Hi, MEEKYJANE!
One thing to explain to him is that smoking addiction goes beyond just the nicotine. For some people, the movement of putting something in your mouth, and the action of the deep breathing, is something that we associate with feeling calm, kind of like when kids suck their thumbs.
For some people, the patch, lozenges, and gum don't work. This works exactly like those, but it has a few benefits:
1. It gives us a thumb to suck on, making us calmer and more prone to quit smoking forever.
2. What we blow out doesn't contain all of the thousands of chemicals (4000, it is believed), that cigarette smoke has. In fact, what we exhale is not smoke. It's water vapor. That's why it doesn't smell bad, make your teeth yellow, make your tongue yellow, coat your lungs with tar, or make you cough like you did when you smoked.
3. Explain to him that many, many doctors approve of this method of quitting smoking - some of them suggest it to their patients, in fact - and that it has a higher rate of success than the patch, gum, lozenges, and Chantix combined.
Ask him: If you had two cars you needed to use to get to a destination, and one of them was filled with all kinds of dangerous things that could kill you, and one was not, which he'd prefer you drive. Vaping is just like that; it's getting us to our goal of never smoking again without being filled with things that will kill us.
And the most important thing to tell him is that you made a mistake by ever smoking in the first place, and that he should keep in mind through watching you struggle that he should never, ever start and make the same mistake that you did.
Hope that helps?
any other thought or helpful suggestions?
