E-Cigs Not Just for Smokers?

[mkbilbo]

This is a theory that has floated around in my brain for some time now. I figure if you can taste sweetness in the vapor, but not ingest the sugar content then it could be a sweet substitute. Then, there is also the actual eating of sweets that may also contribute the enjoyment of eating sweets that vaping can't substitute. I pretty much figure that ultimately it's about the health risks involved, and only time and research will tell.

I don't know it would work as a substitute. Smelling a fresh baked pie doesn't make you not want pie does it?

On another note, I know many of you here have been in the past or are still "smokers", and thats fine. But, vaping is its own thing. Why, have a closed mind about non-smokers who want to try vaping?

No, that's not it. It's not being "closed minded", it's a matter of evaluating risk.

Nobody knows what the long term health effects of vaping are. It's too new. The base fluids, PG and VG, are rated as "safe" for their current uses but inhaling them in vapor form hasn't been tested. "Vaping" is rather a "bet" that the risks are far, far less than inhaling tobacco smoke. A bet I think is probably a good one and one I'm taking. But encourage a non-smoker to take up vaping? Not me. I have no idea what we'll find ten, twenty, thirty years down the road. We didn't used to think smoking was all that bad for you either. It used to be quite "mainstream".

Oops?

Bear in mind that the vast, vast majority (if not all) here are people who took up a habit once and came to regret it. No smoker stopped to think about the risks when he or she lit that first cigarette. Years later, we know the effects. But it's too late to go back.

It's not "closed minded", it's experience.

Is vaping healthy? No idea. Is it healthier? More likely than not. I know I haven't felt this good in years. My blood pressure has fallen back to college levels and I've got more energy than I've seen since the early 2000s. It's making a huge difference. That's anecdotal but, still, it's real. I'm living it.

But if I could go back and do it again, I would chose neither smoking nor vaping. Smoking because I know the risks and know what it's done to me over the years and vaping because I don't know the risks and don't know what it will do to me. So anyone who is at that point I wish I could go back to, my answer is inevitable:

Don't.

Why take the gamble? If it's a way to escape something we know to be a serious health risk, it's worth taking the risk. But otherwise... why do it at all?

 

[mkbilbo]

Because vaping is a safer alternative to smoking, which is deadly. The operative word being "safer," not safe. Everything is relative. Compared to smoking cigarettes, vaping is undoubtedly a reduced-harm alternative. But compared to breathing fresh air, it is not. We do not know what possible risks, if any, may be involved with long-time vaping. For us, smokers, it's a risk we're willing to take.

Exactly. After all those failed attempts to quit, I'm willing to settle for "safer". I clearly have a major nicotine addiction and may never break it. Vaping is clearly safer. At least I'm doing way better these days.

I fell off the forum here for a few days because, ironically enough, I feel so much better and have so much more energy. I was trying to get my mom's storage and mine both cleared out before rent came due (storage... what a waste of money... I coulda replaced everything I had in there for less than half the rental cost... maybe a tenth the cost ).

I had the energy to do that kind of thing. Yeah, got pretty achy, I ain't 20 anymore. But I did it. Even moved a five foot tall gun safe on my own. Which startled me more than anybody.

 

[wAt3v3r]

The reason why my country banned smoking is probably due to such reasons, or at least, as quoted by the government. They dun want non-smokers to pick up an e-cig simply because its considered safer than smoking. And who knows they might end up smoking analogs? There are probably other ways out for u apart from vaping? Think carefully..

 

[Schnarph]

I would like to offer sincere apologies for my snarky ways. I still think the agreed upon point that smelling something sweet is not usually a good way to avoid the desire to eat it. I wasn't into sweets before I started vaping, so my opinion on this idea is probably moot. In regards to an adult non-smoker that is interested in trying vaping, that would be your own business. I know what I think about starting vaping before smoking, but I'm one of the idiots that smoked cigarettes for decades, who am I to judge?

 

[ghang888]

Hi, I am Jezebel and new to this forum. I joined because I was looking for information on the following two subjects:

1) If you try e-cigs that are nicotine free in sweet flavors, could this be an alternative to eating sweets? And, satisfying the craving without the affects on blood sugar or weight gain.

2) How many members were new to smoking when trying e-cigs?

Thank you in advance to anyone who responds.

No matter how close the taste of the juice, if I'm craving an Oreo cookie, for example, I'm gunna eat an Oreo cookie. Vaping doesn't do much for my sweet tooth. However, it's done wonders for my nicotine cravings.