E-smoker Forever - by Leaford

Vapor4Life’s Summer Solstice Sale Video!

leaford — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:52:00 +0000

Vaping is better than cigarettes outdoors!

It’s cleaner and greener, because one cartomizer last as long as 3/4 to one pack, so saves 15 to 20 cigarette butts, plus packaging. It’s nicer when a pleasant summer breeze blows it in your eyes, There’s no ash, and no struggling to light one in the wind.

And you still have time to get 20% off all your summer vaping supplies until Saturday night June 26th at midnight PST with promo code “Summersale”!

V4L Summer Solstice Sale!

leaford — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:26:03 +0000

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
~James Dent
Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.
– Bob Marley

Well, Summer is here, and V4L wants to usher it in with new vaping gear for everyone!

Now through midnight June 26th, get 20% off everything with promo code “SUMMERSALE”!

An urgent anti-e-smoking warning from ASSS:

leaford — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 01:33:45 +0000

Warning! E-smoking Kills!!!

EEEeeeeeekkk!

I hope you have noticed…

leaford — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 01:22:22 +0000

I hope you have all noticed a new energy and spirit here at eSF. Now that I’ve been back home for awhile it’s time to turn my attention back to blogging. SO I brainstormed a bit, and came up with a new direction.

I will turn my attention back to reviewing, and soon, but I wanted to move beyond blogging and be a general source of information on the e-cig community. What’s interesting, what’s new, what’s old, what’s happening, etc. Whatever is going on on the web that’s e-cig related, I will scour the nets and bring it all back home to you here. And from time to time something off topic, just for fun.

I’m just getting started, so things are simple now, but I intend this to become a full magazine in time. Maybe even the first real trade journal for our industry. Keep an eye out for things to come.

FINALLY! A REAL Clinical Trial on e-cigs!

leaford — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:25:26 +0000

Auckland University’s Clinical Trials Research Unit has announced a six-month clinical trial of the safety and effectiveness of electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation! Currently in set-up phase, the trial has the cute name of END-IT.

END-IT: ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DEVICE INTERVENTION TRIAL

Funded by Health Research Council of New Zealand, the study will be a single-blind randomized control trial. Participants will be recruited from Auckland, NZ, and will receive a standard 8-week course of either a 16mg e-cig, a placebo 0mg e-cig, or nicotine patches, as well as behavioral support. They will be evaluated for continued tobacco abstinence after 6 months, as well as secondary outcomes, and for adverse events.

This study received funding in June 2010 and is currently in set-up phase, with study documents being prepared and ethics and regulatory approval being sought.

I have a few concerns over the study design. For one thing, it is designed to evaluate tobacco abstinence after an 8-week course of e-cigs, so will they count continued e-cig use after the 8 weeks as success or failure? Six months isn’t really long enough, for another. And they gave no information on the size of the study.

But, it is a start. A start to the real solid research that we need. Blinded, randomized, placebo controlled, peer-reviewed and published, this will be a GREAT validation for our side when it is complete.