I started using an e-cigarette

[faroukfarouk]

Patches deliver a dermal dose of nicotine into the system. That's why it calms cravings. Because rather than smoking to get the nic-fix, you are now absorbing it trans dermally. Be careful. That patch area can develop issues too.

Are you/were you are smoker, too?

I managed to quit.

 

[Root of Jesse]

I use e-cigs and I have managed to cut back my smoking a great deal. I have other health issues that complicate quitting smoking. I quit smoking before using nicotine patches, and then quit altogether . But the past year I started smoking again because my life has been so rough and it actually helped my digestion (I have horrible IBS and food intolerances), so I switched to e-cigs.

Nicotine doesn't cause cancer, there have been several long-term studies in NRT users that have shown this. It is addictive but actually e-cigs are less addicting than regular cigarettes, because they do not deliver a big nicotine hit, it's much slower.

Propylene glycol is mostly harmless stuff. Sometimes it can dry out your throat a little bit but you get used to it in a week or so and it goes away.

To the bolded...when I see people using e-cigs, I notice that they hit it a lot more than they do if it's a cigarette. You might get 10 drags out of a cigarette, but when people smoke e-cigs, they hit it several times in succession before exhaling.