Annoying anti-vaping nitwits

[epices]

What's up with those patronizing folks who think we still smoke? I've been lucky, during the whole of my vaping business thing I only met one such person who continues to annoy me each time.

I am allowed to vape at work, but refrain to do so if there are a lot of people around, it just looks too junkie-ish for the average uninformed person's mind. But I do have my ego on my desk. So, one day a co-worker - who never smoked - asked me how is my "smoking" going. It took me a while to realize she was referring to my ego, and I said it's no smoke. Without asking she just started saying it's really bad, "worse than smoking", continues the addiction, really bad on the lungs etc etc. She was no susceptible to explanation from my part. So I decided that in the future I am just gonna ignore her when it comes to "smoking". Yesterday, again, she asked how is it going (I suppose she thinks I am struggling with my "smoking" addiction and want to quit but fail each time when I take a vape). I didn't say anything, just "well". And she, as if trying to finish my sentence, said with an infuriating smirk, "yes, slowly slowly maybe you'll get there."

Luckily, she is an exception. And I do manage to find it funny, but at the same time I cannot stand it. Probably every one of us has stories of incidents like these.

 

[bacc.vap]

Maybe the next time she asks you, you could look her over and pick an appropriate thing to ask or say to her, like, "How has your diet been going?" or "Don't worry, just keep trying, one day you will find a deodorant that will work for you". Something like that.

 

[Bramble]

What's up with those patronizing folks who think we still smoke? I've been lucky, during the whole of my vaping business thing I only met one such person who continues to annoy me each time.

I am allowed to vape at work, but refrain to do so if there are a lot of people around, it just looks too junkie-ish for the average uninformed person's mind. But I do have my ego on my desk. So, one day a co-worker - who never smoked - asked me how is my "smoking" going. It took me a while to realize she was referring to my ego, and I said it's no smoke. Without asking she just started saying it's really bad, "worse than smoking", continues the addiction, really bad on the lungs etc etc. She was no susceptible to explanation from my part. So I decided that in the future I am just gonna ignore her when it comes to "smoking". Yesterday, again, she asked how is it going (I suppose she thinks I am struggling with my "smoking" addiction and want to quit but fail each time when I take a vape). I didn't say anything, just "well". And she, as if trying to finish my sentence, said with an infuriating smirk, "yes, slowly slowly maybe you'll get there."

Luckily, she is an exception. And I do manage to find it funny, but at the same time I cannot stand it. Probably every one of us has stories of incidents like these.

I have a policy not to allow people to hang around my desk talking to me about non-work related things. It's fine to be social but these are usually conversations that don't help office morale at all.

There are many things in my personal life that I don't care to discuss even if sometimes they are part of my work day. One of them is my dietary choices (I'm vegan. This is not a topic for debate for my co-workers) and another is my use of nicotine (I'm not smoking on company time, it's none of their business)

 

[cramptholomew]

Sign her email address up for a bunch of vaping related newsletters/informational material/vendor specials. When I say "a bunch", I mean A BUNCH.

 

[epices]

Sign her email address up for a bunch of vaping related newsletters/informational material/vendor specials. When I say "a bunch", I mean A BUNCH.

LOL. Or maybe also the invitation to become the official member of the International Densa Society (the opposite of Mensa).

 

[Harlen]

Some just can't stand that you do something they don't
How dare you be different .
They all need some one to hate

 

[Topwater Elvis]

I've never understood why what other people say bothers some folks.

Why respond to her at all, or, if you think you have to say something in return;
It is impossible to have an intelligent conversation with someone that obviously knows nothing about the subject, bless your heart, have a nice day.

 

[Rickb119]

If ignorance is bliss, there are many people in the world that should be much happier than they are.

 

[cbrite]

My two closest friends (ex smokers for 25 or so years) were thrilled for me when I told them I'd stopped smoking. When I said oh I found this wonderful vaping thing, they also couldn't differentiate it from smoking, no matter how I explained. Now they are all disappointed in me again. Oh well...

 

[Vlad Vapus]

When I am around that particular brand of A$$h@le I like to Vape a stingy flavour at 16mg. Something like Black Liquorice.
Then blow it in their eyes, when they start to preach. I'm done explaining myself to the ignorant.

 

[Steamix]

Some folks make up their mind and once made up, no amount of reasoning, no crystalline logic will sway it...
For reconsidering their position calls on a certain mental flexibility - which they sorely lack. Like most fanatics.

 

[Vaslovik]

She's just another idiot. Next time just tell her, "Ya know, I just love what you are trying to do with your hair," and let her wonder....

 

[rurwin]

Tell her you might agree with her if she can produce more peer-reviewed, original research, quantitative, studies than you can, but they have to be the full paper, not just a press release.