My favourite brand is Janty, bought at http://www.ruyanxpress.com

I consider it one of the best and most reliable products with great service. I’m not sure if they ship worldwide though, ’cause its nog a very big copany (yet) .

I also own a Supersmoker (without the original batter - it died), an E-cig and also a cigarillo and pipe form E-Cig. Electric smoking is rapidly becoming a big thing in Holland, although since the beginning government and media and - of course- several non-smoking-organisations are trying to ruin the fun and forbid he whole thing.

Tgether with a couple of other people I run a Dutch forum on electric smoking, FreE-Smokers Unlimited, on http://www.e-cigarette.com , where we talk about the subject, share experience and tips. Besides three Dutch fora and a German one, I am surprised to find so little fora from English-speaking countries on the internet,  as the product reallt asks for a bit more information that the average directions for use can give you. 

Six months of E-smoking has given me quite a lot of experience, but still I encounter probles every now and then, and developements go so fast you an hardly keep up with them.   

Yep, I made a little (BIG) typo ; it should read : http://www.e-cigaret.com . Not quite English, not quite Dutch, so its a mistake I’ve made before I must admit…..

Personally, I am not too worried of the fact that maybe only the zero-nicotine cartridges would be available. After all, it’s a smoking replacement, NOT a cessation therapy (in my view), and if you smoke AND e-smoke, it really makes no difference at all (for taste or feeling in the throat). It takes quite a while befor nicotine-deprivation becomes noticable.

For people who would like to QUIT (real) smoking, and decrease their nicotine-craving by means of the E-cig, it could be a bummer though. And although the ‘cold turky’ method on nicotine-deprivation takes no more than two weeks at most, it is the HABIT that is so hard to kick, so it could still be used as an aid, maybe combined with other nicotine-replacements.

Still I think it actually is a shame that -as things look now- we are going to be deprived of what could be a great solution for both smokers AND non-smokers. Government is clearly worried about tax-income, the tobacco-industrie is worried for obvious reasons, and non-smoking organisations have always been hard to reason with. Gives you a worrying David and Goliath-feeling….

Momentarily we are eagerly awaiting the results of a large, independent reearch about the effects and dangers of electric smoking. There is particularly a New Zealand-report we are following, which looks very promising. It can be found on http://www.theruyanmedia.com/uploads/REC-NZInterim_Report.pdf

In the meantime, we can just wait, hope and e-smoke as much as we can, and maybe try pulling a few little strings here and there. Our only hope is that by the time our regulators have made a decission, E-smoking is SO widespread, and so accepted in public opinion, that a law against it is going to be very hard and very expensive to maintain.

Hi (again ) Marleen,

With you being quite an experienced E-smoker, I was just curious whether you have tried the Sedansa (pen) E-cigarette as well and how you find it compares to the Janty ?

I would be very interested in both how the smoking experience itself compares and how the hardware compares in quality and durability.

Cheers from an autumn-y New Zealand (are you enjoying the good weather in Holland ??),
Silver