Propylene Glycol is a compound typically found in the liquid nicotine cartridges of e-cigarettes. While it is generally considered to be safe, propylene glycol’s presence as a compound in the liquid nicotine cartridges has been somewhat controversial.
Used in cosmetic products, food coloring, cake mixes, sodas, and many other products, propylene glycol is generally considered safe when ingested orally. It has a very low toxicity. In other words, one would have to ingest large amounts of propylene glycol for any harm to result.
What is not known, however, is the safety of propylene glycol when it is inhaled. When vaporized, propylene glycol has an appearance and consistency similar to smoke, even though it is not real smoke. That is the reason why propylene glycol is contained in liquid nicotine cartridges. It emulates the smoke found in real cigarettes.
Because it is used extensively to make “fake smoke”, there have been many anecdotal reports that propylene glycol, when vaporized, often causes irritation to the eyes or throat. Also, there is some research that shows that propylene glycol should not be inhaled.
However, there is no definitive scientific evidence as of yet that shows that propylene glycol is harmful.
On the other hand, there is no evidence that shows propylene gylcol is completely safe either. Nor is there research that shows how safe inhaling propylene glycol is compared to inhaling real smoke, although there is a general consensus that inhaling propylene glycol is probably safer. Accordingly, more research on the health effects of propylene glycol being inhaled is currently being done. Hopefully, science will provide an answer soon.
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Howdy there folks. Are you a looking to buy an e-cigarette? Well, if you are, let me introduce myself. My name is John Jablonski, and I am the owner of an e-cigarette company. I would really like you to buy your next e-cigarette from my company. My e-cigarettes are pretty good and competitively priced. But, the thing that sets my e-cigarettes apart from the others is that they are not appealing to children.
You see, many people in my industry have been criticized by some anti-smoking advocates. Now, these anti-smoking advocates have many gripes about the e-cigarette. Chief among their complaints is that the e-cigarette is appealing to children because e-cigarette companies offer liquid nicotine in many tasty flavors, like chocolate, cherry, orange, and vanilla. Since children like these flavors, they will be attracted to using the e-cigarette, so goes the anti-smoking advocates reasoning.
Now, I am completely opposed to children using the e-cigarette in any manner. My product is only for adults. So they won’t appeal to children, my e-cigarette company will not offer any fruity flavors or other tasty flavors such as chocolate or vanilla. Accordingly, my company will offer flavors that are completely unappealing to children. My company offers flavors such as “turd”, “body odor”, “sweaty sock”, “gasoline”, and “urine”. I think that no child would like any of the flavors that my company offers. Accordingly, I can sell my e-cigarette with a clean conscience.
So, I ask you to stick it to all those e-cigarette companies that are offering those nice tasty flavors. You, can let them know your disapproval by buying from me. Buy from me now, and I will give you 20 FREE turd flavored liquid nicotine cartridges.
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All right, the foregoing is ridiculous. But, I have felt the need to fight fire with fire, or, in this case, ridiculousness with ridiculousness as a counter to some of the anti-e-cigarette nuttery that has been perpetrated by some anti-smoking advocates.
Although there are some legitimate concerns about the e-cigarette, I personally find the argument that e-cigarettes are appealing to children to be rather lame. If you don’t like the e-cigarette, then say so, but don’t try to drag children into it. That is nothing but a cheap emotional ploy to get people to side with you.
The fact of the matter is that adults also enjoy pleasant flavors as well as children do. If e-cigarette companies can lure adults away from smoking real cigarettes by offering pleasant tasting flavors that, in my view, is a good thing. Their is little doubt that the e-cigarette is a better and healthier alternative to real cigarettes.
In addition, the anti-smoking zealots, who complain about the tasty flavors offered by e-cigarette companies, seem to woefully ignorant about cigarette smokers. Most smokers enjoy the taste of cigarettes. Getting them to quit real cigarettes is much easier if they can be offered an alternative that provides them with same taste as real cigarettes. Or better yet, offer them something that taste even better than the real cigarette to get them to quit.
Of course, I am not trying to minimize the seriousness of children using e-cigarettes. Children should never be allowed to use them, period. I completely support punishing vendors who sell e-cigarettes to children. But, when you argue to ban the e-cigarette because some children might be tempted to use them, you, in my view, over state your case. Adults should have the choice to use the e-cigarette. And, if nice tasting flavors can induce some adults to quit real cigarettes for the e-cigarette, then I hope the e-cigarette companies will come out with even more flavors that smokers will enjoy.
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Is there such a thing as a Smart Smoker? In this day of Political Correctness would you like to be able to smoke where ever and when ever you please? Have you heard about electronic cigarettes or sometimes called e-Cigarettes? It is a device that provides the smoker with a realistic smoking experience without releasing any real smoke. It looks like a cigarette, feels like a cigarette and tastes like a cigarette, but the Smart Smoker electronic cigarette is not a cigarette. It is an electronic smoking device that provides a realistic smoking experience with the same look, feel and taste (including nicotine) without the risks that comes with smoking regular tobacco. The technology in this device allows the Smart Smoker to light when you inhale and produces a vapor that looks like smoke but has none of the negative side effects.
People around the world are experiencing the freedom that the Smart Smoker provides. They are able to smoke in restaurants, bars, shopping centers whenever they please regardless of local laws and restrictions. Picture yourself enjoying your favorite gourmet meal at your favorite restaurant. After the meal is finished you simply take out your e-Cigarette and enjoy an after dinner “smoke” right at the table. This smokeless smoking device is truly a smoking break through.
And it gets even better. The Smart Smoker electronic cigarette gives you the pleasures of smoking without those nasty side effects. There is no tar, smoke or tobacco. Imagine smoking without the smelly clothes, furniture and hands. Picture smoking without having to worry about yellow teeth and bad breath. Also there is no ash or cigarette butts to clean up. The e-cigarette requires no flame and as of this writing it is said that there are no known harmful side effects.
For those smokers who are looking to quit, the Smart Smoker Electronic Cigarette is a great help in kicking the habit. For many smokers the physical/mental habit is as hard to quit as is the addiction to nicotine. As the advertisement says “You don’t drive every time you smoke so why do you smoke every time you drive??” Or this may be familiar to you, you do not crave a cigarette until you have a couple of adult beverages under your belt, Then the urge to smoke kicks in. With the E-Cigarette you can meet that physical and psychological need without the nasty side effects that come with regular tobacco smoke. If you haven’t noticed I am a fan of this technology and as an affiliate is is possible that I profit from my affiliate relationship with Smart Smoker.
In conclusion the Smart Smoker Electronic Cigarette is a new technology that provides the smoker with a multitude of benefits. The smoking experience is very realistic. You can use the E-Cigarette when and where you want. As there is no flame and it emits only a harmless water vapor there is no smelly smoke to bother others or stink up you clothing, your car or your fingers. I know many smokers who are very conscience of how they smell to non-smokers. They do not want to “smell like and ash tray”. This amazing new device provides the smoker with a much healthier alternative while also giving them the freedom to enjoy an e-smoke when and where they want.
ECD: Given what we know about the ingredients and carcinogens contained within the electronic cigarette, is there reason to believe it could be a safer alternative to regular cigarettes?
Carl Phillips: I think that’s quite an understatement. I think there’s absolutely no doubt that it is a safer alternative to regular cigarettes. Now safe, that’s a word that implies there is absolutely no health risk from something, and that doesn’t really apply to anything. But our estimate is that it is probably in the order of 99 percent less harmful than smoking, I think there’s little doubt that it’s down in the neighborhood.
ECD: Professor Michael Siegel suggested that if we banned electronic cigarettes based on the carcinogens found in the FDA study we would have to ban peanut butter. Is that something you would agree with?
Carl Phillips: At least! We’d have to ban half the foods that are available. I mean, the FDA study really didn’t find any cancer risk. That study was basically pure propaganda.
ECD: Is there any danger of passive smoking with electronic cigarettes?
Carl Phillips: Probably not. As far as we know, the vapour, the propylene glycol vapour, has no human health risks at low concentrations, so it’s possible that there’s some miniscule risk, far too small for us to have ever noticed it or measured it. The amount of nicotine that escapes out into the air is also quite trivial and nicotine itself has such a low risk profile… so again it is never proper science to say that there is absolutely no risk from something, just as it is not proper science to say simply that there is a risk from something without trying to quantify it. But I guess there is no serious risk from second hand vapour as I guess it would have to be called.
ECD: In your opinion, could the electronic cigarette aid smoking cessation or be of use as a tobacco harm reduction product?
Carl Phillips: Yes, not only could it but it clearly is already being used for exactly that. Self reports suggest that thousands, tens of thousands of smokers have quit smoking by switching to the electronic cigarette which is the perfect proof that it does work as a smoking cessation aid and a tobacco harm reduction tool. A good example of a reliable ecig brand is
ECD: Electronic Cigarettes have been in use for several years now, and there are a few organisations which are concerned about them. What side effects have been found so far?
Carl Phillips: As far as I know there hasn’t been any discoveries of acute side effects, which of course is good news. There is no reason to expect any but you never know quite what is going to happen with a new exposure. You can have reports that start to trickle in of a case here or there of something very strange happening. I’m not aware of any such thing. We of course know that long term use of nicotine poses a small, a very small but non-zero risk of some cardiovascular diseases so I suppose you could call that a side effect which is predictable for the long run, but that’s a total risk which is down in the range of drinking coffee, nothing remotely similar to the risk from smoking cigarettes.
ECD: What’s your biggest concern with regards to the electronic cigarette?
Carl Phillips: Well, we don’t know too much about the manufacturing process and there’s not enough quality control, or at least there is not enough guarantee of quality control in the process. Now, this of course varies from manufacturer to manufacturer, but with reasonably free entry that just about anybody with an appropriate factory in China can start manufacturing these and start putting them out under some brand name there is worry about contamination. I mean this is not a plastic toy or something like that, which alone generates a lot of worry about Chinese manufacturers. This is something that is delivering chemicals into the body in a way which is definitely going to be absorbed so it doesn’t take much of a production mishap to create something that is very harmful. And I really fear that it is going to happen one of these days if we don’t get some effective regulation and it is going to give the entire product line a bad name which of course would be inappropriate but quite understandable.
ECD: Following on from those concerns about the quality of production, let’s talk about the FDA. The FDA carried out tests on electronic cigarettes in which they found diethylene glycol in one “Smoking Everywhere” e-cigarette and traces of tobacco specific nitrosamines in both Smoking Everywhere and NJOY electronic cigarettes. So what are the significance of those findings?
Carl Phillips: There’s no significance of those findings whatsoever from a scientific or health standpoint. From a political standpoint the fact that they did that was quite significant. So on the first point the fact that there are any detectable levels of any small molecules that that can be found in the tobacco plant in the e-cigarettes is not surprising at all. The nicotine comes from tobacco and our ability to detect a few stray molecules of contamination means that basically any molecule that is small enough to be a contaminant that is found in the tobacco plant will also be found in e-cigarettes. It’ll also be found in nicoderm, nicorette, any product that contains nicotine that has been extracted from a tobacco plant. So that’s completely meaningless – the quantities of the nitrosamines in the electronic cigarette were so many orders of magnitude smaller than those, say, in smokeless tobacco, which has been shown to not cause a measurable risk of cancer, so we know that that doesn’t matter. Now, there is some more significance in finding contamination in the carrier chemicals, not that there was enough in this particular case that it was going to be harmful but because there is not supposed to be anything other than the propylene glycol and the water there, it does mean that there is a manufacturing problem – a manufacturing problem under some circumstances could be quite a bad thing. Now what really is the biggest problem is the politics that this reflects.This shows up in all sorts of harm reduction type situations and the basic rule of thumb is, if you ban something or if you’re trying to ban something, declare war on it, then you can’t regulate it, you can’t make it safer. So if you have a war on injection drug use and you simply want to forbid it and don’t want to admit it is happening in any way, you will prevent needle exchanges from happening which would save a lot of lives. If you want to have a war on prostitution and just absolutely forbid it and pretend it doesn’t exist then it is impossible to impose rules that force prostitutes to get health exams and so forth. Similarly if the FDA is intent on declaring war on electronic cigarettes and simply forcing them from the market then they are going to be abdicating their responsibility to make sure that the electronic cigarettes are what they are supposed to be and keep them safe and that goes back to this quality control problem. The FDA would really be the perfect entity to help impose some quality control on ecig manufacture even though they are manufactured in a different country but it looks pretty bad in terms of the possibility of them doing that.
ECD: What health benefits, if any, might smokers find if they smoked electronic cigarettes, or changed to electronic cigarettes?
Carl Phillips: The health benefits of switching are almost exactly the same as the health benefits of quitting, and this applies to electronic cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and pharmaceutical nicotine. If a smoker can manage to switch from smoking to one of those other products the benefits are approximately the same as quitting – they lower their cancer risk, they lower their cardiovascular disease risk, they get rid of acute symptoms of lung and airway problems, a risk that comes from smoking for pulmonary diseases and so forth. Switching is so close as good as quitting that from a health point of view there is no point in worrying about the difference.
It was probably one of the hardest things I had ever tried to do. I had smoked for over 10 years, (a relatively short time span compared to some), but I was definitely hooked, addicted or whatever you want to call it? I had to have cigarettes.
Having been interested in hypnosis and the mind/body connection for many years, I wondered if hypnosis “really” worked? I had heard of people using hypnosis to quit smoking, but like most people, I kinda blew it off and thought, “yeah right”.
Still, hypnosis intrigued me to the point where I couldn’t stand it any longer. I signed up for a training course with a local hypnotherapist and spent 8 weeks training on how to help others with hypnosis. Throughout the class, we learned a lot of theory about hypnosis that gave me a much better understanding of how it worked and why it worked. I finally realized that while not “exact”, there was some science to this.
Ask ten different people about hypnosis and you’ll probably get ten different responses. About six of those people would probably laugh whenever you mention it. People just don’t understand how helpful hypnosis can be.
But let me ask you this. If hypnosis isn’t “real” and doesn’t help people, then why are there so many university and independent studies showing that hypnosis can help you quit smoking? Why is it that most cities and towns have at least one hypnotherapist, (check your yellow pages). Do a quick internet search for “quit smoking hypnosis mp3” and you will find hundreds of different CD’s and MP3’s available, along with testimonials of people who have stopped smoking with hypnosis.
So think about it. Chances are you’ve wanted to quit for some time now. Maybe you’ve tried. Maybe you’ve been successful for a week, a month or maybe a couple of months, and for some reason, you decided to start smoking again. If a friend said to you, “just listen to this CD or MP3 once a day for 21 days, and you’ll double or triple your chances of quitting smoking”, would you not try that?
Maybe you’re thinking, “well sure, if someone just gave me that stuff, but I’m not going to pay for something like that”. You wouldn’t? You wouldn’t spend $100 to quit smoking? Lets see…if cigarettes are cheap where you live, a pack a day over that 21 day period is going to cost you $105, (at $5 a pack). A really good hypnosis audio program is going to run you a hundred bucks, you can listen to it in your home and you can return it if you don’t feel it helped you! What more could you want? I don’t know of any other smoking cessation program that’s going to give you all that?
The simple fact is, “hypnosis works”. It’s not black magic, voodoo mind control. It’s an easy way to quit smoking that will take most of the work out of it for you. It removes your cravings and helps you watch your weight while you’re giving up cigarettes.
If you want to quit, at least consider hypnosis. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Best of luck to you!
Having stopped smoking with hypnosis, I decided to build a website for reviewing what I feel to be some of the best smoking hypnosis audio programs available. To view my findings and to learn more about hypnosis to quit smoking, please visit
I’m currently writing a blog covering how I went about successfully quitting smoking. I explain how the "hypnosis" method i use is really binaural, monaural, and isochronic beats that have been scientifically proven to change brain wave patterns and can be used to make your brain emulate doing all assortments of activities.
ok I’d like to first calm your nerves about my use of the word hypnosis. This isn’t lie down on a couch, watch my pen and cluck like a chicken. Hypnosis is really about getting your mind in a relaxed state. Lets face it, the battle of figuring out how to quit smoking is a mental battle.
The hardest part about quitting is the fact that you’ve trained yourself how to do everything with a cigarette in your hand. They don’t call it quitting the habit for nothing.
Habits are mental, that “need” you get when you are stress and the calming nature of those endorphins when you succumb to that “need”; It’s all mental! Why not fight your battle and learn how to stop smoking on the right battle field. This may explain why you may have tried to quit and failed before.
Thanks to the advancement of Science there is a way to bring this fight to the right battle field with some intelligently placed sound waves and reinforcement. Scientists have figured out a way to have your brainwaves match the dissonance of tonal frequencies. In English that means they can use sound to make adjust the speed of your brain waves. Monitoring your brain waves during certain activities, then using sound to get your brain to match the frequencies of those activities can create some astounding results. They’ve opened up doors to get your mind to respond with more energy, memory gains, relaxation and even sleep just by tweaking your brainwaves. This sounds a little weird but easily achievable with a cd and headphones.
What we’re after is within certain waves of the relaxation frequencies there lies a sweet spot that has been proven to help people who are struggling with addiction. This is not your typical means of “hypnotism”. There aren’t even words but rather just putting and keeping your mind in a relaxed state and it literally melts your urges to smoke away. You win the battle in your mind and you’ve won because you fought intelligently.
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Just a friendly former smoker trying to share his success Chad
Most smokers these days often feel pushed and pulled by their conscience, their friends and family, their wallet and their smoking urges to quit smoking now.
Smoking is directly related to more than 400,000 deaths per year, according to the American Lung Association. Many smokers want to quit smoking now but find it a great challenge to break the addiction. The lungs lose the ability to expand and hold oxygen when a smoker inhales toxins such as carbon monoxide, and this decreases the amount of circulation of oxygen in the body. In addition, cancer causing agents that are introduced into a person’s lungs compounds the effect smoking has on that person’s health. If you quit smoking now your body will thank you for it in the long run.
The same coloring you find at the endfilter of a cigarette is the same coloring you will find on a smoker’s lungs. However, if you would like to restore your lungs to their former health, there is hope.
Within a few days after you stop smoking, you will regain your ability to taste food properly. even if you have smoked your entire life, your lungs can repair themselves once you stop smoking.
It can be very difficult to break the smoking habit to nicotine. Millions of people try to stop smoking, and sometimes to no avail.
Even though you may have attempted to break this habit many times, there is hope.
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Mike Lincoln is a medical and health researcher from London, England, currently residing in New Zealand. His passion is to improve the health to the general population by encouraging a less polluted lifestyle. Click here for more information if you would like to find an .
ECD: Given what we know about the ingredients and carcinogens contained within the electronic cigarette, is there reason to believe it could be a safer alternative to regular cigarettes?