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Someone gets to a nusing facilty ans wants to smoke an e cigarette I say you let them! goodness me its a lot better than a normal cigarette that for sure. According to The American Association of Public Health Physicians “because the possibility exists to save the lives of four million of the eight million current adult American smokers who will otherwise die of a tobacco-related illness over the next 20 years.”
Its plain and simple the e-cigarette or electronic cigarettes as they are also called emits an odorless vapor and has no harmful smoke or toxins so even though research is limited on the e cigarette and even though it is still a little bit controversial its clearly saving peoples lives and helping people kick the habit and smoke less toxins.
How are SNFs handling residents who use e-cigarettes?
Q: We have a new resident who is smoking the e-cigarette. What are facilities doing with it?
A: An electronic cigarette, or e-cigarette, is an electrical device that simulates the act of tobacco smoking by producing an inhaled mist bearing the physical sensation, appearance and often the flavor and nicotine content of inhaled tobacco smoke; though without its odor, it is intended to eliminate health risks. The device uses heat (or in some cases, ultrasonics) to vaporize a liquid solution into an aerosol mist.
In speaking with a dozen or more facilities, the e-cigarette seems to be handled in an individual facility- or corporate-wide policy. Many facilities are not allowing it at all; others allow it after the resident is deemed by the doctor or advanced practice nurse to be safe at handling the device.
It does seem that all of the facilities allowing the e-cigarette keep the charging device at the nurses' station, just to keep an eye on how often it is smoked, and to monitor on an ongoing basis for safety.
The e cigarette as you see is still little bit controversial and the reasons are ridiculous! Smokeless smoking is smokeless and not only is it smokeless but its also toxin-less! I say if you wanna smoke an e cigarette as opposed to a real one then the results will be far better in the long run.
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Heres a great story about the first time John Cusack was asked to do a commercial for apple - He didnt do the commercial and in hindsight seems to think that it was a mistake, if there was ever a commercial Cusack wold had done it that one.
Another blunder is how Cusack new about the Ipod and the New apple devices ready to hit the market and never bought any stock in apple - tsk tsk if he would have possibly would have gotten done for insider trading!
Cusack talks Poe, acting jobs, Steve Jobs
LOS ANGELES -- A story John Cusack tells about his ambivalent relationship with his profession begins with a trip in Steve Jobs' private jet.
We're in L.A.'s Four Seasons hotel to talk about his role as Edgar Allan Poe in the pseudo-slasher film The Raven, in theatres Friday. Cusack, looking especially pale in black jeans and black shirt, puffs away on a tobacco-free electronic cigarette ("I gave up cigarettes eight years ago. But I like to smoke these in restaurants to freak people out. It's just water vapour.")
I mention that his movie High Fidelity dovetailed with the purchase of my first iPod, a 2001 original that was the size and thickness of a deck of cards. The HF soundtrack was the first CD I loaded on it, and, four iPods later, every song is still on the playlist.
"That's great!" he says. "When I did that movie in 2000, I got a call saying, 'Steve Jobs wants to talk to you.'
"He flew me down (from his home in Chicago to Apple HQ in Cupertino, Calif.) and said he wanted me to do a commercial for this new iPod and play the High Fidelity character (a record store manager).
"And I just said, 'I don't want to do a commercial.' But now that I think about it, if I was ever to do a commercial that should have been the one. It was so cool that he was a fan of the movie. But here's the thing. He showed me the template, their rollout plans, iTunes before it was out -- and I still didn't buy Apple stock! That's how stupid I am."
Cusack still doesn't do commercials. In a career dotted with beloved cult movies (The Sure Thing, Say Anything, Grosse Pointe Blank), he has not exactly boycotted the Hollywood blockbuster machine, but close. "I haven't put on tights yet," he says of his unconventional career, "but I did do an apocalypse movie (Roland Emmerich's 2012)."
Off the top of his head, Cusack remembers three such movies in his career, Hollywood "tent-pole" flicks he admits he was in for the money: 2012, Con Air with Nicolas Cage and America's Sweethearts with Julia Roberts.
"My career has been this weird mix of what you're able to do, what you're allowed to do and what people offer you. So if I can do a tent-pole movie and I think I can make it OK, it's not embarrassing."
Interestingly, he came up in the Brat Pack era with Robert Downey Jr., an actor with whom he's often compared, and who, ironically, was once attached to star in The Raven. The movie, directed by James McTeigue (V For Vendetta) is set in the last days of the author's life in Baltimore and involves a serial killer who uses Poe's macabre works as a template for his gory crimes.
The electric cigarette bought these guys together even though he didnt do the commercial he still smokes and electric cigarette when out and about in no smoking areas sometimes "just to see the look on peoples faces when he light one up in public!
Have you smoked an electric cigarette in public on in a restaurant just to see the look on peoples faces? please share below and let us hear your electric cigarette story!
With more an more brands of e cigarettes coming onto the market "experts" are saynig there needs to be more studies on the e cigarette.
The e cigarette seems to be doing a great job helping people to stop smoking, everyday we hear from people who have used the electronic cigarette to stop smoking - its a little bit like choosing a brand of cigarettes for real, you want one that tastes right and smokes well and has the right amount of nicotine for you.
Sometimes it takes ages till you find the right brand for you and sometimes you never find it, so we need many different electronic cigarette brands to choose from as everyone has a different taste and budget.
HEALTH experts are demanding tighter controls on electronic cigarettes amid fears customers could be exposed to poisonous chemicals.
The nicotine vapour inhaler devices are not subject regulation, and fears are growing that people could be subjected to “unclean” and “unsafe” products.
The devices hit the headlines earlier this year when it emerged Standard Life had banned its employees from smoking e-cigs at their desks.
ASH Scotland warned evidence on e-cigs was “limited”.
Many of the e-cigs brands readily available in the UK are imported without control and inspection from other countries, including China.
E-cigs do not contain tobacco and therefore are not regulated by Tobacco Product Regulations, they are also not classed as medical devices so can not be regulated in the same way as other nicotine replacement products.
The devices, which can be charged through a computer USB port, were invented by a Chinese pharmacist in 2004.
Prof John Britton, chair of the Royal College of Physicians Tobacco Advisory Group, said that regulating e-cigarettes would ensure a “guaranteed standard” for consumers was met.
He said: “Electronic cigarettes have the potential to save thousands of lives, but the fact that they are unregulated is bad as it leaves people open to using unclean and unsafe products.
“Electronic cigarettes can not be seen as being as safe as other regulated nicotine replacement therapies which meet pharmaceutical standards, these products are tested and have additives in them that we know to be safe – e-cigarettes don’t have this.
“The concept of nicotine replacement is powerful and good, but e-cigarettes are really testing this system – they are new and they are unregulated. Regulation would be useful and it would be nice to clean up the loopholes.
“At the moment electronic cigarettes may list the contents on the side of the packet, but there is no way of proving that this is the true content as there is no regulation.
“Electronic cigarettes are probably positive and if everyone switched to e-cigarettes it could potentially save millions of lives, but regulation would certainly be useful at this time,” he added.
A lack of regulation has led several countries, including Canada, Australia, and Singapore to ban the products because of fears over possible side-effects. Read more about Experts demand tighter controls on e-cigarettes...
I think that e cigarette should be made available on health systems for free, the fact that govt are making such a big stink is sic and that fact that thousands of people around the world are using them to stop smoking is a positive element that should not be made hard to get.
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It makes more sense to believe that smoking an e cigarette is healthier than a normal cigarette for the obviouos reasons like there are no flames - so that means theres no lighting up with harmful carcinogens. Then theres the fact that since there are no carcinogens then there are no toxisn or poisons to inhale or intake into your body along with a plethora of other reasons.
The e cigarette seems to be making quite an impact with sales of e cigarettes starting in stores and shops all over the world. E cigarettes came out many years ago but where not really considered something viable as a stop smoking aid, but since the developement of these little wonders they have comea long way and people are smoking them all the time forgetting they are even e cigarettes!
Here is an article discussing whether ot not the e cigarette actually is better for you. Please have a read and let us know what you think,
After 18 years of smoking I finally grew tired of the scratchy throat, yellowing teeth and constant coughing - I chose to quit smoking once and for all. Past attempts had fallen short because smoking is just as strong an addiction as other drugs. Nicotine is the cause for my addiction, but tar, chemicals and smoke is the cause of so many health problems associated with cigarette smoking. Instead of just giving up and facing weeks of cravings, urges and crankiness, I chose to try an e-cigarette. Are e-cigarettes healthier than tobacco cigarettes?
What is an e-cigarette?
An e-cigarette, or electronic cigarette, is a nicotine delivery system that produces water vapor instead of smoke. You draw on the electronic cigarette just as you would a tobacco cigarette and you inhale and exhale water vapor. Nicotine is absorbed through the mouth, throat and lungs; easing the nicotine craving while sparing your body the chemicals used in tobacco cigarette production.
Is nicotine inhalation safe?
There is a lot of debate over the safety of e-cigarettes, but most advocates answer the question of safety with another question - was smoking a tobacco cigarette safe? Medically, there are no clinical studies proving whether or not nicotine inhalation is safe or not. The Food and Drug Administration is taking their time regulating e-cigarettes as they are unsure of the long-term effects on health, which leaves many smokers trying to quit using e-cigarettes confused.
Nicotine delivery systems or electronic cigarettes are a popular smoking cessation product, but are they safer than tobacco cigarettes?
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Please check out the national institute of drug abuse to se the effects of tobacco and nictone in more detail.
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