What are the different options for smoking alternatives?

The wonderful thing about the world we live in today is that we are spoiled for choice. Regardless of what we are interested in, a simple search online will bring up various options for us to explore and choose from. And yes, even for an adult smoker who would otherwise continue to smoke or use other nicotine products and interested in exploring other tobacco products as a replacement for regular cigarettes, there are plenty of options to delve into. 

If you are an adult smoker looking to replace cigarettes, here are some helpful things about cigarette alternatives. 

So, let’s find out

What are the different options for smoking alternatives?

Non-combustible tobacco heating options. (Heat-not-burn Technology)

There is also another type of cigarette alternative, called “heat-not-burn”, or heated tobacco, which uses real tobacco that’s specially processed. Innovative technology heats the tobacco in the device to a specific temperature, which also means there’s nothing actually being lit with fire. Once again, this prevents combustion from happening, and as a result, heat-not-burn products have the same difference from cigarettes as e-cigarettes of being smoke-free.  

Heated tobacco alternatives provide very similar user experience. This is an alternate way for smoker who has tried switching several times to e-cigarettes, to try different category with same characteristics.  

E-Cigarettes

E-cigarettes are one of the alternatives to cigarette. They do not contain tobacco, but rather, use e-liquids that are generally flavored. The e-liquids are heated in order to generate an aerosol, or what some users may call, vapor.

There is a very wide range of e-cigarettes and e-liquids on the market, all with varying performance. If you are considering e-cigarettes as a replacement for cigarettes, one difference that e-cigarettes have over cigarettes is that they are smoke-free. Tobacco does not burn in the case of e-cigarettes, since nothing gets lit on fire.

These alternatives are both products which deliver nicotine without burning, ash, smoke and cigarette specific smell. When cigarette burns more than 6000 chemicals are produced, of which about 100 have been identified as causes or potential causes of smoking-related diseases, such as lung cancer or cardiovascular diseases.