How does your spouse/family feel about you vaping?
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I smoked my last cigarette a half hour before I opened my kit. It was THAT easy for me. I immediately told my parents, ordered them a kit, and they have stopped a 60+ year habit of smoking.
In all, I have had very positive reactions everywhere, and I have converted at least a dozen smokers to vaping
What a wonderful story! With what I just went through it is my firm belief that there are so many of us out there that are ready to quit and can easily make the transition off the cigarettes like you did. You just have to be ready and want to. Some unfortunately have it a little harder, but they can get there if they try.
So happy for you.
Haha That's too funny, I know the feeling!! I had a few packages arrive on Saturday and when I realized they were here apparently I "Became a little kid on Christmas". That or he calls me a kid in a toy store looking at all the neat new things. And its true! I get waaay too excited when I know I'm getting presents in the mail. I let him test out my new flavors of liquids, But for some reason he thinks they are ALL cinnamon flavored.
No idea why. Maybe he is insane. Yeah... Definetly insane.
My Grandma called me the other day to tell me that she was proud of me for using my electric cig., and to not go back to smoking. Been using it for 19 months, why she just now called and said something I dunno(maybe she thought it was a fad). She's almost 80 so I was pretty proud that she's embraced this new technology.
Better late then never, Right?
My mother thought it was a fad, I think she is still waiting for me to say screw it and put my "little fake cigarette" in a drawer and forget about it.
Not today Mum!
Well put! Thanks for putting it into words that are easily conveyed. So much more the comprehendable because you lived it.
Though not to a heavy extent, I have already experienced the "but you're still using nicotine" comments.
Some people just don't get it. And they never will. That is one of the poignant aspects of trying to quit smoking that has placed cessation in the position it is in today, basically not very succesful except for those few who are able to benefit from the current aides available or able to go cold turkey.
And of course, as through out the course of time, human who cannot fathom the position others may face rears their ugly head in the form of ignorance, because you do not see things the same way they do or hold the same opinions.
My husband is the one who originally researched ecigs and ordered my first kit. (He has never smoked.) He watched me struggle repeatedly with quitting and saw how defeating it was when I gave up. Now he just laughs over the number of mods I own and my DIY mixing lab.
My parents have been extremely supportive and are trying to convert my sister. My friends have also been supportive even the ones that still smoke.
I have noticed that if I do receive a negative reaction, it tends to be from smokers. They insist on saying that I still smoke which is not true. I politely inform them of their ignorance and attempt to educate them. If they persist, I just chalk it up to stupidity at that point.
My parents have been extremely supportive and are trying to convert my sister. My friends have also been supportive even the ones that still smoke.
I have noticed that if I do receive a negative reaction, it tends to be from smokers. They insist on saying that I still smoke which is not true. I politely inform them of their ignorance and attempt to educate them. If they persist, I just chalk it up to stupidity at that point.
tell any smokers they can meet me on the basketball court and i'll show them the difference between a vaper and a smoker.
Hubby and I switched together. He's as big a fan as I am, and completely supports all the money we've spent on parts and liquid. Loves that I'm going to be applying my cooking skills to creating eliquids, and is jealous that I get to vape at work.
Everone else seems to think that this is a fad that will pass. How wrong they are. We had a rough summer, with a lot of bad news, in a very short amount of time. I'm telling you right now that vaping saved our minds from exploding with anger and frustration many a time. I'm never quitting. You can pry my pv out of my cold, dead fingers.
Everone else seems to think that this is a fad that will pass. How wrong they are. We had a rough summer, with a lot of bad news, in a very short amount of time. I'm telling you right now that vaping saved our minds from exploding with anger and frustration many a time. I'm never quitting. You can pry my pv out of my cold, dead fingers.
norway is a long way to go just for a pv or will you be holding the entire kit?
My husband, who I'm now not so sure will ever want to switch over from analogs (which is fine w/me), seems a bit wigged out over all the parts and how they might look to other people.
He made a comment the other night, as I filled carts while we watched tv, that it would be a terrible thing if cops were to barge in at that moment. "You look like a drug dealer or something."
I told him, "Bring it on...I have nothing to hide."
I'M comfortable with it, and at this point, that's all that matters to me.
Other than his reluctance to learn how it works, he's supportive, as is the rest of the family and all of my friends.
Even my daughter's friends think it's cool.
I have noticed that if I do receive a negative reaction, it tends to be from smokers. They insist on saying that I still smoke which is not true. I politely inform them of their ignorance and attempt to educate them. If they persist, I just chalk it up to stupidity at that point.
First I think its wonderful that your husband cared enough to make all that effort.
As for the most negativity from smokers, I chalk it up to denial. In denial that there is anything they can do to better the situation (hmm, might be a little laziness involved too). lots easier to say oh that is still smoking so no need for me to make any effort. And face it , is too easy to just stop at the corner shop and buy a pack.
The other aspect that bothers me is the brainwashing and pounding that has been going on that people cannot be open minded enough to consider the aspect that we have all come to understand about using vaping to quit. So much propaganda from the self righteous anti-smokers trying to shove their ideals down our throats to the point that if you do something that just looks like smoking or emulates it, that it is considered unacceptable and inappropriate.
My wife is thrilled that I quite smoking and loves the aroma from the various liquids that I vape. I have friends who quit smoking the hard way and they have all been very supportive. All of the friends who have quit smoking say they wish they had an ecig option when they quit. I still back slide every once in a while, but I look at how much I have not smoked and realize that I was killing myself with those 2 packs a day.
The wife is completely supportive, and really likes the smell of some of my juices.
But I think she is a lot happier now that I've stopped talking about it constantly.
I think what makes most of the people I know more supportive is that they knew (because I always told them) that I was never going to quit smoking, that I had no intention of ever doing so.
If someone was expecting you to quit completely, they might still be expecting that.
Just a thought.
But I think she is a lot happier now that I've stopped talking about it constantly.
I think what makes most of the people I know more supportive is that they knew (because I always told them) that I was never going to quit smoking, that I had no intention of ever doing so.
If someone was expecting you to quit completely, they might still be expecting that.
Just a thought.
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