Do you hear " IT's STILL SMOKING" ???????

[Joie]

I am really tired of hearing people say What's the difference it's still smoking" You still are addicted to nicotine.
I can't get it thru to some people and really ticks me off.

I feel great so it HAS got to be better.....I am not putting thousands of chemicals in my body....and they say you are still putting nicotine and some strange other stuff now......Grrrrrr really upsetting.

Anybody else hearing stuff like this?

 

[Troy421]

I don't listen to anyone there's. alway nasayers out there.

 

[Orobas]

If you get the good old standby "I HERD DERE'S ANTIFREEZE IN DEM DERE 'LECKTRONUCK CIGURUTTES" tell them propylene glycol is one of the main ingredients in their cough syrup, too.

 

[gazzatron]

Grrrrrrrr ignorant tools

 

[Iffy]

Do you hear " IT's STILL SMOKING" ???????

More than once...

Oh... ya mean vaping... not yet.

 

[DC2]

vaping is a fantastic tool for determining which people are dumber than rocks.

 

[YoureFired]

I've gotten the "I thought you quit smoking?" So then I just have to explain that it's vapor and not smoke. What got them on my side was pointing out how it doesn't smell awful like cigarette smoke. Then they're like "Oh, can I try it?"

 

[indianajames]

I'm a Liberty activist and AR-15 owner. I'm pretty much used to ignoring idiots by now.

 

[Baditude]

I usually explain that there is no combustion or smoke or tobacco involved with electronic cigarette devices as there is with cigarette smoking, only vaporization of liquid nicotine which becomes harmless water vapor. No second hand smoke, and explain that they have themselves inhaled water vapor in a hot shower or from a medical vaporizor.

The ingredients used in e-liquid are used in asthma inhalers and other medical products as well as common foods that they consume on a daily basis.

There have been very few studies done solely on the effects of nicotine, most have been done in conjuction with tobacco which makes them invalid for our purposes. Nicotine is classified as a stimulant like caffeine, so nicotine is not unlike using caffeine in a cup of coffee or a can/bottle of soda pop.

It really doesn't matter what other people think or say. YOU know you have found a safer alternative to smoking, and that is all that counts.

 

[Offday]

I'd simply reply ....no it's not do your research "BEFORE" you open your mouth.
But by the way. Did you on the other hand know your still an annoying pain in my @$$.
Once you do your research we
can revisit this discussion. Your gonna realize your wrong.
Tell them you started vaping to "quit" smoking. Just too bad there's not something out there to help you quit being annoying.
Oh where there's "smoke" there's fire.
Where's the fire?

 

[DaveP]

No one asks me twice about my ecig. It's too time consuming for them. But, if they do they get a short education on ecigs.

I started responding to "What's that thing?" with "It's what got me off cigarettes with no withdrawal at all". Their eyebrows perk up and I take the opening and run with it. "In this liquid you see in the tank, there's flavoring that is used in candies and cakes, along with propylene glycol and pharmaceutical grade nicotine. In fact, it's all USP grade ingredients except for the flavorings, those are food grade."

"Everything except the nicotine is in hundreds of food products and personal care products that you use everyday. The "smoke" you see isn't smoke, it's water vapor that carries the flavor and nicotine. What I exhale has been reported through testing to be virtually nicotine free. The nicotine is absorbed into my body, mainly through the mouth, throat, and sinuses and the amount of nicotine is about 10% to 30% of what I got from cigarettes. Almost none is absorbed by the lungs. The particle size of the vapor is too large to enter the alveoli."

"Nicotine is considered to be about as harmless as caffeine. We'd all be better off if we didn't drink coffee, but it won't shorten your life or significantly affect your health. Compared to tobacco, this ecig is the best thing that ever happened to me. After deciding to quit cigarettes, I can stand around where people are smoking and not even think about wanting one. It's the easiest way I ever tried for quitting and the only one that worked."

I get kudos from people that ask and haven't met one who thought I should just smoke and most walk away realizing that the ecig is the miracle it actually is for getting people off cigarettes. There are people who ask me when I'm going to quit vaping and I tell them that one day I might just get tired of it, but after doing it for a while I'm back to working out again and my ability to exercise without becoming winded has returned. It's not a drag on my health and my doctor thinks it's great, even if I am still vaping three years later.

Funny, people that listen to me tell about it don't think it's antifreeze anymore. I explain that the real reason that PG was substituted for ethylene glycol in antifreeze was that animals were licking antifreeze off the ground and out of hubcaps in driveways and junkyards and dying from ethylene glycol poisoning. They can drink the new antifreeze containing PG and not suffer any side effects.

If you look on the label, propylene glycol is in your kid's snow cone juice. It's a thickener that makes the flavor stick to the ice.

 

[crxess]

Tell them they have never been on a diet. They still ate.

Tell anyone that ever says you are still smoking> No. I'm a Nicotine addict, but I hate smoking and stupid people.

 

[Joie]

great advice....I now have some info to fight back with.

 

[Reaper0329]

I get odd stares, but that's about it, mostly. I think people are curious as to what the large black thing that I'm getting "smoke" from is, but are too polite/nervous to ask. My roommate isn't a fan of it per se, but to be fair, he was the president of his local TRU* chapter back in high school, and he does understand the differences between this and smoking, so...all is generally well.

*TRU having nothing to do with Singapore...lol

 

[gazzatron]

Tell anyone that ever says you are still smoking> No. I'm a Nicotine addict, but I hate smoking and stupid people.

haha

 

[geofxc]

I was sitting in my car vaping after class today. I was on the top of the parking garage, and there was a campus security officer driving around, doing nothing apparently. When he saw me, he drove by reeeaaaaal slooooow and stared me down. I thought for sure I was going to get the interrogation treatment, but he just kept on rolling. I was fully prepared to explain that, in spite of appearances, I was not violating the tobacco-free-policy that my campus has instated.

On a similar note, I have been asked to leave indoor study areas for being disruptive when I attempt to vape inside. I start by asking, "What is the colleges policy on electronic cigarettes?" To which they inevitably reply, "This is a tobacco-free campus. You need to walk to the edge of the property to do that." I haven't found a way to get across to them that I'm not using tobacco. I just resort to semi-stealth vaping: I take a nice, long drag when no one is looking, and then I indiscriminately blow massive plumes of vapor in the hallways and around the campus. It fetches me plenty of strange looks, but as long as I'm not in the study hall or anything, no one has bothered me.

 

[Rocketpunk]

Hah hah, I see those guys all the time at my campus. I just vape away. If they want to hassle me, fine. I've done nothing wrong. Worst case scenario, they wasted only a few minutes of my time and they learned something new.

I was sitting in my car vaping after class today. I was on the top of the parking garage, and there was a campus security officer driving around, doing nothing apparently. When he saw me, he drove by reeeaaaaal slooooow and stared me down. I thought for sure I was going to get the interrogation treatment, but he just kept on rolling. I was fully prepared to explain that, in spite of appearances, I was not violating the tobacco-free-policy that my campus has instated.

On a similar note, I have been asked to leave indoor study areas for being disruptive when I attempt to vape inside. I start by asking, "What is the colleges policy on electronic cigarettes?" To which they inevitably reply, "This is a tobacco-free campus. You need to walk to the edge of the property to do that." I haven't found a way to get across to them that I'm not using tobacco. I just resort to semi-stealth vaping: I take a nice, long drag when no one is looking, and then I indiscriminately blow massive plumes of vapor in the hallways and around the campus. It fetches me plenty of strange looks, but as long as I'm not in the study hall or anything, no one has bothered me.

 

[RosaJ]

Another fact is that nicotine is being studied by Big Pharma to treat Alzheimers and dementia. I just realized this may be another reason why they're so against ecigs. They won't be able to recover in their research and development costs for the drugs because vapers and anyone else are get the benefits of nicotine without having to pay the hundreds/thousands of dollars from BP drug treatments.

 

[RosaJ]

Duplicate post. Sorry!

 

[xjonquilx]

....... Nicotine isn't even the most addictive substance in cigarettes. I'm seriously considering just going cold turkey now that I've been vaping for a while by getting 0mg fluid... I am not at all (or at least barely) hooked on the nicotine like I was with cigarettes... I can go all day w/o vaping. It is sooooo different from smoking... I never feel like I just GOT to have it now or I'll DIE.