Hi everyone,
Here's a brief intro before I get to my problem. I've just recently discovered vaping after being an off and on smoker for years. I was a regular smoker while I was a teenager, but I quit around 20 and never went back to being a full-time smoker. Now, I occasionally smoke when I'm working on a project, writing music, or doing something else that is creative in nature. I really enjoy smoking but was always uncomfortable with the knowledge that I was damaging my body whenever I allowed myself to indulge, but now that I've discovered vaping, I feel like I can finally partake in something I really enjoy without damaging myself. Anyway, here's my actual dilemma:
Both my mother and my father were smokers for many decades. My mother has always been a light smoker, going through about a pack of Marlboro Reds a week, while my father went through probably about a pack or at least a half a pack a day. My mother still smokes, but my father has had a series of heart problems (and a couple heart attacks) which resulted in open-heart surgery to save his life. He was informed that he basically needs to quit smoking, which he finally did.
My problem is basically that I want to tell my mother about vaping, because I think it would be great if she could get off of cigarettes completely, but I fear that if I do that, my father will probably get curious and start doing himself. As someone who has basically been a non-smoker for about a decade, I know that the satisfaction from smoking and the desire to do it is still there, even if it's faint and I've gotten over it. Then again, since my father has quit, I'd hate to lure him back to it.
So my question is geared towards those who have done a lot of research on the damage to health by nicotine alone, and I'd really like to hear the opinions of any doctors that might be informed about these matters. Would my father be safe enjoying vaping even with his heart conditions, and is the risk negligible enough to risk him taking up vaping so my mother can get off cigs as well? I obviously wouldn't want to do anything to endanger his health, but if both of them can enjoy something that they both get pleasure from with minimal damage to their health while simultaneously minimizing my mother's risk to her health, I'd really like to tell them about it so they can try it.
Thanks for reading, and I'd really like to know your thoughts on this. I think this would be good for them, but maybe I'm just being selfish and want to spread the word about something that seems like a magical revelation for me?
Here's a brief intro before I get to my problem. I've just recently discovered vaping after being an off and on smoker for years. I was a regular smoker while I was a teenager, but I quit around 20 and never went back to being a full-time smoker. Now, I occasionally smoke when I'm working on a project, writing music, or doing something else that is creative in nature. I really enjoy smoking but was always uncomfortable with the knowledge that I was damaging my body whenever I allowed myself to indulge, but now that I've discovered vaping, I feel like I can finally partake in something I really enjoy without damaging myself. Anyway, here's my actual dilemma:
Both my mother and my father were smokers for many decades. My mother has always been a light smoker, going through about a pack of Marlboro Reds a week, while my father went through probably about a pack or at least a half a pack a day. My mother still smokes, but my father has had a series of heart problems (and a couple heart attacks) which resulted in open-heart surgery to save his life. He was informed that he basically needs to quit smoking, which he finally did.
My problem is basically that I want to tell my mother about vaping, because I think it would be great if she could get off of cigarettes completely, but I fear that if I do that, my father will probably get curious and start doing himself. As someone who has basically been a non-smoker for about a decade, I know that the satisfaction from smoking and the desire to do it is still there, even if it's faint and I've gotten over it. Then again, since my father has quit, I'd hate to lure him back to it.
So my question is geared towards those who have done a lot of research on the damage to health by nicotine alone, and I'd really like to hear the opinions of any doctors that might be informed about these matters. Would my father be safe enjoying vaping even with his heart conditions, and is the risk negligible enough to risk him taking up vaping so my mother can get off cigs as well? I obviously wouldn't want to do anything to endanger his health, but if both of them can enjoy something that they both get pleasure from with minimal damage to their health while simultaneously minimizing my mother's risk to her health, I'd really like to tell them about it so they can try it.
Thanks for reading, and I'd really like to know your thoughts on this. I think this would be good for them, but maybe I'm just being selfish and want to spread the word about something that seems like a magical revelation for me?
