Reply #7: I know one of the things, perhaps the biggest that is driving her to smoke, [View All]

but my hope was that the nicotine replacement would help to solve that.

She has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and up to 90% of schizophrenics smoke which is far, far more than the general population. Research believes they smoke because the nicotine helps their thought process, helping them to concentrate and to think more straight. Her psychiatrist has told me that entire books have been written about schizophrenics and smoking.

So I know there is more going on than with your average smoker and I actually expected that the e-cigs would be a replacement for smoking tobacco cigarettes so she could get the nicotine she needs without all of the other bad and cancerous stuff in cigarettes. But apparently there is more going on than just nicotine and its replacement.