Great poll Kristin. I'm curious about a couple of things. There is a relationship between 3 and 4 (many who have only just started with e-cigs are still smoking). I'd also be interested in whether there is a relationship between 4 and 6. Of those who haven't experienced health benefits, how many haven't because they are still smoking and how many haven't because vaping causes side-effects for them?
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MaryMarcell, that's some counselor you've got there.....I would question her value as she questions yours. Smoke free I think is the key word! They just don't seem to get it, do they. Toxin, carcinogen, and .... free.
I am lucky enough that I have ppl that can order pure nicotine for me so i would never run out of juice..
Heh, then use your own logic and treat it as a "what if" question. What if you had to pick either tobacco/menthol or fruit flavors and the one you didn't pick was no longer available to you by ANY means?
Interesting poll......however, having answered the questions after two weeks of vaping, I wonder if my answers will be the same in six months....
Ditto exactly - I use, and have used, only 0 nic liquid...
I quit tobacco cold turkey after 11 years of smoking (started at age 11), I was up to 3-1/2 packs a day, quit for 9 years - went back because I find the 'act' (or 'mechanics', as I refer to it) of smoking to be soothing... quit cold turkey again after 8 years for 5 years; started again after a major stressor... quit cold turkey again after 5 years for 4 years, another stressor... quit again after 2 years - this time when I had the urge to go back (after just 8 months), I picked up an e-cig with 0 nic instead. I find it to be fully satisfying. It is the mechanics I missed, not the nic...
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@Kristin - after I answered, it said there were 735 voters on the poll - I'm a bean counter and couldn't help myself... I noticed not one of the questions had 735 answers... ranged from 702 (question 2) - 731...
But, I don't think that has much statistical effect... especially if even half the members of the forum to participate... probably even if your goal of 1000 is hit...
For example - even if you add the 5 'missing' votes to question 1 to the 'I didn't use tobacco' answer - it would be 1.1%. If the 5 'missing' went the other way, it would be 0.4%. Quite sure that would fall into the error margin for a poll of this type...
Very interesting to see the results...
Hope it gets to be well over 1000 voters
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The results can't "officially" be used for studies - why I'm not sure, I've just been told that. I fail to see how a poll of an ecig community holds no validity at all - when it directly reflects the community demographics.
However, once the poll is closed & the people deleted who failed to answer all 7 questions, I can transfer the data to a graph. That can be posted online and used in articles about e-cigs and e-cig users and by people who are in debate with commentors who make unsubstantiated claims about ecig users.
It's an open poll, so I can see the member names. Once the poll is closed, those who failed to answer all 7 questions and didn't have a mod fix their answers will have their submissions deleted as "incomplete." Once that is done, the numbers will add up.
Likely an issue of statistical significance, in terms of applicability to the wider user base.
I poled..
now um, can i use the pole for my broken broomstick?
I need sumthing to sit on whilst in flight
now um, can i use the pole for my broken broomstick?
I need sumthing to sit on whilst in flight
A quick glance at the results and it becomes obvious that e-cigs don't appear to be a gateway to analog smoking for non-smokers or teenagers.
Hi Kristin!
I jumped on this one and took the poll, I hope this yields some interesting & positive stuff!
Vape on!
C
I jumped on this one and took the poll, I hope this yields some interesting & positive stuff!
Vape on!
C
Wow interesting to see this all falling together, it is not the younger smokers using these, that is sort of surprising. But then again, most of the people that I work with are 10-15 years younger then me.
Darn that alone is a scary thought I suppose...But I am a tech type of guy, so of course these have that attraction to me also.
Darn that alone is a scary thought I suppose...But I am a tech type of guy, so of course these have that attraction to me also.
"I would make my own Nic juice from boiling tobacco and learn how to make my own atty and continue vaping if they were insane enough to take such a good thing away"
(I mean really...the only thing that worked for me after 33 years of smoking and your going to tell me I can't do what? On what basis?)
For now I will vote for using an alternative...
(I mean really...the only thing that worked for me after 33 years of smoking and your going to tell me I can't do what?
On what basis?)For now I will vote for using an alternative...
I smoked for 25 years before I discovered ecigs. I was able to quit once for 6 months using the patch, while expecting our first child, but there were complications during the pregnancy. We almost lost him. The stress was too much for me, so I started smoking again. That was 9 years ago. Last Christmas, I got my 510 and was suddenly able to give up cigarettes almost effortlessly. But it's been less than two months.
So, if I suddenly weren't able to get my vaping stuff? Yeah, I'd be back on cigarettes by the end of the week, if not the end of the day. I wish that weren't true, but I know myself well enough not to fool myself about it.
Not trying to give the "right answer". Just giving an honest answer.
EDIT: On second thought, going the black market/outlaw vaping route might be a realistic alternative. It wouldn't be the first time I was "outside the law".
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