As an e-cigarette user, you have likely heard of the lengthy FDA document issued in recent weeks that seeks to regulate e-cigarettes. If you take time to think about how you need to voice your opinions, and why your opinions matter, you can play a part in the final outcome regarding the healthy use of e-cigarettes to help individuals quit tobacco.

First of all, it’s important to realize that the FDA’s monitoring of e-cigarette manufacturing and product safety may have some positive aspects. The FDA is recognizing the importance of what e-cigs have to offer in terms of long-term benefits. The agency is simply cautioning everyone...

As you transition from smoking traditional cigarettes to e-cigs, you’ll learn quickly that, too much stress can trip you up. We all can get tempted to forsake a healthy new lifestyle habit when stress escalates.

To stay on track, take time to figure out what triggers your urge to light up. You are an individual, and those issues that bother you might not bother someone else. Identify your stress triggers and plan ahead to cope accordingly.  

These strategies will help you anticipate what to do:

·      Define predictable stressors in your life. For example, if driving in rush-hour traffic makes you want to light up, plan...

In order to transition from traditional cigarettes to a smoke-free life, you’ll need to be completely honest with yourself. You want to identify your strengths and weaknesses, so you figure out a plan that will truly work.

For example, some individuals have lots of willpower. They can manage a lifestyle change in three steps. Others, on the other hand, require many steps to create a lifestyle change.

The bottom line is: you will need to form new habits. It will be important to know what’s working and what isn’t, so you can adjust your plan accordingly.  Keep a notebook and write down your plan, so you can figure out what...

Explaining electronic cigarettes to your boss or co-workers will require taking an assertive approach. Why? You want to educate them before they can criticize you—or begin to voice their doubt about the value of e-cigarettes.

Matter-of-fact, stay as non-emotional as possible, and make sure you understand the basics of how an e-cig works by looking up “electronic cigarette” on Wikipedia. This way, you can refer your associates to the Wikipedia website, if they want to learn more.

Keep in mind that educating your workplace associates is a necessary task, because they play a more serious role in your everyday life than, say,...

In today’s world, almost everyone is having some kind of conversation about electronic cigarettes.  Many people are trying to kick tobacco by either switching to e-cigarettes gradually or using them all the time.

Most of us have a family member, co-worker, friend or employee trying them. Throughout the day, most of us will see at least two or three people utilizing e-cigarettes.

As e-cigs gain popularity, one of the big questions coming from smokers and non-smokers alike is this:  Do e-cigarettes pose a different kind of health risk?

Now, we can relax. Recent studies prove that vaping the e-liquids made for e-cigarettes...

During the 1960s broadcast and billboard advertising a simple, evocative phrase was featured: “I’d rather fight than switch.” The visual media featured men or women with a black eye, a smile, and a burning cigarette at their fingertips. The cigarette was by Tareyton and the intent was to create and sustain loyalty to the brand. Of course, switching, at the time, meant to another cigarette brand; there were no other legal choices except to opt for the occasional cigar or pipe.

But Tareyton was merely standing on the shoulders of historic giants in marketing their brand by this strategy. The man upon whose shoulders all smokers...

Long gone are the days when you were allowed to smoke in the workplace at your work station.  You may not even remember when it was allowed.  For most of you working in offices or other indoor environments, the ash tray on the desk, the conference table or in the lunch room disappeared before you were born, never to be seen again unless you happen to be employed in one of the very few indoor workplace environments that still allow smoking.

Today, there are very strict company policies – most of them required by law – restricting the where and when of your lighting-up.  In most cases,...

“Isn’t smoking an e-cigarette just like smoking tobacco?”  You have heard the question many times and have lost count.  The answer has always been and will always be deceptively simple; so simple, many opponents of e-cigarettes stumble over it, ignore it, belittle it and generally scoff at the suggestion, even if they take the time to hear the brief answer: “No.”

Appearances aside, the two activities are sufficiently dissimilar to make the above answer a solid and supportable statement.

Let’s concentrate on the one fact that is at the forefront of concern to tobacco smokers who are absorbing the deluge of...