Mark/Wilkie: You are a total moron. I began smoking tobacco cigarettes during my early teens and continued for some 28 years - approx 16mos during which I was pregnant & nursing 2 children. I returned to smoking later. Contrary to popular belief, one can smoke while nursing as long as you don't smoke @ least 2hrs before nursing… E-cigs (Janty Dura-C, Janty Stick, 901, & KR808D-1) have kept me off tobacco cigarettes aka analogs since July 7th, 2009. Since I have lupus (SLE), Sjogren's disease, & a retinal eye disease, my smoking presented problems; hwr, I wasn't about to give up something I enjoyed. I'd already lost my drivers license to blindness as well as a great career; I lost another great career as a result of severe pain & constant illness from lupus (SLE) & Sjogren's disease by way of inoperable nerve damage of the ulnar nerve in my right arm. Even now that I am a freelance writer, I can only write when I'm feeling well, which isn't as often as I would like so ultimately, I lost much of my life including the independence of climbing behind the wheel of my truck or on my motorcycle to clear my head when I needed some downtime on a bad day. Despite the sniping by DH, I absolutely, positively, under-no-circumstances was giving up my nicotine. The e-cigarettes allowed me to keep smoking without all the crap that come with it. My own series of doctors whom I must see every 30 days for lupus/Sjogren's checkups could not believe the fact I no longer had the smoker's cough just 30 days after giving up tobacco cigarettes. He even went so far as to tell me how much he wished ALL his smoking patients would switch to e-cigarettes. Your body gets the nicotine but w/o the cancer-causing carcinogens. On July 7th, 2010, it will be one full year since I gave up tobacco cigarettes. And, while I don't feel great all the time because of my health in general, I can tell you from PERSONAL experience that I do feel 1000% better than I did in the months leading up to July 7, 2009! I even managed to lower my initial nicotine need levels (36mg of nicotine to 18mg-24mg of nicotine). I can't tell you if I will eventually give up the e-cigarettes or not but I can say that as long as I want to smoke/vape e-cigarettes, no moron like you is going to tell or convince me otherwise. You need to wake the “F” up & get your facts straight. E-cigarettes do NOT contain the cancer-causing carcinogens found within regular tobacco; however, either way, adults can drink, smoke tobacco, drive cars, have sex, go out to clubs, and just about anything else we want to do. There will come a time when that won't be so but until that time, I say live life to the fullest because one day there will be no tomorrows and if an e-cigarette gets you through the day then go for it!
