introducing a smoker...
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Awesome! Just remember not to get too excited and overwhelm him with information =) that's the hardest part for me!
alright so my dad left and sorry i didnt post a nightly update. he never got around to the thing until the final day. he asked me to put so juice in there so i made him some orange flavored juice and he liked it. later on in the day we went to a store (which he was visibly uncomfortable in) and i bought him a 30ml bottle of key lime pie and a 15ml of smurf something. he tried the flavors and liked them and said he would use it. theyre 24ml of nicotine so we can hope for the best. ill have to talk to my dad and give him about a week and see if the thing has worked out for him.
Well congrats on the effort! Hope it goes well, at lest you planted the seed. That's no small feat
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^^^What Hectic said
You introduced him to the idea, eased him into it and he didn't immediately blow it off. As many know there's a great deal of emotion that goes along with breaking an addiction. You showed him the path.
You did good!
You introduced him to the idea, eased him into it and he didn't immediately blow it off. As many know there's a great deal of emotion that goes along with breaking an addiction. You showed him the path.
You did good!
I started smoking at 15 so, 45 years before I could switch. Still, I started vaping in June and just last week was my first without cigs. At first it was almost seamless. I'd have 4-5 cigs a day as opposed to almost two packs. Then it was down to 3-4, 2-3 and finally gave up the last.
Overcoming an addiction has a lot more tied into it than chemical dependancy. There's physical habit, a huge sense of loss for me, a fear of being without a pack and a Zippo...many things to get past.
So, give him time and space and support. Check on him, but gently.
It's a huge step he's already taken with your help.
Overcoming an addiction has a lot more tied into it than chemical dependancy. There's physical habit, a huge sense of loss for me, a fear of being without a pack and a Zippo...many things to get past.
So, give him time and space and support. Check on him, but gently.
It's a huge step he's already taken with your help.
Hang in there till winter, The cold may prompt him to pick up the Vaping in ernest. All the best. 
I was not introduced to vaping so much as I came into it on my own so I really cannot tell you how I would have reacted if somebody else (even a very close family member) asked me to give it a try. I get the hesitation from people in some ways and don't in others. I was hugely protective of my smoking habit. It was more like I was protecting a child as weird as that sounds. This thing was part of me and I was not willing to part with it. I knew it was killing me but I had long accepted that as my life. I know when anybody (even my very very close sister or daughter when she was young) suggested I try to quit or try a new NRT I would become immediately uncomfortable. I mean physically. I could physically feel my blood pressure rising. I would be filled with mixed emotions because of my love for said family member I wanted so much to please them and I also knew it would be the best for my health, but that was never enough. I was like a bear protecting my cub. Now on the other hand. When I saw how this vaping thing worked it really intrigue me. I did not relate it to quitting and nobody was saying I had to give up cigs so I was interested in looking into it. I tried one and thought OMG that is the coolest thing. I had no intention at that time of letting my cub go off on its merry own way. I am the type of person that needs pretty instant gratification after I had done my initial research and was ready I was not about to wait for the mail so I went to a local head shop and bought a very basic starter battery and refillable tank (semi disposable) and some juice. At the end of the day I realized I had not thought about smoking all day and thus it began. I found a new cub I like better. Hahaha Now I want to protect this cub from any anti vape organizations out there.
Hopefully when home your Dad will pick it up on his own. You did a great thing and now it is his turn to do something with it. I would try to wait and see if he brings it up to you before asking him about it. If he doesn't bring it up you could try to approach it as if you wanna see if he would like more juice. My husband is still smoking and has his excuses all lined up for himself so I know it would be futile and even counterproductive for me to talk him into this. I totally get wanting to see the people you love that still smoke make a switch but it is a hugely sensitive area. Instead of trying to talk my other family members into switching I just try to show my interest and hope that my excitement will wear off on them eventually. If I get a new juice I might act a little over excited so they want to try it. I mean, who knows what is going to be the ticket to their ride for freedom of cigs. As Nana Gail said the cold weather may be a huge motivator. I live on the coast in New England so I know the blustery days are right around the corner. Hoping that will do the trick here at my house.
Hopefully when home your Dad will pick it up on his own. You did a great thing and now it is his turn to do something with it. I would try to wait and see if he brings it up to you before asking him about it. If he doesn't bring it up you could try to approach it as if you wanna see if he would like more juice. My husband is still smoking and has his excuses all lined up for himself so I know it would be futile and even counterproductive for me to talk him into this. I totally get wanting to see the people you love that still smoke make a switch but it is a hugely sensitive area. Instead of trying to talk my other family members into switching I just try to show my interest and hope that my excitement will wear off on them eventually. If I get a new juice I might act a little over excited so they want to try it. I mean, who knows what is going to be the ticket to their ride for freedom of cigs. As Nana Gail said the cold weather may be a huge motivator. I live on the coast in New England so I know the blustery days are right around the corner. Hoping that will do the trick here at my house.
Exactomundo, Jode! 
That first paragraph was me too. We had to find our own way no matter what loved ones urged us to do.
When I surprised my 49 yr. old dau. over a yr. ago who'd never known me without a cigarette at hand with my 2 mos. of vaping only, her eyes got as big as silver dollars and she tackled me with a bear hug laughing and crying!
My visit to her and her family was the reason why I started researching the cig-a-likes, then the egos, and finally decided on an MVP because I chain smoked. I saw too many members of my extended family and friends try all the various ways to quit and without fail they would go back to smoking. Wasn't going to put myself thru that. Vaping on the other hand, mimiics smoking so much that it was a snap for me to quit.....which after 53 yrs of the smoking habit I did not plan to do! I got blindsided alright, but it was a happy accident!
That first paragraph was me too. We had to find our own way no matter what loved ones urged us to do. When I surprised my 49 yr. old dau. over a yr. ago who'd never known me without a cigarette at hand with my 2 mos. of vaping only, her eyes got as big as silver dollars and she tackled me with a bear hug laughing and crying!
My visit to her and her family was the reason why I started researching the cig-a-likes, then the egos, and finally decided on an MVP because I chain smoked. I saw too many members of my extended family and friends try all the various ways to quit and without fail they would go back to smoking. Wasn't going to put myself thru that. Vaping on the other hand, mimiics smoking so much that it was a snap for me to quit.....which after 53 yrs of the smoking habit I did not plan to do! I got blindsided alright, but it was a happy accident!
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