Need a reason to ditch your binkie? Here you go

1. What you are inhaling when you use e-cigs isn’t smoke. It’s vaporized e-liquid.

You may ask: What is e-liquid? And why is it any better?

When you use an electronic cigarette, you aren’t burning anything. The smoke resulting from the combustion of tobacco has thousands of substances in it, many of which are toxic or carcinogenic. The e-liquid contained in the electronic cigarette is either propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, or a combination of both. Propylene glycol (PG) is a liquid at room temperature. When heated, it vaporizes. PG is widely used in cosmetics, toiletries, pharmaceuticals, and food products. It’s safe. It’s non-toxic. To get any toxicity, you would have to consume mass quantities of the stuff -- and it would be the lactic acid (a by-product of metabolizing PG) which would cause problems. As most people know, you can consume enough H2O to kill you. The point is that any substance if overused is dangerous. PG is an innocuous, benign substance. If you don’t believe me, ask any pharmacist. And as for vegetable glycerin -- you can eat it. You probably have; or have ingested it via another route. It’s used in suppositories.

2. It’s more fun

Does your smoke come in strawberry mojito flavor? How about cappuccino? Can you mix your different smoke flavors to come up with something new? One of vaping’s foremost pleasures is trying all the different e-liquids/e-juices available. Just about any flavor you can imagine can be concocted and decocted.

3. It’s not nasty

Exhaled vapor from electronic cigarettes doesn’t linger in your hair, on your clothes, on your breath. You know how smokers have yellow teeth? They get those attractive yellow nicotine stains on their fingers? Their breath could kill an elephant? Their hack is about as lovely as something that isn’t very lovely at all? You won’t get any of that with e-cigs.

4. You like your little rituals

Smokers who try to quit don’t know what to do when they aren’t smoking. That’s a huge reason why vaping is a great substitute. You are taking the whole behavior of smoking, and replacing it with another behavior that is very similar. So when you vape as a smoking substitute, you are filling that void in your life where your smoking used to be.

5. Oral much?

Just admit it. You have an oral fixation. Your mother had to lock your binkie away, or toss it out of a moving car to get you to stop. And you were seven years-old. As soon as you could, you stole your daddy’s cigs and smoked ‘em in the boys room. Now you’re 40, and you are looking emphysema in the eye. And emphysema sucks. So does cancer.

Get off your cigs. Come in to Lizard Juice and we will set you up with some fun, healthier, e-cig starter kit and some delicious, vapory e-juice flavors to go with your new electronic cigarette. Strawberry Mojito, and Dark Lizard are two new flavors coming any day, now. Meanwhile try one or two of our other 35 e-liquid flavors.

Lizard Juice’s store is located at 10525 Park Blvd. in Seminole, on Florida’s west central Gulf Coast. Just go west on Park until you pass Lake Seminole, and we are on the north side of the Park Blvd. Our staff will let you sample all our e-liquid refill flavors to your heart’s content. So please drop by! Or call us 727 772 7800 for more information. Our website is www.LizardJuice.com.

Davanna is a blogger for Lizard Juice. Connect with her at Davanna on Google+