This isn't the standard CYA "talk to your doctor before you consider changing anti-perspirants," because far too many people, doctors included, do not yet understand that inhaling water vapor and inhaling the Carolina Colonel's 43 selected toxins and carcinogens have some differences.
The other day, I was reading a thread in the forums about some "anti-smoking" people who are, incredibly, strongly opposed to e-cigarettes.
For some, this is fixable, a simple matter of education.
For others, it's not about ignorance, but belief. You can't argue with a belief, nor can you educate it away. Maybe the believer can, but that's another topic.
Some may believe
that belief and reason may have had a common ancestor back in autotroph days. (I was so young then, I don't remember).
Today, any shared heritage is forgotten, and belief doesn't even recognize the existence of reason, much less respond to it.
If your doctor is opposed to the idea of you changing over to e-cigarettes, find out why.
Is there a legitimate medical reason specific to your physiology or condition?
We're talking about a very new technology, and there are plenty of educated and informed people who are barely aware that it even exists.
I like to think of myself as someone who keeps at least moderately "up-to-date" with things, and until a few weeks ago, I thought the things were only used on movie sets.
Find out what your doctor-interviewee knows and doesn't know about the subject. Her opposition may be based on simple ignorance. Give her the url to the medical section of this forum and check Good Deed off today's to-do list.
If, on the other hand, the interview reveals that the doctor understands that it's about inhaling water vapor, and is opposed to it for vague reasons she's not able or willing to articulate, or if she's parroting memes about "exchanging one addiction for another," the chances are that you are staring belief in the face.
That meme may be fact-based in the psychology textbooks, but addiction to the action of hold-n'-puff and addiction to nicotine times each other times a bazillion still cannot hold a candle to the health risks of smoking cigarettes.
Failure to recognize that is nothing but belief with a little bit of lip gloss.
You need a doctor who comes from a place of facts.
Move on and yell "NEXT!"
The other day, I was reading a thread in the forums about some "anti-smoking" people who are, incredibly, strongly opposed to e-cigarettes.
For some, this is fixable, a simple matter of education.
For others, it's not about ignorance, but belief. You can't argue with a belief, nor can you educate it away. Maybe the believer can, but that's another topic.
Some may believe
that belief and reason may have had a common ancestor back in autotroph days. (I was so young then, I don't remember).Today, any shared heritage is forgotten, and belief doesn't even recognize the existence of reason, much less respond to it.
If your doctor is opposed to the idea of you changing over to e-cigarettes, find out why.
Is there a legitimate medical reason specific to your physiology or condition?
We're talking about a very new technology, and there are plenty of educated and informed people who are barely aware that it even exists.
I like to think of myself as someone who keeps at least moderately "up-to-date" with things, and until a few weeks ago, I thought the things were only used on movie sets.
Find out what your doctor-interviewee knows and doesn't know about the subject. Her opposition may be based on simple ignorance. Give her the url to the medical section of this forum and check Good Deed off today's to-do list.
If, on the other hand, the interview reveals that the doctor understands that it's about inhaling water vapor, and is opposed to it for vague reasons she's not able or willing to articulate, or if she's parroting memes about "exchanging one addiction for another," the chances are that you are staring belief in the face.
That meme may be fact-based in the psychology textbooks, but addiction to the action of hold-n'-puff and addiction to nicotine times each other times a bazillion still cannot hold a candle to the health risks of smoking cigarettes.
Failure to recognize that is nothing but belief with a little bit of lip gloss.
You need a doctor who comes from a place of facts.
Move on and yell "NEXT!"
