Quit Vaping: Your Four-Step, 28-Day Program to Stop Smoking E-Cigarettes - Softcover

Lamm, Brad

 
9780143135876: Quit Vaping: Your Four-Step, 28-Day Program to Stop Smoking E-Cigarettes
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0143135872 ISBN 13: 9780143135876
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

A simple, proven 28-day program that shows you how to quit vaping and will help you stop for good!

This simple, 28-day program provides specific actions to take, day by day, as you free yourself from nicotine addiction. Key information and special considerations throughout help and guide parents of young vapers through the process as well. Learn how to create a quit plan, build a support team, follow a detox, change your inner dialogue, manage your cravings, and become a non-vaper. 

Certified interventionist Brad Lamm debunks the myths spread by the thriving e-cigarette industry and its supporters, revealing the truth about the effects of inhaling these highly dangerous aerosols. Then he offers a step-by-step blueprint to break free of its grip. The plan offers a rich variety of strategies, tactics, hacks, exercises, research, and inspiring stories of people who have quit the habit using Lamm's proven program.


A PENGUIN LIFE TITLE

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Brad Lamm, CIP, is an author, teacher, and interventionist best known for helping people make life-enhancing change on The Dr. Phil Show, The Doctors, and Today. He has managed more than 1,000 interventions, visited hundreds of treatment facilities across the country, presented before Parliament in the UK, served on the board of the Association of Intervention Specialists, collaborated with the most knowledgeable specialists in the field of recovery treatment, and worked at the state level to introduce treatment options to communities. In 2012, he opened the Breathe Life Healing Center, which uses industry-leading techniques to provide powerful treatment for body, mind, and spirit.

Auszug. © Genehmigter Nachdruck. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

Part One

Lies and Facts

Myths and Truths

In May 2018, a thirty-eight-year-old man was vaping at his home in St. Petersburg, Florida, when the device's battery exploded. Metal fragments from his vape pen shot into his skull, killing him instantly and igniting a fire at the same time, according to the St. Petersburg deputy fire marshal, as quoted in a CNBC article on the deadly event. It was the first vaping accident fatality in America.

Officials attributed the malfunction to a drop-in battery called the 18650. Certain types of e-cigs called mechanical mods, which allow vapers to control the intensity of their vaping experiences, use this battery. Vapers have to remove the 18650s and recharge them regularly. Repeatedly removing this battery from and reinserting it into vaping devices or chargers can damage its insulating wrapper, compromising the safety of the battery and increasing the risk of explosion. If a vaper draws too much power off the 18650 or if it's damaged, metal-on-metal contact can cause it to explode.

Because it allows users to throttle the power level, the 18650 has grown popular among hard-core vapers, and despite the risk of death, a robust secondary market for it exists online, particularly on auction sites. As with many products like this sold in secondary forums, you don't know exactly what you're buying. The batteries could be counterfeit or refurbished and fail.

Nor did the St. Petersburg death represent a one-in-a-billion freak occurrence. Similar tragic outcomes have befallen other vapers. In January 2019, the e-cig of a Texas man exploded, shooting a shard of metal into his neck, severing an artery, and killing him, too. He was just twenty-four years old. His name was William Eric Brown.

Calamities like this and the shock and grief they bring continue to dominate headlines. Truth Initiative, America's largest not-for-profit organization dedicated to eradicating tobacco use, has been tracking vaping injuries reported by hospitals and burn centers. "Defective, poorly manufactured, and improperly modified e-cigarettes have been known to explode and cause injury," the organization confirmed. A George Mason University study estimated that between 2015 and 2017 more than two thousand Americans visited emergency rooms to seek treatment for burns from e-cigarettes and injuries related to exploding vaping devices.

If the device itself doesn't kill you, the liquid in it will. But numerous multimillion-dollar companies have a vested interest in convincing everyone that their products are safe and worth buying. That brazen hoax succeeds by means of a diabolically executed marketing and advertising campaign based on smoke and mirrors.

Behind the Smoke Screen

Vaping initially surged in popularity because most people thought that it represented a safer alternative to smoking cigarettes. That belief is categorically false. Vape companies, Big Tobacco, which owns a stake in them, their "research" lackeys, and lobbying groups such as the American Vaping Association have propagated a smoky cloud of myths to obscure the truth about e-cigarettes. Together, they sing a devil's chorus that e-cigs are safe and there's no cause for alarm.

Let's go behind their smoke screen to discover the truth for ourselves. Here are seven dangerous myths about vaping and the corresponding truths that you should know about them.

Myth 1: Vaping can help you quit smoking.

Truth: It won't.

According to the Center on Addiction, a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to stopping substance abuse: "There is little evidence that they [e-cigs] reliably reduce cigarette smoking or lead to smoking cessation. In fact, the nicotine contained in e-cigarettes and other vaping products may actually perpetuate addiction, in some cases making it even harder to quit smoking."

Addiction is addiction. Replacing one harmful addiction with another doesn't make either of them less toxic or either substance less addictive. Harm reduction techniques work best for addictions when based on rigorous scientific evidence and not Big Vape lies. Vaping produces exactly the same cycle of behavior as any other addictive substance: use, response, crave, repeat.

Almost one in twenty American adults uses e-cigarettes, and nearly 60 percent of smokers vape as well. Absorbing two different sets of toxins, more or less simultaneously, can do extreme harm to your body.

Myth 2: Vaping is safer than smoking cigarettes.

Truth: Vaping is as toxic as cigarettes, if not more so.

E-cigarette manufacturers have been feeding people this lie from day one. Smokers burn dried, shredded tobacco leaves and inhale the resulting smoke. Vapers heat a nicotine-based liquid full of noxious chemicals, which produces an inhalable aerosol, commonly called a vapor. One of those toxic chemicals, propylene glycol, dangerously inflames lung tissue.

The media has reported seemingly countless cases of vapers becoming seriously sick or dying, but vape companies still hawk their wares as a safer way to smoke. Many people don't understand, though, that pro-tobacco researchers or scientists paid by Big Tobacco conducted much of the "research" on vaping that has taken place over the last dozen years. That's a blatant, shameful, unscientific conflict of interest.

Because of the alarming increase in instances of EVALI, proper research is heating up. A 2017 study published in the American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology noted that a rapidly growing body of evidence taken from human studies shows that e-cigarette use has significant lung toxicity, as seen in increasing instances of coughing and phlegm production, bronchitis, asthma, and the frequency and severity of acute bacterial and viral infections.

Vape supporters claim that the risks are relatively unknown, which is also a total lie. Numerous national news outlets reported in August 2019 that medical officials admitted a Utah teen to the ICU who had become so sick from vaping that they had to put her in a medically induced coma in order to treat her. Chest X-rays revealed that she had fat clumps in her lungs linked to the glycerin in the vape juice she had been smoking. Her doctors said that her chest X-rays were some of the worst that they had seen, ever.

It doesn't get any clearer than this: according to the CDC, "Besides nicotine, e-cigarettes contain harmful and potentially harmful ingredients, including ultrafine particles that can be inhaled deep into the lungs, flavorants such as diacetyl (a chemical linked to serious lung disease), volatile organic compounds, and heavy metals, such as nickel, tin, and lead."

Myth 3: Vaping products are FDA approved.

Truth: Neither the FDA nor other government agencies have approved or meaningfully regulated vaping products.

The FDA hasn't endorsed e-cigs of any kind for any reason-not even to help people quit smoking-nor has it set any limits on how much nicotine or what other chemicals these devices can contain.

Surprising, right?

From the beginning, officials from the Obama administration who were in the pocket of Big Tobacco either delayed or weakened the regulation of vaping products, setting a precedent for federal inaction. Scott Gottlieb, a physician, once served on the board of a chain of vaping lounges, and President Trump appointed him head of the FDA in 2017. Gottlieb left the agency two years later. Since then, the Trump administration announced that it would ban flavored e-cigarettes, but backlash from the vaping industry prompted officials to reconsider the ban.

Bottom line: a lack of proper governmental regulations allowed an unscrupulous industry to hook a new generation on nicotine.

According to its own website, however, the FDA has taken the following actions:

All...

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Penguin Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0143135872
ISBN 13 
9780143135876
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
241
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

Friedensallee 273
Hamburg
22763
Deutschland