Puffpaw, the blockchain-integrated vape pen that claims to “incentivize people to quit smoking and vaping” might the truth is maintain customers hooked and even encourage non-smokers to choose up the behavior.

That is the opinion of a number one UK-based dependancy remedy heart.

A so-called ‘vape-to-earn‘ project, Puffpaw uploads your ‘puffs’ to the Berachain blockchain and points tokens whenever you scale back the quantity you employ it.

Nonetheless, in line with UK Dependancy Therapy Centres (UKAT), the product “is not going to help vapers to lower their usage. If anything, it could have the complete opposite effect because of the enticing gamification and crypto reward that comes with vaping.”

The group famous that when utilizing Puffpaw, somebody could also be “sucked into a world of prolonged vaping,” that will “worsen a person’s addiction,” and that it looks like “a corporate way of making money off people trying to quit smoking and lead healthier lives.”

UKAT additionally famous that “Puffpaw’s product could well help people who are still smoking cigarettes to convert to vaping instead, but ultimately they’re just adding to the false economy and creating even more vapers.”

In a single interview, co-founder Reffo Tse failed to clarify how Puffpaw can counter individuals who could use Puffpaw’s vape pen whereas additionally selecting to proceed vaping with different conventional e-cigarettes. The venture additionally provides vape pen holders advantages once they ‘bump’ Puffpaw pens with one other Puffpaw consumer.

Customers on X (previously Twitter) don’t seem overly eager on the venture. One consumer stated, “I’m sorry but why would people stop vaping if they also got paid in governance tokens to vape?”

One other consumer joked, “It’ll help you quit cus every time you puff you earn tokens and that’s somehow better for you than actually quitting. What the fuck happened to this industry.”

Vaping has its personal well being dangers

As for the well being dangers of vaping, it’s not a totally secure various to smoking cigarettes. A peer-review of 800 research discovered that e-cigarettes comprise and emit numerous poisonous substances that will trigger lung or coronary heart illness. 

Nonetheless, it’s additionally value noting that in line with the UK’s Nationwide Well being Service, proof means that vaping is significantly much less dangerous when in comparison with smoking and is seen as a way of quitting the behavior.