How can a smoker reduce his or her risk?
There are two ways a smoker can reduce their health risks. One is quitting nicotine entirely, quitting smoking and not substituting another source of nicotine. The other is getting nicotine from a much less harmful source. Unfortunately, neither one will immediately eliminate all of the health risks caused by their previous smoking, but both come very, very close. Of the two, quitting entirely is probably the slightly healthier option for most people (we say “probably” and “most people” because there are some health benefits from nicotine that for some people might outweigh the very small risks from highly-reduced-risk nicotine products). This is because nicotine itself may slightly increase your risk of cardiovascular disease (heart attack and stroke), though not nearly as much as smoking does. But switching to a highly-reduced-risk nicotine product is almost as good as quitting entirely. Those products have only about 1/100th the risk of smoking. We are sure that you are aware of the
