Greetings from a Non-smoker!

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Hello, all!

Just wanted to say that I am not a smoker, but I am very impressed by and interested in E-cigarettes. I know a few people (including my best friend and my stepdaughter) who are close to me who have tried e-cigs and I must say, they are truly a miracle!

For instance, my best friend for many years (too many to count at this point) was a heavy smoker since I first knew him, tried all kinds of things to quit and sometimes did for a time, although it never stuck. Hanging out with him was always kind of a drag (pardon the pun), I loved the guy but every time I spent time with him I would come home stinking, with bloodshot eyes, etc. I would still visit him from time to time, but the whole second hand smoke thing was a real disincentive to hang with him too often. Plus my wife is very anti-smoking (her mother died of COPD as well as several members of her family), so you can imagine she was none to pleased with me coming home stinking of cigarette smoke.

After having a bit of a medical scare around Christmas of 2009 (after that his incentive to quit was stronger than ever), he found e-cigs early in 2010 and has been smoke free for over a year!

Honestly I feel like e-cigs have given me my friend back. Not only did they save his life (things were looking pretty dodgy there if he had continued smoking), but now hanging out with him is a pleasure! And his apartment doesn't stink which is really nice.

He is a vaping madman now which is cool by me. I wanted to learn more about e-cigs, and the ECF seemed like the right place to do it.

So, in my mind, e-cigs truly are a miracle. They literally gave me my friend back!

No wonder the Gov't is doing their best to kill them!:)
 

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You rule for that MasterofChaos! I have tried to quite for the past 20 years. My record is two years and I still got back into it. I have only been vaping for a little over a month but I can see this being the permanent solution. I am also very encouraged by the stories here on the EFC. I love that you are getting involved. It is great to have the input from a non smoker.
 
Actually, my friend said he had an appointment with his respirologist this week, and his doctor wanted to know how he
had gotten so much better, so my friend told him all about e-cigs. His doctor's initial response was "I have lots of patients
that could use these things, where can I get them?".

So not all doctors are jerks (especially the respirologist/pulminologists, who deal with people dying of smoking every day),
in fact some are excited to learn of new ways to get their patients off smoking!

My friend got a clean bill of health, too, BTW. He's pretty ecstatic about that. And, as I said, he vapes like a madman, so
it can't be hurting his lungs that much.
 

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Actually, my friend said he had an appointment with his respirologist this week, and his doctor wanted to know how he
had gotten so much better, so my friend told him all about e-cigs. His doctor's initial response was "I have lots of patients
that could use these things, where can I get them?".

So not all doctors are jerks (especially the respirologist/pulminologists, who deal with people dying of smoking every day),
in fact some are excited to learn of new ways to get their patients off smoking!

My friend got a clean bill of health, too, BTW. He's pretty ecstatic about that. And, as I said, he vapes like a madman, so
it can't be hurting his lungs that much.

Thanks you for you post....yes, you do rock...I have a suggestion that might make sharing the ecig news a liitle easier.

Here is a link to ecf---store ECF Store!, E-Cigarette-Forum.com Swag store!
They give out ecf business cards(50 each month) for free...all you need to pay for is the shipping. This way, the dr has some to pass to patients and it save you a lot of time trying to explain ecigs to someone. I use them all the time.......
just a thought. good luck
:)
sas
 
Thanks you for you post....yes, you do rock...I have a suggestion that might make sharing the ecig news a liitle easier.

Here is a link to ecf---store ECF Store!, E-Cigarette-Forum.com Swag store!
They give out ecf business cards(50 each month) for free...all you need to pay for is the shipping. This way, the dr has some to pass to patients and it save you a lot of time trying to explain ecigs to someone. I use them all the time.......
just a thought. good luck
:)
sas

wow thanks for the tip SNS! Those will come in handy when I go out with my e cig.
 

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Now I have to work on my Brother-in-law, he is a very heavy smoker and his coughing is getting
worse every year. I'm going to do my best to get him onto e-cigs and try to save the guy's life!

I guess I am becoming an evangelist for e-cigs, and I am not even a smoker!

That coughing sneaks in on you ever so slowly, so you don't really notice it yourself, until it's really bad.
Unfortunately nicotine E-Juice is illegal in my country, and many countries seem to decide to make it illegal too.
I've just bought seeds for growing my own tobacco, so I can make my own extracts, just in case...

If you want to introduce your brother in law to E-cigs, the best way is probably to let him meet your friend.
 
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