How are SNFs handling residents who use e-cigarettes?

If they want to use e cigarettes let them!

Someone gets to a nusing facilty ans wants to smoke an e cigarette I say you let them! goodness me its a lot better than a normal cigarette that for sure. According to The American Association of Public Health Physicians “because the possibility exists to save the lives of four million of the eight million current adult American smokers who will otherwise die of a tobacco-related illness over the next 20 years.”

Its plain and simple the e-cigarette or electronic cigarettes as they are also called emits an odorless vapor and has no harmful smoke or toxins so even though research is limited on the e cigarette and even though it is still a little bit controversial its clearly saving peoples lives and helping people kick the habit and smoke less toxins.

How are SNFs handling residents who use e-cigarettes?

Q: We have a new resident who is smoking the e-cigarette. What are facilities doing with it?

A: An electronic cigarette, or e-cigarette, is an electrical device that simulates the act of tobacco smoking by producing an inhaled mist bearing the physical sensation, appearance and often the flavor and nicotine content of inhaled tobacco smoke; though without its odor, it is intended to eliminate health risks. The device uses heat (or in some cases, ultrasonics) to vaporize a liquid solution into an aerosol mist.

In speaking with a dozen or more facilities, the e-cigarette seems to be handled in an individual facility- or corporate-wide policy. Many facilities are not allowing it at all; others allow it after the resident is deemed by the doctor or advanced practice nurse to be safe at handling the device.

It does seem that all of the facilities allowing the e-cigarette keep the charging device at the nurses' station, just to keep an eye on how often it is smoked, and to monitor on an ongoing basis for safety.

The e cigarette as you see is still little bit controversial and the reasons are ridiculous! Smokeless smoking is smokeless and not only is it smokeless but its also toxin-less! I say if you wanna smoke an e cigarette as opposed to a real one then the results will be far better in the long run.

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