Can RELX and YOOZ E-Cigarettes Really Help You Quit Smoking?

Today, let's discuss a controversial topic: Can e-cigarettes really help you quit smoking?

As someone who transitioned from traditional cigarettes to small e-cigarettes, before answering this question, let me share my journey from cigarettes to e-cigarettes.

I have been smoking since I was 14, which has been about 7 years now.

I started using e-cigarettes in 2018 and am still using them now.

During this time, I have thought countless times about quitting smoking, but for someone like me, quitting is impossible. So, each time I said “this is the last one,” it ended with another failed attempt to quit.

Eventually, I started using e-cigarettes, initially mixing traditional cigarettes and e-cigarettes. Over time, after adapting to e-cigarettes, I rarely bought traditional cigarettes.

So, did e-cigarettes really help me quit smoking?

Actually, not really, because when I finish a pod or when my e-cigarette runs out of battery, I still experience withdrawal symptoms. If you offer me a cigarette at that moment, I definitely wouldn’t refuse.

Therefore, saying that e-cigarettes can help you quit smoking is incorrect. Strictly speaking, they can only replace traditional cigarettes.

To understand whether e-cigarettes can help quit smoking, we first need to understand why we become dependent on cigarettes.

It’s because cigarettes contain an addictive component: nicotine.

So why can e-cigarettes help us replace traditional cigarettes? Because e-cigarette pods also contain nicotine.

Thus, switching from traditional cigarettes to e-cigarettes does not count as a strict quit. We are still consuming nicotine.

However, nicotine is not a carcinogenic component; the real carcinogenic culprits are the carbon monoxide and hundreds of heavy metals produced during the burning of traditional cigarettes.

So if you want to quit smoking, you must quit nicotine, which can only be done through personal willpower. E-cigarettes cannot help you quit smoking; they can only help you find another way to consume nicotine.

The original intention of e-cigarettes is to eliminate the harmful substances in traditional cigarettes and allow you to consume nicotine directly. This is also the significance of e-cigarettes' existence; if e-cigarettes cannot reduce harm for smokers, then they lose their purpose.