E-cigs vs. Regular Cigarettes? How to quit?

[-3shelbylynn4-]

My boyfriend has been trying to quit smoking for almost a year. He just can't seem to do it. For now, he is just using E-cigs, but uses them very often. I would rather him use these then smoke cigarettes though. What are the risks of using this E-cigs on a regular basis and are they hard to quit? And should he slowly lay off the E-cigs, or just quit cold turkey?? Any info is highly appreciated!

[araktsu]

If you have the wherewithal to educate yourself regarding the effects of tobacco smoking and the effects of nicotine, you should be able to determine after doing so what your best course of action will be.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/...000953.htm
http://www.mayoclinic.org/electronic-cig...q-20057776
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2733016/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23033998

In the end, you still have free will and will make your own choice. What you base it on is completely up to you, and whether or not your reasons are rational and wholesome or irrational and unhealthful remains to be determined.

If you cannot figure this out for yourself then you have no means of determining if answers you get are in your best interest or not. I am not honored that you would ask me, a complete stranger, whether or not you should use either of the products at issue. The best I can tell you is that you really need to educate yourself about physiology and related pathology in order to make the best choice.

I would not want to use either of them. To me the reasons are obvious, but my background knowledge is probably much different than yours.

One social psychologist, Charles Lord, opined that people want two things:
(1) To be right.
(2) To be likeable.

This is an innate and natural feature of human cognition. I presume it is something we do because our ancient ancestors had to be quick to copy behaviors of their caregivers and to be accepted by the group into which they were born lest they be eaten by predators or perhaps starve.

It is not necessarily the best way of making a choice. Our environment is much different that that with which our hominid ancestors had to contend. We are more likely to relate to ideas of what the real world is, acquired from culture and video infotainment, then to be on the alert for predators. But social predators are a factor we contend with which was probably minimal to non-existent for our hominid ancestors.

We can also form our perceptions based on the best education we can give ourselves.

Have you ever wondered what the tobacco industry and the so-called medical marijuana industry have in common? Both industries have paid doctors to claim that their product has medical benefits.

The tactic worked well for Big Tobacco, and will probably work just as well for Dope, Inc. There is not yet sufficient study to show the damage caused by smoking dope. But smoking anything, even burning incense, is known to have adverse effects on lungs and the cardiovascular system over time.

Not that it makes any difference to dope addicts.

They resort to the same unreasoning as that emitted by die-hard tobacco smokers and nicotine addicts.

“2. Profit motive. If there is a commercial pot industry, businesses will have strong incentives to create and maintain the heavy users who use most of the pot. To get a sense of what this could look like, look no further than the alcohol and tobacco industries, which have found ingenious ways to hook and reel in heavy users.”

* Tobacco:
http://www.tobaccocampaign.com/american-...ed-tobacco

* Dope:
http://www.rand.org/blog/2013/04/7-key-q...ts20130502