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1) Switching
from tobacco to e-cigarettes (Month
1, full strength, 16 mg). Reduce use of smoking tobacco, increase
e-cigarette puffs. This
requires your firm decision.
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Every few minutes you can enjoy several long slow puffs on the
e-cigarette. Instead of taking 10 puffs back to back every hour, as
smokers do, you now spread your enjoyment with a few puffs every few
minutes throughout the hour.
- Puff on the
e-cigarette as soon as you feel the slightest urge to smoke; and
repeat until the urge goes away.
- Aim to halve
the number of cigarettes every three days to reach zero by the end
of the first week.
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By the end of this time, you will be tobacco-free, smoking no cigarettes, inhaling all your
nicotine from e-cigarettes. You are no longer inhaling cancer-causing
chemicals.
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E-cigarettes provide a much safer way to enjoy inhaled nicotine,
replacing smoke with harmless mist. Nicotine without the smoke does not
cause cancer.
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2)
Stay on full strength (16 mg) e-cigarettes for Months 2 and 3.
At
the end of Month 3, you can continue on full strength e-cigarettes, or start
to gradually wean yourself off nicotine thus:
3)
Reduce to half or medium strength (8 mg nicotine) for
Months 4, 5, 6.
4)
Reduce to quarter or low strength.(4 mg nicotine) for Months 7, 8, 9.
5)
Reduce to zero strength (Nicotine free) for Months 10, 11, 12.
By the end of the 12 months
you are now nicotine free.
Note:
Based on our own research, nicotine electronic cigarettes reduce
cravings, and anecdotally help many smokers quit. Health NZ is now participating in
trials at University of Auckland to determine whether nicotine
e-cigarettes improve quit rates in large groups of smokers.
Disclaimer: The author and Health New Zealand have no financial interest
in e-cigarettes.
Last updated. 20 Feb 2011.
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