It didn't do any good....

[fourthrok]

Hypothetical situation. Actually, I know of someone it happened to, but that's another story. You smoked for X amount of years and finally found a way to quit with vaping. Joy abounds! You are a confirmed vaper for well over a year when you get the diagnoses that you have _________ (fill in the blank: lung cancer, congestive heart failure, emphysema, etc.) and the prognosis isn't at all good. Your life is in a position of not *if* it is going to end prematurely...but when. Damage was already done when you quit. You are done for.

What do you do? Would you go back to smoking? Or would you stay with vaping?

 

[bsidb]

Stick with the scentless, ashless hobby of vape

 

[uba egar320]

1 big party

2 erase enemies

3 big party

 

[Billy Baroo]

I would take a long vacation and indulge in the world's medicine cabinet. In a nutshell I wouldn't say no to much, vaping and smoking included.

 

[GreenEyesDon'tLie]

I would probably vape and smoke. Or more accurately, I would be so drunk the entire time I wouldn't care if I was vaping or smoking, as long as I was doing one of them.

I hope that never happens to me. I know I would go way too far enjoying my last days. After all, why have limits if you're about to die anyway?

 

[gthompson]

Is someone feeling especially gloomy today?

 

[uba egar320]

Is someone feeling especially gloomy today?

I said big party...twice


lol

 

[Robino1]

Hypothetical situation. Actually, I know of someone it happened to, but that's another story. You smoked for X amount of years and finally found a way to quit with vaping. Joy abounds! You are a confirmed vaper for well over a year when you get the diagnoses that you have _________ (fill in the blank: lung cancer, congestive heart failure, emphysema, etc.) and the prognosis isn't at all good. Your life is in a position of not *if* it is going to end prematurely...but when. Damage was already done when you quit. You are done for.

What do you do? Would you go back to smoking? Or would you stay with vaping?

Good question. If this happened to me now? I might do both. Although I can say that cigs are nasty, but the fiddle factor of vaping takes precious time away from what I would have left to me. If this happened to me a year or more down the road? I think I would have worked out most of the fiddle factor and wouldn't seem so time consuming. I think I would continue to vape at that point.

I'm sorry about what the person you know is going through. Not an easy answer here.

 

[DancingHeretik]

I would vape.

I didn't quit smoking for my health. I switched so that I could vape without smelling like cigarettes.

Because of the lack of smell, I can vape inside and I can vape without the social stigma or career repercussions associated with smoking.

So, even if I was dying and didn't care about career issues, I'ld still want to vape inside. I'ld want to enjoy the time I had left.

 

[Big Mac]

Howdy folks,

Hate this type of question cause it makes some of us confront our own mortality. I'm a 57 yr old male, that smoked for 25 or so yrs.

I think I would do whatever felt the best for me. If it was to smoke, I would smoke. If it was to vape, then I would vape.

I'm not gonna say any of the other things I might do, nor go into any details, other than to say, my wonderful wife would be in the forefront of my mind and any decisions that I would make.

Big Mac

PS, I'm truly sorry for anyone that has to make this type of decision and for those around them that have to watch and wait. My condolences to those brave folks.

 

[fourthrok]

I would continue vaping. I enjoy it far more than I ever "enjoyed" (or thought I did) smoking. I like the flavor of the juice I use, I love the gadgets and colorful shiny toys. I love the hobby factor. I haven't been this interested in something this long in quite awhile. When I vape...I can and usually do get a jolt of pure pleasure and pride. It makes me so very happy! I don't recall smoking ever making me happy.

The friend I was referring to passed away a couple of months ago. He continued to vape as long as he physically could, and did not go back to smoking.

I was curious to see how people would respond...and how many have become as enamored with vaping as I have. I asked my partner this question, too. He quit last June. He says he doesn't even think he could go back to smoking, even if he though he wanted to. The smell totally grosses him out now. He says he enjoys vaping more than smoking, too.

 

[RoseB]

Sorry about your friend. That is sad. Not sure what I would do. Seen quite a few family members struggle and then die from smoking. Some smoked right up till the end. Talking about it is one thing living it is an entirely different animal.