“This e liquid nicotine strength is juuuust right…”

Ok, that’s not something Goldilocks would say, per se, but she is onto something. Just like choosing the perfect cigarette unfiltered, mild, ultra light e cigarette customers need to pick the appropriate nicotine strength.

Choosing an e liquid that matches your current nicotine level is essential for your initial switch from traditional cigarettes to electronic cigarettes and nicotine vaporizers.

Too low may not satisfy. Too high may be too intense.

Like Goldilocks and her porridge, you have to find the nicotine level that is just right for you. Yes, using a children’s fairytale may not be the best way to sell nicotine products. But the moral of this classic story is too perfect to pass up!

Selecting the correct nicotine level will ensure an easy and enjoyable move to e cigs and personal vaporizers. Don’t just take it from us most health professionals also recommend that when choosing a replacement nicotine product, finding one that contains the same amount of nicotine as the original product is crucial to a successful transition from tobacco based cigarettes to healthier e cigarette options.

There are two main reasons for this. Let us break it down for you.

1. Too low > Smoking to compensate

Because your body has become used to having a certain amount of nicotine in it, choosing a lighter replacement than the original tobacco based cigarette will typically result in compensation smoking. This means that you will wind up smoking (or vaping) more to make up for the nicotine your body needs and craves.

For example, if you smoke a regular strength cigarette and you choose an e cigarette that is lighter in nicotine strength, you will unintentionally smoke (or vape) more than before to compensate for the nicotine loss and withdrawal. Your body will still crave its normal amount of nicotine and therefore you may think that the e cigarette doesn t work for you and you ll go back to smoking regular cigarettes. When, in fact, it was just a matter of customizing and changing your e liquid nicotine strength.

2. Too high > Too intense

On the other hand, if you currently smoke a light tobacco based cigarette and you choose a full strength e liquid strength, you will overload your body with more nicotine than it is used to while you were smoking tobacco based cigarettes. The throat hit may be too much or you may experience some light headedness. This can result in not liking the e cigarette, when, in fact, you just have the wrong nicotine strength.

3. Just right > Relaxing Satisfaction

Finding the sweet spot makes you satisfied. So satisfied, you could crawl into a baby bear’s bed for a nap.

“Got it, Veppo. Now all we need is a handy chart.
And enough with the Goldilocks schtick already!”

Ok ok, we hear ya. Refer to this e liquid strength guide when ordering your Electronic Cigarette Kit, Vaporizer Kit, or buying refills. That’s when you ll have to pick the appropriate nicotine level in your cartomizers or e liquid.

As for the fairytale analogy, we’re not done yet. So please bear with us.

Choose your e liquid

What if your goal is to wean off nicotine altogether?

Our tiered nicotine selection is a perfect tool. Start at the amount that matches your current tobacco product, and then just reduce the level gradually over time, as it feels right for you. We even offer nicotine free options so you may continue the ritual of smoking but without the nicotine. This method has enabled many of our customers to quit nicotine altogether.

Veppo is committed to making your switch to electronic cigarettes and personal vaporizers a smooth transition. Our E cig Support Ninjas are always at the ready to assist you. By making this informed decision, you’ll save yourself the drama of dealing with the proverbial cold porridge. Your vaping experience will be juuuust right!

Selby, sweanor & hughes: e-cigarettes could save the government billions

Midday report: marlboro maker moves into e-cigarettes – dailyfinance

Innovation is a powerful thing. It has dramatically increased our quality of life, and the entrepreneurial spirit behind it continues to amaze us. If someone from 1964 were to see the computers, automobiles or medical diagnostics we have today, they would be astounded. But former U.S. surgeon general Luther Terry, who released the first ground breaking Report of the Surgeon General on Smoking and Health 50 years ago, would be saddened that cigarettes have not appreciably changed. They are still the same deadly and defective delivery system for nicotine and they remain, by far, the leading cause of preventable death, despite sound policy and improved treatment.

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If you want to understand what life is like for the Canadian entrepreneurs who are seeking to serve the growing demand for electronic cigarettes, consider me. My family and I own an online vaping business, along with a brick and mortar store located in Trenton, Ont.

There are four of us involved in the operation, with a total of 90 years of smoking traditional cigarettes between us. All of us have been smoke free for close to three years since we started vaping. Each one of us had tried every available cessation product on the market (medications, patches, gum, inhalers, cold turkey, hypnosis and acupuncture) with zero success at leaving cigarettes behind. One by one, we each switched to electronic cigarettes, and one by one each of us tossed out our ashtrays and lighters in favour of batteries and clearomizers. We were so impressed with our own success that we opened our business in 2012.

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Although there has been little to no innovation in cigarettes (evidence suggests they may actually be more harmful today than they were in the past), there have been great advances in potentially massively less harmful ways to deliver nicotine to the body, such as electronic cigarettes. Unfortunately, Health Canada s policy to these game changing devices has been confused, to say the least.

We have known for decades that smokers smoke for the nicotine, but die from the smoke. It is the latter that is the overwhelming cause of the cancers, as well as heart and lung diseases. In other words, it s the smoke, stupid. Were we to ingest caffeine by smoking rather than brewing tea leaves, the result would likely be the same. Approximately five million Canadians (one in five adults) continue to smoke cigarettes and get exposed to roughly 7,000 chemicals, including 60 that cause cancer. Others face health risks due to second hand smoke. Many treatments for nicotine addiction, including nicotine gums and patches, are more effective than quitting cold turkey, but still not optimal.

Failure to distinguish between the nicotine and the smoke leads society to miss a huge opportunity to address the seemingly intractable problems associated with cigarette smoking. The quit or die approach is unethical. It is akin to thinking that anyone who drove a car the 1960s, when there were much less stringent safety standards, should totally forgo driving, rather than have easy access to alternate, potentially less risky, products.

Entrepreneurs have found a way to meet the needs those unable, or unwilling, to forgo nicotine by developing, marketing and selling products that can deliver the drug in ways that promise to reduce the associated health risks, simply by getting rid of the smoke. Electronic cigarettes, which deliver nicotine in a combustion free vapour, are currently the most visible example. But these products are just the beginning of what has the potential to be a tsunami of innovation that could do to smoking what sanitation did to cholera. The products on the market today are just the beginning.

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Over a billion smokers worldwide are spending over $800 billion a year on cigarettes. The desire for a safer alternative, however, has led to massive growth in e cigarette sales. The private sector has an incentive to meet this demand, and if it’s done right, we could have a self funding public health revolution, with the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars by reducing the prevalence of diseases caused by inhaling smoke.

This has happened before. Only a couple of decades before that first surgeon general’s report, stomach cancer was the leading cause of cancer deaths. But within 50 years, it had been relegated to a minor cause of mortality. This was largely due to refrigeration. Manufacturers were able to harness the technology and innovate to make the products more consumer friendly, promoting healthier diets and the subsequent reduction in stomach cancer cases. Such actions by the private sector are easily replicable because they are profitable and thus don’t require government subsidies. We now have the potential to virtually eliminate lung cancer and many other smoking related diseases. Such a revolution in public health would be among the biggest in history. It would work with, rather than against, the market to make combustible tobacco obsolete.

Unfortunately, in Canada, the legal framework cannot cope well with innovation in this domain and can only see nicotine in terms of its past as being either a “tobacco product” or a “medicine.” It appears that Health Canada decided that since e cigarettes were not a tobacco product, they must be a medicine. As a result, the agency banned e cigarettes that contain nicotine, because they did not meet the exacting standards for medicines. E cigs, of course are not a medicine, but rather a replacement consumer product with the potential to dramatically reduce health risks.

There are, of course, risks in any policy changes, but the status quo, which equates to another million Canadian dying from smoking in the next 25 years, must be the talisman from which alternative policy approaches are judged.

A legitimate Health Canada monitored marketplace would be a worthy goal

To maximize the benefits of innovation, we need fit for purpose regulations aimed at harnessing market forces for the greatest possible reduction in smoking related diseases. Governments have a responsibility to enact progressive regulations that allow citizens to reduce their exposure to dangerous products, when viable alternatives become available.

As with any policy measure, we need to find a correct balance, and we need to deal effectively with any unintended consequences (no one wants to sell nicotine products to kids, for instance), and a legitimate Health Canada monitored marketplace would be a worthy goal. What should be the blinding reality in all of this is that it is not often that we can empower entrepreneurs to save lives, while creating jobs, paying taxes and very possibly creating new, world class Canadian companies. Since when is there a problem with doing well by doing good?

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Dr. Peter Selby is associate professor in the departments of Family and Community Medicine and Psychiatry and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and Chief Addictions Division CAMH. David Sweanor is an adjunct professor of law at the University of Ottawa. Dr. John R. Hughes is a professor at the University of Vermont School of Medicine.