E-Cigs Not Just for Smokers?

[jezebel]

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.

 

[sgcitizen001]

Can't help you with this, I was a 30 a day smoker for 20 + years trying to quit inhaling burnt tobacco..

 

[OptimoMuffin]

A lot of people don't condone vaping if you don't smoke.
Even nic free juices, your'e still inhaling something thats not air, so you can't really call it healthy.

However, I believe people get into smoking because its a hobby of sorts, and so is vaping.

 

[Baditude]

I'm not touching this one with a ten foot pole. Good luck, Jezebel.

 

[Schnarph]

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1. If you like smelling sweets and not eating them, then yes. I don't eat sweets but like to bake them. I have been told this is very unusual. Vaping sweet e-liquids is like smelling baked goods. I get the reasoning, but it's not a substitute for food.

2. 20 year PAD smoker here, I can't help you on that topic. Did I try non-alcoholic beer before the real thing? No. Did I try decaffeinated coffee first? No. I'm sure it's been done, though. I would try jumping from the ground to see if I could fly before going off a tall building. Some people skip the first step.

You're welcome?

 

[Katya]

Most people on this forum are hard-core smokers who are fighting a terrible addiction. I know nothing about using vaping to satisfy food cravings. I vape and I eat!

May I recommend something healthier for weight loss, like exercise and healthy diet? Celery with a touch of peanut butter and a few raisins is really good when one craves sweets!

 

[The Ocelot]

It seems like we are getting at least one non-smoker a week starting a thread like this. What is wrong with sugarless candy?

 

[OptimoMuffin]

It seems like we are getting at least one non-smoker a week starting a thread like this. What is wrong with sugarless candy?

I know plenty of (young adult) people who buy disposables and never smoked, kinda always ...... me off.

But yeah, its become a trend. But I think thats kind of what we get for always being like:

"BUT ITS NOT SMOKINGGGGGGGGGGG"

 

[Katya]

 

[Schnarph]

It doesn't hurt to ask, but if you are asking to get hurt, just be patient and someone will oblige. Every time I have read a post asking about vaping before smoking the responses were so overwhelmingly negative and opinionated that the OP never came back again.

Vaping is an alternative to smoking cigarettes for nicotine replacement. So is nicotine gum, patches, and snus. Do any of these things sound appealing to a non-smoker?

 

[The Ocelot]

I guess this is cool too

 

[zapped]

You get such a strong reaction from many of us because vaping has been the miracle that has helped us finally get off cigarettes after trying everything under the sun for years.

To see someone willingly pick up vaping and then potentially use it as a gateway to a much more addicting and life threatening disease is just plain stupid and is the antithesis to all the good vaping has accomplished.

Taking something good and twisting it around 180 degrees is the textbook definition of evil...though it appears many people today need to be reminded of that fact.

I second those saying to try exercise and diet first.

 

[SneakyVapper]

Is this a bait thread?

 

[Bibendum]

Expensive way of eating sweets. A friend of mine started vaping e-juice with nicotine even though he had never smoked. Has to be mad. I am waiting to see of ihe starts smoking now.

 

[Katya]

Expensive way of eating sweets. A friend of mine started vaping e-juice with nicotine even though he had never smoked. Has to be mad. I am waiting to see of ihe starts smoking now.

Is this a bait thread?

Is it?

Good night. I have nothing else to contribute here.

Happy Easter.

 

[The Ocelot]

Is it?

Good night. I have nothing else to contribute here.

Happy Easter.

Night night and Happy Bunny Day!

 

[The Ocelot]

Is this a bait thread?

Probably. We're getting about one a week lately.

 

[A. Hadi Abdul Razak]

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.

Hi Jezebel,

Here's my two cents and strictly my opinion. Coming from Malaysia which has a ridiculously high rate of teen and adult smokers (to the point where WHO has labelled smoking as an epidemic in Malaysia). I am much older now but do regret smoking. Personally I believe that vaping is the lesser evil to smoking (coming from someone from used to smoke 30-40 sticks of reds a day). Until the CASSAA and FDA has done their full research (which I heard should be completed to next year) we can't get the definitive answer on the safety/health issues on vaping.

Like many others who started vaping was to get away from actual cigarettes, and it annoys me that it has become a trend because most kids see smokers/vapers with a romance of thinking that vaping is cool (nothing beats the imagery of someone who has some sort of vapour or smoke that is hella thick). Which is why a lot of vapers relate to quitting smokers, and get negative about virgin vapers!

Though you may think that vaping passes through all of this into your body but it doesn't really. You'll end up getting minimal or sometimes not all of the so called 'sugar' / 'nicotine' into your body. I don't think it will make you gain weigh unless of course you enjoy vaping with a bottle of beer/ or canned drink. Vaping isn't the same as eating, just as smoking isn't the same to breathing.

Although around here there are many who pick up vaping/hookahs thinking it's cool prior to smoking coming from someone who is looking for alternative to actual smoking isn't the smartest of ideas (until obviously proven wrong). Took me a long time to be convince about vaping, tried everything from nicotine patches or lighter smokes which none worked at all.

Sorry for rambling, but those are my 2 cents!

 

[jezebel]

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.

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?

Otherwise I appreciate you all posting.

 

[Katya]

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.

If you really, seriously consider vaping for weight-management, talk to your physician first. Being obese, or morbidly obese, is a health issue too, not unlike smoking. If that is the case, maybe it's worth taking the risk.