Many smokers are using waterpipes worldwide, some of them to quit smoking. Smokers seem to perceive waterpipes as less harmful than cigarette smoking and think they will be able to quit waterpipes more easily than cigarettes. What's your experience/opinion about this?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17943865
What would be the point of this substitution? Water pipes can be worse than cigarretes, depending on amount o tobacco smoked and frequency...
In cases of heavy smokers and particularly in patients with dual disorders with the aim of a harm reduction. Have you experience about it?
Dear Virginia, what is the point of using something that is perhaps as toxic as cigarettes, or even more toxic, in order to quit cigarettes?? Research on narghile smoking has evolved from epidemiological studies, to toxicant analysis to research on health hazards associated with narghile. The later, I think is more important because it really shows the public that narghile is not as innocent and family-friendly as it looks
Thank you for your answer, Najla. What I reallly mean are electronic cigarretes with a liquid solution that, among other components, contains nicotine. Perhaps water pipe is not the proper translation. These cigarettes are not harmless but the point is if for seriously ill patients that cannot quit smoking can be a less harmfull alternative, for example for oncologic patients with oxigen that continue to smoke or patiens with serious dual disorders that are not able to quit.
Thanks Virginia for the clarification. I have no experience with electronic cigarettes, but I hope that you get answers to your question.
Dear Virginia
The answer to your question is "No". But I must admit there are no studies that have investigated your question because it is somewhat counterintuitive. Waterpipes combined a boring process of charcoal with the heating of tobacco with a number of additives and the result is an inhaled mixture that contains many more toxic substances than smoke from tobacco cigarettes. Both include nicotine, the main addictive substance in tobacco addiction.
Many people think that water pipe smoking is less harmful because the smoke is "filtered" through water. The main effect of the water is the cooling and humidification of the inhaled smoke. The other aspect which may suggest it may be a method to quit is that it is used less frequently and mostly in a social context. But real nicotine addicts will hardly be able to reduce nicotine consumption by purely changing to conventional water pipe use.
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Macé
Though there exists a popular belief that water pipes are less harmful, this belief is unsubstantiated.
In fact, the chances to infectious diseases like tuberculosis is higher in water pipes as a result of sharing the same.
Its not a safer alternative to other forms of smoking.
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https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/2292/27824/McRobbie_et_al-2014-E-cigarettes%20The_Cochrane_Librarywithcoversheet.pdf?sequence=6
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