Monthly Archives: January 2015

Study: Second-Generation E-Cigs Effective for Smokers Not Intending to Quit

Study: Second-Generation E-Cigs Effective for Smokers Not Intending to Quit

Some more data coming out showing potential effectiveness for vaping as a smoking secession tool. E-cigs improve quit smoking rates. If there was a pill you could give smokers not intending to quit, with only very minor side effects (that fade with time anyway), which would lead to two-thirds of them either quitting smoking or […]

New Clinical Trial Shows E-Cigs Help Smokers Quit and Reduce Cravings

New Clinical Trial Shows E-Cigs Help Smokers Quit and Reduce Cravings

Some good data here showing ways that vaping can help reduce cravings for cigarettes. E-cigarettes do help you quit smoking. Even if you aren’t satisfied with the multitude of anecdotal evidence available online, population-based and clinical studies confirm that vapers do successfully quit smoking quite often, despite widespread claims that “e-cigs haven’t been proven effective […]

New Survey Finds Reduced Youth Smoking as E-Cigs Rise in Popularity

New Survey Finds Reduced Youth Smoking as E-Cigs Rise in Popularity

Always nice to see some data that contradicts wild predictions of doom and gloom from the prohibitionist crowd. Youth e-cig use rising One of the most common arguments against e-cigarettes is that they’ll tempt non-smoking youths into trying nicotine, and those youths will eventually move onto combusted tobacco. This is also a hypothesis that’s been […]

Golden’s smoking, vaping ban one of many passed in 2014

Golden's smoking, vaping ban one of many passed in 2014

I don’t know about all of you, but a ban on vaping outdoors seems a little bit excessive to me. Posted:   01/01/2015 12:01:00 AM MST Gabby Livengood, 19, takes a smoke break along Washington Avenue and 13th Street in Golden in June. A smoking ban takes effect Thursday. (Andy Cross, Denver Post file) Smokers […]