Just wanted to share this story... because we all have heard things like "When are you going to quit that?", or
"I believe you are still smoking." All because the e-juice has the evil nicotine in it.
Well, one of my wife's aunts is a retired nurse. About a week ago, she saw me vaping in her patio, and was obviously curious about it. (On a side note, I was quite surprised that only now did she discover that I vaped: I have been vaping countless times inside, mainly after lunch, and she didn't seem to notice - how low-profile can u get??
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Well, back on topic: knowing her well, a somewhat anti-smoking, former nurse, I stressed out in the conversation that
1) Thanks to the e-cig, I haven't touched a cigarette for more than four years
2) Ingredients in the e-juice are GRAS substances (She knew about propilene glycol, BTW, and was confortable about it)
3) The e-cig is a smokeless alternative to tobacco cigarettes. You get your nicotine fix, your throat hit and also your 'behavioural fix' associated with cigarette smoking, without actually inhaling smoke, but vapour instead.
Well, her reaction was somewhat... neutral, I guess. Not against it, like "If you've been using that thing for so long, you should already have tried to quit that also", but on the other hand, not really impressed either. To tell you the truth, I was kind of disapointed with her reaction. I mean, this was the person who used to give me lenghty lectures on the evils of tobacco smoking every effing time she caught me smoking (To be fair, not only me, but every few smoker in the family). Suddenly, she discovers that I have finally managed to quit smoking, more than fours years ago, and... wow! Not really impressed??
Two days later, she saw me vaping again, this time in my house. We started talking about the e-cig again, "Has it realy worked for you? Yada, yada..." and casually, I stated that we can even buy juice without nicotine. Believe it or not, that's when her interested kicked in: "Really?? Have you tried it? Well, why didn't you? You should think about it..."
So, my point is: when she found out that the e-cig can be a 'nicotine-less' alternative to cigarettes, her reaction was much more positive towards the device. The fact thar the e-cig is a smokeless alternative to cigarettes, didn't seem to make her raise an eyebrow...
For goodness sake...! If not even trained health professionals can detach themselves from the 'demonic nicotine' concept, you can well imagine what's going in the minds of the untrained/uninformed/misinformed 'common folk'...!
OK, sorry, rant over... do you have any thoughts on this?
"I believe you are still smoking." All because the e-juice has the evil nicotine in it.
Well, one of my wife's aunts is a retired nurse. About a week ago, she saw me vaping in her patio, and was obviously curious about it. (On a side note, I was quite surprised that only now did she discover that I vaped: I have been vaping countless times inside, mainly after lunch, and she didn't seem to notice - how low-profile can u get??
)Well, back on topic: knowing her well, a somewhat anti-smoking, former nurse, I stressed out in the conversation that
1) Thanks to the e-cig, I haven't touched a cigarette for more than four years
2) Ingredients in the e-juice are GRAS substances (She knew about propilene glycol, BTW, and was confortable about it)
3) The e-cig is a smokeless alternative to tobacco cigarettes. You get your nicotine fix, your throat hit and also your 'behavioural fix' associated with cigarette smoking, without actually inhaling smoke, but vapour instead.
Well, her reaction was somewhat... neutral, I guess. Not against it, like "If you've been using that thing for so long, you should already have tried to quit that also", but on the other hand, not really impressed either. To tell you the truth, I was kind of disapointed with her reaction. I mean, this was the person who used to give me lenghty lectures on the evils of tobacco smoking every effing time she caught me smoking (To be fair, not only me, but every few smoker in the family). Suddenly, she discovers that I have finally managed to quit smoking, more than fours years ago, and... wow! Not really impressed??
Two days later, she saw me vaping again, this time in my house. We started talking about the e-cig again, "Has it realy worked for you? Yada, yada..." and casually, I stated that we can even buy juice without nicotine. Believe it or not, that's when her interested kicked in: "Really?? Have you tried it? Well, why didn't you? You should think about it..."
So, my point is: when she found out that the e-cig can be a 'nicotine-less' alternative to cigarettes, her reaction was much more positive towards the device. The fact thar the e-cig is a smokeless alternative to cigarettes, didn't seem to make her raise an eyebrow...
For goodness sake...! If not even trained health professionals can detach themselves from the 'demonic nicotine' concept, you can well imagine what's going in the minds of the untrained/uninformed/misinformed 'common folk'...!
OK, sorry
, rant over... do you have any thoughts on this?
