Quitting Smoking With E-Cigarettes New Years Resolution 2016, A Local Clearwater Business is Helping. Downtown Vaporium

It’s that time again: the end of the year is almost upon us, and 2016 will begin before you know it. If you’re a cigarette smoker, there’s a good chance that you will make a New Year’s Resolution to quit tobacco for good. In 2013, around 38% of Americans surveyed reported making a resolution to quit smoking. Last year, however, that number jumped to 54% who wanted to kick the habit once and for all.

But quitting smoking can be tough, despite what we know about its dangers. Smoking cigarettes is linked with heart disease, lung disease, cancer, and plenty of other life-threatening conditions. As a result, smoking decreases life expectancy: on average, smokers live 13 fewer years than non-smokers do. And that figure alone says nothing about the quality of life for those who smoke, especially if their health has suffered as a result.

The good news is that quitting smoking can help add those years back to your life, and with more Americans than ever before quitting, the process is becoming easier through the support of others. Today, nearly 50 million people in the United States are former smokers, and they make up more of the population than current smokers do. Where quitting smoking may have posed a challenge years ago for some, especially if they primarily hung around others who light up, today those same individuals are more likely to have at least one former smoker in their immediate circle.

Health is just one of the many reasons to quit, but it probably factors in as the number one cause for quitting. In fact, quitting smoking can have immediate benefits for even the heaviest of smokers, and over time the functions of the former smoker’s body are on par with those of someone who has never smoked.

Once you quit smoking:

• Your heart rate and blood pressure drop after 20 minutes
• Your circulation and lung function can improve within three months
• Your risk of coronary heart disease is cut in half within a year
• Your risk of mouth, throat, esophagus, and bladder cancer are all cut in half after five years, and
• Your risk of coronary heart disease is the same as the risk for a non-smoker after 15 tobacco-free years.

Is it your goal to quit smoking? Will it be your new year’s resolution? Have you tried the patch, gum and lozenges? By using a product designed to fail and the constant guilt you are surrounded with, have you had enough? There are quit lines and a slew of advice. According to experts, if you fail it’s your fault. You didn’t try hard enough. Scolding and Psychology aren’t working?

You’re already smoking. I encourage you to try an e-cigarette. You don’t need commitment. You don’t need a coach. You don’t “have” to stop smoking right away. You don’t need a counseling program. You or someone you love needs proper information. Aside from not being afraid, you need to remember three things that could mean the difference between success and failure when you walk into a vape shop.

1. Taste. You want to taste a flavor you already like.
2. Nicotine Strength. Nicotine is extremely important. That creates your “throat hit”. If you smoke lights, you may want lower nicotine strength at first. If you are a full flavor smoker, you may want higher nicotine strength.
3. Backups. All things can fail, batteries, tops & chargers. Plan on two of each at first.

Don’t be persuaded to purchase the most expensive type at first. We recommend an “eGo” style for ease and effectiveness. This year let us help you achieve all your goals while enjoying the experience. We are excited to be a part of your vaping journey and look forward to continuing to support our vaping community in the upcoming year.

Let’s make 2016 the best year yet! Have a very Happy New Year and Vape on!

Quit Smoking Success Information – A national survey conducted by Forum Research found that two-thirds using e-cigs to quit one-quarter to one-third are successful. Search the web and you will find story after story about people who picked up an e-cigarette with reserved optimism and are now tobacco free.

A Clearwater business is steering smokers away from cigarettes by selling e-cigs, or electronic cigarettes. At Downtown Vaporium in Clearwater, smokers will find an alternative to regular tobacco cigarettes that allows them to have what they enjoy about smoking, whether it be the nicotine or the simple hand-to-mouth motion, without any of the negative side effects.

Downtown Vaporium has on display a cigarette graveyard of packs of analog cigarettes containing tobacco that customers disposed of and replaced with the safer alternative, e-cig’s or electronic cigarettes. Smoke from cigarettes create more than 4000 chemicals. They contain at least 50 carcinogens with several of them being poisonous. Tar from cigarettes is a toxic residue produced by the burning of tobacco. Inhalation of this residue results in damage to the mouth by staining teeth, damaging gums, and desensitizing taste buds. Tar also causes long-term damage to the lungs and contributes to lung diseases such as emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and lung cancer.

Downtown Vaporium offers electronic cigarettes and accessories from starter kits to tank and everything in between. An e-cig basically consists of a battery-powered device offered in a wide array of colors, and the e-juice or e-liquid that contains nicotine. The juice is the element that is inhaled and which also creates the vapor clouds that many smokers enjoy.

A typical starter’s kit at Downtown Vaporium costs around $30 and consists of a battery, tank, and a charger. For the essential juice, customers will pay $10 for a 10ml bottle, which will last about two weeks for the average pack-a-day smoker.

There is no tobacco in the juice, Commonly known as e-juice or e-liquid, (it) is a solution of propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, flavoring, optionally, a variable concentration of nicotine. Juices are offered in 24mg, 12mg, 6mg and zero mg nicotine levels.

For someone who smokes a pack a day and is looking to kick the nicotine habit, Downtown Vaporium usually recommends starting between 12mg to 24mg of juice and then working down. Once you get the nicotine out of your system you can put your electronic cigarette down and step away. Once someone has quit nicotine, you will still be able to have the e-cig on hand in case you get a craving to smoke.

Because of the taste, the juice is often what draws smokers away from traditional tobacco cigarettes and to give e-cigs a try. Downtown Vaporium has over 100 National brands to choose from. Since many people like to try things before they buy, Downtown Vaporium has a full tasting bar where customers can try every flavor juice they carry before they buy it, ‘try before you buy.’

Downtown Vaporium patrons will not find the stereotypical “head shop” atmosphere. Most people aren’t comfortable going into head shops so all Downtown Vaporium sells is e-cig products, and personal vaporizers so customers can come in to taste, buy and set up their e-cigs. Downtown Vaporium also have a lounge area with tables and chairs so you can hang out if you want.

About Downtown Vaporium

Owned by Andrew Nawoichik, he started selling E-Cigs in November 2012 as an online retailer. Headquartered on Clearwater Beach, the company boasts an online store and now a brick and mortar location offering a wide range of electronic cigarette hardware, e-liquids and accessories.

More About Vaping

“Vaping” is the act of inhaling vaporized flavored liquids using an atomizer, a battery tube, a lithium ion battery, and a drip tip, all assembled in a hand-held cylinder designed to be similar to the shape of a cigarette.

Liquid flavors, or “juices,” available to be vaporized in customers’ atomizers range from banana nut bread, to menthol, to fruit, to tobacco itself. These juices – combinations of flavorings, water, and the pharmaceutical grade PG/VG base – are pre-mixed for sale for the Downtown Vaporium. Some juices (also known as “e-juices” or “e-liquids”) contain nicotine and can help transition a smoker of traditional cigarettes away from the habit. Smokers can choose nicotine amounts from 24 milligrams, to 12 milligrams, and so on down to 0 milligrams as they wean themselves.

The Journal of Public Health Policy, a peer-reviewed medical journal since 1980, stated in a 2011 review that “electronic cigarettes may aid in smoking cessation and are likely to be more effective at this than traditional pharmacotherapy,” according to Wikipedia’s page on vaping.

Recent Study

Drexel University’s School of Public Health published a report last summer concluding that “the exposures from using e-cigarettes fall well below the threshold for concern for compounds with known toxicity.”

This report, written by Igor Burstyn, Ph.D., of Drexel’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, further claims, “There is no serious concern about the contaminants such as volatile organic compounds (formaldehyde, acrolein, etc.) in the liquid or produced by heating.”

The study contradicts previous findings that vaping was not a safer alternative to smoking. Burstyn writes that “the existing literature [on e-cigarettes] tends to overestimate the exposures and exaggerate their implications.”

The full study can be found online at: http://publichealth.drexel.edu/SiteData/docs/ms08/f90349264250e603/ms08.pdf

To contact Andrew Nawoichik for additional information or comments, please call him at 727-240-1800, or email him at downtownvaporium@gmail.com

Downtown Vaporium offers a large selection of personal vaporizers, e-Liquids, and accessories for both the novice and experienced user. We specialize in educating the beginner on the various electronic cigarette devices and pride ourselves on offering our customers a money-back guarantee.