Has anyone else here started vaping because they had cancer?

[Eranda13]

I started when I found a white spot on the underside of my tongue, before I even knew that it was cancer. I wasn't 100% successful though until the biopsy came back malignant. I have not even held an analog since that day. Last one I smoked was the one at home before I left for the oral surgeon's office that morning.

I just knew at that point that I couldn't take the worrying of smoking anymore. I constantly worried about getting cancer BUT I kept smoking. Stupid, I know. I thought about how wonderful it would be to be able to stop worrying.

It took a cancer diagnosis to finally get me off cigs, believe it or not. Anyone else need that lightning bolt that knocked you off your horse?

 

[wbart]

Mine was to smoke inside but as I thought about all the family I had lost to cancer it made me realize I should be quitting, the fact that vaping made it easier really cemented the issue. It is like having your cake and smoking it too@_@

 

[Baditude]

Rather ironic in hindsight, but the week I purchased my first e-cig, a disposable njoy from a convenience store, was the same week my mother was diagnosed with cancer. A few days later the family found out that it was too advanced to treat and a couple of days after that she passed away relatively peacefully, bless her soul, at age 84.

Having failed numerous times with Nicorette gum, the Patch, Wellbutrin, hypnosis twice, I found the e-cigarettes to be quite satisfying, and I purchased my first kit of rechargeables not long after her death. Her dying of cancer kind of hit home at just how mortal I am and I needed this to motivate me to finally quit tobacco once and for all.

Within a week of a planned regimen of using both e-cigs and tobacco, I have successfully kicked tobacco altogether for a full 1.5 years. The only tobacco I've had in that time was smoking some hookah with my son, daughter, and her boyfriend as a social family nite out on Father's Day. (Yeah, they tell me I'm a pretty hip Dad at age 59 to still be going to rock concerts and be smoking hookah.)

 

[GuusS]

This summer I helped the mother of a (converted) friend who has cancer switch to vaping.