MYTH - E-cigarettes aimed at non-smokers

[Vocalek]

Wow. I would sure love to hear from the folks in the 46-50 and over 50 years of smoking brackets. What's your story?

[Debra]

I'm 52. Started smoking about age 12... but not seriously smoking until about age 19. I was up to between 2 and 3 packs a day when I got my e-cig several weeks ago. I didn't buy it to stop smoking. As a smoker I was just thinking "oh cool, another way to smoke."
Long story short... haven't had an analog since the day I got the e-cig. If they ban them I will surely go back to the analogs as I never intended to quit in the first place.
E-cigs are just better tasting. The fact that they are probably a lot healthier is just a side bonus to me. LOL

[alexprobb]

Wow. I would sure love to hear from the folks in the 46-50 and over 50 years of smoking brackets. What's your story?

Here I am Smoked for 35 years (started @ 15). Tried to quit several times, once using Nicotrol w/wellbutrin-managed a whole year and was miserable till the last day of nonsmoking. I heard about e-cigs last summer and bought some cheap crap from Amazon.com. That was a total disaster and lasted a week or so. But I got an idea, and after intensive research (this forum helped ALOT!) I found the one I like. I've been vaping for 2 month, tobacco free and not looking back. Can't even stand the smell now.
Hope the damn FDA doesn't ban this great thing and stops customs restrictions. Thanks for reading, and thank you for this poll!

[mallie233]

I know it's hard to believe when you consider that I am only 29 years old, but I did smoke for 45 years.

Sorry, perhaps I'm just reading this wrong, as other people seem to have understood.....

but how are you 29 and smoked for 45 years?

[Ashhead]

There should be a 0-1 year and never smoked to make this more useful...imho

[Ashhead]

I think part of the problem is the name E-cig. We should have been touting them as Personal Vaperizers. NO ONE cares about personal vaporizers. As soon as cigarettes are mentioned ,or smoking sessation, flags are going up everywhere.The verbage is as important as the product. The truth is:many people prefer this to smoking . The ad should read: ...I don't bother smoking any more... or ... far more convenient than smoking tobacco...

This would have made life easier for us vapers. Probably still could if we could refrain from any mention of cigs or e-cigs. I am for less regulation in my life, not more.

[P3rplexity]

Great poll, definitely de-bunks that "myth" lol

[the86d]

30 years of smoking. Was able to quit last year Feb 2nd and started smoking again this April. Found e-cigs in May. Still haven't been able to totally dump the analogs but I'm getting there. Only still smoke when drinking can't stand them otherwise.

That was my issue. I hit it more when I start on 12oz curls, but now I keep a dropper of 18mg unflavored around (clearly marked) to add a drop or two when topping off for when the need arrives (3ml 24mg + 1mg PG = 18mg 4ml). I was topping off with 24mg +flavored (like 1-4mg) homebrew juice when having a few. I am trying to drop the top-offs-ads to 8mg, but it's hard.

One thing I noticed is even ejuice I cut to about 4mg or less used to choke me so I dropped it down more. I needed more nic, but was choking off the juice because it was too much. It doesn't bother me as much now. Just tough to drop it down, just like dropping down the number of smokes a day or smoking Calrtons instead. hehee.

I was an Doral/PallMall Ultra-Light smoker of about 30/day.

[kristin]

Sorry, perhaps I'm just reading this wrong, as other people seem to have understood.....

but how are you 29 and smoked for 45 years?

She was joking about being 29 - no woman likes to admit her real age! LOL!

[the86d]

Sorry, perhaps I'm just reading this wrong, as other people seem to have understood.....

but how are you 29 and smoked for 45 years?

Do you ever ask a woman her age?

As long as you don't ask, she is 29, because the answer was volunteered.

It's a stretching of the truth, by about "a year or two++".