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Dr. Keith's clinical results of 3 patients who quit smoking with e-cigs

In January, I wrote here about my clinical experience that electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes as they are known, seemed to help my patients quit smoking, by transitioning them to an alternate form of nicotine delivery.E-cigs simulate smoking, while not simulating it so well as to become addictive itself. In other words, the electronic cigarette served as a kind of “bridge” that helped people stay away from the real thing, then abandon the electronic cigarettes, too—leaving them smoke-free and nicotine-free.  At that time, patients were reporting these experiences to me, and I was taking note.In the aftermath of that piece on FoxNews.com , two companies made its electronic cigarettes available to me so that I could offer them to patients who expressed a desire to switch from real cigarettes.  Those two companies were LOGIC and NICOmate.  I am reporting now on three patients who received these products and benefited tremendously.I have not been paid anything by either of these compan...

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