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		<title>Green Smoke Review &#8211; An Honest Analysis Of The Benefits Of Smoking Smokeless Cigarettes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you considered quitting your habit of smoking but just don&#8217;t have the courage to quit suddenly? Well, perhaps it is time to &#8220;go green&#8221; with Green Smoke Electronic Cigarettes instead. Any reliable Green Smoke Review will state that this smokeless cigarette is the best alternative that exists: It gives you the nicotine which you [...]<p>Post from: <a href="http://overcomertools.com/blog">OvercomerTools.com/blog</a></p>



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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you considered quitting your habit of smoking but just don&#8217;t have the courage to quit suddenly? Well, perhaps it is time to &#8220;go green&#8221; with Green Smoke Electronic Cigarettes instead. Any reliable Green Smoke Review will state that this smokeless cigarette is the best alternative that exists: It gives you the nicotine which you desire, while doing away with all of that lethal smoke.</p>
<p>Green Smoke Electronic Cigarettes feel and taste as if you are smoking a real cigarette. You smoke it in the same style that you would smoke a conventional cigarette, with your choice of nicotine flavor. The primary difference is that you do not inhale any smoke, so you are not inhaling any harmful toxins such as tar.</p>
<p>Before you use Green Smoke, review the directions first and understand how it works first. Essentially, it relies on a rechargeable battery. And it uses a replaceable cartridge that contains the flavored nicotine. The device uses a  vaporizer to create the vapors that you will inhale.</p>
<p>One thing should be  understood, and which may not always necessarily be clearly spelled out in a typical Green Smoke review: This device doesn&#8217;t necessarily assist you to quit smoking. It helps you to make the transition to a safe alternative to smoking conventional cigarettes. If you enjoy indulging your cravings for smoking, more power to you. But why not turn to a healthier alternative that won&#8217;t harm yourself, and which produces absolutely no 2nd hand smoke? Of course, making use of this product could prove to be a positive step in the proper direction to help you kick the habit once and for all.</p>
<p>Technically, you can even smoke these indoors, because there is no 2nd hand smoke and no foul odors. At the same time, you are still getting a dose of nicotine. Research shows that it&#8217;s not the nicotine that causes health problems. It is the smoke.</p>
<p>Not only are they more safe, but they will also save you money in the long-term, because  cartridges are usually cheaper than a cigarette pack, and you can get more mileage out of them.</p>
<p>Green Smoke is made of three ingredients: nicotine, water, and propylene glycol. These are all you require to satisfy your craving for nicotine without burning your heart and lungs with smoke in the process.</p>
<p>Green Smoke Cigarettes are actually &#8220;green&#8221; for the environment, too, because they are a lot cleaner. (Thus the name &#8220;Green Smoke Cigarettes&#8221;.) There aren&#8217;t any cigarette butts. Hence you won&#8217;t need ashtrays. There&#8217;s no smell, and your teeth won&#8217;t stain yellow.</p>
<p>Over one million individuals worldwide choose this product as an alternative to conventional smoking. Most surely these 1,000,000 individuals can testify for positive <a href='http://www.sneakyreviews.com/electronic-cigarette-smoking-top-4-electronic-cigarette-reviews/' target='_blank'>Electronic Cigarette Review</a> of their experience.</p>
<p>So just how beneficial is this product? Learn about the study that the Food and Drug Administration conducting and their current <a href='http://www.sneakyreviews.com/health/green-smoke-the-natural-e-cigarette/' target='_blank'>Green Smoke Review</a>.</p>
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		<title>E-bay Bans E-cigarette Sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ebay has banned the sale of the e-cigarette.The e-Cigarette, also know as an electronic cigarette, or e-cig, is a new type of smoking device that is becoming more and more popular by the day. E-cigarettes are an effective method to enjoy nicotine/and smoking without the harmful toxins and chemicals associated with traditional cigarettes.
Because this e [...]<p>Post from: <a href="http://overcomertools.com/blog">OvercomerTools.com/blog</a></p>



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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ebay has banned the sale of the e-cigarette.The e-Cigarette, also know as an electronic cigarette, or e-cig, is a new type of smoking device that is becoming more and more popular by the day. E-cigarettes are an effective method to enjoy nicotine/and smoking without the harmful toxins and chemicals associated with traditional cigarettes.</p>
<p>Because this e cigarette isn&#8217;t really a cigarette&#8230; one would expect that the usual &#8220;smoking rules&#8221; just dont apply here. But&#8230; Ebay claims it violates their alcohol and tobacco policy.</p>
<p>eBay does not permit listings for most alcoholic beverages and tobacco products on their U.S. Web site. This includes cigarettes, cigars, and smokeless tobacco. In addition, non-U.S. members are not allowed to sell alcohol to an eBay member who is located in the United States.</p>
<p>Ebay States:</p>
<p>&#8220;Because of various regulatory issues, cigarettes, cigars, and smokeless tobacco products are not allowed on eBay. Please note that these items are not allowed whether or not they contain actual tobacco.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sounds silly&#8230;If it doesn&#8217;t contain actual tobacco it isn&#8217;t a cigarette&#8230; right?</p>
<p>Dictionary.com</p>
<p>Definition of cigarette:<br />
a cylindrical roll of finely cut tobacco cured for smoking, considerably smaller than most cigars and usually wrapped in thin white paper.</p>
<p>And&#8230;</p>
<p>Wikipedia. com it says</p>
<p>An electronic cigarette (or &#8220;e-cigarette&#8221;) is an alternative to smoked tobacco products, such as cigarettes, cigars, or pipes.</p>
<p>Hmmm&#8230;.</p>
<p>Wonder if I could request my fees back on my cancelled auctions and use this as an argument.</p>
<p>So&#8230; in a desperate attempt to beat the system and utilize e-bays advertising power many e-bayers are trying different ways to trick the system, unsuccessfully, I might add. I have been following the different ways ebayers are attempting to list the infamous e-cigarette, so to save you a bit of time and money here are some ways that won&#8217;t work if you are trying to list e-cigarettes on ebay;</p>
<p>Listing them as the &#8220;no nicotine version of the e-cigarette&#8221; won&#8217;t work&#8230;</p>
<p>Listing a e-cigarette accessory and trying to sneak in your website address to the actual e-cigarette. Ebay does not allow links to websites that contain e-cigarettes.</p>
<p>Selling &#8220;information only&#8221; on how to obtain e- cigarettes &#8220;not the actual e-cigarette&#8221; doesn&#8217;t work either, even though the e-cigarette is not offered in the auction.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s really too bad because the e-cigarette offers alot of health benefits to those who smoke traditional cigarettes as it is a healthier way to smoke and though it is not designed as a smoking cessation device it certainly could be used as one, as the e-cigarette offers different levels of nicotine cartridges; high, medium, low and none. This could certainly be used to &#8220;ween&#8221; one from the smoking habit in my opinion.</p>
<p>So, there you have it, ebay is a dead end when it comes to selling e-cigarettes.</p>
<p>Fortunately all is not lost&#8230; If you are interested in more information about the e-cigarette visit: www.esmokeshop.inetstore.biz To quit Smoking or Smoke Healthier &#8211; Now There&#8217;s a Choice.</p>
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<p>You can read more about quality electronic cigarettes with this <a href='http://healthmad.com/health/what-is-an-electronic-cigarette-green-smoke-review/' target='_blank'>Green Smoke Review</a> and <a href='http://healthmad.com/health/smokestik-electronic-cigarette-review/' target='_blank'>SmokeStik Review</a> here.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you smoke? If you do, do you prefer menthol or not? Have you ever told yourself you need to quit?  Well maybe you don&#8217;t have to.  What are the reasons that you told yourself you need to quit. For most people it is the fact that cigarettes are incredibly horrible for you.  You&#8217;ve got to ditch the tar, the carbon monoxide, and whatever it is that turns your teeth yellow&#8230;I know you&#8217;ve seen it.</p>
<p>I want to shed some light on a company called Luci.  With everybody ditching the smoking section in today&#8217;s world, Luci is doing their part to help out.  They created an tobacco-less electronic cigarette that produces a vapor that contains the nicotine that we all love.  It doesn&#8217;t contain any of the bad stuff that clogs your veins or turns your lungs into coal.  You can even smoke in no smoking zones with your Luci Tobacco-less Electronic Cigarettes!  </p>
<p>Well if you are still reading I&#8217;m guessing  you&#8217;re interested. So why Luci as opposed to other <a href='http://www.sneakyreviews.com/electronic-cigarette-smoking-top-4-electronic-cigarette-reviews/' target='_blank'>electronic cigarette companies</a>?</p>
<p>For starters you get all the health benefits. It may not be approved by the FDA, but hey it&#8217;s still a cigarette. You get clean nicotine.  You completely eliminate the tar, carbon monoxide, and the rest of the 1,000&#8217;s of chemicals involved with cigarettes.</p>
<p>Your electronic cigarettes have a warranty. Try that one with Marlboro. You get free shipping on all orders more than $100, 30 Money Back Guarantee, and even more, a LIFETIME Warranty on the Luci Atomizer. </p>
<p>How much money do you spend on cigarettes? With the rising prices these days, I&#8217;m sure you put out a pretty penny quite often.  In this fallen economy you really need to compare the prices. You could potentially be saving upwards toward 75% by switching to Luci Tobacco-less electronic cigarettes.  You do not even pay any shipping charges when ordering your electronic cigarettes if your order is $100 or more!</p>
<p>Here is one of the big differences when it comes to smoking traditional cigarettes to smoking <a href='http://www.sneakyreviews.com/health/luci-electronic-cigarette-review/' target='_blank'>Luci&#8217;s electronic cigarette</a>s.  You can become a sales rep or even a distributor for Luci.  So you get the best electronic cigarette available, but you get to make money from selling them. The commissions start at 30%. Plus you can earn when your referrals make sales! How much better does it get?</p>
<p>Have you ever wanted to do your part to help make this a better world? You can do this here. These cigarettes are making this world a better place.  Everything that could cause your veins to clog and your lungs to blacken have been removed. The main ingredient here is actually water.  Water mixes with the nicotine to give you a great smoke.  You can even buy special flavored cartridges like chocolate! Can you imagine? Plus, you can smoke in non-smoking areas such as hospitals, airports, and restaurants.  By switching to Luci, your saving your life, your environment and even your wallet.</p>
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Quit Smoking Cigarettes &#8211; It&#8217;s Hard but not Because of Nicotine Part 2
By Michael Stone
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<p>Quit Smoking Cigarettes &#8211; It&#8217;s Hard but not Because of Nicotine Part 2<br />
<i>By Michael Stone</i><br />
In part 1 of this article, we discussed real chemical addiction and how stopping cold-turkey can be life threatening. We also pointed out that although a smoker claims, &#8220;I&#8217;m dying for a cigarette,&#8221; no one has actually died because they didn&#8217;t get a smoke. </p>
<p>The reason it is important to understand that cigarette smoking is a psychological addiction rather than a physical one, is to facilitate effective protocols to remove cigarettes from a smoker&#8217;s life. In this article, we are going to discuss examples that demonstrate that nicotine is not physically addictive but that cigarette smoking is psychologically addictive. </p>
<p><b>What is Nicotine</b> </p>
<p>Talk about a substance that has gotten a bad reputation. Nicotine is presented as the ultimate evil and the culprit that makes quitting cigarettes difficult or for some, impossible. However, just what is nicotine? </p>
<p>According to medical researcher Dr. David G. Williams, nicotine is a chemical substance found in cigarette smoke that stimulates the production of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which is needed to facilitate the transmission of nerve impulses. </p>
<p>There&#8217;s one thing though, there is another chemical called nicotinic acid that is a close cousin of nicotine that also stimulates the production of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. What is this almost identical substance? It is called Vitamin B3! </p>
<p>Could smokers be getting Vitamin B3 from their cigarettes? If so, it&#8217;s not a healthy way to do it but look at the symptoms of Vitamin B3 deficiency: </p>
<p>Impaired recent memory <br />
Depression <br />
Hyper irritability <br />
Apprehension <br />
Emotional instability </p>
<p>These are many of the reasons that people give for smoking! It improves their memory, lifts their spirits, calms them down, etc. Since many people don&#8217;t have good nutrition, perhaps one of the things that fuels the <b>Psychological Smoking Mechanism</b> is a B3 deficiency. After all, these are water soluble vitamins or chemicals, if you will. They are not stored in the body and must be replaced constantly. </p>
<p>The bottom line here is that people don&#8217;t get addicted to vitamins! This is just another indicator that the thing that keeps people smoking is not an addiction to nicotine. Let&#8217;s look at some of the other things associated with smoking that do not follow the physical addiction mechanism. </p>
<p><b>If Cigarettes were Addictive</b> </p>
<p>In the previous article in this series, we discussed a case of accidental addiction to pain medicine. As you recall, when the patient discovered they weren&#8217;t getting the same results from the standard dose of medicine, they increased the dose which did, for a time give them relief. It wasn&#8217;t long before they had to increase the dose again, and again. </p>
<p>This is what happens with chemical addiction, the body views the chemical as throwing it out of balance (homeostasis) and it creates a counter force. It matches each increase with an increase in counter force. </p>
<p>If nicotine was a truly addictive chemical, the smoker would have to keep increasing intake to achieve the same effects that are claimed for cigarettes just as in our drug example. The consumption of cigarettes would increase over time. However, this doesn&#8217;t happen. </p>
<p>Let me give you a real life example. My grandfather was a cigarette smoker. He smoked his entire life starting in his early childhood years. He smoked less than a pack of cigarettes per day. The amount smoked never varied. He had a set amount that he unconsciously metered and for over 70 years maintained this level. The fact that he smoked less than a pack per day was to his benefit and delayed the health issues associated with cigarette smoke. But you can&#8217;t avoid it forever and he did eventually develop health problems that years of cigarette smoking produced. </p>
<p>A clear indicator that cigarettes are psychologically addictive and not physically addictive is that the smoker settles into a pattern and stays there for years. You have your half a pack a day person, your pack a day person, your 1.5 pack a day person, your 2 pack a day person and in extreme cases, the three pack a day person. This volume is established pretty early and stays that way. There may be daily fluctuations but they all average out. There is a mental meter that regulates the amount of cigarettes smoked! That&#8217;s the <b>Psychological Smoking Mechanism</b>. </p>
<p>If cigarettes were physically addictive, the smoker would be adding more and more cigarettes to achieve whatever claimed benefit they provided. This doesn&#8217;t happen. This is a clear indicator that that cigarette consumption is regulated by the <b>Psychological Smoking Mechanism</b> and not the chemicals in the cigarette. </p>
<p><b>If Nicotine was a Chemical Addiction</b> </p>
<p>There is a whole category of smoking cessation treatment protocols that operate under the idea that providing nicotine will take the place of smoking. The thinking behind this category is that supplying nicotine through vehicles such as patches or gum will eliminate the desire to smoke because the hypothetical nicotine demand is being met. Then by reducing the nicotine over time, just like drug rehab, the compulsion to smoke will be eliminated. Sounds great doesn&#8217;t it? If nicotine were the culprit, nicotine patches, gum and lozenges would be 100% successful. After all, they are giving the body the chemical that it theoretically craves which is the supposed mechanism behind the compulsion to smoke. </p>
<p>Nicotine patches are powerful products that give the body a steady supply of nicotine. Let&#8217;s look at their effectiveness. Since the smoker is getting generous amounts of nicotine which they are supposedly craving, the patches should be incredibly effective. However, some research shows, (Davidson, M., Epstein, M., Burt, R., Schaefer, C., Whitworth, G. &amp; McDonald, A. (1998)), that only 19% of people on patches had stopped smoking at six weeks and that it was reduced to 9.2% at six months. Looking at it another way, at 6 weeks, 81% of the people using nicotine patches were still smoking and at 6 months, about 91% were still smoking. Yes, 10% of those that had stopped were back at it again. </p>
<p>The results for the gum is about the same. Even though the gum was providing the smoker with plenty of nicotine, at 6 weeks, 84% of the people were still smoking and at 6 months, 92% were smoking. </p>
<p>These smokers were getting all the nicotine they supposedly needed. In reality, they were probably getting a great deal more nicotine than the cigarettes they smoked provided. Yet, most of them continued to smoke along WITH the patches or gum. If nicotine doesn&#8217;t compel the smoker to smoke, what does? It&#8217;s the <b>Psychological Smoking Mechanism</b>. </p>
<p><b>Another Indicator that It Isn&#8217;t Nicotine</b> </p>
<p>With a chemical addiction, more is better for the addict. With nicotine patches, the smoker is getting a great deal of nicotine. They should be satisfied right? Well as mentioned in the last section, only 9% actually stop smoking with the patch. However, putting all that nicotine in a smokers system with patches does have an effect on the smoker. According to the American Lung Association, side effects with the nicotine patch are: </p>
<p>Headache <br />
Dizziness <br />
Upset stomach <br />
Weakness <br />
Blurred vision <br />
Vivid dreams <br />
Mild itching and burning on the skin <br />
Diarrhea </p>
<p>Yes, nicotine does have an effect on the smokers body. However, with all the things that smoking does to the smoker, it doesn&#8217;t produce these effects. This is another clue that nicotine is not the motivator to smoke. </p>
<p><b>Smokers Resume Smoking after Extended Periods</b> </p>
<p>Another clue that nicotine is not the motivator to smoke is the tendency for ex-smokers to resume smoking after a long period of time. Obviously, after an extended period of time, all the nicotine would be out of their system. As has been stated, nicotine is the cousin of Vitamin B3, a water soluble vitamin. These substances are either rapidly used or excess flushed from the body daily. No matter how heavy a smoker, it won&#8217;t take very long for all nicotine to be out of their system. </p>
<p>Also, from a strictly habit perspective, a few weeks or months without smoking should have put an end to the habit; the habit of reaching for a cigarette is broken. However, an ex-smoker can pick up a cigarette and resume smoking like they never stopped whether it is weeks, months or even years. </p>
<p>This is because the Psychological Smoking Mechanism is still operating. There is no nicotine in the system, the habit has been abandoned for weeks, months or some time years, yet, cigarette smoking can resume. </p>
<p><b>Conclusion</b> </p>
<p>The effects of nicotine do not follow the chemical addiction mechanism. Nicotine is similar to Vitamin B3, a water soluble vitamin. It must be replenished daily. It is possible that the smoker has a deficiency of Vitamin B3. Each cigarette provides a small amount of nicotine which is similar to Vitamin B3. </p>
<p>A smoker falls into a pattern of cigarette consumption which doesn&#8217;t vary over decades. Whether it is the half pack a day, one pack a day, one and a half pack per day or the extreme of three packs per day, this amount doesn&#8217;t vary. Although there may be daily fluctuations, it averages out over time to whatever pattern the smoker follows. </p>
<p>Cigarette consumption is regulated by the Psychological Smoking Mechanism. The only way to remove cigarettes from your life is to remove this mechanism. If the Psychological Smoking Mechanism is not removed, the person quitting cigarettes will continue to be a smoker who doesn&#8217;t happen to be smoking right now. When the Psychological Smoking Mechanism is gone, so is smoking because the person has become a NONsmoker! </p>
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