Electronic cigarette is also known as vaporized cigarette, is made to substitute real cigarettes, tobacco pipes and cigars. It is said to be the answer for people who keep on trying to quit smoking and stop addiction to nicotine. Self rehabilitation to eliminate smoking habits had been tried by thousands with the use of nicotine patches and nicotine chewing gums but later on go back to craving the feel of the real cigarettes.
The e-cigarettes promise the exact same feel of the real cigarettes in the smokers mouth and fingers but the are battery-operated and do not require the use of flames. There is also no tar involved, they do not produce ashes, and unpleasant cigarette odors that stick to garments and other things in the room. The e-cigarette user can choose from a hundred flavors available for these devices.
The electronic cigarette is as thin as the usual cigarette stick. The device is comprised of 3 parts – The battery chip, the mouthpiece or the nicotine cartridge and the atomizer that has a LED at the tip that serves as the light indicator when in use. The electronic cigarette is an electromagnetic device that has the ability of producing vapor with the aid of a heating element activited by a sensor after detecting air inhilation.
The mouthpiece or the cartridge stores the elements the user inhale like the falovored liquid, the nicotine liquid and a susbstance known as propylene glycol. Later on, propylene glycol combined with the liquid nicotine regularyl inhaled can cause harmful effects to the e-cigarette user. With that, FDA or the US Food and Drug administration released an order banning the importing and selling of the device in the country. Other countries like Australia had also started banning the product from being sold in their market.
Propylene glycol must not be inhaled into the human lungs because these are chemicals found in hydraulics. Its chemical component is said to be causes of damages to the cell membranes. Pregnant women who were e-cigarette users had given birth to babies with defects and other users had resulted to nervous breakdown.
The argument whether the use of electronic cigarette can really help people who want to quit smoking or not, is still an ongoing issue. Many users claimed that the device is effective and they had already learned to stop craving for real cigarettes with the use of these devices. However, it appears ironic to consider them really quitting smoking, when in fact they are still inhaling vapors of liquid nicotine and propylene glycol.