Electronic Cigarette

[scooby1d]

Hi all,iam sorry to say that ive got quite an addiction to cigarettes and the airports & flights are quite a nightmare for me,i was thinking about buying one of those electronic cigarettes which are harmless to everyone but they give off a vapour that looks like real smoke,what i was wondering is- does anyone no if i will be allowed to use it on the flight to Dalaman?

[daisysun]

im going to keep an eye on your replys because i would also like to know this for my husband, he has just getting one and it would be good to know if he could use it

[Eatock08]

On the flights I have been on you cannot use electronic cigarettes, the stewardess announces this at the beginning of the flight saying no smoking is permitted including electronic cigs

[blondie]

Same here - I've never smoked, but when we flew to Tenerife in February, they were selling them on the plane, but announced that people wouldn't be allowed to use them during the flight. Seemed a bit odd, even to me...

[Jozzyd]

Nicorette or Boots inhalator does the job, its the most feeling similar to having a real smoke i have come across As there is no smoke you can 'smoke' it anywhere

[skilly]

My daughter has managed to give up smoking for 5 weeks with one of these cigarettes, i hope she keeps it up, she has tried before and these cigs seem to be doing the trick

[dksbbs]

Definately no on the planes..


I am on day 17 of abstaining from having a cigarette, I highly recommend seeing the quit smoking service and discussing Champix, after 7 days i wasn't finishing my cigarettes,I've smoked 20 a day for 33 years, the Champix sorted the Nicotine part out and my brain was Nicotine clear after 7 days even though I was smoking as the Nicotine receptors are blocked so I was actually not getting the hit but didn't realise as I was still smoking, the hard part is the habit when you normally have a smoke, with a drink, after a meal, driving the car, during a break at work etc, using a electronic cigarette won't help you with this part, you will find day 1 hard but by day two or three its a lot easier. 17 days in I think about having a cigarette once or twice a day, hopefully in another few weeks it will a lot less, I have tried to quit before with patches, gum, mints etc, this is the easiest way I have found.

I will be a smoker for the rest of my live but at this moment in time I choose not to have one, I still carry the 5 cigarettes I didn't smoke on my last day, somehow its a comfort having them there.

The worse part since I have being paying my mortgage i have spent £48000 on cigarettes in 20 years at todays prices, I could have paid off my mortage a lot earlier and been to Icmeler twice a year instead of once for the last 10 years.

Speak to the free NHS quit service before its funding is removed.

Dave

[Jozzyd]

Well done Dave, may you continue to choose not smoking for as long as you wish to I tried the Champix and my blood pressure went through the roof!

[diannne123]

I have given up smoking now for 2 years. I researched on the internet ways to stop smoking and i came across "Easy Way to Stop Smoking" book by Allen Carr (not the comedian) on Amazon at the time it had 360 5* reviews . At less then a packet of cigarrettes and thinking that it must be worth a go i ordered it.

I started reading the book on a Monday, Tuesday a bit more.....Friday i picked up the book and it said "you might be apprehensive at finishing the book but the worst that can happen is that you have read a book" lol true, so Friday night i finished the book and from that point i have never smoked again. The weird bit is that i have NEVER had any feeling towards not smoking!!! strange.

Today i checked Amazon and it now has over 780 5* reviews. I would say if you are wanting to stop smoking than try this book. (It is also available in Turkish).

Diane

[pops]

Day 51 for both myself and the Scarylady. Last cigarettes were on Friday 13th April.

We have both been using the Nicorette nicotine inhalator and IF ONLY we had known how effective they were in satisfying a craving for nicotine, we would deffinately have bought some whilst being smokers, purely for our flights to our holiday destinations. That NEED to be out of the airport and "lighting up" would have been so much easier to cope with had we had this nicotine intake during the flight.

As 35 years+ smokers of between 35-40 cigarettes a day, we can sympathise with all you smokers going on 4 hour+ flights. We also have the greatest admiration for all of you who are currently trying to quit and even more for those of you who have succeeded.

[dksbbs]

Day 51 for both myself and the Scarylady. Last cigarettes were on Friday 13th April.

Well done Pops and ScaryLady,

Day 20 for me now, I even went outside last night with my friends at the pub while they smoked, the smell was great but I wasn't tempted, it's one part I won't give up as I have met so many great people in smoking areas who I wouldn't have spoken to if the ban hadn't come in, so for me it did have benefits.

Dave

[dksbbs]

"Easy Way to Stop Smoking" book by Allen Carr (not the comedian)

A collegue at work recommended this book to me the other week as it worked for him.

Dave

[feefee1970]

Champix , dose that effect blood pressure, my hubbys gonna try that, I gave up 11 months ago, read the book, then had chewing gum felt guilty so bought cigs, then got the inhaler and spray ,havent smoked for 11 months,

the book is a great back up,

[joseph1946]

I have been packed in 12 years next February,i got Tablets off the doctor and the name of the tablets where Zyban,i took the first course of 28 tablets and never took the second course because i had stopped smoking,the funny thing about this was i had just took a tablet when i was reading the paper, then i read that a woman in America had died taking these tablets,i phoned the doctors and got an emergency appointment,i cut the piece out of the paper and i flew up to the doctors,they let me straight in and when the doctor read the paper he said to me that there is nothing to worry about,i said you have not took the F;;;cking tablet,then he explained the woman who died had been mixing her tablet with Malaria tablets,she was an air stewardess, what a relief,
My name on this forum used to be jmk1038,then it was joemike,now it is joseph 1946,because every time i tried to sign in it would not let me,it might be a different name next time i try to sign in.

[dksbbs]

Champix , dose that effect blood pressure,

It has a list of possible side effects as long as your arm, I have none of them, in the end as a friend who worked for a drug company says, if someone takes one of our drugs and has an ailment they list it as a possible side effect as a precaution.

The one main question I was asked was if I had ever suffered from depression which I haven't.

Dave