There are several benefits to switching to an electronic cigarette that include everything from cost to social acceptance, but the most important is the benefit to your health. This is the one that should tempt you to switch as the effects on your body will surprise and delight you.
Five years ago you’d probably never heard of electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes. Now it seems you can’t open a newspaper – or go into a newsagent, supermarket or pharmacist – without seeing them advertised or on sale.
Researchers expect traditional cigarette smoking to cause 1 billion deaths during the 21st century through cardiac and lung disease. Electronic cigarettes have been marketed in recent years as a safer habit for smokers. Dr Konstantinos Farsalinos from Greece presented his findings on electronic cigarettes versus traditional cigarettes at the 2012 European Society of Cardiology in Germany (August 2012).
The liquids found in electronic cigarettes, after laboratory analyses, have shown to be less toxic than traditional cigarettes. Most studies found that electronic cigarettes have no nitrosamines, but the studies that did find nitrosamines in an e-cig were at levels that were 500-1400 times less than the amount present in one tobacco cigarette. Meaning, if an electronic cigarette is used daily, for four to 12 months, then the amount of nitrosamines present will be the same as a single tobacco cigarette.
The study measured the myocardial function in 20 healthy young daily smokers aged 25-45 before and after smoking one traditional cigarette with 22 daily experienced e-cig users similar to age, before and after using an e-cig for 7 minutes. The researchers found that smoking one single tobacco cigarette led to a significant acute myocardial dysfunction while the e-cig had no acute adverse effect on cardiac function.
According to the study by Dr. Farsalinos, Smoking a tobacco cigarette had important hemodynamic consequences, with significant increases in systolic and diastolic blood pressure and in heart rate. In contrast, electronic cigarettes produced only a slight elevation in diastolic blood pressure. Dr Farsalinos said: “This is an indication that although nicotine was present in the liquid used (11mg/ml), it is absorbed at a lower rate compared to regular cigarette smoking.”
Published recently in the medical journal The Lancet, the new study concluded that e-cigarettes, with or without nicotine, were modestly effective at helping smokers to quit, with similar achievement of abstinence as with nicotine patches…
The study looked at three groups of smokers who wanted to quit smoking: 292 received commercially available e-cigarettes, 292 were given nicotine patches, and 73 received placebos, e-cigarettes with no nicotine. The study participants were followed from one week before starting their program, 12 weeks during the program, and for another three months after. After six months, they were tested to see if they had kept away from nicotine.
Results from breath tests at six months showed that 21 people in the nicotine e-cigarette group quit smoking (7.3%), 17 of those in the patch group quit (5.8%), and 3 of those in the non-nicotine e-cigarette group were no longer smoking (4.1%). As expected, not all subjects were able to stop smoking completely, but those who used the e-cigarettes did decrease their cigarette use, compared with those in the other two groups.
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