I'm still new to vaping. My hubby got me into it. I was asking him the other day how do I to explain it to people if I'm in public and someone says something or asks a question. I am a non-smoker. I quit several years ago. I vape because I like the taste. There is no tobacco, toxins, or smoke. What you see is vapor...liquid being heated to boiling. Unfortunately, people are ignorant. And I think some people, especially people who have never smoked, don't understand the difference. They see the vapor and assume it's smoke, or just the same as smoke.
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A smoker is someone who burns tobacco and inhales the resultant SMOKE. The clue is in the name - If you do this then you are a smoker - If you don't then you are NOT a smoker - it's as simple as that really.. 
My wife just recently had her gallbladder out - when asked if she was a smoker she was totally honest with them and explained that she still got Nicotine from vaping - the relevant staff (cardiologist due to her bi-cuspid valve and anaestheologist) marked her down as a non-smoker - that should be sufficient enough to clarify the situation
My wife just recently had her gallbladder out - when asked if she was a smoker she was totally honest with them and explained that she still got Nicotine from vaping - the relevant staff (cardiologist due to her bi-cuspid valve and anaestheologist) marked her down as a non-smoker - that should be sufficient enough to clarify the situation
What a great question. No I don't. Vaping is still smoking to me. Even though there are no carcinogens in it, I am still addicted to a consumable and someone is making money off of a vice. No matter how much we say Vaping is safe, it is not. We are putting an aerosol in our bodies and just because nothing is obvious now, it will be in the future. Vaping is not a natural thing to do, otherwise we would have been born with one lol. So IMHO I believe eventually some corporate conglomerate or greedy somebody will take a shortcut to make money and pee on the parade. Look at meat with antibiotics or genetic tampering with fruits and vegetables, the list goes on and on. We are just now realizing the dangers. Vaping will be the same as every other maketable consumable. For me using vaping to quit smoking analogs without gaining 20,000 pounds makes the risk (so far) worth it.
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I just wanted to clarify that I was not meaning at all that others should feel shame or add qualifiers to their non-smoking status. I know with me it is a psychological thing and it has to do with shame to some degree. For instance, I never once posted on my now-defunct Facebook page that I quit smoking. As a matter of fact, I never mentioned smoking on Facebook at all. I am also one of the vapers out there who does not vape inside stores or restaurants. I use it in public, not necessarily in designated smoking areas, but always outdoors.
There is an age difference as well. I started smoking in the second half of the 90's. I also grew up in a conservative Baptist church. I remember leaving Sunday services and watching my mom have a nic fit because she wouldn't light up until we were far from the church and all the perfume and gum she constantly had with her.
At the same time, I am the only one in my family who defends her right to smoke (she's 63 and comes from the era of everyone smoking).
She feels a lot of shame but has never been able to quit or switch to a PV, though she keeps trying the PV. My father quit years ago with little difficulty like some people seem to do and just figures that she has no discipline. I always tell her it is her right to make her own choice and that she is a wonderful person and that anyone judging her for her smoking is flat-out wrong. As a smoker, I was the type that would smoke well away from people and then have the random person seem to go out of their way to get into my smoke and start fake coughing, and I generally did not respond to that very politely.
As safe as breathing pure air? Probably not. But 4,000 times safer than cigarettes? Definitely. I used to think that in the future we would discover that vaping was really hurting our lungs, but after looking around the web and reading studies by reputable people and looking up the ingredients and feeling the benefits for myself; I definitely do not debate vaping's safety anymore.
It doesn't matter what I think - my cardiologist and my regular doctor put me as a non-smoker.
Who am I to disagree with their medical opinion?
Who am I to disagree with their medical opinion?
I no longer draw hot smoke into my lungs anymore, I do, however, draw in a cool water type vapor with a touch of Nicotine. I am slowly weaning myself off of nicotine, and soon it will be just the vapors. So, technically, I have stopped burning myself up on the inside, just working on curbing the addiction.
do i consider myself as a smoker? no, but i used to be. am i addicted to nicotine? you bet your sweet .... i am.. i just consider my delivery system of said nicotine to be superior to the delivery system of analog cigarettes.
If you ask my daughter if I smoke she will tell you '...no more stinky cigarettes that are on fire...'. She will also tell you that '..Ima (means mom) vapes...'. My point? A 4 yr. old can make the distinction.
Since this seems to have become a discussion of semantics, I would submit that the term smoker be handled the same as alcoholic or marine. I a reformed smoker; nicotine addict off of paper cigs.
At work, a couple of the guys (current smokers) were giving me some mild grief about vaping. I mustered all of the eloquence I could and replied in my most ladylike fashion: Hey! You still smoke those and I don't - ____k you!
Since this seems to have become a discussion of semantics, I would submit that the term smoker be handled the same as alcoholic or marine. I a reformed smoker; nicotine addict off of paper cigs.
At work, a couple of the guys (current smokers) were giving me some mild grief about vaping. I mustered all of the eloquence I could and replied in my most ladylike fashion: Hey! You still smoke those and I don't - ____k you!
When someone ask me when I'm going to quit smoking, I tell them I quit for the last time over a year ago.
When they ask me when I'm going to quit vaping, well...I can't say that I'm ideologically aligned with Charlton Heston, but:
They can take my Provari from my cold dead hand.
When they ask me when I'm going to quit vaping, well...I can't say that I'm ideologically aligned with Charlton Heston, but:
They can take my Provari from my cold dead hand.
Im a Non-Smoker since August 8, 2012. And Very Proud Of It!! I used to be a more than 2 pack a day smoker for almost 40 years!! Ive been fighting with my tobacco addiction most of my life. It feels good
to be free of the ball and chain. Keep vaping!!!!
to be free of the ball and chain. Keep vaping!!!!
I'm not a regular smoker anymore. From time to time I'll still have one especially after a few drinks. It's just a nasty taste now though. I don't buy analogs anymore and I vape all day everyday now. It's not so much a wagon for me. I've accomplished my goal which was not relying on cigarettes anymore. I don't buy them or chew and I still get my nicotine and smoking type sensation without all the nasty side effects of smoking.
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