Electronic cigarettes - can you buy in Calis?

[lindacarl]

Hi All
We're trying to give up ciggies - It's hard!
Got the nicotine replacement etc. but are wondering about the electronic cigarettes.
Apparently they are readily available in Turkey. Does anyone where you can buy in the area & what kind of price they are? Would we be better off buying off ebay?
Has anyone tried them & how did they get on?

Yes, we both know we should have more willpower - we have been pretty good BUT sometimes you just feel like a really good drag - smokers will know what we mean.

Anyone know about the e cigs? Which variety are the best? good offers?

[cenk]

Linda
You could find them in every pharmacy but they are banned in Turkey now .
Cenk

[lindacarl]

OOooooooh Cenk - banned? Do you know why?
Is it for health reasons - if so what?? OR because the government can't tax them as they do cigarettes??
All the literature here says that Turkey is one of the main outlets for these.

Will they lock us up or confiscate if I bring one over? :

[cenk]

They were banned as they started to be sold everywhere without official permission . I heard the import companies brought them under different name from China and put to market freely .

[laffa]

Linda 2 of my mates have4 packed in using the champix tablets with no problems,, i hav'nt tried them yet.

[Karennina]

Derek and I both need to stop, I am intrigued now and have to ask what is an electronic ciggie?

[lindacarl]

Look it up on ebay Karennina - easier to see than tell you.

Basically it's a plastic tube, some look just like a ciggie, with an atomiser cartridge/battery heater. You have nicotine cartridges that go in them & they heat the nicotine & you inhale nicotine vapour that is scented like tobacco. It gives off harmless vapour that looks like smoke so you apparently feel as if you are smoking.
However it contains none of the 400+ carcinogens & extra additives the ciggie companies put in to keep you hooked - so hopefully you cut down use.

I've just ordered one off ebay - hopefully it'll stop us buying ciggies. Sometimes you just need one & then the willpower goes & you have to smoke the rest of them :-(

[grahamturner09]

it is the nicotine that keeps you hooked. i have been three months without a cigarette from thirty a day for thirty years but am still on the nicotine gum. if you use a fake ciggy you are not getting rid of the smoking habit surely that will make it harder in the long run

[lindacarl]

It's not only the nicotine now Graham. The cigarette companies have also added other things to keep you hooked - although nicotine is still the main hook.
You can actually use cartridges that have no nicotine OR cut down the amount of nicotine.
It's awful, I know, but it's the actual drag I miss. I don't want to go back to smoking. Still need the nicotine lozenges but sometimes nothing compares to the drag.
Yes I do breathing exercises - BUT!!!!!   :-(

[kenkay]

In 1998 I used a hypnotist and stopped "cold turkey" after a 37 year habit. I've never looked back  .
Ken