Do you vape around your kids??

[WhiteHighlights]

I think this might be a link you're looking for: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/casaa/453192-casaa-new-study-confirms-chemicals-electronic-cigarettes-pose-minimal-health-risk.html

I don't have kids but my husband appreciated this bit of info.

 

[Baby Luigi]

I know there's a difference if they are your children or just children you spend a lot of time with but I have no problem at all vaping around children.

 

[footbag]

I quit smoking analogs so my kids wouldn't see me.

With vaping, it's so much easier to just sneak into another room and stealth it.

 

[Baycitypuff]

I vape in my house around my children (teenagers) but not if they are right next to me. I vape in my car but won't if I have a passenger (unless it's a vaping friend). I never smoked in my house or car.

Coffee flavors just burn up my tanks. Second one today. And I even mixed with a lighter hazelnut.


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[fourthrok]

My parents didn't smoke. My father did smoke at one time...but quit long before I was born. I only had one relative who smoked...and he lived in another state and we only visited that family maybe a week once a year. Still....I started smoking when I was 17/18 years old. My parents gave me the "good example", and it didn't "take". I know parental example is important, but there is only so much one can do. By stepping outside (don't you think they notice?) there's a sort of "mystique" about the whole thing. To an adolescent that is is an irresistible lure.

I smoked 43 years...and I did smoke in front of my children and in the house...and car. Not saying I'm proud of it, but it is what it is. Their father also smoked. I came from a different time and a different generational mindset. I did try to curtail my smoking during pregnancy...but wasn't altogether successful. Okay. I wasn't that successful at all. I WANTED to quit, I simply didn't seem to be able to manage it. All of my children were born with perfectly normal birth weight, and all were healthy and developed normally.

None of my children smoke and never have. They are now 21, 29 and 31.

My husband and I are now enjoying our first grandchild. He's 14 months old and a real pistol. We vape in front of him with the full support of his mother who is our daughter (a ferocious mother-hen type). The baby pays no attention to our vaping or our gear....since we don't make a big deal about hiding it or anything, it doesn't interest him. Neither of us vape high nicotine, but even if we did, not enough nicotine is going to be in the air for long enough or concentrated enough to worry about. Besides...it's the tar and other stuff in cigarettes that is the REAL danger for respiratory and other health issues.

I don't know about vapor lingering at "child level". Maybe because we use mostly PG; our vapor is pretty much gone seconds after exhaling. It doesn't linger at any level in our case. And PG is used in hospital ventilation systems to help control the spread of germs/viruses. Also in asthma inhalers.

Everyone has to make their own determination and go with what makes them feel is right, however.

 

[GetVaked]

I vape around the children, although I do not blow it in their direction or anything.

Also my gal is 27 weeks pregnant, and the baby is very healthy and growing great. I have always vaped around her, again, avoiding blowing it in her direction.

 

[fourthrok]

I just remembered something that happened recently. When I smoked I always tried really hard to avoid blowing smoke directly AT anyone. I tried very hard to be conscientious and considerate. I still have the habit of turning my head to exhale away from people.

My daughter doesn't smoke and never has. She very heath conscious and a fitness fanatic. She is pleased about my vaping and how I've progressed lowering my nicotine. We were sitting at the table talking recently (hadn't seen her in a couple of years...she lived out of state awhile) and as usual, I turned my head and exhaled upward and away as we talked. She asked "Why are you doing that? I don't mind your vapor!". How about that. Go figure. And this from a girl who'd spray her clothes down with Febreeze when she left the house as a high-schooler so her clothes wouldn't smell of smoke.

 

[geeve]

I have a two and a half year old and I vape around her. If she is sitting next to me or laying on me watching a movie I won't vape. But if she is playing and I am on the couch yes I do. She has asked what it was and I have told her "it is Daddy's treatment". She used to get daily treatments for asthma like symptoms and it was a fog kind of machine so she accepted that and doesn't pay much attention to it or me when I am vaping. She just thinks that Daddy is getting a treatment. Her Grandparents smoke and she avoids them when they are smoking LOL. They at least only smoke outside and I quit in July so she knows what smoking is and she now knows that I don't do it anymore

I don't Vape in the car with her in it though, just to confined for me to feel comfortable....

I never smoked in my home, I was a smoker that hated the smell.

Geeve

 

[DC2]

I don't think we are exposing people to any appreciable amount of nicotine.
And even if we were, I am quite certain it wouldn't be enough to get anyone addicted.

So is a little nicotine a bad thing?

If you think it is then you probably shouldn't be serving them tomatoes, potatoes, or eggplant.
Because I'm pretty sure they would get more nicotine from those foods than from what we are exhaling.

At least that's what the studies have been saying.

 

[CaliforniaGirl]

I was literally conceived in nicotine and added cig chemicals, I went through my entire in-utero experience with them as part of my body, I grew up in literal clouds of smoke throughout the entire household (two 2.5-pack a day-ers in the house) as well as outside, my parents smoked at our sports events putting us in clouds of smoky chemicals and burning crap and I STILL got slapped right in the face when my parents caught me with a cig (gasp! Who would have ever guessed such a child would wind up smoking) and told that as soon as I moved out of their damned house I could smoke as much as I liked.

It's life.

 

[CaliforniaGirl]

I don't think we are exposing people to any appreciable amount of nicotine.
And even if we were, I am quite certain it wouldn't be enough to get anyone addicted.

So is a little nicotine a bad thing?

If you think it is then you probably shouldn't be serving them tomatoes, potatoes, or eggplant.
Because I'm pretty sure they would get more nicotine from those foods than from what we are exhaling.

At least that's what the studies have been saying.

I'm fascinated on the recent medical applications for nicotine and how they can benefit various brain functions (memory; anti-atrophy) and can regulate intestinal issues for some (i.e. colitis). Nicotine itself can be quite helpful.

Of course I'm not the one to make that judgment if I'm vaping among a bunch of strangers who may actually have sensitivities to stimulants...not saying that, just saying, it's interesting how helpful nicotine can actually be...from a medical standpoint.

I think if/when nicotine ever gets de-villified (is that even a word?), the medical applications will explode.

 

[mezzio]

We used to vape in front of the kids, then one day my girlfriends son saw us on the couch vaping a dragon and phoenix cig-a-like, with the pretty pink and blue lights and shouted "when I grow up I wanna smoke too".

We did explain that we were using them to quit smoking and its never a good idea to start. We started taking it out in the garage, we never heard anything like that again.






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[AprilRain]

My kids are all grown and I have no grandchildren, so it really isn't an issue. I do have lots of pets though... dogs, birds, fish. I vape in the house like it was nothing and don't think anything of it. Birds have very delicate respiratory systems (ya know, canary in the mine) and they are fine. I do wash my hands before I stick them into a fish tank though in case there is a trace amount of nic on my hands (or other chemicals for that matter.)

 

[mcandlish]

Yep I do, my daughter is 8, she is so happy I dont smoke anymore, she tells me all the time

 

[joeybear]

I do and my son loves it. He's 6 and thinks big clouds are cool and that blowing smoke out of my nose is funny. Until I hear differently that it's unsafe, I'll continue. I never smoked around him, but he did know I smoked.

 

[Racehorse]

I think if/when nicotine ever gets de-villified (is that even a word?), the medical applications will explode.

I have 4 doctors right now and not one of them has villified nicotine.

That is because I don't have any of the problems like high blood pressure that nicotine might adversely affect.. I actually have the problems that nicotine actually helps

I imagine the general public is not well versed in these things.

I do believe that there are certain kinds of surgery, esp. any kind of plastic surgery, where you would have a REAL hard time finding someone to operate due to the vaso constrictor qualities of nic. I had to have some surgery that was not cosmetic, but that was consdiered plastic surgery and could not find any surgeon who would do it, even if i wore the patch. I had ot get off nicotine entirely for 3 weeks beforehand.

They had records of patients who didn't, or patients who had lied, and their outcomes were way less than ideal. So that was scary to me, and I wanted the best outcome, and that was back when I was smoking, so it was real hard to just stop smoking for 3 weeks.....but I did, since i had no choice. The oxygen not getting to area vasoconstrictor type outcomes were so scary in some of the cases that I just quit rather than take the chance.

But overall, I live in a tiny town and every doctor and everyone at the hospital knows I vape, and none have a problem with it as they don't believe nicotine is bad except in cases I explained above.

It is my goal to become nic free anyway, but in the meantime, I feel fine with vaping, it got me off cigarettes, which is the happiest thing I can even think about ! I am thrilled about that!

 

[AkGirl79]

I did hours and hours worth of research on the by products found in the vapor from vaping nicotine juices before making my decision. What I found was the exhaled vapor from a PV contained no traceable byproduct according to more then 5 reputable sources; my standard Internet "believe it or not" rule is that I must find identical information from 5 or more reputable Internet sources prior to trusting the information found. Sorry I didn't save any of the sources to offer links for you :-(. That being said I do vape in front of my children but as my children are pre-teen/teen years I still discussed with them that though there was no scientific evidence showing that second hand smoke caused health implications the PV still contained the addictive substance of nicotine; so they would not assume safe in home meant safe for them.

 

[Mark Anthony]

Yep... I sure do. They love the smell of the vape much more than the smell of smoke on my clothes...... I did not smoke cigarettes around them.

 

[StacyInOkla]

My boys are teens. I vape around them. My youngest used to nag me whenever I lit a cigarette. Now he just rolls his eyes when I get vape mail and says " At least you're not smoking"