If you are a smoker then you are no doubt aware that each cigarette you have smoked since you started has taken time off of your life. This has been proven and that does not include second-hand or third-hand smoke, which has also been proven to be dangerous.

Electronic cigarettes could be the answer to your problems because they produce a realistic vapor which looks and feels like a cigarette without doing the damage that a cigarette will do. Even without producing smoke they still give you a dose of artificial nicotine.

The amount of nicotine that you get from a normal cigarette is about 20mg and the E-cigarette gives you about 3mg but without the tar, so this is a good way to break the nicotine addiction. The FDA, however, has still not approved them. It is unlikely that they will, because of the nicotine you are getting.

There are now hundreds of different electronic cigarettes you can choose from, but the setup of buying the cigarettes and charger, which is portable in some models, is not cheap. The most popular brands are White Cloud, Green Smoke and V2, but the best way to choose a brand you like is the same way you chose your cigarette brand, by borrowing one from a friend.

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