So, who vowed to quit smoking this year? And–more importantly–who vowed to quit smoking analogs?? #
My 2010 vow–to get back to regular posts on E Cig Guide. Let's make this year great! #

If so, you are far from alone. According to usa.gov it’s one of the most popular resolutions for 2010, behind losing weight and getting out of debt. Now maybe using an electronic cigarette is part of your quitting method, but maybe it’s not. Studies haven’t been done on whether it’s an effective quitting aide. But whether you use the e-cigarette, a nicotine patch, or cold turkey, there are quite a few other tips and resources I want to share to help you along your way.
1. Pick one habit at a …

Great debate and comments here on this anti-e-cigarette opinion piece from USA Today. http://ow.ly/BObN #

This one’s only tangentially related to electronic cigarettes, but it was so strange I thought it was worth linking to. The New Times down in Palm Beach profiles a swindler who started an electronic cigarette business:
In late March, at the Blue Martini Lounge on Glades Road in Boca Raton, Gladstone encountered a big-talking, cocktail-swilling business man, sporting a Star of David tattoo on his neck and taking drags off an electronic cigarette.
Gladstone had known Howard Needle before — socially, not in the business world, and he knew nothing of Needle’s …

Here’s a rather boneheaded local TV news story about the electronic cigarette. If you follow e-cig news at all, you know that it’s become one of those go-to stories (blacklight in a hotel room! pedophiles next door! urine in playground sand! etc) for local producers hard up for stuff to file.
The problem I have with this story is that they gave an electronic cigarette for a women to use to quit smoking, which is a claim manufacturers can’t make. And the woman reasoned that she might as well have a …