Are your family/friends convinced that you've quit smoking?

[Deeo]

I get support from everyone I kmow except one friend who says I still smoke because there is nicotine in it. It drives me crazy but I quit for me and I unfortunatly will watch as cigerettes harm her as they already are. Maybe she is jealous I really don't understand why I don't have her suport when she herself is a smoker.

 

[AthensGa]

The only person whose opinion I care about is my husband, and he's extremely supportive. My "blood kin" don't know that I switched because it isn't time for the annual trek up north yet. My husband and I live near his family, which is very small. They are also supportive or ignoring, which is nice but doesn't really matter to me.

 

[wheelie]

My family is supportive. My wife is thrilled. Only thing she asked is not to vape the black cherry as the smell makes her sick. I never liked the black cherry anyways so not a big deal. 42 years smoking and my Doctor told me he didn't care if I vape the rest of my life. But he does want me to cut back from 24mg nicotine when I am ready.

 

[highrider]

Honestly no, not really. For me it just isn't worth the effort to try to convince someone that it isn't smoking. My wife will probably always hate that i have an addiction to nicotine but at least she doesn't give me as hard of a time about it. But it's only been 6 months, so maybe in time my family will see the benefits of it, they won't listen to me though lol.

 

[DarkDays93]

My mam hates it. She doesn't understand and won't listen to reason. My dad's happy just because I've stopped coughing. My girlfriend is happy and proud of me (she's a smoker anyway).

My friends? They're happy and all but I have a few 'friends' that like to try and be funny by blowing smoke in my face. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I prefer the taste and smell of vaping.

 

[TyPie]

I'm just a couple of weeks from my 1 year anniversary of being cigarette free, and a confirmed vaper. Since I started vaping, I have gone from 18-24 mg of nic when I started to 0-6 mg of nic now, mostly 0, where I vape mainly, I think, for the sensation of inhaling and the hand-to-mouth habit, and to occasionally get a burst of various flavors throughout my day. Funny, but I picked up a pack of hard-candy style mints the other day. After reading the laundry list of ingredients and the list of chemicals I couldn't pronounce, I gotta believe that my ecigs with 0 nic are safer than the mints I ate.

I have run into all the attitudes one is likely to encounter about vaping by now. For sure, an observer's attitude toward smoking and cigarettes determines how militant they are for or against e-cigs. It is also crazy funny how many people just do not get that it is WHAT YOU ARE INHALING that is the big problem, and not necessarily the fact that you are inhaling vapor.

On the following scale of substances that are commonly inhaled:

1-Ambient air
2-steam/water vapor
3-pollen
4-dust
5-smog
6-car exhaust
7-diesel exhaust from buses and trucks
8-cigarette smoke / burning tobacco

I think that ecig vapor probably falls just after steam / water vapor on this scale. I know that this is far, far safer than smoking cigarettes, and I am thankful, appreciative and thrilled beyond belief every single day that I have been able to free myself from cigarettes. Everything else, and everyone else's attitudes and opinions (no matter at all WHOSE opinions and attitudes we're talkin' about) are really a distant second place. Just my $00.02.

 

[graybeard]

Within the first month of vaping only I lost 10-15lbs, because I no longer went for the cookies and junk. I got the same "reward" from banana cream pie juice, and my appetite decreased a LOT. I also left the nagging cough behind. I am saving enough money that used to go to big tobacco, that I can now afford a better health insurance policy. Anyone that has known me very long cannot argue with any of these obvious improvements in my life. If they offer snippy remarks, I just offer them a sniff of my favorite DIY an tell them I can vape creme brulee, or carmel apples all day and never gain an ounce.

My boss bought me a steak dinner for my one month anniversary!

 

[DebiK]

I get support from everyone I kmow except one friend who says I still smoke because there is nicotine in it. It drives me crazy but I quit for me and I unfortunatly will watch as cigerettes harm her as they already are. Maybe she is jealous I really don't understand why I don't have her suport when she herself is a smoker.

So nicotine = smoking?

Surprisingly, some common food sources contain nicotine. These include eggplant, tomatoes, potatoes, tomatillos, sweet peppers and hot peppers, all of which belong to the nightshade family. However, all of these food nightshades contain only trace amounts of nicotine. According to The World's Healthiest Foods website, eggplant is the food nightshade that appears to have the highest nicotine content after tobacco, but the amount of nicotine is greatly reduced.

Read more: Plants Containing Nicotine | eHow


So ask her if she eats any of these foods. Yeah, its just trace amounts, but if she eats them, she MUST be a smoker, by her definition.

 

[pipster]

My daughter, son in law and sister, who nagged me to death forever to quit smoking were glad that I quit and agreed that vaping was a great option if it helped me to actually stop smoking. Now 2 months in, they are asking me.. So when are you going to stop hitting the ecig? Are you going to just keep smoking that? You already quit 2 months ago, do you really think you need to smoke that?
Arrrgh. I am beginning to think they just enjoy nagging me.
None of them have ever smoked.. I have a 30 year smoking career behind me. They.just.don't.get.it.
I will continue to vape until I am ready to stop. I am weaning my nic slowly and my goal is 1 year.
I say if an alcoholic quits drinking booze and replaces it with shotglasses of water..would you nag them to stop? Have they not quit drinking? Enough already.

 

[Claudia P]

No. I think many if not most people still believe that nicotine is "THE" addictive thing about cigarettes, they have no idea of all of the other addictive chemicals. For most of them it's "if it walks like a duck it is a duck", they neither know or want to learn differently. I have told them, they say I'm full of it and I have dropped the subject.

My SO still smokes but outside, and he expects me to vape outside as well. It's his house so I comply for the most part, I do vape at the computer when he is not home or is still sleeping, he knows it but doesn't like it.

 

[patkin]

Non-smoker hubby is supportive to the point where he buys me vape gear when off on loner treks.... often not something I would have chosen but its good to have backup. The only flack I've gotten is from self-righteous x-smokers. I think they're just jealous.

 

[MorpheusPA]

My family is small and 50% of it Vapes, lol. Yep alls good in my world.

My family is huge and 30% of it vapes. There's exactly one smoker left.

All of us (except the smoker) consider ourselves quit.

 

[MorpheusPA]

The only person I've had a problem with is my daughter in law. She said "Oh. So you're still smoking." But since she lets me vape in their house with no problem at all, I think she was just being a pain in the ..... My non-smoking (ever) friends let me vape in their houses after some Q&A and 'test smells'. lol Mostly they say it's a very light smell or kind of fruity.

Same here. One adamantly non-smoking friend told me to vape in his house. Or, "Good behavior deserves a good reward."

Then later, "Could you do that in the cellar? The mint might kill the smell down there."

No, no I could not.

 

[Deeo]

GRANDPA QUITS SMOKING!!



People needs to encourage even if your friend/family smoke as they vape. It takes time for some people to make the switch but at least this guy is trying.

 

[Bramble]

Everyone whose opinion matters to me is smart enough not to argue that I haven't quit smoking

But most people I know actually do regard eCigs on par with traditional NRT they are familiar with. One legacy the ANTZ gave us is that NRT is good and better than smoking. So I show them how eCigs are the same as what they already know and "approve" of.

 

[TheReign]

They know I've quit smoking, they are happy for me and my health that I have. Although they sometimes wonder if this is becoming more expensive than smoking Lol. Coming from 10$ PAD habit, I think I can use a bit of my old budget to spend on Vape toys Lol

 

[JamezC]

Oh wow, this thread is still alive?

I think the reason many people don't accept vaping as "quitting smoking" is the fact that people associate nicotine with cigarettes, like they're one and the same. Understanding is a huge factor as to whether or not people are going to support it, I've had to explain vaping quite a few times, which I don't mind if whoever is asking me is legitimately interested.