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Abu-Danso, E., Bagheri, A

The best bet is to just not get started with nicotine in the first place, but for those smokers out there looking for an alternative besides the patch, gum, or drugs like Chantix, e-cigarettes are an easy sell.

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By the time I was a doctoral student, I was struggling with a whole host of health problems that were the result of my unending nicotine habit: painful and frequent headaches that felt like ministrokes, frequent upper-respiratory infections, constant sore throats, chronic sinus infections, and significant weight loss, to name but a few of the health problems with which I dealt as a long-time smoker