Tips on Using the Electronic Cigarette
May 12, 2010
Get the most out of your VIP Electronic Cigarette by reading our top tips and tricks. We recommend not using the electronic cigarette too soon after smoking a normal cigarette. The strong flavour of a real tobacco cigarette could impair the taste of the electronic cigarette, but this can depend on the brand of tobacco cigarettes you use and if you are a heavy smoker.
When you draw or inhale the electronic cigarette will turn on, indicated by the glowing tip. When you stop inhaling, it will automatically stop producing vapour and the device will go into standby. The tip will also stop glowing. You simply draw on the electronic cigarette and inhale just as a normal cigarette. If you take a deep inhale, you will feel the warm vapour ‘hit’ your throat. Less smoke-like vapour will be produced when you exhale. If you inhale to a lesser extent more of the smoke-like vapour will be visible on the exhale. This is very similar to tobacco smoking. Drawing or inhaling to a greater or lesser extent will effect the feeling provided by the nicotine in the cartomizers. How deep and how often you draw will also effect how long a cartomizer will last before it needs replacing.
Most smokers When using a real tobacco cigarette feel the effects of nicotine after 1 or 2 inhales. The first few puffs of a normal cigarette take away the familiar craving. After 5 or 6 inhales the smoker loses interest in the tobacco cigarette because their craving has been satisfied and the cigarette burns down without being smoked. The effects of a real cigarette should be achieved in no more than 7 inhales of the electronic cigarette, by an average smoker.
There is a warning system to alert you of over consumption. The tip of VIP Electronic Cigarette cigarette will notify you by flashing 10 time if you inhale 16 times within 1 minute. If you continually draw on cigarette for more than 5 seconds, the tip will also flash 10 times. The warnings will not affect the operation of the electronic cigarette. Remember, 7 draws or puffs on the device is equal to 1 normal cigarette. One cartomizer cartridge compares to around 40 traditional tobacco cigarettes. A 20-day cigarette smoker will therefore require approximately 20 cartomizers for the entire month.
Which Strength of Cartomizers Do I need?
Based on the brand of tobacco cigarette you use, strength and how many cigarettes you smoke a day, we provide the following as a guide.
Best Buy Bundle Starter Kit Tobacco High
High Strength Nicotine Cartmizers :
Best Buy Bundle Starter Kit Tobacco Medium
Medium Strength Nicotine Cartmizers :
Best Buy Bundle Starter Kit Menthol
Menthol High Strength Cartomizers :
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New Electronic Cigarette Menthol Starter Kit Bundle
May 11, 2010
Another addition to the VIP Electronic Cigarette Shop in the Starter Kit Bundles section is the new VIP Bundle Menthol Starter Kit. The bundled kit includes our popular best selling 2 piece e-cigarette with a lithium-Ion rechargeable battery complete with USB charger and 12 cartomizers (disposable atomizers) comparable to 480 normal cigarettes. The authentic Menthol cigarette flavoured cartomizers are supplied with nicotine to offer the most natural smoking experience.
The electronic cigarette is practically maintenance free. The rechargeable battery takes around 2 hours to fully recharge using the USB charger supplied in the starter kit. A UK mains adaptor with USB connection interface is available as an optional extra in the accessories area. This means you can hook the USB charger up to any mains wall socket in the UK. Spare lithium-Ion rechargeable cigarette batteries can also be obtained from the VIP shop.
Cartomizers are supplied in various pack sizes. A 20-a day cigarette smoker will need around 20 cartomizers a month once they have become familiar with using the electronic cigarette. VIP Cartomizers contain 0.7ml of liquid which is more than double the liquid concentration of a normal nicotine cartridge.
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Electronic Cigarette Menthol Cartomizers Now Available
May 5, 2010
By public demand, Menthol Cartomizers for the VIP Electronic Cigarette are now in stock. Feedback provided by our customers showed that a menthol high strength nicotine to be most popular choice. To complete our range of electronic cigarette cartomizers, we are now stocking a high strength nicotine cartomizer in menthol cigarette flavour.
The new menthol cigarette cartomizers are available in packs of 5, 10, 20 and 50. A bulk pack of 50 cartomizers provides around 1500 cigarettes worth of smoking use. The menthol flavour of the cartomizer vapour is mellow and smooth and provides a noticeable nicotine throat hit. The menthol vapour hit is comparable to smoking a real menthol cigarette which make VIP cartomizers the most realistic cigarette alternative in the world.
See our full range of electronic cigarette cartomizers
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VIP Electronic Cigarette on Facebook
April 16, 2010
Join our social networking page and get access to special offers. Become a fan of VIP and keep up to date with our latest electronic cigarette deals.
Fans of our VIP Electronic Cigarette Facebook page will have access to a selection of discount codes covering kits, disposable e-cigarettes and cartomizers.
Join our page : http://www.facebook.com/pages/VIP-Electronic-Cigarette/109609729074966
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Doctor says electronic cigarettes are 100 to 1000 times safer than cigarettes
April 15, 2010
Dr Laugesen of Health New Zealand, a Christchurch based company, will be celebrating 50 years in the medical profession this year. He started off as a surgeon before switching to public health. Health New Zealand have researched the health risks of electronic cigarette vapour for users.
Dr Laugesen says, “both the nicotine liquid and the vapour shows there is little to worry about.”
He concluded that “inhaling mist from the e-cigarette is rated several orders of magnitude (100 to 1000 times) less dangerous than smoking tobacco cigarettes”.
“It is safer because it works at a much lower temperature,” he says. The temperature at the end of a real cigarette is between 800 and 1000 degrees Celsius, while the liquid in an e-cigarette vaporises at 54 degrees.
“Also, there are only a few chemicals in e-cigarettes compared to the thousands of chemicals in tobacco.”
Electronic cigarettes can be sold in New Zealand only without nicotine. According to ASH New Zealand, some certain supermarkets in Auckland are selling them. However, e-cigarettes with nicotine are can be imported for personal use only.
Dr Laugesen importing e-cigarettes should be controlled, but says regulating e-cigarettes as medicine is too strict. “In New Zealand, for a single strength of medicine it costs around about $100,000 to get registered for one year, and big trials that may cost a million dollars to show a product works as a medicine.” E-cigarette manufacturers do not have those kinds of resources, he says.
In the UK there is currently no restriction on the use of electronic cigarettes. They are exempt from the smoking ban, Health Act.
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Electronic Cigarette May Help Smokers Quit
April 15, 2010
The electronic cigarette, which has spread worldwide and now may help people to quit tobacco cigarettes indicates a study carried out by Auckland University. It is reported the device is as good as the nicotine inhaler at reducing smoker’s cravings. The findings are published in the British journal Tobacco Control.
Several public health specialists want electronic cigarettes to be made available as a cessation aid just like nicotine patches and gum. But those opposing the electronic cigarette, fear the device mimics cigarette smoking too closely and undermines the dangers of tobacco. However, most electronic cigarette companies promote their products by highlighting the healths risks of tobacco and passive smoking.
Dr Murray Laugesen, a Christchurch public health specialist, commissioned the testing on the e-cigarette used in the Auckland trial for more than 50 toxic chemicals found in tobacco cigarettes. None was found, except for trace elements of one. A New Zealand pharmacy is selling the device online for $140 (£65.00)
Last year a government authorised study in South Africa was carried out to test the effectiveness of the electronic cigarette as a cessation aid. The findings showed a 43% quit rate among smokers using the electronic cigarette. It also went on to show that 6% of smokers quit within the first two weeks and a further 45% over 8 weeks.
An electronic cigarette starter kit for £9.98 is available from VIP.
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Parents Face Smoking Ban at Home
April 14, 2010
Passive smoking or second-hand smoke is the main concern here. Health and anti-smoking groups have been urging the government to take action on smoking and only in recent years has action been taken by way of the Health Act 2006 (Smoking Ban). Passive smoking claims the lives of over 600,000 people a year. Children exposed to tobacco smoke are more likely to develop lung and breathing difficulties and have a higher risk of development problems. Doctors state that 15,000 children a year develop asthma due to parents’ smoking. Panorama showed children being treated at Alder Hey in Liverpool, the busiest children’s hospital in Europe. Some of the children were being treated ended up in hospital because they were exposed to their parents’ smoking. Despite this many parents simply refuse to accept these health warnings and are putting the lives of their children in danger.
A more aggressive anti-smoking campaign is being backed by ministers and is targeting parents at home. This is a ban on parents smoking in front of children. Those against the campaign claim that such government control will lead to further interference in our own homes. How this would be enforced is still under debate, if at all feasable.
Electronic cigarettes do no emit passive smoke and they unaffected by the Health Act and smoking ban. However, VIP agrees that parents should not smoke anything, including an electronic cigarette, in front of children.
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