Let me start by saying I do not condone smoking in any way shape or form. Now with that said, unfortunately I am a smoker. However I am in the process of quitting…AGAIN.
I have quit in the past with the help of medication. This time I wanted to give something else a try. When I was given the opportunity to review the White Cloud Cirrus Electronic Cigarette, I instantly jumped at the chance. And why are we doing this on The Gadgeteer? Well after all, it is an electronic device.
I will say that the Cirrus Electronic Cigarette is not in any way marketed as a “stop smoking” product. However it is marketed as a “healthy” alternative to a regular cigarette. When I say “healthy” I am referring to the fact that these e-cigs do not contain any tobacco, tar or any other preservatives. They don’t even contain smoke. That’s right NO SMOKE! You will see an odorless vapor after taking a drag from the e-cig, and that’s about it.
This product is a great alternative to the real thing. Plus they actually taste good… It’s hard to say exactly what they taste like but to give you an idea, they taste like a very clean cigarette. Even though they do not contain tobacco they do still contain some nicotine (which is actually not the harmful part of a cigarette). So as a smoker you still get the same fulfillment as you would with a regular cigarette. Plus you have your choice of full flavor, lights, menthol, or your choice of multiple different flavors from chocolate to whiskey. That is actually a bigger variety than a cigarette. You still get the sensation of a real cigarette but without the major downfalls of them. Not only can you smoke with a lot less guilt, but you can do it just about anywhere without making most people angry.
Your starter pack comes with…
2 E-cigarette batteries
5 SimpleSmoke cartridges
1 USB charger
1 User manual
That is more than enough to get you started. Considering that one SimpleSmoke cartridge is the equivalent of 40 cigarettes. But before you actually get started you are going to have to charge your cigarette. Now I know that sounds funny but right out of the box they come with about a 90% charge already. So you literally are able to try these out right when you open the box. With your starter kit you actually receive 2 rechargeable batteries(which is the actual long part of the cigarette). Its a good thing that you get two of them because each battery take about 3 hours to charge. With two ou can always make sure you have one charged if the other battery gets too low. If they did not come with two, you would have to make sure you purchase an extra proprietarty USB charger. If and when you need more supplies, you can just go to www.whitecloudcigarettes.com. You will be able to order everything from car chargers to clamshell cigarette cases made specifically for your E-cigarette.
This product is a bit on the pricey side, with a starting cost of $189.99. And that is just for the starter kit. Then you still have to add on the accessories, which can range from $10 to $40 each. And don’t forget that about every time you have to replace the simple smoke cartridges (which come 5 in a pack… so that is the equivalent of a carton). Which in actuality are priced pretty good, at only $19.95. With that said, in the long run, could this product save you money and possibly help you quit all together? Sure! Even if you don’t quit at least it’s a lot less harmful than a regular cigarette.
Has this product help me quit smoking you ask?…Not yet… But at least while I am still smoking I am doing so with a lot less hassle from people around me! So all in all this device is NOT made to get you to quit smoking. So I don’t recommend it for that. On the other hand, if you do continue to smoke, I DO recommend this product purely based on the fact that it is a much “healthier” alternative to a normal cigarette.
So at the end of the day even though this product is on the expensive side, I would still recommend it to anyone out there that is a smoker that is looking for an alternative and looking to get less grief from the people around them. For me, aside form the fact that they are a bit longer than a regular cigarette I personally enjoyed them and I plan to continue using this product. After smoking one of these I did not have the urge at all to smoke a normal cigarette. So when it’s all said and done I am going to continue using them, at least until I totally quit. So dish out the money up front and in the long run it will pay for itself and save you money… So to all of the smokers out there reading this, I would say smoke away and like I said before do it with a lot less guilt.
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| Price: | $189.99 |
| Manufacturer: | White Cloud |
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Holy crap dude thats expensive. And 5 carts is never going to be equal to a carton no matter what they tell you. I got a joye510 with a case which charges it for 30 bucks all told, and a case of 50 carts for 30 more bucks. Be careful where you buy these, prices will vary wildly. Check out e-cigarette-forums.com for reviews of tons of stores and devices. Also if you get a decent device you can easily top off cartridges with a few drops of liquid to significantly extend thier useful life and bring the total cost of use closer to 1/10th the cost of cart.s
Congrats on trying the e-cig. I got one seven months ago and completely switched from tobacco cigarettes (after 30+ years of smoking). Just so you know, there are much, much better deals to be had (you can find starter kits for as little as $40.00), and the cartridges don’t equal nearly what they claim, so most “vapers” buy liquid (at varying strengths of nicotine or no nicotine) and refill their cartridges, which saves a lot of money. The e-cig forums are a good place to learn more. Happy vaping!
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Smoking will kill you. Stop smoking now.
Thats exactly what this does. It enables you to stop smoking NOW. I’ve used the patches and pills and everything and was unable to quit. Within a few minutes with this I have been tobacco free for the past month with no issues at all. Buring tobacco with 1000s of additives will kill you. Nicotine inhalation is much like caffine. Addictive, but generally regarded as safe. Please dont encourage people to follow the quit or die mentality, for many people such as myself, we can not simply quit. The addiction is too strong. The personal vaporizer is an excellent option to have.
It is worth mentioning that while the Cirrus is not mentioned here, OTHER e-cigarette models have been found to have hazardous chemicals in them. Please see: http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/07/22/e-cigarettes-pose-a-health-hazard-fda-warns.html
I’ve tried this product, although it’s expensive, it’s by far the best. It’s completely different than the rest of the junk I’ve wasted money on. Just my .02
If you ignore that they found the chem in only one out of 18 samples, and the chems they found ALSO exist in tobacco cigarettes at levels hundreds of times higher, and that the rest of the chems are generally regarded as safe by the fda and are used in things like food coloring, then yeah, i suppose these are hazardous.
The air we breathe contains toxins … we live in a mollycoddling health & safety society that is more dangerous than ever. The fact is nothing is totally safe … healthy fruit and veg are sprayed with chemicals. My partner and I haven’t smoked a cigarette for four months now … and believe it or not that has deprived the tobacco industry of approx £1600 … yep 2 people four months … multiply that by a few million people … now I wonder if that’s what the anti e-cig brigade is really concerned about … hmmm?
I want to thank everyone for commenting on this post so quickly. And yes you are right, there are some other products out there that are less expensive. But alot of the other products are not as high quality as the cirrus white cloud. And I must say ever since the day I got this thing, I have not put it down for a regular cigarette once!
In response to Andrews comment, there was 1 single cartridge found by the FDA to contain a small amount of diethylene glycol. An independent review of the FDA’s study concluded that the FDA study was inaccurate. You can see a summary of the reports here:
Electronic Cigarettes & Safety
I am militantly anti-tobacco. But this product bothers me for another reason. It reinforces the behavior as well as the addictive, lethal chemical. It creates the idea that the behavior of smoking can somehow be acceptable. If you stop smoking *now*, your body will be free of the addiction within a week. But you will be plagued by the habitual behavior for far longer. And this product feeds into the behavior. I would love if these items were illegal.
Sorry for coming on so strongly, I’m just very excited about the topic. 565 cigs avoided so far thanks to this stuff. Only ever managed to skip half a dozed with other methods of quitting over the decades.
I have no problem with making these illegal, as long as you also outlaw anything else which uses an inhaled vapor such as all asthema medication, as well as all tobacco products, and anything which uses pg which is related somehow to antifreeze (and snowcones) and your should also ban chocolate since it comes from coca beans which reminds me of cocaine. Also dihydrogen monoxide is present in car exhaust, that should probably not be sold in stores. The nicotine is NOT a lethal chemical. It is a drug which has medicinal uses and happens to be addictive. Just like caffine. People drink coffee every day for the caffine. There are some people who drink decaf coffee. Perhaps decaf coffee should be banned, forcing them to use caffinated coffee?
Anything which can shunt people away from the inhalation of the burning embers of a leaf which has been soaked in cyanide and more is in my book a fantastic advancement in human health.
Dang it.. i did it again. Okay, no more posting for me on the internets today. Thanks for the article!
I quit from day one as soon as ai Got an e-cigarette. These are literally a cure for cigarette addiction. So naturally, the government is trying to take them away. Retarded.
I’m sorry man, but I had to comment after you mentioned the price of that e-cig. I don’t care if that thing is made out of solid gold, you got ripped off…ripped off so hard, I’m surprised karma hasn’t kicked in and totaled the city of the guy selling this.
You can buy two of the best e-cigs for $50. You can buy enough juice to last 1000+ cigarettes for less than $10. Just google e cigarette forum and click on the first link you find, or go to e-cigreview.com.
A site for reasonable prices with good quality E-cig kits is http://www.luckestrike.com they also have a smoke for free program.
That model is first generation vaporizer; it is the equivalent of the 8 track tape player. The second generation is equal to, I guess, the CD (we haven’t hit the Ipod level yet).
Go get a Vapor King manual model for $69.50 at:
http://store.vapor4life.com/category_s/1.htm
Several places sell this type (although they may be the only ones with the manual switch). But this new style allows the cartridges to be filled for a night out. The old style requires that you refill constantly; a real hassle. They also leak and are messy and the batteries get flooded and burn out and the atomizer parts are expensive and need to be replaced constantly. Thank God for innovation.
@ Tetsubo October 6, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Let adults make their own decisions, please. It’s none of your business.
I have to say I agree with the last comment posted!!!
Let adults make their own decisions… We all have opinions and thats fine but this is an informative gaget review website. This is not a place for certain individuals to come and preach about the way they feel about a certain subject matter. And there was a comment posted by tetsubo… you might want to do some more research about the only ingredient in these devices…NICOTINE…It is actually not harmful to you… yes it is addictive but it is the additives and smoke and tar and everything else that is the disease causing ingrediants. I even sat with my doctor and discussed this product and I and everyone else reading this should listen to the advice of a doctor… and if my doctor tells me that these are potentially not harmful to you,, then guess what, I am going to listen to my doctor!
Again I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read this article. I actually put alot of effort and research into this… Thank you again!
I’m not american – I’m from a country where the e-cig was available well before it got to the US.
I’m completely tobacco-free, only using e-cigs, for 19 months now. At the end of my ‘tobacco-time’ (2-3 packs a day for over 45 years…) I was a starting COPD-patient, with lung-capacity left at only 65%.
After 8 months of using only the e-cig, I was back to more then 95% lung-capacity (after that I didn’t have any more checks, doctor didn’t find that neccessary, I was declared healthy again – so not sure if I got to 100%, but it wouldn’t surprise me).
Just the cold facts of e-cigs… (oh and haven’t seen ANY doctor since, so much for ‘dangerous ingredients’ then eh…)
Following these facts: I spent a fortune less on tobacco. I (and my insurance) also spent a fortune less on all kinds of meds. I also (this time) didn’t spend money on patches, gums or the ‘official’ nicotine-inhalers (because those had all allready proved to not help me at all). Or on chantix (no desire to commit suicide so no-thanks!).
And guess what… look at who are trying to ban the e-cigs? Big Tobacco; Big Pharma; FDA, funded by everyone that has to pay them to be allowed to sell their product when that product belongs to certain categories – so FDA wants to see the e-cig as ‘drug-device’ so that it needs to go through their approval process, so they can then (after recieving it’s heavy donations) not approve of it seeing they get most of their total funding (so influence) from… BP and now BT… (surprising? Naahh…); all the anti-groups that get their funding directly or indirectly from either or both of those two B’s (those groups don’t want to cease to exist themselves, right?) – and all the ‘victims’ who fell to believe their lies and misinformation.
I’m very grateful for having found this device!
Best of luck giving up! however you do it! If it stops you smoking, I’d recommend almost ANY (legalish) substitute over ciggies. E.g. the health problems associated with putting on 20 pounds still pales with the damage of ciggies.
Best of luck again.
PS it occurs to me that expensive remedies may actually be effective Because they are expensive. i.e. if you’ve invested more in giving up, you don’t want to waste that investment.
PPS Churchill said “When you’re going through hell – keep going!” I like that one.
Let adults make their own choices. If these e-cigs don’t pollute then what is the problem? Shall we ban all alcohol becasue of its addictive qualities? Shall we ban coffee? Tea? Chocolate? Exercise? All these can be addictive. As long as my addiction does not affect a 3rd party what is the issue?
I’ve heard so many things about these electronic cigarettes and I’ve got to try them. One person I spoke with said they aren’t as satisfying as a cigarette. I think they wanted the harshness which is probably from the actual smoke and bad stuff that comes with smoking a burning cigarette versus vaporized Nicotine. I’m still trying to quit smoking but maybe at least these things won’t make me feel as guilty.
my mum started smoking at 12, when her doctor told her that it would be good to calm her nerves. She still smokes now, despite trying to quit many times over and despite having been a nurse and worked in a nursing home and she’s seen what happens to people. I think she’s resigned to the fact she can’t quit, though she has cut back alot since she had breast cancer.
She has always been so busy worrying about the rest of us, that I don’t think she sees how worried we get about her, I know that someday she is probably going to die a slow horrible death if she doesn’t have a stroke before then.
Despite all my siblings seeing how she has fought with the addiction for years, 4 out of 5 of us smoke (I’m the exception). Now that I live out of home and away from my friends that all smoke, I find even walking into the room where a smoking office-mate has walked almost makes me gag.
Even if you put aside the health risks, you smokers do realise it smells disgusting right?
Just speaking for myself, no, I didn’t realize it smelled that bad. Not until I quit. I was exposed to cigarette smoke from the time I was conceived. Almost everyone in my family smoked, and most still do. Since I switched to the e-cig, I’m quite frankly horrified that I went around smelling like that for so long.
My husband hasn’t completely given up cigarettes, though e-cigs have helped him to cut down from over a pack a day to 4-10 cigarettes a day. And I’m set on never being one of those ex-smokers who judge current smokers so harshly, so I’d never say anything to anyone about the smell.
But yes, it’s overwhelming when you don’t smoke, and I can’t deny that. Yet another reason I’m so glad to have found the e-cig.
My father used something very similar when he stopped smoking and it worked so well, he went from smoking 10 cigars and a few cigarettes a day to nothing at all ! He smoked for about 25 years and now, he doesn’t smoke at all. I think it’s a great idea and if it gets you away from the addiction of smoking, well I’m all for it! In the UK, packets of cigarettes now have pictures on the box of people with tumours, or a picture of a diseased body part, caused by smoking and this seems to have helped reduce the number of people who smoke. Also, pubs & clubs have now banned smoking and people who wish to light up now need to do it outside and this also seems to have helpded.
A.J. – Good luck and I hope you can soon kick the habit completely!
Jay
Here is another good review I found for this electronic cigarette:
http://www.ecigarettes365.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3162&p=3466#p3466
–Owen
The new Electronic Cigarettes are better quality and unique compared to most brands available a year ago. For example the new electronic cigarettes from Cigana(the leading selling E-cigs) don’t have typical filters. What they do have is cartridges and their instructions say that one Cigana cartridge lasts an estimated 15 cigarettes depending on how you smoke, but they last around 12 to 14 smokes for me. The only reason I wrote this is because the last electronic cigarette I had sucked and lasted maybe 4 smokes per cartridge and stopped working after 5 weeks. Don’t be suckered. That said, I bought mine direct at: http://www.CiganaDirect.com after I found out their cartridges are the longest lasting through my searching the net. Because cartridges can get expensive, some sites say you should change them every two days. others say after five smokes… I’ll stick with Cigana or maybe another leading brand from a smoke shop with a good warrantee. Good Luck
I’ve ordered from the company you’re recommending and had a battery issue. I then asked them for a RMA authorization # to send back the product and they said they wouldn’t be able to do that for me and further told me if they did I would have to pay for shipping and an additiional cost for handling. Wait until you have a problem with a battery with this company and I’m sure you’ll change your tune. I’ll stick with White Cloud Cigarettes any day of the week, I’ve dropped 2 batteries in a puddle of water (fell off my ear while bending over) and they took care of everything and I told them exactly what happened. You get what you pay for.
I read this post when it first came out and ended up getting a Vapor King from Vapor4life.com. Its been a really good experience and I havent touched a reg cig since I got it.
i like the cirrus whitecloud alot and it seems so great but the only real con i am faced with is since i can smoke it anywhere ive been smoking it always and im told its 40 cigarettes in one cartrige but i havent been smoking it as a normal cigarette i carry it around all the time and am constantly smoking on it not excessively too the point of a maniac but alot its the second day ive been smoking on the same cart does anyone have any suggestions or comments on how long it will last or how i can be sure when ive smoked “1″ cigarettes worth