Quit Vaping: Your Four-Step, 28-Day Program to Stop Smoking E-Cigarettes

Product Description

The first-ever book on how to quit vaping will help you stop for good and improve your lung health.

Vaping has become an urgent public health crisis. Almost 15 million Americans not only are consuming concentrations of nicotine more potent and addictive than traditional cigarettes, but they also are inhaling deadly carcinogens such as formaldehyde, benzene, and propylene glycol, an ingredient in anti-freeze. Vapers are dying, health professionals are sounding the alarm, and parents are struggling to help their addicted teenagers.

Certified interventionist Brad Lamm debunks the myths spread by the thriving e-cigarette industry and its supporters, revealing the truth about the effects of inhaling these highly dangerous aerosols. Then he offers a step-by-step blueprint to break free of its grip. This simple, 28-day program provides specific actions to take, day by day, as you free yourself from nicotine addiction. Key information and special considerations throughout help and guide parents of young vapers through the process as well. Learn how to create a quit plan, build a support team, follow a detox, change your inner dialogue, manage your cravings, and become a non-vaper. The plan offers a rich variety of strategies, tactics, hacks, exercises, research, and inspiring stories of people who have quit the habit using Lamm’s proven program.

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Review

Praise for How to Help the One You Love by Brad Lamm:

“The deeply dedicated counselor presents a four- step method based in his experiences on both sides of the process. . . . As a thorough guide to helping substance abusers find help, this makes a valuable addition to the self- help shelves.” —
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
“Lamm’s step‑by‑step approach empowers families and friends to change their loved ones through compassionate, caring, and continuing support.” —Mehmet Oz, MD, host of 
The Dr. Oz Show

About the Author

Brad Lamm, CIP, is an author, teacher, and interventionist best known for helping people make life-enhancing change on
The Dr. Phil Show,
The Doctors,
Today, and
The Dr. Oz Show. He has managed more than 1,000 interventions, visited hundreds of treatment facilities across the country, presented before Parliament in the UK, served on the board of the Association of Intervention Specialists, collaborated with the most knowledgeable specialists in the field of recovery treatment, and worked at the state level to introduce treatment options to communities. In 2012, he opened the Breathe Life Healing Center, which uses industry-leading techniques to provide powerful treatment for body, mind, and spirit.

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Part One

Lies and Facts

Myths and Truths

In May 2018, a thirty-eight-year-old man was vaping at his home in St. Petersburg, Florida, when the device’s battery exploded. Metal fragments from his vape pen shot into his skull, killing him instantly and igniting a fire at the same time, according to the St. Petersburg deputy fire marshal, as quoted in a CNBC article on the deadly event. It was the first vaping accident fatality in America.

Officials attributed the malfunction to a drop-in battery called the 18650. Certain types of e-cigs called mechanical mods, which allow vapers to control the intensity of their vaping experiences, use this battery. Vapers have to remove the 18650s and recharge them regularly. Repeatedly removing this battery from and reinserting it into vaping devices or chargers can damage its insulating wrapper, compromising the safety of the battery and increasing the risk of explosion. If a vaper draws too much power off the 18650 or if it’s damaged, metal-on-metal contact can cause it to explode.

Because it allows users to throttle the power level, the 18650 has grown popular among hard-core vapers, and despite the risk of death, a robust secondary market for it exists online, particularly on auction sites. As with many product