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Electronic Cigarettes Can Be Used to Stop Smoking

Monday, March 8, 2010
posted by Mike S

Trying to Quit Smoking? Try Electronic Cigarettes

An e-cigarette, or electric cigarette, is a small battery powered device that delivers a nicotine and propylene glycol liquid solution in a vaporized form when inhaled air activates an atomizer. It does not contain the substances commonly found in regular cigarettes such as tobacco, tar and other cancer causing carcinogens; and does not involve flame, smoke or ash. Because of these substantial differences between electric cigarettes and tobacco cigarettes, some smokers have opted to buy electric cigarettes instead. Electronic cigarettes can be used to cut back on smoking traditional tobacco cigarettes or stop smoking all together.

Nicotine replacement therapy can help smokers quit even when they do not think they are ready to stop completely, a study has found. Cigarette smokers who have not yet reached the point where they are totally committed to quitting, but wish to reduce their smoking, are twice as likely to stop in the long term if they use nicotine replacements to help them cut down gradually, the University of Birmingham team reported. “Until now experts have advised people not to reduce their smoking but to quit abruptly,” Paul Aveyard, one of the researchers, said. “The worry has been that advising reduction will somehow deter people from the better alternative, which is stopping right now,” he added. “This treatment program is a way of potentially encouraging a lot more smokers into actually using nicotine replacement, which in the long term will help more of them stop smoking than if they hadn’t done so.”

Smoking is considered to be one of the biggest causes of disease and premature death worldwide; so smoking cessation is vital. Success rates of quitting are notoriously low: up to half of British smokers attempt to quit each year, but only 2-3% do so successfully. Other research suggests that in their lifetime, a smoker will try to quit an average of 6-11 times. The recent invention of electronic cigarettes can be just the aid needed. Already addicted smokers — struggling with breaking their habit by chewing nicotine gum — are likely to find this a transition tool that works. Although there has been an intense controversy between the World Health Organization (cautious pessimism) and leaders in the non-smoking crusades such as Attorney David Sweanor or Dr Murray Laugesen (optimistic support), it is universally agreed that people have to be helped to stop smoking in any way possible. The facts of electronic cigarette use don’t lie. For instance, in 2007, the Chinese consumed 2 trillion cigarettes. In the first 11 months of last year, their tobacco sales were up 18 percent. The result was a health system overloaded with fatalities and weakened cardiopulmonary systems. Is it any wonder that China started and still leads the world in e-cigarette marketing?

Since electronic cigarette cartridges contain varying levels of nicotine, smoking can be stopped gradually. To quit the tobacco and nicotine smoking, the electronic cigarette can be used with the four basic levels ranging from the high, medium, low and zero nicotine cartridges to meet the requirements of different smokers. The following four step procedure is designed especially for smokers who are willing to quit and reduces their nicotine reduction unconsciously by decreasing the inhaled nicotine volume gradually:

Step 1: Starting with high nicotine density cartridge (usually around 18mg/pc) following normal smoking habit.
Step 2: Then switch to medium nicotine density cartridge (usually around 14mg) following normal smoking habit.
Step 3: Then alternate between the low nicotine density cartridge (usually around 11mg) and the non-nicotine thickness cartridge.
Step 4: Finally, quit smoking by using the non-nicotine cartridge only, you will quit the nicotine reduction unconsciously and completely.

It’s Dangerous Out There

Monday, March 8, 2010
posted by Frank Stevens

It’s Dangerous Out There

Computers are invading every part of our lives. Most people come in contact with some sort of computer at work, at home, and even at the grocery store. Personal computers and laptops are found in almost every business and every home, sometimes with multiple machines in a single home. Most of these machines are connected to that wonderful information superhighway known simply as “the Internet.” The Internet lets my machine connect to every other machine out there through a collection of web servers. With the Internet, we are all in contact, able to talk to each other through a variety of means and able to transfer vast amounts of information across great distances. Unfortunately, not everybody who connects to the Internet is of pure motive. As you should know by now, it’s dangerous out there.

Like any good thing, some clown always has to screw it up. The Internet is a very good thing, and of course, plenty of clowns are out there trying to make mischief. People with all sorts of bad intentions have turned the Internet into a dangerous place. Without the proper protection, you can lose sensitive personal information or have your computer damaged. Internet party poopers have many tools to give you a bad time. Computer viruses are abundant. A virus is a malicious program that gets installed on your computer. It can give somebody access to your machine, it can send your personal data out of your machine, or it can physically damage your computer’s operating system. Viruses can be transmitted through email attachments, through suspect websites, or through loading a program that you are not sure of. Viruses can sit on computers for months or years without being detected. Your computer might be infected right now.

As bad as it sounds out there, you do not have to give up hope. There are ways for you to protect yourself, and there are ways to clean up your machine if you have already been infected. First, you need to make sure that nothing else can get in, and that nothing already there can communicate with the outside world. A firewall program will take care of this. A firewall program acts as the gatekeeper, giving you control of what programs talk to the Internet. If you do not know what something does, you do not have to let it communicate with another machine. Next, you need to make sure that you have a good antivirus program. An antivirus program will first detect any virus program as it tries to load, and it will stop the program from loading. Then the antivirus program will scan your machine to see if any malicious software has already been installed, and it will remove it. With these two tools, you can feel safe roaming the vast Internet wasteland.

Computers are more important than ever. Take the time to protect yourself by installing a good firewall program and antivirus program. Surfing the Internet while unprotected is asking for trouble. In case you did not know, it’s dangerous out there.

Intimate Accessories Give Added Sparkle

Monday, March 1, 2010
posted by mutsav

Intimate Accessories Give Added Sparkle

There is a wide variety of intimate outfits available on the internet, including sexy lingerie, bustiers, corsets, baby dolls, and dressing up outfits to name but a few, and all of these can be even more glamorous and sensual by adding just a few personal pieces of intimate jewelry for that added bit of bling and sparkle.

Ankle bracelets are terrific for any time and can make even a casual outfit a little bit more daring and exciting. Especially if you have beautiful ankles, draw his attention to them and flaunt them, the finishing touches can make all the difference.

It is quite popular these days to have a belly button piercing, but you don’t have to go through with it if you don’t want to, you can get exactly the same effect with non-piercing belly rings in many different styles and designs, all made to give you that extra little something around the naval and look great with any two piece, whether it’s lingerie, swimwear or any seductive outfit. There’s a great variety of nipple rings too, all non-piercing, but designed to look terrific and sexy while providing stimulation.

How many girls dream of being a Princess? Well, you can now fulfil that childhood fantasy by wearing a beautiful rhinestone tiara. You’ll feel like royalty, especially if teamed up with some matching rhinestone drop earrings and necklace. Perfect for a girl’s night out or a hen party, you’ll certainly look and feel like the belle of the ball.

A whole array of rhinestone bracelets, necklaces and earrings are available to give any outfit that special bling and make it that little bit more special and sexy. Maybe you should just wear the jewelry and forget everything else. A simple but elegant neck to belly chain can give any outfit that sexy lift, teamed up with a pair of silky panties or thong and you’re fully dressed for an intimate night with the guy of your dreams. How about adding a rhinestone slave bracelet, he’ll be sure to give you the kind of attention you crave and deserve. Rhinestones are a much cheaper alternative for jewelry than diamonds but have the same kind of sparkle, so you can really afford to accessorize much more without breaking the bank. Diamonds are forever, but rhinestones are for here and now!

With a massive selection of other accessories including neck ties (brings out the naughty school girl in any outfit), feather boas that really tickle your fancy, belts, gloves and pasties (add a whole new dimension to any open cup outfit), you really will be spoiled for choice when you start looking and planning for your most intimate encounters. Every little girl loves dressing up, and now big girls can dress up too for intimate fun and frolics. But don’t keep it all to yourself, there’s a wide range of bits and pieces you can buy for your man too so that he doesn’t feel left out. When you include him, you will have him looking and feeling steamy and hot, ready for action.

The Perfect Sound Wave

Thursday, February 25, 2010
posted by Frank Stevens

Sound Wave

The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in Las Vegas every January is where all the audio equipment manufacturers go to make a statement to the industry. You have the big, established manufacturers such as Sony, Klipsch, and Bose and all the other well-known names showing off their latest products. You’ll also find new, up and coming start-up companies trying to make a name for themselves. Often with just a few pair of hand-built loudspeakers that they designed to offer sound that is as close to perfect as any loudspeaker can be.

A loudspeaker though, can only be as good as the room in which it sits lets it be. I recall one year when I was attending the show, I went into a demonstration room for a loudspeaker company that was just getting started. The owner/ inventor/ sales department had set up his loudspeakers and audio equipment in the little prefab room that the CES crew builds in the great halls for all the manufacturers to use. He had exactly one chair in the room for the audience and gave demonstrations to one individual at a time.
The listener had to be seated in the chair, just so. As I went to sit down, I inadvertently moved the chair a couple of inches from its designated spot. The company owner’s eyes went wide and he insisted I stand up while he repositioned the chair so that each of its legs matched up with the tape marks he had placed on the floor. The speakers did sound great, but apparently, only if you happened to be positioned in that one singular spot. In all fairness, a big part of that may have been the room acoustics.

In any small room, you are likely to have standing waves if your loudspeakers are producing any significant amount of bass. Standing waves occur because the sound wave is bigger than the room. A forty Hertz tone measures around fifty feet long, so that includes most rooms. A standing wave occurs when the bass sound wave folds back in on itself. When this happens, the folded portion either adds to or subtracts from the primary portion of the wave. To someone listening within the standing wave, they will experience either too much bass or too little bass depending upon the specific interaction at the location where they happen to be.

The effect can’t be compensated for by an equalizer because it varies throughout the room. In other words, two people standing just a few feet apart may each experience a completely different amount of bass because of the effect of the standing wave. So, presumably, that singular chair was set up at just the right spot so that the listener did not experience either too much bass or too little, but experienced the sound exactly as it was when it left the loudspeaker. That’s fine in a controlled demonstration, I guess, but for real world use, we’re much better off using room acoustic treatments to try to reduce the room’s effect on the sound.