizing effect, and substances with a stimulating effect upon nerve cells. Like most narcotic substances, nicotine act like a signal substance by fitting into receptors on some brain cells.
Nicotine attaches itself to some receptors and thus give the nerve cell having these receptors a signal. The cells getting such a signal from nicotine, will react by secreting another signal substance, dopamine that influence still other cells. Dopamine will tranquilize some brain cells and stimulate others, and the total effect of this is the pleasurable effects of smoking.
However, when nicotine steadily induces dopamine release, the brain will gradually decrease the production of dopamine when nicotine is not present, and the brain will feel a steadily greater need for nicotine to work normally and feel well.

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Green Smoke E-Cigarette Gaining Popularity

Despite the controversy surrounding it, the e-cigarette continues to gain popularity with smokers. E-cigarette sales continue to rise as many smokers believe that the e-cigarette is a safer alternative to real cigarettes. One of the more popular brands of e-cigarettes is the Green Smoke.
Like other e-cigarettes, the Greene Smoke does not actually burn anything. Therefore the Greene Smoke does not really produce smoke like a real cigarette. Instead, liquid nicotine is vaporized into fine mist by an atomizer, which is activated when the user inhales on the mouthpiece. The vaporized liquid nicotine is eventually inhaled into the user's lungs, satisfying the user's nicotine cravings but without the many dangerous chemicals associated with real cigarette smoke. The liquid nicotine is kept in cartridges, which are placed into the Green Smoke e-cigarette.
Also like other brands, the Greene Smoke uses a Light Emitting Diode that glows when the the user inhales on the mouthpiece, mimicking the effect of a real cigarette.
What differentiates the Greene Smoke from its competitors is its simple two piece design. Most e-cigarettes use a three piece design. But, the Green Smoke design uses only two pieces that easily screw into each other. The two piece design makes loading new liquid nicotine cartridges a snap.
Another unique feature of the Greene Smoke is that each liquid nicotine cartridge comes with its own atomizer. Most other designs use the same atomizer for each new liquid nicotine cartridge. The problem with that design is that atomizers can become dirty and clogged with residue left over from the liquid nicotine. However, with the Greene Smoke, the problem of dirty and clogged atomizers is eliminated, since each liquid nicotine cartridge comes with its own atomizer.
Finally, the Greene Smoke offers liquid nicotine cartridges in many different flavors, including tobacco, vanilla, chocolate, menthol, and coffee.
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Yeast Infection 101 - How Do You Know If You Have a Yeast Infection?

If we talk about how to know if we have yeast infection, we are generally talking about the symptoms. The signs and symptoms of a yeast infection is not something that you will be able to miss even if you only had it for the first time. Some people tend to ignore the symptoms but they are only risking even more problem.
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The earlier symptoms that you will have would be the burning sensation and the sensation of complete dryness. But, the itchy symptom is always one of the cardinal signs that you have this particular sensation. If you do a little research about the burning and itchy private part, it will not take long for you to realize that what you have is indeed a yeast infection. Along with the cause, you will also discover a lot of things about its possible cure.
Only 25% of the general population of women will not have to deal with this particular infection for the rest of their lives. This means that the condition is fairly common that the rest of the women's general population will have to face this annoying challenge for their entire lives.
There are other conditions that may manifest similar symptoms as this infection but treating them with how you treat yeast infection will not give you any relief. Therefore, it is important that you know exactly what your condition is before you can take proper action and treatment. More often than not, women who had this infection experience this often. They will be able to identify the symptoms far easily than women who have this for the first time and only once.
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For women who experienced recurrent infection, they are actually familiar with the burning, itching and dryness on their genital area. The area may also be inflamed and it might be the result of scratching on your side. You will also be able to experience a vaginal discharge that is both dry and off-white looking just like a cottage cheese. When you urinate, you will experience burning sensation especially when the fluid will touch the swollen area but the discharge is not as common as the itchy and burning sensation. This kind of infection is painful during sexual intercourse. The intensity of the symptoms is varied. Some people will experience them on a lesser extent and some others will have to suffer.
One worst complication of this particular condition is the systemic yeast infection that will yield a different kind of manifestations like oral thrush, chronic fatigue, Crohn's disease, diabetes, night sweats, high blood pressure, lupus, fibromyalgia and high cholesterol blood levels. However, some condition is caused entirely because of antibiotic usage. Medications such as birth control pills as well as corticosteroids can also disrupt the normal body immune system, which could lead to this condition.
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How to Get Rid of a Yeast Infection Naturally Once And For All

There are various guides that are designed to help people who are suffering from the embarrassingly itchy yeast infection. These are cures that may work for you if you try. Most of these only involve common sense and a lot of understanding so that you do not have to be embarrassed.
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Basically, yeast infection is fairly common but the method of discussing it as if it is taboo is preventing some essential cures from emerging into the public. People sometimes think that this is a sexually transmitted disease, which is in some cases would be true, but mostly it is the innocent change in the normal flora and normal environment of the vagina that causes this infection in the first place.
Your body's hormones always fluctuate and this may interfere or influence the vaginal environment. It may change the pH level that allows normal flora to grow more than their allowed numbers and thus will cause this particular infection.
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The best option would be to avoid getting this infection in the first place. And there are a number of ways that you can do so that you will be at lesser risk of infection. Aside from hormonal fluctuation, taking antibiotics as well as birth control pills can also increase the risk of developing one. Why will you develop infection if you will be taking antibiotics? Aren't they supposed to help you get rid of unwanted organisms from your body? The answer would be yes since it inhibits the growth of bacteria. However, this inhibition is not only for the harmful bacteria. The antibiotics you take would also inhibit the normal flora or the beneficial bacteria therefore those organisms that does not respond to antibiotics like Candida albicans may grow and multiply. This will cause the infection. You will see that there is actually a need to be full of common sense when it comes to this particular infection.
When you attempt to cure the infection, you need to cure the root cause because when you do this it will just reverse the process with the help of some agents or substances. There is nothing you can do with hormonal imbalances but there is every need to be hygienic. You need to consult your doctor regarding the discontinuation of antibiotics but unless you already have completed the regimen, you will have to put up with it a little more. Most antibiotics will be completed within 14 days so within this period you will have to make use of anti-fungal topical creams or some intervention that you doctor will recommend.
You also have to be careful about overuse of a certain medication

because the yeast may develop some resistance. You need to follow proper instructions given by your doctor or by the product labels.
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