My husband uses his cigarettes that way in the summer, out on the deck and camping :-) Maybe it just keeps them away from one's face where the smoke is, so he doesn't get the knats and some of the skeeters.

How's the e-cig thing working for you pete's sake? I didn't like the idea when I read you only get 4-6 puffs to equal 1 cigarette. Did you get a "flavor" or what?

I read, while researching the Chantix pill, that cold turkey is really the only way to give up smoking as that's what everything comes down to in the end; you eventually have to go cold turkey from the patch and from the alternate drug in Chantix, etc.

I was watching back-to-back episodes of "Dr. G: Medical Examiner" with her work in the morgue and she was doing people who had smoked (and others overweight, like myself as well as both) and all the problems with lungs and hearts, etc. Nicotine apparently doesn't do the heart good, accelerates blockage of the arteries.