Cancer - Don"t Blame it on Nicotine

When you hear the word "Nicotine" some people scowl because they associate nicotine with smoking and smoking with cancer.
There is a link there but often times the nicotine is blamed for cancer.
It is not the carcinogens and chemicals that the smoker wants, it is the nicotine.
Until recently, the most effective way to get your nicotine was to light up your tobacco cigarette and get your fix.
Along with about 10,000 other chemicals and carcinogens.
In 1989 the nicotine patch was invented and it officially went in to market in 1992 in London.
After the patch launched, not long after came the nicotine gum.
This caused hiccups, gum disease, hair loss, and birth defects.
According to a report released in the Sept.
11 2002 Journal of the American Medical Association, the use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) for smoking cessation is no longer effective in helping moderate and heavy smokers quit for the long term, and it has no benefit for light smokers.
Most cessation products state right on the box that they are for temporary use only.
They are not intended to replace the cigarette.
If you are a smoker you have probably found that it is very difficult to stop smoking.
The fact is that you probably will never completely quit smoking.
You may try many times in your life to do so, but the nicotine is so addictive that it keeps you coming back.
Unfortunately, that nicotine comes with those chemicals and carcinogens mentioned earlier.
Around 5.
4 million deaths a year are caused by tobacco.
Smoking is set to kill 6.
5 million people in 2015 and 8.
3 million humans in 2030, with the biggest rise in low- and middle-income countries.
Every 6.
5 seconds a current or former smoker dies, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
An estimated 1.
3 billion people are smokers worldwide (WHO).
Over 443,000 Americans (over 18 percent of all deaths) die because of smoking each year.
Secondhand smoke kills about 50,000 of them.
Tobacco use will kill 1 billion people in the 21st century if current smoking trends continue.
You can get nicotine without the tobacco, chemicals, and carcinogens.
Due to recent technology there are methods to replace the traditional cigarette with an alternative.