OVERVIEW

As a new year starts, many smokers would have made the same new year’s resolution to quit smoking, more often than not for health reasons. Some are successful, but there are many more who fail. Being an addictive substance, the nicotine that is found in cigarettes is cited as the primary reason why smokers find it difficult to quit.

One consequence of this addiction to nicotine is the growth of businesses supplying services and products to help smokers quit smoking. The most common nicotine replacement products that have been around for more than a decade include nicotine patches, nicotine chewing gum, and lozenges.[1] In recent times, a “new player” in the nicotine replacement industry arrived, the electronic cigarette.