Do you consider yourself a smoker or nonsmoker? And how long have you been off the cigs? Just curious...
Ex-smokers turned vapers...
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Non-smoker. I would consider myself a non-smoker if I used a licensed NRT treatment like Nicorette spray inhalers, an e-cig uses very similar ingredients, there is no combustion, no tar, no CO, no smoke. Ergo I am a non-smoker.
As for the time period, my sigbanner says it all
As for the time period, my sigbanner says it all
I now check the "non smoker" box of all medical forms/inquires. If a physician asks me if I smoke, I respond with an emphatic "no". (Otherwise, no matter what ailment you have at the moment will be conveniently blamed on tobacco).
Non smoker... even my doc says so now!
I've been vaping for around 5 years without a cigarette.
I've been vaping for around 5 years without a cigarette.
Non-smoker! Check out my banner for how long because I don't remember but it counts for me! lol
I'm listed as a nonsmoker on all my medical records now (yay me). Been of fthe cigarettes over a year and a half.
I no longer burn tobacco in a paper-wrapped tube in order to emit smoke for inhaling; therefore, I'm an ex-smoker. Even my former doctor agreed because he listened to my lungs and heard my breathing was easier.
I now consider myself a "vaper" 
Honestly, it feels weird telling people I'm a non-smoker, even though technically I no longer smoke cigarettes
Honestly, it feels weird telling people I'm a non-smoker, even though technically I no longer smoke cigarettes
Do you consider yourself a smoker or nonsmoker? And how long have you been off the cigs? Just curious...
I consider myself an ex-smoker who is still addicted to Nicotine , since Tobacco poison is thousands more chemicals I don't see myself as a smoker
I'm a non-smoker. I'm a nicotine user, although it's in small quantities.
I take issue with people who refer to vaping as "smoking their ecig". It's not smoke, it's steam, which is an aerosol created from heating water, flavorings, and pg/vg to make vapor. it disappears into the surrounding air because it's not particles of combustion. It's basically tiny microscopic droplets that are able to spread out and infuse into the surrounding air.
Smoke is particles of combustion that consists (in cigarette smoke) of nicotine and tar laced particles of combustion that can't evaporate. They hang in the air until they spread, settle, and coat the environment.
If we incorrectly refer to it as smoke people will just use it on us as a whip. "Yeah, you say you quit smoking, but you still smoke that thing."
I take issue with people who refer to vaping as "smoking their ecig". It's not smoke, it's steam, which is an aerosol created from heating water, flavorings, and pg/vg to make vapor. it disappears into the surrounding air because it's not particles of combustion. It's basically tiny microscopic droplets that are able to spread out and infuse into the surrounding air.
Smoke is particles of combustion that consists (in cigarette smoke) of nicotine and tar laced particles of combustion that can't evaporate. They hang in the air until they spread, settle, and coat the environment.
If we incorrectly refer to it as smoke people will just use it on us as a whip. "Yeah, you say you quit smoking, but you still smoke that thing."
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Ex-smoker/non-smoker. Been vaping for 1.5 years (1yr 6mos). Hovering between 6mg and 3mg. 3mg is harder to find, so I do bounce back and forth between the 2. Planning on trying to be to 0nic by end of year.
I check "former smoker" on medical forms. I haven't seen a form that didn't have that option. Though I've been vaping smoke free for nearly 2 years I'm sure the 45 years of smoking has left some damage that a doctor needs to be aware of. I consider myself a non-smoker to anyone else.
I feel strange sometimes. Homeless guys will see me vaping and try to bum a cigarette off me. I say "Sorry dude I don't smoke, I just got t his electronic thing". They will nod and that's the end of it. LOL
I consider myself a VAPER too and not a smoker. Technically it's not smoke but Vapor. They may look alike but totally different things. At least I hope it is. Hehe
I consider myself an ex-smoker, if I had to fill out my medical information and they had an "ex-smoker" box, I would tick it. I might one day consider myself a non-smoker, I've only been vaping for about a month, and never had an analog since the day I got to vaping.
I may never tick the non smoker box if the ex smoker box was made available to me, because I don't want to give insurance companies to find any fault with me =)
But, I won't kid myself, I DID get a nicotine addiction by smoking cigarettes, and until the day my juice has no nicotine, I wouldn't underestimate how quickly I would pick up a cigarette, especially on a night out drinking....
I may never tick the non smoker box if the ex smoker box was made available to me, because I don't want to give insurance companies to find any fault with me =)
But, I won't kid myself, I DID get a nicotine addiction by smoking cigarettes, and until the day my juice has no nicotine, I wouldn't underestimate how quickly I would pick up a cigarette, especially on a night out drinking....
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