If you happen to be like Mark Twain and have quit smoking cigarettes- 200 times, you can understand what a daily nicotine fix feels like. Just like your morning cuppa java to pick you up and get you into ?living, sensible and good tempered human? mode many of us cannot do without a cigarette. It helps us think logically and creatively, it helps our ideas to spin and then coalesce -or is it coagulate- into a systematic form, it makes us look like intellectual deep thinkers, it makes us feel like Malboro man in Malboro country or like a 30s Hollywood star complete with diamonds, furs and batting eyelashes and a cigarette in a long jade holder, it does not make us feel hungry while dieting ? whatever the excuse is, there must be a reason why 78% of us are addicted to tobacco in any form, be it cigarettes, chewing tobacco or snuff.

But thanks to a Chinese company named Ruyan, a brand new concept of cigarette smoking in the form of electronic cigarettes, e cigarettes or ecig for short have come into the cigarette industry. This cigarette is a substitute for all those who need, crave and cannot do without a coffin nail in their mouth. The only way to stop cigarette smoking is through sheer will and won't power, but this healthier substitute can possibly help wean you away from a nicotine addiction by making your system accustomed to lower nicotine levels. Ruyan has formulated a cigarette recipe which has .3 % of nicotine while an ordinary cigarette has more than 10 % of nicotine along with other thoroughly harmful by products in it.

An e cigarette consists of a long tube along with a mouthpiece and a refill cartridge which is full of a liquid which has chemical nicotine and isopropyl glycol. When you light up and take a puff, the atomizer in the e cigarette vaporizes the e-liquid which you can inhale. Ah, that's all right, you can finally feel the nicotine fix, while a thin curve of burnt isopropyl glycol looks like cigarette smoke coming out of a real cigarette. And a LED with an orange glow placed on the tip of your ecigarette can give you the ?feel? of a real live cigarette butt burning bright.

The e cigarette refill cartridges in 10 ml packs come in different strengths from high to zero. So while you puff about 15 times on an average sized cigarette, an e cigarette cartridge gives you about 200 puffs before you need to refill it. But the number of puffs may also depend upon how often and how deep you inhale! An electronic cigarette works on a rechargeable lithium battery.

Even though Electronic cigarettes are a much better, healthier and possibly more popular substitute to ordinary cigarettes, this is definitely not a medical device which will help you to quit smoking. Nevertheless, this alternative is much preferable to inhaling toxin filled tobacco smoke.