Electronic cigarettes are becoming more and more acceptable these days as a way to reduce or quit smoking but I have some serious concerns about their use of them.
If you look at all the cases, there have been no proper studies on whether e-cigarettes are harmful or beneficial. The most common factor that I can see with e-cigarettes is that they use nicotine in the solution. Sure there are other mixes without nicotine, but most people are using nicotine mixes.
Before working as a hypnotherapist and becoming a quit-smoking expert, I worked as a crop scientist in the tobacco industry. This has given me a unique insight on what smoking can do. What concerns me most is the blasé attitude to nicotine and how it is easily available. Nicotine in reality, is highly poisonous, and it is only the heat of your body that stops it from killing you. Nicotine has been used in the past and still is used as an insecticide.
When you inhale nicotine from cigarettes or e-cigarettes, the nicotine causes your blood vessels to constrict. This causes stress in your circulation, and it interferes with your ability to take in oxygen. If you think that this is good for you, then you are sorely mistaken. I worry that the use of e-cigarettes is just another way to take in nicotine and the harmful effects of nicotine. It’s not the nicotine that is reducing stress it is increasing it, and it’s the hand-to-mouth movement and deep breathing that helps with stress. There are better ways to reduce stress than smoking!
At Quit Smoking Expert, I use a combination of hypnosis and neurolinguistic programming to help people quit smoking in 60 minutes. This method addresses the root cause of smoking and not the symptoms. The aim is to change the unconscious mind’s thinking about smoking so that you do not have to rely on and habits such as smoking cigarettes and e-cigarettes, which expose you to nicotine,
