I've been quit 4 years now smoking tobacco cigarettes (smoked for 25 years) and I never thought I'd be able to do it years back. People I met said it was hardest thing to do and many who'd quit said many years after {upto 15} they could murder a cigarette. Me at this point never get it a thought till just now. I'm extremely proud of myself for achieving it cold turkey and to this day all I see now is people not quitting and on these 'electronic' vaper things and puffing away massive clouds of smoke and no intention of ever stopping. Is this a good or bad thing.
Quit smoking. Vape good or bad.
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Depends what you are comparing it to. Smoking? Much better alternative.
Doing nothing? Ofc it's not as healthy.
It's not smoke, it's vapour fyi. Big difference, especially when it comes to inhaling it. It's more like water vapour then smoke. No combustion.
Doing nothing? Ofc it's not as healthy.
It's not smoke, it's vapour fyi. Big difference, especially when it comes to inhaling it. It's more like water vapour then smoke. No combustion.
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People who have swapped smoking for vaping have quit cigarettes so I don't see the problem.
Nicotine addiction is no different to people who crave and are addicted to coffee, tea, dairy products etc
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used various vapes in the year and a half since i stopped smoking cigarettes, gradually dropping the nicotine content until now, where i vape only when drunk.
I'm just curious about these dense clouds people exhale and often seem quite proud of themselves. I'm nor knocking it but many who I've seen moved to these vapor cigarettes seem as addictive as ever and smoke more often because it isn't traditional cigarettes and it's safe to 'exhale' clouds of smoke around the room. Outside fine but obviously inside is there any real danger. Some of it does smell lovely btw (passively)
Been a fair bit of research into this. It's more or less non-existent (passive vaping). The person vaping doesn't exhale anything harmful, especially compared to usual background levels.
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2 years and 2 months off the stinkies now, all due to vaping.
If you relapse, take up vaping and enjoy it, it'll likely turn into a bit of a hobby, all things like;
- The latest devices (Atomisers, mods)
- Coil building
- DIY E-liquid making for all kinds of weird and wonderful flavours
- Even down to different types of wicks available and how they all compare
It's great
Checkout the vaping thread should you have any questions, tonnes of us in there who are well versed in the vaping world and very happy to help
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Great job for going cold turkey, that's an awesome achievement.
2 years and 2 months off the stinkies now, all due to vaping.
If you relapse, take up vaping and enjoy it, it'll likely turn into a bit of a hobby, all things like;
- The latest devices (Atomisers, mods)
- Coil building
- DIY E-liquid making for all kinds of weird and wonderful flavours
- Even down to different types of wicks available and how they all compare
It's great
Checkout the vaping thread should you have any questions, tonnes of us in there who are well versed in the vaping world and very happy to help
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Great job for going cold turkey, that's an awesome achievement.
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If you're vaping nicotine you haven't really quit imo. Of course it's much better than fags but you haven't solved your addiction.
If you are asking if its a good idea for you to start vaping, you would be an idiot if you did! After 4 years off the cigs you are nicotine free. Why would you want to start sticking nicotine into your body and get addicted to it again. Just doesn't make sense. DONT DO IT!
I am a vaper. This does annoy me. Gives us a bad name. I don't vape anywhere I wouldn't be able to smoke. Apart from my local but I am a regular and they allow me to
but still don't blow massive clouds.It's all about educating on both sides.
With the new technology that is out there (Temperature Control) it is very very safe. A big concern was regarding the coils and wicks (usually cotton) when these are burning a stupidly high levels the metals could oxidise or cotton burn and that's where you get harmful chemicals. Also burning juices and high temperatures can change them and lead to harmful chemicals. Temperature control limits the heat applied to well below dangerous levels.
No intention to smoke anything. I'm 46 now and lesson learnt. I'm just curious about people's attitudes and vapors who changed to electronic to quit but ended up addicted and say it harms nobody.
The lungs were not designed to inhale smoke, as far as I know any smoke will do some damage to the lungs regardless of it being a real cigerette or an electronic one.
Saying that, it's logical to assume vaping is far healthier than smoking real cigerettes since real cigerettes contain loads of deadly chemicals.
Saying that, it's logical to assume vaping is far healthier than smoking real cigerettes since real cigerettes contain loads of deadly chemicals.
Depends what your goal is though. I enjoy vaping because of the 'boys and their toys' but mainly as an alterative to smoking. I play a lot of poker and drink fairly regularly. So I would be smoking. Playing poker around a table of people chain vaping is a lot nicer than people chain smoking. At least I feel better for it
But nicotine itself is no more harmful than caffeine, it's all the other muck in tobacco smoke that is the problem.
Being addicted to nicotine isn't harmful in itself. Much like caffeine.
I'm looking at people quitting smoking real cigarettes and the use of electronic to do this is great. It's very rare I see anyone smoke a real cigarette but I see 'lots' vaping. I've no problem with this just want educating on why people keep doing it and have no intention to stop.
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Unless your vaping zero nicotine liquid of course...
Of course. I know plenty of people that do vape with no nicotine.