Clean nicotine, like what’s in FDA-approved medications – nicotine patches, gum, lozenges, or nasal sprays, is safe and can boost your chance of quitting by controlling nicotine cravings.
Nicotine in cigarettes, smokeless, e-cigarette, and vape products makes them addictive. This isn’t safe because:
- Cigarettes contain harmful chemicals that make smoking dangerous — poisons like arsenic, formaldehyde, and many more cancer-causing chemicals.
- Smokeless tobacco, like chew, also contains many cancer-causing chemicals.
- E-cigarettes contain fewer toxic chemicals than regular cigarettes – which have over 7,000 chemicals in their smoke – but vaping is still not safe.
- E-cigarette vapor or aerosol can contain heavy metals like lead, tin, and nickel. E-cigarettes also contain carcinogens (cancer-causing chemicals).