copd and e cigarettes advice please

[lemony1]

[EmJay Partner]

Hi Lemony1,

welcome to our stop smoking community

COPD can be such a debilitating disease and by stopping smoking you can slow down the process. However, during the early stages of quitting, some people with COPD may feel that their breathing becomes more difficult. This is only because cigarette smoke has certain chemicals in it that numb and widen their smokers airways - allowing more smoke to travel down into their lungs. Once the body starts to repair itself, this will become less of a problem.

With regards to using the e-cigarette - this product is still under review, there are quite a few of our members who have already stopped smoking through using one of the many different types of e-cigarettes.

Personally, I think that it has to be safer to use an e-cigarette than it is to smoke cigarettes and the sooner that a decision is made as to whether we can recommend the safe use of these products the better. However, until we know this, then I can only continue to provide you with the information as I find it and am not able to recommend it as a safe-to-use-product just yet.

I would also you to consider whether or not you are wanting to use the e-garette to eventually stop smoking, to help you to cut down the amount you smoke or use it just to replace smoking?

Quit Support tries to support all our members in their efforts to quit or reduce their nicotine intake. We do not support, advertise or encourage the use of specific products and would always encourage our members to eventually become free of nicotine use completely.

I do hope that this may have answered your query

Have you already stopped or are you planning towards a quit date?

We can support you on your journey and have other members with COPD who may be able to share their experiences with you.

Stopping smoking is the single most important thing you can do to imporove your health

[lemony1]

Hi Emjay thanks for the reply have stopped smoking in my fourth week now and have used the e motive e cig only just recently when cravings got really bad was using medium patches up until now haven't had a cigarette in these 4 weeks so really proud of myself don't intend to smoke again just was a bit worried about the effect on the lungs from the e cigarette didn't want to use both so have disregarded the patch

[EmJay Partner]

4 weeks! Thats brilliant Lemony1, let me know when your quit date was and I'll pop your name up on our Wall of Winners - the place where every quitter is a winner

The patches works really well, provided they are used properly and you are only getting the nicotine - not the other 4,000 plus chemicals that you find in tobacco smoke - with at least 60 of them cancer causing.

Keep up the good efforts

[lemony1]

Hi EmJay

[lemony1]

stopped on 14th February

[EmJay Partner]

All updated for you now, the updated list should be up any time soon

[jillygirl Administrator LONG TERM WINNER]

Hi lemony1, Welcome to quit support. I am jilly girl although some call me silly girl :D. Emjay has said it all. Please join us on our daily chat. Everyone is so friendly and we have a laugh at the same time. Lovely to see you here.

[tomc 1 YEAR WINNER]

have a lung condition and stopped smoking when I wound up in hospital YET AGAIN.

I used e-cig for the first five weeks or so then gave them up ( dont use anything now)

The e-cig did help calm the cravings, but I think if you keep on usimg them you may become addicted to the therapy.

As Emjay has said, they have not been approved as a safe therapy yet but there are many other NRT therapy`s you could try.

Keep going It`s worth it.

Tom.

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Hello Lemony1, I don't know if this info' will help, but I too have been diagnosed with COPD, going for a chest X-ray on Tuesday, then an hour of breathing tests at my Surgery early April. I have been in Smoking Cessation from my Surgery for 6 weeks last year. They were very good, (I wasn't). For I would manage to stop for two days before the Carbon Monoxide test they give you, get a lowish reading of 2 or 3, then come home and smoke a cigarette. Now that is just insanity, for there's no way I can lie to myself and be content. I have every known aid available, patches, inhalers, gum, and have tried Champix thro' my Doctor, (this works - and for many people, but for me, it made me very sick, so it was stopped. I also have the ecigs, I'm not keen, as they are very strong on the chest. However or what ever you try, see how it is for you, you may get lucky with it. All the very best to you. (This web site is so very helpful), Gilly