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Eugene

(62,623 posts) Sat Apr 27, 2019, 10:06 PM Apr 2019

Juul nicotine hit may be 'Worst for kids, best for smokers'

Source: Associated Press

Juul nicotine hit may be ‘Worst for kids, best for smokers’

By MATTHEW PERRONE
April 27, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — She tried gums, patches and various electronic cigarettes to quit smoking. What finally worked for Chantel Williams was a small, reusable e-cigarette called Juul that packs a big nicotine punch.

“I look better. I feel better and I don’t smell. It’s fantastic,” said Williams of Portland, Oregon, who smoked for decades.

That nicotine hit and its easy-to-inhale vapor is one reason why Juul is so popular — and so feared.

“That’s the trouble with Juul: It’s probably the worst for kids but it might be the best for adult smokers,” said Dr. Nancy Rigotti, a tobacco treatment specialist at Harvard Medical School.

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Juul nicotine hit may be 'Worst for kids, best for smokers' (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2019 OP

A vaporizer is the only way I was able to quit 4 years ago, after 35 years smoking htuttle Apr 2019 #1

It's not worse for kids than smoke, sorry ... mr_lebowski Apr 2019 #2

htuttle

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1. A vaporizer is the only way I was able to quit 4 years ago, after 35 years smoking

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Apr 27, 2019, 10:16 PM

Apr 2019

I switched from menthol tailor-made to regular commerical cigs, then roll-your-own to slow me down, to finally a pipe, with detours from time to time into both 'chaw' and 'snuff', both of which are too disgusting for words. All in an attempt to get off tobacco.

Plus, gum, nico-lozenges, nasal sprays that burned like hell but kept the craving away for awhile, and finally chantix.

It wasn't until I got a beefy mod-box type vaporizer that got hot enough to make me cough, then finally taper down from 20 mg to 0 mg of nicotine in the fluid, and then quit altogether after about 6-8 months of tapering 4 years ago.

Of course kids shouldn't use nicotine vapes. Nicotine sucks as an addiction -- it's not even fun. But it's the only way I was ever able to quit, and vaporizers probably added 15 years to my life. Hopefully.

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)

2. It's not worse for kids than smoke, sorry ...

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Apr 27, 2019, 10:21 PM

Apr 2019

The only reason it may 'be worse' is that it doesn't have all the toxic pollutants that real smoke has, so it probably doesn't make you sick and coughing like everyone's first 'real' cigarette did.

The actual nicotine delivered is not any higher, so it's no more 'addictive' on that basis.

In any case, I'm sick of 'what about teh kids!?!' being a freaking excuse to ban everything adults do, so ... screw this 'so feared' hype.

Juul, and vaping in general ... is saving millions of ex-smokers lives. Kids are gonna be stupid no matter what. How do you think all the smokers now ... that need vapes to get off cigs ... started in the first place? Wasn't with vaping.

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