I agree that it is a nice forum. Very adult-like even with differing of opinions. I hear you about the morning cig. I woke up and before anything had one in my mouth. I was so bad that I even had one in my mouth if I got up during then night. That first-morning cig set the tone of the day for me. With vaping I did not dual use -- I just stopped. If I were to have that one cig in the morning, I would have been derailed for the whole day.Good to read all these responses. Best thing is no one is judging anyone else. When I began vaping the real struggle was the first cigarette of the morning with that coffee. The rest of the day I could cruise. Maybe it’s because I lit up after combat action, and have a TBI that I’ve stillsnuck in a cancer stick.
I don’t know if anyone is familiar with Roswell Park Hospital, it’s a leading cancer research facility. Myfriends father was an Oncologist and was the chief of medical staff there. When he took over one of the first things he did was direct that the smoking areas on each floor be re-opened. If you were in those wards you were going to die. He felt that if they are dying, what’s the point of making them miserable. He told one of the other directors the time to get these people to stop smoking was many years ago.
Roswell Park did a scientific study on e-cigarettes
Study: Smokers Who Switch to E-Cigarettes Exposed to Same Levels of Nicotine, Lower Carcinogen Levels
Your friends Dad sounds like a wonderful man and a very compassionate doctor. My grandmother lived to 100 and smoked Pall Malls like a chimney. When I moved away cigarettes were much cheaper than in NY so I used to send her 2 cartons each week. My friends thought it was just horrible that I did that. She was 92 then and not ill from smoking. If she wanted to smoke she was going to do it anyhow so I bought them for her. When she had a heart attack at 99 and was hospitalized the first thing she asked me when I arrived was for a cig. And I knew she would so I had a pack of pall malls for her. I knew she was going to pass soon and be hooked up to stuff. The nurses were not overjoyed but they did not fight me when I bundled her up and took her outside for what ended up being her last cig. Why make people unduly suffer.
When I have time I will look up that study,