Quitting vaping? Here are 5 tips for handling nicotine withdrawal

It’s one of the biggest challenges to quitting cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or any tobacco product: coping with cravings from nicotine withdrawal. Each year millions of Americans set out to quit tobacco. Since nicotine is what makes all tobacco products addictive, tips for coping with withdrawal can be essential for a successful quit attempt. Here are some top tips from real quitters who used This is Quitting, a text message based quit-vaping program by Truth Initiative.

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A look at how Big Tobacco infiltrated baseball

Over a century ago, Big Tobacco began heavily investing in tactics to link tobacco with baseball. These tactics included in-game promotions, stadium advertising, and the creation of collectible baseball cards that were included inside packs of cigarettes. When the health consequences of tobacco use were unknown, many early major league baseball players smoked cigarettes and used chewing tobacco on the field to provide a nicotine rush during games. Chewing tobacco soon became intertwined with major league baseball, and today smokeless tobacco products are still popular among baseball players, both professional and amateur. Here’s a closer look at three major ways the tobacco industry infiltrated baseball culture.

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This week in tobacco policy news

Maryland - State legislators reached a deal on the next state budget which includes a $1.25 per pack increase in the cigarette tax and related increases for other tobacco products.
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New Jersey - The United Auto Workers, which represents workers at the Bally’s, Caesars and Tropicana casinos, and a group of casino workers opposed to smoking in the gambling halls, filed a lawsuit in state Superior Court challenging New Jersey’s indoor clean air law. The litigation seeks to have that exemption declared unconstitutional on several grounds, including equal protection under the law.
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New York City, New York – The city filed a lawsuit against 11 wholesalers for their part in the illegal sale of flavored disposable e-cigarettes.
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Vermont – Gov. Scott vetoed a bill that would prohibit the sale of all menthol flavored tobacco products, flavored e-cigarettes, and flavored oral nicotine products.
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