"New Member" since 2011. Same username and email.

[Dulciphi]

This forum was so helpful when I first quit smoking back in 2011. I was more of a lurker than a poster, hoovering up all the information I could find and sharing it with my mother, brother, the father of my children - plus at least 5 friends directly. All of us managed to quit smoking that year. Now that Australia has gone to the darkside, I'm back here to try and work out what's going on so that I can answer their questions all over again.

Has anyone started setting up meetups yet? Anyone in Brisbane know of anything like this (or wanting to see it happen), please get in touch.

I don't get out a lot these days so this whole nightmare caught me badly by surprise. I'm left wondering what happened to the country I was born and raised in. This isn't the country I raised my 3 sons in, either. This is a corrupted place. The heartache of the last month has served as a perverse silver lining of humanity puncturing the backdrop of our steadily collapsing standard of living.

I can't ask how we're supposed to afford the new online nicotine pharmacy stuff on a carer's pension when all those businesses have just been destroyed; all their employees made jobless. So now what?

 

[Bingbong]

Welcome back Dulchi, hope you find the help you need. The govts around the world are going the wrong direction and hopefully change is coming soon for the better.

 

[somdcomputerguy]

Welcome to ECF, Dulciphi.

 

[bombastinator]

Yeah that happened to me too. I’m in the US not Australia, but just from randomly reading stuff, what it sounds like is they used going after disposables as an excuse to go after anything that isn’t cigarettes. i Get the impression that if you’re got a prescription. (which apparently isn’t that gettable) you can still do DIY juice in an rba. I dont know though, I’m not there. There are probably other little tweaks to make that harder too. It seems to me to be similar to the anti-abortion thing in the US where if they supposedly make the consequences greater people won’t do it as much. Doesn’t work of course. All they’ll get is more cancer. They may reduce the amount of nicotine users a bit, but they’ll mostly just turn vapors into smokers. Which of course makes the cigarette companies happy even though they’re supposed to be vaping/smoking agnostic (like that was ever true) but it’s basically the Ronald Regan “just say no to drugs” thing that famously didn’t work.

That ”corrupted place” thing is how I feel too. Different country same issue.