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As a Nurse,I find at times, there are some people that are not willing to quit smoking. This is obviously a disastrous outcome for someone with copd and will not help the situation to move forward. Smoking is highly addictive and quitting the habit is not easy. In addition to becoming addicted to nicotine, a drug found naturally in tobacco, people also become dependent on the physical and social habit of smoking.
Copd Nurses can play a role in helping people quit smoking and choosing the most appropriate method out of a range of products and various strategies. These include prescription medicines, nicotine replacement products, such as patches or lozenges and counselling. Electronic cigarettes are devices that enable a person to inhale nicotine. As the products are relatively new, there have been limited long-term studies assessing the benefits and risks. Let’s have a brief introduction.
Although e-cigarettes have the potential to reduce the harm caused by smoking tobacco, they have not been scientifically evaluated and therefore, their
safety and usefulness as a smoking cessation aid is still unknown.
E-cigarettes are designed to look and feel like cigarettes. They consist of three parts; a battery, a vaporiser and a cartridge. The device works by vaporising the liquid in the cartridge. This creates a mist that can be inhaled by the user and they appear to breathe out smoke. The good news is unlike normal cigarettes these devices do not contain tobacco, but they contain nicotine in the liquid found in
the cartridge. The liquid can have different flavours and different amounts of nicotine and the user can select.
It is believed that e-cigarettes cause less harm than a normal cigarette and some people choose to use them in order to maintain their habit more safely. Some research into the views of e-cigarette users suggest that a key benefit of the products is that they satisfy a need to smoke.
I asked a patient recently about using the e-cigarette and he said:
“I started using e-cigarettes even though I had no intention of actually stopping smoking. One day I realised that I was exclusively using the e-cigarette, and haven’t smoked a normal cigarette since. It may be difficult to get used to the experience at first but once your taste and smell senses return after smoking tobacco for a number of years, you begin to prefer the flavours available in an e-cigarette to the ‘bonfire’ flavour of a tobacco cigarette. I believe that I am using a safer alternative, although I still class myself as a smoker; if e-cigarettes were suddenly to become unavailable, I would go back to smoking tobacco cigarettes.”
As a Nurse, I find some concerns are they are not regulated across all countries.
This means that there are no restrictions on the chemicals that can be added to the cartridges. This also means that they are not subject to strict quality control, and products may be labelled the same but have different amounts of chemicals and nicotine in them. As e-cigarettes look and feel like a cigarette, users are not encouraged to change their behaviour. Their addiction to the physical and emotional elements of smoking continues.
Copd Nurses can play a role in helping people quit smoking and choosing the most appropriate method out of a range of products and various strategies. These include prescription medicines, nicotine replacement products, such as patches or lozenges and counselling. Electronic cigarettes are devices that enable a person to inhale nicotine. As the products are relatively new, there have been limited long-term studies assessing the benefits and risks. Let’s have a brief introduction.
Although e-cigarettes have the potential to reduce the harm caused by smoking tobacco, they have not been scientifically evaluated and therefore, their
safety and usefulness as a smoking cessation aid is still unknown.
E-cigarettes are designed to look and feel like cigarettes. They consist of three parts; a battery, a vaporiser and a cartridge. The device works by vaporising the liquid in the cartridge. This creates a mist that can be inhaled by the user and they appear to breathe out smoke. The good news is unlike normal cigarettes these devices do not contain tobacco, but they contain nicotine in the liquid found in
the cartridge. The liquid can have different flavours and different amounts of nicotine and the user can select.
It is believed that e-cigarettes cause less harm than a normal cigarette and some people choose to use them in order to maintain their habit more safely. Some research into the views of e-cigarette users suggest that a key benefit of the products is that they satisfy a need to smoke.
I asked a patient recently about using the e-cigarette and he said:
“I started using e-cigarettes even though I had no intention of actually stopping smoking. One day I realised that I was exclusively using the e-cigarette, and haven’t smoked a normal cigarette since. It may be difficult to get used to the experience at first but once your taste and smell senses return after smoking tobacco for a number of years, you begin to prefer the flavours available in an e-cigarette to the ‘bonfire’ flavour of a tobacco cigarette. I believe that I am using a safer alternative, although I still class myself as a smoker; if e-cigarettes were suddenly to become unavailable, I would go back to smoking tobacco cigarettes.”
As a Nurse, I find some concerns are they are not regulated across all countries.
This means that there are no restrictions on the chemicals that can be added to the cartridges. This also means that they are not subject to strict quality control, and products may be labelled the same but have different amounts of chemicals and nicotine in them. As e-cigarettes look and feel like a cigarette, users are not encouraged to change their behaviour. Their addiction to the physical and emotional elements of smoking continues.
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