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There are 4 main styles of electronic smoking devices, e cigs, or eCigarettes people should be familiar with before they “take the plunge” and buy their first starter kit.

At first, these styles may seem familiar and obvious to you, but in the world of e smoking each style actually has practical value associated with it.  In this article I will reveal each functional advantage and disadvantage, or pro and con for each style.

Style vs Type

I want to make one more important distinction between style and what I call “types” of e cigs.  Style refers mainly to external appearances whereas type refers purely to function.

There are also 3 main types of electronic cigarettes that are typically referred to as 1-piece, 2-piece and 3-piece.  If you would like to better understand how the 3 main types differ from the 4 styles you can read this article on the 3 main types of electronic cigarette kits, but I suggest you read this article about style first.

If you are totally new to electronic cigarettes then you may want to start with a quick google for and e cigs FAQ (frequently asked questions) page before you continue.

4 Main Styles of e Cigarettes

The 4 main styles of eCigs are:

* mini electronic cigarettes
* pen style electronic cigarettes
* electronic cigars
* electronic pipes

Pen-Style e Cigarette

The pen style is probably the least familiar style to most people so I will discuss this style and its pros and cons first.

As its name implies, a “pen-style” electronic cigarette is resembles an ink pen in size and shape, but without the shirt clip, so no pocket protector necessary!

Seriously though, pen-Style e cigs can also resemble cigarette filters you sometimes see rich people smoking in old movies, but maybe a little shorter.

The main advantage or pro of the pen style e cig is that it is a good balance between form and function.  Even though they are about twice as long as a regular cigarette, they are still relatively small and skinny, but have larger nicotine refill cartridges and batteries that last longer and produce good vapor.

Another advantage of the pen-style ecigs is that most don’t resemble regular cigarettes in appearance and are NOT usually mistaken for regular cigarettes and therefore can almost always be smoked in non-smoking areas without much trouble.

At the time of writing this article it is technically not illegal to smoke an electronic cigarette in non-smoking areas because it is not considered a tobacco product and is not combustible.

In fact, establishments aware of the virtually odorless and non-combustible electronic cigarette (such as many casinos and some bars) actually encourage the use of electronic cigarettes to give their clientele an alternative to smoking where smoking indoors has been banned by law.

The only real con or disadvantage to the pen-style electronic cigarette is that if you are not used to the size or appearance of this style it may be awkward in social settings, at least the first few times you get together with friends.  Strangers that smoke however, tend to be very friendly when inquiring about a pen-style e cig.

Mini Style e Cigarette

The mini electronic cigarette tends to be the most familiar to people as this style is the most similar in size and appearance of a real cigarette which can be both its main advantage and disadvantage.

Since pen-style e cigarettes came out first and were then miniaturized over time, the term “mini” however, is now really used to describe ANY electronic cigarette smaller than a pen style device.

In fact, e cigs that are closest in size to actual cigarettes such as the blu electronic cigarette, are now sometimes called super-mini.

Since mini electronic cigarettes tend to look almost like a regular cigarette right down to the glowing cherry ember on the tip you will probably feel most comfortable in a social setting or with other smokers with this style.

Also, if you are trying to switch to smoking e-cigarettes instead of regular cigarettes then the mini e-cig style will require the least amount of adaptation of your habits and behaviors.

The disadvantage of the mini e cigarette being so similar to actual cigarettes is that it can negate one of the huge would-be benefits to smoking e cigs; smoking them in public.

Some businesses such as restaurants and other typical non-smoking areas such as airplanes not aware of e cigs may ask you to not use the devices on their premises even after some explanation just on principle.

Sometimes this disadvantage can be mitigated by choosing a mini style e cig with lighted tip in a color other than orange such as blue or green.  This way, people may still be confused as to what you are smoking, but at least they can be reasonably sure that it is not a real cigarette.

The other disadvantage that comes with the small size of the mini electronic cigarette is that their small cartridges and batteries do not last near as long as the other larger styles so you will find yourself switching batteries and cartridges often.

The small batteries also sometimes have difficulty in producing copious vapor because the batteries aren’t quite as powerful.

Electronic Cigar Style e Cig

Of course, electronic cigars are made to resemble real cigars in size weight and shape.  Since cigars tend to be larger than cigarettes and ball point pens there is a lot of space to work with in the design of these devices and a couple clear advantages that come at a cost.

The first major advantage of electronic cigars is that they have very large and powerful batteries and large refill cartridges although many electronic cigars are actually disposable and not meant to be refilled.  A good disposable cigar however won’t quit for 1800 puffs on average.   Non-disposable cigar style e cigs will not last quite as long.

Strong odor is a common complaint with regular cigars and pipes , but this is not a problem with electronic cigars and pipes because there is virtually no odor.

You even have greater flavor choices with electronic cigarettes and cigars so if you always wanted to be boisterous at a casino by smoking a cigar, but were never crazy about the taste of cigar tobacco, you can smoke cola flavor in your electronic cigar instead.

As stated earlier however, smoking electronic cigars comes at a cost.  Even refillable designs often have the vaporizer heating element built into the body of the device.

This vaporizer component also known as an atomizer, wears out over a period of 6-12 weeks so if it is built into the body of the electronic cigar then it can’t be replaced like in the other styles.

When the atomizer in an electronic cigar dies, you usually have to buy a new housing or starter kit which can become expensive.

Disposable electronic cigars are more economical but offer less flavor choices.

Electronic Pipe Style

Electronic pipes of course look just like real pipes and can also be a more costly style.

Atomizers in electronic pipes are replaceable and the batteries / refill cartridges are large, but electronic pipes are not in as high demand so even the cheapest electronic pipe starter kits can be very pricy.

If you like the style and experience of smoking a pipe and just get complaints about the odor then the virtually odorless electronic pipe is for you.

Any flavor that is available in an electronic cigarette is also available in an electronic pipe.

Which Style is Best

After reading some of the pros and cons in this article you should be starting to get a feel for which e cigarette style will be best for you.

Most veteran e cig smokers have a couple different styles to suit their mood or circumstances so read some reviews to make sure the quality you are looking for is there and don’t be afraid to experiment.

There is actually a 5th style if you will, of full custom or modified electronic cigarettes that are far less common, but available to those trying to perfect their e smoking experience.

This 5th style includes electronic hookahs, so called USB pass-throughs that get power from a USB port, and a wide variety of many other variants that strive for optimization of form and function.

So, don’t give up.  Smoking electronic cigarettes can be quite a bit different than smoking regular cigarettes but must people like it once they find the e cigarette style that suits them best.

While I think I covered everything in this article, a picture is worth a 1000 words.  Visit the electronic cigarette review to see pictures of the 4 styles of e-cigarette and to find a comprehensive list of reviews and links to many suppliers of this break-though device.

Sparky has smoked e-cigarettes since 2008 and is the founder of the popular electronic cigarette reviews site www.electroniccigarettereview.com.

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The e-cigarette is rapidly gaining popularity with smokers. Because of their rising popularity, many companies have been started in the last few years to meet the demand for e-cigarettes. At first, most of the e-cigarette companies were located in China. However, there are now several American firms that have started to make and market the e-cigarette. Of the American firms, Blu Cigs, which is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, is becoming very popular with many e-cigarette purchasers.

The Blu Cigs e-cigarette uses technology similar to other e-cigarette brands. Like most other e-cigarettes, the Blue Cigs e-cigarette is not really smoked but instead is “vaped”. That is because e-cigarettes do not burn anything. Instead, e-cigarettes vaporize liquid nicotine into a fine mist that is inhaled, hence the term “vape”. The liquid nicotine, which is contained in a special cartridge, is turned into a mist by mechanism known as an atomizer. The atomizer in the Blu Cigs e-cigarette is powered by a small rechargeable lithium ion battery.

Like many other e-cigarettes, the Blu Cigs e-cigarette uses an Light Emitting Diode (LED) that glows when a user inhales on it, mimicking the effect of a real cigarette. But, unlike most of the LEDs used in other e-cigarettes, which typically emit a reddish or orange light, the LED in the Blu Cigs e-cigarette emits a blue light. The blue light gives the Blu Cigs e-cigarette a distinctive look, setting it apart from other e-cigarettes. It also serves as a cue to others that a real cigarette is not being smoked, which is important in environments where real smoking is prohibited.

The Blug Cigs e-cigarette starter kit cost $59.95. At that price, the Blu Cigs e-cigarette is very competitive with other brands of e-cigarettes. The starter kit includes one e-cigarette, a pack for holding batteries and nicotine cartridges, two atomizers, one wall charger, a USB charger, and 25 Free liquid nicotine cartridges.

Finally, the liquid nicotine cartridges from Blu Cigs come in many different flavors. Flavors include tobacco, coffee, cherry, vanilla, and menthol.

More information on the Blu Cig e-cigarette can be found here.

Ron J. Myers is an avid writer. His favorite topics are fitness and health. More of his work can be found here.

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If you are going to quit smoking cold turkey you should really rethink your plan.  Smokers who try to quit cold turkey have a 1 in 10 chance of staying cigarette free for 10 weeks.  Maybe you’ll be that one person who succeeds.  Then again you might be one of those nine who don’t.

You know you’re motivated and you’re really ready to quit, but do you really know what you’re up against?

If your answer is an addiction to nicotine you’re right, but kicking that addiction is actually the easy part.  What is far more difficult to change is the habit of smoking.  Your brain is wired to demand a smoke when certain triggers occur.  The more you smoke the more triggers you probably have.

Think about that for a moment.  How many triggers have you accumulated over the years?  Do you need a cigarette with your coffee?  Can you go an entire evening at a bar without stepping outside for a smoke?  What do you want to reach for after you’ve finished a meal?  If you’re facing stress or a new problem do your hands instinctively go for the pack?  How many times during a typical day do you reach for a cigarette without consciously deciding to smoke?

Let’s talk about the nicotine for a moment because that’s the easier of the two battles you face.  The quit smoking patch will increase your odds marginally from 1 in 10 to 2 in 10 of becoming smoke free.  The patch allows you to reduce your dosage and ease off the addiction typically over a four to six week period.  The physical addiction is a challenge, but if you didn’t have the distraction of the habit, it would be a doable goal for most smokers.  That’s the good news.

The bad news is you’re going to have to distract your brain and your body and create new habits in order to become a non-smoker.  Someone once said that it takes 90 days of repetition to form a habit.  So your challenge here will be to make the needed changes in lifestyle and keep at them for roughly three months.  Your addiction will disappear about half way through but the habit will still be doing a number on your brain.

So how do you do this?

For starters you need a plan.  Just saying you’re going to quit without any idea how is not going to cut it.  At a minimum you need to:

• Identify your triggers and plan on how you are going to substitute reaching for a cigarette.  For example, after dinner pop a couple of mints instead of lighting up.  This is a really important step.  Here’s a hint.  A big part of the satisfaction of smoking is the hand to mouth action.  Try to make your substitutes include that like chewing gum, or a toothpick or straw.  Just try not to make it eating!

• Go on a drinking binge.  A water drinking binge that is.  Hydrating does wonders for the overall health of your body but will help in flushing out the nicotine and other toxins.  At a minimum drink half your body weight in ounces each day.  More is better.

• Keep a diary of your progress or slip ups.  Reducing your efforts to writing sends a powerful message to the brain that this is an important project.  If you made it through the day without smoking, figure out why and write it down.  The more you do this the more successful you’ll become.  If you slip up, write down why so you’ll be aware of the problem and be able to avoid it in the future.

• There are a number of exercises that are excellent for quitting smoking but the real trick lies in convincing your brain that smoking is a threat and not something that’s desirable.  The only way to do that is to continue to resist its demands for a cigarette.  This is going to be really difficult in the beginning because you also have the physical addiction to deal with.  Be persistent.

• Reward yourself for success.  If you used to smoke a pack a day and you go a week without a smoke you just saved $35 to $40.  Buy yourself something. Make it something durable like clothes or a DVD or a new pen so when you look at it you can associate it with not smoking.

It’s certainly not easy to quit smoking or break the smoking habit but the benefits of doing so are tremendous.  Aside from the obvious health issues, you will no longer smell like cicaretes nor will your clothes, car or home.  Your taste buds will return and food will be a new experience.  And then there’s the money.  If you smoke a pack a day you will be saving up to $2000 a year!  Good luck with your efforts.

There is a way to ease out of the habit without having to quit cold turkey but it’s not for everybody. Ironically it involves mimicking smoking. If you’d like to see how you can control your nicotine addiction just like the smoking patch and ease your way out of the smoking habit visit http://NoTobaccoNow.blogspot.com right now. Fight one battle at a time.

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Smoking is a voluntary thing, you can tell from the title of this article. If you have been smoking for the last couple of years and have tried many times to quit, you probably think that smoking is anything but an addiction. But let’s admit to the truth, you do choose each and every time you light up, you could just as well choose not to.

I have a friend who has been smoking heavily for the last 20 years. About 10 years ago he had a heart attack at age 45, which resulted in a quadruple bypass.

When I visited my friend at the hospital, he was scared half to death, he said that his doctors told him he would need to make some lifestyle changes, one of which was to quit smoking. He swore that he was at that point, done with tobacco forever…well that lasted 2 weeks, he had made a choice.

This is a guy who was and still is in fairly good physical condition, his job is physically demanding, he is active in some sports, not overweight. So his major risk factor is most likely smoking, and he has chosen to still smoke. He is about 4 years younger than me and, sadly I fully expect that I will attend his funeral. So you see it really is a choice, not always a wise one, but still a choice,
Quitting smoking by whatever method you choose is not a walk in the park! That’s what this article is all about, helping you with tips, motivation and resources to overcome your health challenges.

Because they are all equally as damaging to your health and the health of those around us we should include all of the methods that we abuse our health with tobacco in this article. We will deal with each of them one at a time.

Smokeless tobacco – snuff, dip, chew, etc.
Using smokeless tobacco causes bad breath, stains and wears down your teeth, can cause painful mouth sores, can raise your blood pressure and your cholesterol. Over time you will be at higher risk for heart attack and cancer.

smoking pipe
Pipe smoking increases the risk of periodontal disease (loss of gum tissue, bone loss, and loss of teeth), mouth and lip sores and lesions, several oral cancers, heart attack and vascular disorders.

Cigarette smoking
Cigarette smoking causes 87% of lung cancer deaths, raises the risk of heart disease, contributes to high blood pressure, and vascular disease, and increases those risks for other people by exposing them to second hand smoke.

Cigar smoking
Many ex cigarette smokers are cigar smokers and try to convince themselves that this is a safe way to smoke, because they don’t inhale. In fact almost all cigar smokers who were cigarette smokers do inhale. Cigar smokers who never were cigarette smokers tend not to inhale. Cigar smoking whether you inhale or not is still as damaging to your heath as any other form of tobacco use, there may be somewhat less risk of lung cancer, however there is no decreased risk of many other types of cancer, if you inhale a few other cancer types are added to the list.

We are exposed to a great numbers of advertising messages each day that try to glamorize tobacco use. To balance the message read the 1964 Surgeon General Report on smoking this was the first real indication to the public that there were dire risks associated with tobacco use. At the time this report was published about 70% of the U.S. adult population were smokers, smoking was depicted in movies and on television, in ads, on billboards, and glamorized in any way possible.

Noticeable changes overtime are:

Less movies and television shows that promote smoking as much as before.

Fewer advertisements that promote smoking.

Health warnings on cigarette packs, smokeless tobacco containers, pipe tobacco containers, however not on cigars.

The places that you can smoke are far fewer. Most workplaces, many bars and restaurants, theaters, airplanes, buses.

Are these and many other changes and restrictions working?

Around 23% of the US adult population now smokes; this is down from about 70% in 1965.

However there is still much that needs to be done, many high school and college students are still smoking and many are starting everyday, with the information that is available today it simply amazes me that these otherwise intelligent persons are still smoking.

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When it comes to Marlboro cigarettes, you must admit that there are plenty of lore and myths that surround the brand. You know what you want and now that there are plenty of cigarettes around but not what you want, you get frustrated! What we are discussing is the marketing of the brand only. You have seen the pictures of the rugged man either carrying a saddle or riding a horse across the plains.

Secretly, we all may want to be like him, at least for a moment and smoking the Marlboros will put us on the same par as him. When you have a craving for Marlboro cigarettes, you just want the brand you want! You have seen the advertisements for Marlboro in all different sorts of media such as film, TV, radio and internet.

Marlboro cigarette coupons are not the only ones that are copied though. But they seem to be right in demand along with other cigarette types. When you have a craving you need to feed it. Not that anyone would go nuts, mind you for lack of a smoke, but they sure as fire will be darned grouchy! One thing will be that the label will not be quite right. The printing will be off a little.

Now, can this advertising for Marlboro cigarettes be considered a bit of fiction or myth? Plan B might be to order cartons and do the same thing with them so that at least you won’t run out for a while. If you have other smoking people in the house, you may want to hide them. A smoker with a smoking need may sometimes smoke a pack out of someone else’s carton!

Be careful as stated above about where you buy your cigarettes from. Buy them only from a reputable dealer of tobacco products. With all of the advertising that happens with this brand and others, it is no wonder that they are popular. They have hit the jackpot when it comes to Marlboro cigarettes. This image has been burned into the collective consciousness for decades now.

Are the advertisements real or just a fictional viewing of smoking? The answer is not for the writer to decide. It is up to the public to decide what is good for them. If they don’t it is because they are either isolated and have no access to print media or they live under a rock. You’re cool and tough and you have the best cigarettes around.

Ivan Jonathan has been a smoker for more then 10 years now and have always gotten Free Marlboro Coupons online to get his supply of Marlboro cigarettes for free! Check out his site to find out how you can get Marlboro Coupons for free too!

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When it comes to Marlboro cigarettes, you must admit that there are plenty of lore and myths that surround the brand. You know what you want and now that there are plenty of cigarettes around but not what you want, you get frustrated! You either have to get another brand to smoke or drive around town to get a pack of cigarettes.

This is a beautiful picture to be sure, but what is the message behind it? When you have a craving for Marlboro cigarette coupons, you just want the brand you want! You have seen the advertisements for Marlboro in all different sorts of media such as film, TV, radio and internet. Marlboro cigarettes are not the only ones that are copied though. But they seem to be right in demand along with other cigarette types.

But does it really fit the brand that it is advertising? Most would say yes, that the advertising does fit the brand like a hand in glove. Who are we to say that this isn’t what people would have in mind when they think of the Marlboro brand? Do you want to be like the Marlboro man? Then smoke Marlboro cigarettes! Plan B might be to order cartons and do the same thing with them so that at least you won’t run out for a while.

You will then be cool and be like the Marlboro man yourself. That is what the brand says, and also what the cigarettes themselves portend. Be careful as stated above about where you buy your cigarettes from. Buy them only from a reputable dealer of tobacco products. Marlboro cigarettes like any other cigarette can be copied and faked.

Who wouldn’t want to work the range with a Marlboro cigarettes or cigarette hanging from your mouth? The main question raised here is simply of hype. The famous red and white wrapper is known the world around as well as the print and TV ads that are now famous. Who doesn’t know about this particular brand?

If they don’t it is because they are either isolated and have no access to print media or they live under a rock. You’re cool and tough and you have the best cigarettes around. That is why retail stores or tobacco stores are the best places to purchase them or any other retail outlet that you are familiar with.

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