Healthier Way to Get Your Nicotine



Posted: Tuesday, January 27, 2009

by
Sharp Smoker

Smoking tobacco cigarettes is a horrible thing to do to your body. When you smoke tobacco cigarettes, you are poisoning your body with over 4000 different chemicals, toxins, and carcinogens. You are damaging your lungs, your heart, and many other bodily organs. You are decreasing the functionality of certain parts of your immune system and respiratory system. All this damage will lead to devastating consequences in the future. Consequences such as lung cancer, heart failure, smokers cough, throat cancer, loss of your ability to talk, and the list goes on.

It is difficult to even discover and list all the ways in which tobacco smoke damages the human body. However, people continue to do it because tobacco smoke also contains one very addictive substance nicotine. This one ingredient is the reason that you continue to smoke, day after day, even knowing that it is constantly damaging your body.

Being that your addiction is solely to the nicotine, many forms of alternate methods of getting that nicotine fix have become available over time to help people quit smoking tobacco cigarettes.

Nicotine Patch - The skin of the human body absorbs small amounts of any fluid that it comes in contact with. Knowing this, some pioneers came up with a nicotine delivery system knows as the nicotine patch. The idea is simple - create a patch which contains a dose of nicotine and stick it to your skin like a band-aid so it can be slowly absorbed. This way, you get your nicotine fix without the horrible toxins from the tobacco smoke.

Nicotine Gum - Nicotine gum is another clever idea which fulfills a persons nicotine addiction. Another very simple idea - create a stick of gum and add some nicotine to the gum so that when chewed, it will release the nicotine and fulfill a persons nicotine craving. Once again, you get your nicotine craving satisfied and without smoking tobacco cigarettes

Electronic Cigarette - The electronic cigarette is probably the newest idea designed to satisfy a persons nicotine craving without getting the harmful toxins from tobacco smoke. This electronic cigarette looks just like a normal cigarette and is smoked just like a normal cigarette. However, the smoke of the electronic cigarette is really nothing more than water vapor which is infused with of course, nicotine, which is then inhaled by the user to get their nicotine fix. So like the patch and the gum, the user gets his/her nicotine fix.

So as you can see, there are many different, much healthier ways like the three listed above which you can use to satisfy your nicotine craving without getting all the deadly toxins and carcinogens which are found in tobacco cigarettes. So do yourself a favor and put those tobacco cigarettes down and discover an alternative way of fulfilling your nicotine craving!

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» left by Gregory Akerman
 3 years 13 days ago.
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I never heard about that third way - electric ciggarretts. Sounds like a good idea.
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