A study posted to in the journal Tobacco Control on Nov. 4 describes how a team of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the National Cancer Institute surveyed 30,000 U.S. residents who have smoked whether they had smoked cigarettes during the past year. The residents were also asked whether they had switched to light cigarettes and whether the switch had been promoted by health concerns, taste or a desire to eventually quit smoking.
Among the 12,009 smokers who had smoked light cigarettes, had “46% lower odds of net quitting.” Smokers who switched because they intended to stop smoking had the lowest quit success rate. People with health concerns were neither more or less likely to quit than people who smoked only regular cigarettes.
Researchers said light cigarettes doesn’t wean smokers off of nicotine due to the fact that tobacco in both regular and light cigarettes has the same amount of the nicotine. The only difference between the two is how the filters work, which smokers can defeat by inhaling longer and stronger or by covering the holes in the filtered end of a light cigarette.
Light smokers tended to think they were more safe regarding lung cancer, heart disease, impotence, wrinkles, early death because they felt their health was not at risk.
If you can’t or won’t quit, consider a safer alternative……electric cigarettes. Products like Green Smoke are devices shaped like a cigarette but they contain a battery, water and nicotine. You’ll still get your nicotine fix but you and the people and pets around you won’t be inhaling the 4000 toxic chemicals that cause major health issues every day.
Electric cigarettes are not marketed as a stop smoking device however many people have been able to stop smoking tobacco cigarettes after making the switch to e-cigarettes.
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