I smoke a month from USB: the flight is normal

In the fourth year of smoking, I was thoroughly affected by shortness of breath, shortness of breath in the process of falling asleep, and a stable rate of 37 rubles for a comfortable stay on a new day. I did not want to quit smoking, so I decided to switch to a different level of development of this bad habit. My friends explained the reason for the purchase to me best: “If you could use USB and pump beer on the Internet, you would have done just that a long time ago.”

Disclaimer: I do not call for the use of nicotine in any form: by smoking or chewing tobacco, using nicotine patches, lollipops or chewing gum, or using the “electronic cigarette” described in the topic. Also, an electronic cigarette is not a wonderful cure for nicotine addiction. The post was written in order to increase the amount of useful information about the gadget, about which most have an extremely vague idea, based on rumors and prejudices.

I decided to switch to electronic cigarette smoking. A couple of acquaintances told me that “they will not help” (although, I recall, quitting smoking was not part of my plans). I confirm: electronic cigarettes are a purely individual substitute for ordinary cigarettes. These are completely different things, with different tastes and smells; with an ordinary cigarette, an electronic cigarette is related only by the similarity of the substance inhaled by the smoker with tobacco smoke, so -

Theory and blah blah

In 2003, the Chinese scientist Hon Lik invented the nicotine inhaler - the inventor smoked two packs of cigarettes a day until his father (also a smoker) died of lung cancer. The device was called an “electronic cigarette,” and in 2005, Golden Dragon Group Ltd, the brand owner, began exporting from China.
In fact, there was nothing special to invent. A standard electronic cigarette consists of three parts:

• battery - with a button or with a built-in pressure sensor that responds to a puff. Charged, most often, from USB;
• atomizer - a heating nichrome spiral + metal foam;
• cartridge - a container with a special liquid.

When a smoker presses a button (in the case of a button battery) and is pulled by an electronic cigarette, liquid enters the atomizer from the cartridge, the nichrome thread begins to heat up, the incoming liquid evaporates. That is, it is not smoke that enters the smoker's lungs - an aerosol with a solid dispersed phase, but steam. There are a lot of types of atomizers, types 510, 801, 901 have proven themselves, each gives its own amount of steam and in its own way reveals one or another taste and aroma. Accordingly, the appropriate battery is selected for the type of atomizer. Also there is a so-called. Cartomizers - refillable cartridges with integrated atomizers.
The main component of an electronic cigarette is liquid. It consists of propylene glycol and / or glycerol, liquid nicotine and a food flavoring. I am not a chemist or a pharmacist, so I can’t say about the 100% harmlessness of using such a mixture in the lungs, as well as the absence of consequences from daily use of propylene glycol. However, the fact is that I started to use the nicotine that I needed in cigarettes, without the concomitant inhalation of over 9000 resins, carcinogens, carbon monoxide, polonium -210, lead-210 and radium-226.
A separate song is the taste and smell of liquid. There are slurries with tobacco, floral, fruity and specific flavors - for example, with the taste of condensed milk or energy (and Italians make liquids with flavors of fried bacon, onions, anchovies and fried potatoes). On many sites you can order as a ready-made liquid, as well as ingredients for self-preparation. The standard doses of nicotine are 0, 6, 12 and 18 mg / ml.

Verified by yourself

A geek would not be a geek if he had not read all the thematic forums before buying. Theoretically, it was possible to order a five-dollar test mini-cigarette on dealextreme, but I decided not to wait for delivery and buy an “adult” eGo-T model. On the one hand, this is an extreme model of the proven Joye office - the author of the "classic" Joye 510, on the other hand - it is based on the innovative © modernized ™ fluid supply system. If in all other models the liquid is poured into a synthetic winterizer, which moistens the atomizer, then here the cartridges are milliliter tanks that are pierced by an atomizer needle. The liquid enters directly into the atom, the possibility of burning sinteponovy threads is excluded, less fuss with refueling. The forums complained that this model often flows, but other atoms could be wound on the battery.
I decided not to buy the kit in the original box and pay extra for the air in it, and assembled a cigarette from the accessories. I took the most capacious battery available - 1000 mAh, bought three tanks for the atom, selected the best tobacco slurry from reviews and scattered the order in different stores, depending on where and what is cheaper. By evening, after meeting with the couriers, I had a whole new electronic cigarette.
First impressions: cool and tasty thing, but I will still smoke "analogue". However, the next day, the desire to drag on a regular cigarette greatly weakened, two days later it went somewhere completely in the desire for the tenth priority. For me, this turned out to be completely unlike all previous attempts to quit smoking, there was no annoying itch in the subcortex. A week later, the smell and sense of taste returned (I understood this when I got on the morning trolley bus - the passengers felt noticeably squid and dried fish from the two passengers. I don’t really like these smells, but with such force that my eyes sparkled). Then I bought liquids and flavors - now I have cookies and toffee in my arsenal, cola, grapefruit, bergamot, wild berries, Tutti-frutti sludge with Juicy Fruit gum flavor and pipe tobacco. So,

Pros:

• All the benefits associated with quitting smoking (shortness of breath, breath, hands and clothes have disappeared, it has become easier to breathe and all that);
• Instead of smoke - tasty and fragrant steam;
• You can soar anywhere;
• You don’t need to run to the stall every day, “balin, forgot to buy cigarettes” disappears;
• Nobody shoots cigarettes.

Minuses:

• It is necessary to refill cartridges and flush atomizers before changing the fluid (sometimes you want to drop everything and return to the analogue);
• On the table and in the bag now - a pair of syringes, a scattering of bubbles, empty and full cartridges instead of a compact pack;
• I have to control the number of puffs myself, at first I soared almost constantly;
• Although you can soar everywhere, in public places you have to limit yourself and go into the smoking room, so as not to fight with valiant guardians and guards;
• After some time, eGo-T really started to flow, I had to spend money again.

My resume

I did not find a single intelligible study proving the harm or benefit of e-smoking. For example, the All-Russian Research Institute of Tobacco, Shag, and Tobacco Products could only prove that a pair of e-cigarettes contained a significant amount of propylene glycol.
Electronic cigarettes are not a method of quitting smoking, although many e-smokers are gradually switching to nicotine-free blends. Comparing them with ordinary ones is the same as comparing a piano chair and a subway seat. Also, I would not vote on significant savings, as manufacturers of electronic cigarettes: I have already spent about 4,000 rubles, although I stocked up liquid for six months in advance. If someone from the smokers' smb users read my post and decided to try this method of smoking, my advice is: do not buy the advertised Pons, and as the first liquid to buy is not tobacco liquid, but something fruity.

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