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If anybody would have asked me 3 months ago if I thought that I could last so long without caving in and buying some cigarettes I would have said that it was very doubtful. I know myself all too well so I think that it is blooming amazing that even the temptation hasn’t been there.

That’s down to having electronic cigarettes at hand. They have done the trick for me and my use of them is now minimal. I actually have one with a no nicotine cartidge in it and another with nicotine. I said in my last months diary that I was going to go for complete days without even e cigs and I have done without feeling needy. Some days I don’t use them at all and others I just have a couple of drags late in the evening more as a treat.

Electronic cigarettes do not contain the health harming chemicals that you find in tobacco products and can be used either as a substitute or as I have to wean myself off harmful cigarettes.  The cartridges for electric cigarettes can be bought in varying strengths of nicotine as with nicotine patches.

It is nicotine that causes the addiction to tobacco products so until I am completely off the e-cigs with nicotine I can’t consider myself totally stopped but definitely over the worst.

My skin looks great upt to previously I feel fitter and healthier. I said last month that I was worried about my checkup at the dentist this month, well I need not have been.

My teeth have been quite painful and gums bleeding a bit, I was convinced that I would be getting several teeth pulled but I was wrong. My dentist had previously told me that smoking over many years has caused problems with my teeth and gums but nicotine masks the symptoms and narrows the blood vessels.

He was delighted that I had stopped smoking and told me that now the nicotine has stopped masking the symptoms and the blood vessels are opening up I can expect to feel varying amounts of symptoms and pain for up to a year. That’s horrible isn’t it?

However, my dentist tells me that as long as I keep up a good dental care regime and don’t smoke there is actually healing going on in my mouth so that is good news.

The electronic cigarettes using nicotine cartridges are a shady area, but as my nicotine intake has been massively reduced I expect that’s why the healing has started.

My total savings now taking into account the cast of patches and e-cigs is £250. I’ve already used the savings to put towards a new Sony Viao laptop, it looks a lot better than a stack of 130+ cigarette packets that I would have gone through doesn’t it?

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