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This is my first post and I am going to talk about electronic cigarettes. I think electronic cigarette is a great invention for those who wants to quit smoking but yet can’t. A lot of people say that electronic cigarettes are still dangerous like a regular cigarette but in my honest opinion, i feel that electronic cigarettes is a less dangerous way of getting your nicotine feen without all the harsh and bad chemicals that are in tobacco. Sure, e-cig is still unhealthy for you but anything you inhale into your system is going to bad for you except for oxygen. I think that people should not vape if they never smoke a cigarette because there would be no purpose of it. All the people i know that vapes, are those who are trying to quit cigarettes but yet they can’t do it because the nicotine is irresistible. So with this new invention, smokers are able to get their nicotine which feels the same way as a regular cigarette. They say that a regular has over more than 1000 chemicals in there and e-cig has nowhere near that amount of chemicals. I’ve been vaping for our a year now, and I feel much healthier even though i know it is nothing compare to not smoking and vaping at all. It is still a better habit than cigarettes. The main reason why smokers get lung cancer is because of tar, have you ever tried smoking a cigarette and blowing the smoke into a tissue? The tissues turns yellowish and blackish, and I tried it with the vape, and there is no stain whatsoever, so I can say that vaping is much safer than a cigarette.


I see old traditional people smoke cigarettes which I would think they would be like that vape pen stuff is nothing like a cigarettes, you won’t get the satisfaction of a real cigarette. Thinking that they would never vape, but once I introduced them to the e-cig, they really enjoyed the vape and next thing you know, i see a lot of traditional cigarette users start vaping. My dad has been smoking for more than 30 years now and he always wanted to quit, and tried a couple of times, but that never seemed to work. So I introduced him to the electronic cigarettes and now he enjoys vaping instead of a regular cigarette and is hoping to quit everything one day which I think its a step for him to quit. I have known people that quit cigarettes to vape, then quit vaping and quit everything all at once. I might be a hard process but they told me the real reason that helped them quit cigarettes is because of this vape pen. As long as they were getting their nicotine, their mind was satisfied, as longer as it got, they felt like they didn’t need any of this any more. People can say that electronic cigarettes are not safe for you but when you look at it, it is far less dangerous than smoking a tobacco cigarette and the feeling is just as satisfying. Now with different types of flavors, it makes vaping so much better. But I wouldn’t recommended vaping for those who don’t smoke, i just feel like this should be another alternative to tobacco cigarettes.
 

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Welcome, I admire your enthusiasm!

My dad has been smoking for more than 30 years now and he always wanted to quit, and tried a couple of times, but that never seemed to work. So I introduced him to the electronic cigarettes and now he enjoys vaping instead of a regular cigarette and is hoping to quit everything one day which I think its a step for him to quit.

That's awesome! Not to be overly-bold, but if your father is able to slowly lower his nicotine and quit altogether then great -- but as long as he's vaping he's already drastically lowered his risk. I'd suggest letting this run it's course naturally. :) Are you currently a vapor, or is most of the enthusiasm for seeing something that actually worked for your dad?

Here's a good link on the more up-to-date research on the subject if you click around:

ecigarette-research.com


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to ecf jessicamyers. Nice to meet you and so happy you are here. Just a awesome place to be. All I know is vaping is the only thing that ever worked for me and I still get a little amazed about it everyday. Look forward to reading more about you. Have fun and make yourself at home.
 

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While e-cigarettes were invented as a means of stopping smoking, I see no reason at all to forbid vaping to those who were never stupid enough to start smoking. I mean, why? Do they not also have the right to choose something less harmful than cigarettes, even if they never chose cigarettes to start with? I don't think former smokers "own" it, and it seems very narrow-minded and puritanical to suggest that never-smokers have no right to vape if they want to. There are a LOT of reasons to use nicotine, and even without nicotine, vaping can be helpful for weight loss, by curbing the desire to actually EAT fattening sweets.

The only never-smokers who seem to have no business vaping are those who have NO good reason to do it, they just want to "blow clouds," which is nothing but a passing fad; the main problem with them is that they don't take it seriously enough to learn how to do it safely, so they'll end up responsible for some catastrophe which is just fuel to the ANTZ fire that vaping is dangerous. It can be, if you're stupid, heedless, and don't bother to learn how to do it safely -- just like driving a car. People drive cars for all sorts of reasons, but most of those reasons include the basic "to get from here to there." Those driving cars just to make a big noise, big smoke, and big stink... no, they have no business behind the wheel, and people vaping just in order to "blow clouds" have no business doing that either.

But one doesn't need to have graduated from the school of cigarette smoking in order to receive benefits from vaping.

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Welcome Jessica!

There are valid reasons for never smokers to start vaping. Some here have posted that they came from a family of smokers and in a time of stress contemplated picking up a cig but instead went the vape route. For others it is because the sweet or fruity flavors help curb their appetite and helped them lose weight. For yet others it is for the documented medicinal value that nicotine has in helping with certain conditions.
I think that it is far better that those people pick up an e-cig rather then a real one.

Looking back at the reasons many of us picked up smoking.. wouldn't it have been better had vaping been an option?

IMO nicotine is not the source of all evil and about as harmful as caffiene.
 

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I really think .Gov has gone over the deep end as far as ecigs are concerned. Most of us who have been fairly long term vapers are realizing major health benefits and financial benefits from it. They have shot their wad with the sin tax mojo. I have a feeling in the next couple years a whole lot of sheep are going to wake up and it won't be pretty.
 

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While e-cigarettes were invented as a means of stopping smoking, I see no reason at all to forbid vaping to those who were never stupid enough to start smoking. I mean, why? Do they not also have the right to choose something less harmful than cigarettes, even if they never chose cigarettes to start with? I don't think former smokers "own" it, and it seems very narrow-minded and puritanical to suggest that never-smokers have no right to vape if they want to. There are a LOT of reasons to use nicotine, and even without nicotine, vaping can be helpful for weight loss, by curbing the desire to actually EAT fattening sweets.

The only never-smokers who seem to have no business vaping are those who have NO good reason to do it, they just want to "blow clouds," which is nothing but a passing fad; the main problem with them is that they don't take it seriously enough to learn how to do it safely, so they'll end up responsible for some catastrophe which is just fuel to the ANTZ fire that vaping is dangerous. It can be, if you're stupid, heedless, and don't bother to learn how to do it safely -- just like driving a car. People drive cars for all sorts of reasons, but most of those reasons include the basic "to get from here to there." Those driving cars just to make a big noise, big smoke, and big stink... no, they have no business behind the wheel, and people vaping just in order to "blow clouds" have no business doing that either.

But one doesn't need to have graduated from the school of cigarette smoking in order to receive benefits from vaping.

Andria

I agree with this. Not all cloud blowers are idiots, but I agree, there is better to do it safely. A Mod in the wrong hands is a pipebomb just as a car can be a weapon with an idiot behind the wheel. You gotta know the rules to do it safely...
Kids start smoking for whatever reason. I don't remember why I started, but I remember how I got hooked... Nicotine and Alcohol pair nicely together :)
Vaping can be a safer alternative to smoking, (from what we know so far anyway). If you decide to start smoking for whatever reason, I dont see how vaping isn't still a healthier alternative. As with anything there are health risks, and it's our job to weigh those out before putting something into our bodies.
 

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I agree with this. Not all cloud blowers are idiots, but I agree, there is better to do it safely. A Mod in the wrong hands is a pipebomb just as a car can be a weapon with an idiot behind the wheel. You gotta know the rules to do it safely...
Kids start smoking for whatever reason. I don't remember why I started, but I remember how I got hooked... Nicotine and Alcohol pair nicely together :)
Vaping can be a safer alternative to smoking, (from what we know so far anyway). If you decide to start smoking for whatever reason, I dont see how vaping isn't still a healthier alternative. As with anything there are health risks, and it's our job to weigh those out before putting something into our bodies.

Most of those around here who do the "cloud chasing" thing seem quite rigorous in their approach to both safety, and to helping others do the massive cloud thing safely -- and most of them, around here at least, seem to be using the cloud-chasing as part of their smoke-free strategy -- it's fun, and distracting.

But those who've never smoked (at least, not *tobacco*!), who care nothing for any benefits of vaping beyond "blowing massive clouds"... they're just accidents looking for a place to vent their batteries. They want to be the guy falling out of the van at Ridgemont High, and appear to have his approximate IQ, in their approach to it.

E-cigarettes aren't toys, they're neither for children nor the chronically childish, and when a few more of those people have major battery incidents because of their devil-may-care approach, they're just going to draw more and more negative attention to vaping, which is the LAST thing we need. But to those chronically childish, e-cigarettes apparently are a grown-up version of "bubbles". :facepalm:

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If non-smokers want to start vaping...that's fine with me. If vapers want to sub-ohm, crank up the watts and blow huge clouds...that's fine with me as well. Just because someone vapes for a different reason than I do, or vapes differently than I do, I have no issue with it because I try not to be judgmental simply because someone does something differently, or does something I'm not personally interested in.
 

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If non-smokers want to start vaping...that's fine with me. If vapers want to sub-ohm, crank up the watts and blow huge clouds...that's fine with me as well. Just because someone vapes for a different reason than I do, or vapes differently than I do, I have no issue with it because I try not to be judgmental simply because someone does something differently, or does something I'm not personally interested in.

"You still vape tobacco flavor?? I thought you got off cigarettes.. SHAME ON YOU!"
LOL - kidding of course
I agree, as long as its done safely :)
 
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