If you have ever tried to quite smoking, you will be able to attest to the fact that it’s about far more than just the smoke.

It is the five minute breaks during the work day, the DMC’s around the communal outdoor ashtray, the habit of doing something with our increasingly fidgety hands, and the feeling of reducing the ever-building stress of life that make kicking the habit a VERY tall order.

Good news! Now you can have your nicotine and a ‘smoke’ too without all those nasty by-products of burning tobacco, in the E-cigarette.

Smokers trying to quit are 60 percent more likely to report success if they switch to e-cigarettes than if they use nicotine products like patches or gum, or just willpower, scientists said on Tuesday.

Presenting findings from a study of almost 6,000 smokers over five years, the researchers said the results suggest e-cigarettes could play an important role in reducing smoking rates and hence cutting tobacco-related deaths and illnesses.

As well as causing lung cancer and other chronic respiratory diseases, tobacco smoking is also a major contributor to cardiovascular diseases, the world’s number one killer. [Reuters]

Not only can you have that five minute smoke break to keep your sanity when your neighbour is tapping their feet incessantly under the desk, but you can do it almost completely guilt free. Sounds good to us – definitely worth a try!

[Source]Reuters