Convincing chain smoking sisters to switch. How should I go about it?

[klynnn]

There comes a point in life you have to realize what's causing your problem. For some of us it came late.

 

[Ricky Spanish]

Start calling them Patty and Selma...

 

[NealBJr]

The cat and the bag saying is something I've found true for a LOT of people. I haven't heard that saying before, but it rings so true on so many levels. I have tried to get MY sister to stop. I have suggested it so many times. Even with all my suggestions, she still went off and did her own thing. She went with a small Ego with a small clearomizer on top. I told her she needed at least a second battery, and maybe one of the twist types.. she insisted on this. Well, she went back. My take is... She'll never admit anything I say is right. It's almost a sibling rivalry type thing. I quit smoking through vaping.. she'll have to discover vaping herself, or do things her own way. I've stopped suggesting it directly, but vape around her when I see her. During family occasions, I make sure I get a flavor I thinks he'd be curious about. I tell her about the success stories of others who have quit smoking, and will point out the failures. She'll have to come to me to get my advice, which is probably the best way to tackle her. Maybe your sisters are the same way... take their hobbies and point out the vaping successes in their hobbies. (for example, with my sister, I point out that smoking is the #1 don'ts with jazz singing)

Keep up suggesting it. I lost both my grandfathers and my step father due to smoking. I know first hand how it kills. Watching someone die from emphysema (step father) is not a pretty sight. His chest was bowed out, he couldn't walk for long before he became short winded. it is like a slow suffocation that takes place over years. Not only does it make them short winded, but because they do not go out as much, and are less active, their bones deteriorate adding to the effect that smoking robs the body of nutrients... So, they are housebound a lot, using an oxygen tank, and taking albuterol.

I imagine that's what my grandmothers went through seeing.. and what my mother went through. It's not something I wish on my sister.

 

[dhood]

Be patient. I'm still waiting for my wife to go ahead and start. I've been smoke free for over 7 months but she hasn't decided to make the jump yet. She has asked me to put together a couple of my old sticks (VV batteries and Aerotanks) with a couple of flavors for her so she can sample them. She even took one of them with her today when she went out. But I don't know if she has actually used either one of them yet. I reminded her that she doesn't have to go cold turkey and drop cigs completely, that plenty of people dual-use while they are weaning themselves off. She just hasn't made the decision to "want" it yet. When she does, I'll be there to help her. Until then, I wait patiently.

 

[AndriaD]

I have attempted several times to get my sisters, who are both smokers, one of them being a pretty heavy smoker, to make the switch over to vaping. I have gone out of my way to try and find a flavor as close to their Marlboro Reds as possible and tried a few different devices.

They say that it is an uncomfortable way to smoke that hurts their throats. Which I find strange since they are inhaling actual smoke from cigarettes. After I got a high voltage devise they seemed to take to that a little more, and said it is closer to smoking a real cigarette.

They want to stop smoking, but seem to find reasons not to make the switch over.

Am I wasting my time trying to get them to switch?

A lot of people say things because they think that's how they're SUPPOSED to feel, but don't really mean it. Change is hard, and scary, particularly with smoking. If they've ever tried to quit before, and failed, then they already know the suffering commonly entailed in quitting smoking, and are not eager to experience that again, having no clue how easily e-cigarettes can be substituted. The best you can do is make it available, and continue to be a resource, but not be pushy about it; that will make them resist even harder. The best way to get anyone to do anything is to make them think it was their idea in the first place.

Andria

 

[AndriaD]

This is the reason I don't think it's a good idea to just "gift" gear to someone in hopes that they will quit. When they have a rough spot vaping, gear doesn't work, craving gets too strong, they can easily go back to smoking. If they did the hard work (it's not really hard but it can be frustrating) and spend their own money, there's more incentive to stick with it. The old saying is true for some people "easy come, easy go".

You always value more, what you have paid for. And I knew this about myself, I'm a tight-fisted miser, so when I put money into something, well I'm going to do it! So I bought lots of budget-priced shiny, some I don't use anymore, but that's irrelevant, because when I did use it, it got me to stop smoking! Now I have even nicer shinys, because I'm fully committed. When I had my month-long smoke break back in the summer, the thought of all my nice vapegear that was mostly not being used, just nagged at me constantly. I had to get off the smokes again and go back to fulltime vaping to get Scrooge McDuck off my back!

Andria