Time: 2021-12-03
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News on December 2nd, according to foreign news reports, Australian doctor Colin Mendelsohn's new book on e-cigarettes was published in time, which can be used as a holiday gift for smokers, new e-cigarette users, smokers and e-cigarette users. Nervous family members and open-minded smoking cessation consultants.
The book is called: Stop SMOKing, Start Vaping, and can be purchased online from Amazon and Barnes & Noble in the United States. It can be obtained from multiple sites in Australia and the United Kingdom.
Mendelsohn is an Australian doctor who has worked directly with smokers for more than 30 years. A few years ago, he was introduced to the idea of e-cigarettes as an alternative to smoking. He immediately seized the potential and plunged into the most unnecessary controversy in the world.
His motivation was to help save smokers from disease and death (both his father and father-in-law died of cancer due to smoking). However, in Australia, the position of tobacco control activists and medical organizations is that it is almost universally believed that the nicotine ban and the e-cigarette ban are a struggle.
Readers got some inspiration in "Quit Smoking and Start Using Electronic Cigarettes", but this book is not a memoir. This is indeed an operating guide for potential e-cigarette users, as well as an explanation of the science and controversy of e-cigarettes. Although it is suitable for Australian readers to some extent, Mendelssohn isolates Australia-specific political discussions in one chapter and makes most of the book's content basically universal. When his suggestion is only for Australia, it has been clearly explained.
For those who will benefit from e-cigarettes, stop smoking and start e-cigarettes to provide information and advice to help them get started-as well as inspiration in the form of short resumes of former smokers who have switched to e-cigarettes. This book provides an excellent overview of e-cigarette science, cites original research, and debunks many stories that potential e-cigarette users may have seen, such as popcorn lungs and "evall". If you are a smoker and are scared off by e-cigarettes, this book is reassuring, but it is not one-sided.
Mendelssohn's text is clear and easy to understand. He doesn't feel like a scientist trying to impress people with his sharpness (he is not writing for scientists either). But his goal is not low. Almost anyone who is interested in or participating in the e-cigarette debate-such as politicians and medical professionals-can understand and benefit from reading this book.
In other words, quitting smoking and starting to smoke e-cigarettes are indeed suitable for people who smoke or have just quit smoking. It is divided into different parts, so potential users of e-cigarettes can read it in blocks-the example mouth, first the operation method part, and then come back to check the science and explanation of the news controversy. Mendelssohn even created a glossary of e-cigarette terms.
The only argument I can think of against this book is price. I'm not saying that it's particularly expensive (US$26.95 in the U.S.), it's just that one of the main obstacles for smokers to consider e-cigarettes is usually the startup cost-and worry that if e-cigarettes can't replace cigarettes, the investment will be wasted, and now we ask them to buy E-cigarette device and a book. But this is not the main objection.
Colin Mendelsohn has an impressive history of pirates-because any doctor who wants to oppose his field's dominant philosophy in e-cigarettes must do so. Mendelsohn is a doctor and has been a general practitioner for nearly 30 years. He is a smoking cessation expert and previously served as the vice chairman of the Australian Association of Smoking Cessation Experts, which is the country's leading organization of smoking cessation experts.
As the founding chairman of the Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association (ATHRA), Mendelssohn may be a leader in reversing Australia's destructive policies that criminalize e-cigarette and e-cigarette companies. Mendelssohn was rewarded for his desire to bring low-risk nicotine options to Australian smokers, and carried out a despicable attack on his character and reputation, including unfounded claims that he was funded by the tobacco industry.
The National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT) has supported the cessation of smoking and the use of e-cigarettes in its mailing list for smoking cessation professionals. This book has been praised by Riccardo Polosa, John Britton and other smoking and nicotine experts, Peter Hajek And Neil Benowitz.