ecigarettedirect.co.uk is in the Mail on Sunday! The story features one of our customers, Julie Parnell, and how she managed to buy a house with the savings she made from switching to electronic cigarettes. Click here to read the fully story! Alternatively, use our cigarette calculator below to find out how much money smoking is [...]

You can get two special offers from ecigarettedirect this month: one on mini-kits and on refills. Mini Electronic Cigarette Kit Special Offer For a limited time only, you can get a free battery (usual cost: £8.50) with every Smoker’s Halo mini electronic cigarette you buy. To check out the mini kit, or get your free battery, [...]

I think it should probably be taken as a given that I am biased writing this post. However, I have yet to taste a disposable electronic cigarette that I have found personally satisfying. I’ve tried several. When Tescos brought out the 10 Motives electronic cigarette, I thought I’d try one. I bought one, and headed [...]

UPDATE: The Great Vaping Quiz is now over. If you’d like to know when we run more quizes like this, make sure to sign up to our newsletter in the right sidebar or join our facebook page here. 5 Days 5 Questions 6 Great Prizes Over the next 5 days I will be posting 5 [...]

By Paul Bergen of tobaccoharmreduction.org In the New World, tobacco was both thought of as a panacea for all that could ail you and also as a spiritual conduit. Using it cured you, kept you safe, and could give you visions. And it also helped with what was more common in those days: a less [...]

If you’re like me, when you first heard of the electronic cigarette you immediately wondered what was wrong with it. In fact, it was a fortunate comment left by a researcher, now a good friend, in the very very early days of this blog which reassured me (and lead to our Interviews with Scientists series). [...]

Free Electronic Cigarette Trials Every few weeks or so we seem to get a spate of people ringing us up demanding to know where their money is. They’ve had an electronic cigarette from someone advertising a free trial – and they’re wondering why their money is suddenly disappearing from their bank account. (Unfortunately, one of the companies [...]

Nicotine cessation aids don’t work! The public health organisations have lied to you. The National Health Service has lied to you. The pharmaceutical companies have lied to you. What’s the lie? That nicotine cessation aids work. Pfizer is currently running a campaign to stop smokers from quitting cold turkey. The NHS gives out big pharm [...]

By tobacco harm reduction researcher Paul Bergen of tobaccoharmreduction.org No one knows if e-cigarettes actually do help smokers kick the habit! This statement (my exclamation mark!) arises predictably in many a tobacco control research paper and article. The statement can only be compared to someone watching television and saying: no one knows if it is [...]

A campaign in Portsmouth is telling smokers NOT to quit cold turkey. Whose funding the campaign? Surprise, surprise, it’s Pfizer, a manufacturer of quit smoking aids. One problem – pharmaceutical aids, when measured at 12 months, have half the effectiveness of quitting cold turkey. In fact, according to one study, effectiveness can be low as 0.8% - [...]