Smoking Bans - Which Product is Best to Cope With Nicotine Cravings?

October 29th, 2009 | by Jeff Trikoleti |

Smoking bans are becoming more frequent and there are many smoking bans that are in place especially in the festive season.

Let’s look at some easy ways to cope with smoking bans and nicotine cravings. There are some products you will have heard of and some new ones you may not have. Lets look at which is best.

Smoking bans are everywhere!

On planes, in the workplace, in pubs, restaurants and in when as guests in other peoples houses and there are many other places where smokers are prevented from lighting up

So how do smokers satisfy their nicotine cravings when they cant or do not wish to smoke?

Here we are going to look at the alternatives some well known and some new ones.

Nicotine cravings kick in when you can’t smoke and many smokers find this feeling hell – Don’t worry though there are many ways to help.

There are many nicotine products that can used at times when you simply choose not to smoke or cant smoke.

1. Nicotine Patches:

Are attached to the body and give nicotine in measured doses to the wearer. They look like over sized plasters and are very popular with those trying to cope as you put them on and forget about them.

2. Nicotine Gum

A chewing gum with doses of nicotine in various strengths. They are another popular but you must like chewing!

3. Inhalers or puffers

These allow smokers to inhale a specific dose of nicotine whenever the cravings occur.

4. Nicotine water

This is simply water with nicotine and no other chemicals and is a new product and is gaining in popularity. Not a stop smoking aid it was created to allow smokers to get nicotine when subject to a ban, or when smokers simply don’t wish to smoke.

Smokers can drink the water, get nicotine and hydrate themselves at the same time (as we all need water) and it’s convenient.

The best product to take when subject to a smoking ban is very much down to choice – all deliver nicotine outside of smoking.

Now:

While were looking at smoking bans – it is a good idea to look at why nicotine does you no harm and may do you good when your not taking it in cigarettes.

This will encourage more people to use the above products and may even see them stop smoking altogether when they know the truth about nicotine.

Many people don’t want to take nicotine outside of cigarettes but there is no reason not as it can knock the craving down.

Nicotine outside of cigarettes will do you no harm at all – It’s some of the other 4,000 chemicals that are the killers not nicotine.

Fact: Nicotine is NOT a cause of disease or death

While Nicotine is responsible for the addictive nature of cigarette smoking, in organic form it actually does not cause disease, it’s the other chemicals in cigarettes that do that.

Nicotine is it good for you? Read the facts

In fact, Nicotine is a naturally occurring compound and is actually found in common foods and vegetables including potatoes, tomatoes, bell peppers, cauliflower, eggplant, and chili peppers.

In its natural state, and when ingested through the digestive system in organic form, nicotine is safe and non-toxic.

In fact it is the subject of intense medical research due to its health properties it is known to lift mood, help us concentrate better and improve memory.

This can help with a variety of diseases from Attention disorders to depression to Parkinson’s and Altzeimer’s disease.

Which ever product you choose, be aware that there is no shame in taking nicotine outside of cigarettes.

It can help you cut down, make cravings easier to tolerate and may eventually help you give up.

Sacha Tarkovsky
http://www.articlesbase.com/diseases-and-conditions-articles/smoking-bans-which-product-is-best-to-cope-with-nicotine-cravings-84051.html

  1. One Response to “Smoking Bans - Which Product is Best to Cope With Nicotine Cravings?”

  3. By harleyrider1978 on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    SECOND HAND SMOKE IS A JOKE. Ask the anti-tobacco folks to tell you what truly is in second hand smoke…when it burns from the coal its oxygenated and everything is burned and turned into water vapor………………thats right water……….you ever burned leaves in the fall…know how the heavy smoke bellows off…….thats the organic material releasing the moisture in the leaves the greener the leaves/organic material the more smoke thats made……thats why second hand smoke is classified as a class 3 irritant by osha and epa as of 2006……..after that time EPA decided to change the listing of shs as a carcinogen for political reasons…….because it contained a trace amount of 6 chemicals so small even sophisticated scientific equipment can hardly detect it ……..they didnt however use the normal dose makes the poison computation when they made this political decision. However osha still maintains shs/ets as an irritant only and maintains the dose makes the poison position…….as osha is in charge of indoor air quality its decisions are based on science not political agendas as epa’s is. We can see this is true after a federal judge threw out the epa’s study on shs as junk science……… Wednesday, March 12, 2008 British Medical Journal & WHO conclude secondhand smoke “health hazard” claims are greatly exaggerated The BMJ published report at:

    http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7398/1057

    concludes that “The results do not support a causal relation between environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality. The association between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and coronary heart disease and lung cancer are considerably weaker than generally believed.” What makes this study so significant is that it took place over a 39 year period, and studied the results of non-smokers who lived with smokers…..

    meaning these non-smokers were exposed to secondhand smoke up to 24 hours per day; 365 days per year for 39 years. And there was still no relation between environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality. In light of the damage to business, jobs, and the economy from smoking bans the BMJ report should be revisited by lawmakers as a reference tool and justification to repeal the now unnecessary and very damaging smoking ban laws. Also significant is the World Health Organization (WHO) study:

    Passive smoking doesn’t cause cancer-official By Victoria Macdonald, Health Correspondent ” The results are consistent with their being no additional risk for a person living or working with a smoker and could be consistent with passive smoke having a protective effect against lung cancer. The summary, seen by The Telegraph, also states: ‘There was no association between lung cancer risk and ETS exposure during childhood.’ ” And if lawmakers need additional real world data to further highlight the need to eliminate these onerous and arbitrary laws, air quality testing by Johns Hopkins University proves that secondhand smoke is up to 25,000 times SAFER than occupational (OSHA) workplace regulations.

    The Chemistry of Secondary Smoke About 94% of secondary smoke is composed of water vapor and ordinary air with a slight excess of carbon dioxide. Another 3 % is carbon monoxide. The last 3 % contains the rest of the 4,000 or so chemicals supposedly to be found in smoke… but found, obviously, in very small quantities if at all.This is because most of the assumed chemicals have never actually been found in secondhand smoke. (1989 Report of the Surgeon General p. 80). Most of these chemicals can only be found in quantities measured in nanograms, picograms and femtograms. Many cannot even be detected in these amounts: their presence is simply theorized rather than measured. To bring those quantities into a real world perspective, take a saltshaker and shake out a few grains of salt. A single grain of that salt will weigh in the ballpark of 100 million picograms! (Allen Blackman. Chemistry Magazine 10/08/01). - (Excerpted from “Dissecting Antismokers’ Brains” with permission of the author.)

    The Myth of the Smoking Ban ‘Miracle’ Restrictions on smoking around the world are claimed to have had a dramatic effect on heart attack rates. It’s not true. http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7451/

    As for secondhand smoke in the air, OSHA has stated outright that: “Field studies of environmental tobacco smoke indicate that under normal conditions, the components in tobacco smoke are diluted below existing Permissible Exposure Levels (PELS.) as referenced in the Air Contaminant Standard (29 CFR 1910.1000)…It would be very rare to find a workplace with so much smoking that any individual PEL would be exceeded.” -Letter From Greg Watchman, Acting Sec’y, OSHA, To Leroy J Pletten, PHD, July 8, 1997
    -harleyrider1978

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