Quitting smoking is, for many people, one of the most difficult transitions a person can undergo. Smoking cessation aids like patches, gums, and e-cigarettes don’t work for everyone, but Quitbit might. Built by a team of engineers, designers, and hardware tinkerers, the Quitbit is quite possibly the world’s most advanced lighter.

Quitbit helps you stop smoking by tracking your habit, letting you set custom goals, and keeping track of your progress. The flameless lighter uses a heating coil (like in a car lighter) to light cigarettes. The built-in screen displays your stats such as how long it’s been since your last smoke and how many cigarettes you’ve smoked that day.

The Quitbit also pairs with your smartphone via Bluetooth LE to give an even broader range of functions. In the app, you can set how many cigarettes you want to limit yourself to each day and see on a simple graph whether you are meeting that goal. If you really want to go hard-core with your goals, you can even limit when the lighter works.

The app will also help you see what times of the day you tend to smoke the most. As you cut down, the app will tell you how much money you save day by day, week by week, and month by month. The project is raising money on Kickstarter and, as of the date of publication, looks to be right on track to meet its goal.

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Smoking bans around the country have spurred on the sudden growth of the electronic cigarette industry – a tar-free, smokeless alternative to traditional puffing. One such company sent in free samples (no, silly, not for Delana – she does not smoke!) and they are a truly fascinating invention from the first drag to the last lingering cloud of fake smoke.

Electronic Cigarettes Inc. produces e cigarette varieties on the front lines of this strange new movement with rechargeable, portable and long-lasting devices that mimic the look of cigarettes and feel of smoking … but deliver a nicotine vapor instead. While it might not be as healthy as a tofu diet and ten-mile daily run this is certainly way better than regularly ingesting the typical carcinogens found in normal smokes. And the experience? Certainly worlds closer to actual smoking than lozenges, mints, gum, patches or other nicotine supplements and delivery systems. Any smoker (like myself) knows that the puffing is a key part of the habit – and perhaps the hardest part to break.

They sent over two products in particular – their Duo Pro and Vapor King alternatives. The former looks pretty much just like a regular cigarette, but the glowing ember at the end is not on fire … and the smoke you blow out is not really smoke at all. The Vapor King has a sleek and shiny silver variant as well as the option of a manual push-button activation versus a simple drag-and-draw model. While the Duo Pro has pre-loaded one-time-use cartridges the Vapor King has refillable ones. Various flavors are available as well as different nicotine strengths – you can even get the glowing tip in different colors. So for fellow smokers, well, there is good news and bad news: the good news is there is an easier way to quit the old cancer sticks – the bad news is you have one less excuse for stopping smoking.

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