So, your parents seem like nice people who are helping you out and glad you are vaping instead of smoking ... but they do not want you vaping in their house and they get mad when they come home and find you doing it anyway? And you want us to help you educate them? Sorry, but they certainly have a right to have a vape-free home and you should respect that right ... and you should offer an apology for your self-entitled lapse in judgement. Sheesh.
Parents dont let me vape, help.
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So introduce them to the "great debate", here is a great place to start.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/casaamembers/?hc_location=stream
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If your parents don't want to see you vape or smoke in their house then you must decide whether or not you want to vape or have a nice roof over your head with heat and running water,
Good luck in your decision.
Good luck in your decision.
This site has everything you'd like to know and share with non-vapors and even has stuff you can print out about vaping that you can share with your folks.
casaa.org
That said, it shouldn't be a terrible hardship for you to step outside to vape when staying with your parents. Many of us went outside to smoke so treat it like that for now.
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That said, it shouldn't be a terrible hardship for you to step outside to vape when staying with your parents. Many of us went outside to smoke so treat it like that for now.
I am kind of in the same position with my wife. I wanted to vape in the car while we are going home from work, so i changed to a juice with no nicotine. Because you do in fact exhale nicotine
I'm the mother of four, I've been married for 36 years..... Personally I learned a long time ago to pick your fights.... even as parents we simply can't win them all.... I'd rather worry that my kids stay away from drugs, to much booze, unsafe sex, etc..... I have a great relationship with all of them and I count it up to this way of parenting ....
but back to your question, IMO as Elvis and many others told you... their house their rules, maybe you should look for your own place.... because IMO what you are asking for isn't unsafe and it even sounds like you're trying to be adaptable and safe.... no offense but if you were mine, I'd be concerned that you'd go back to tobacco. In thinking that way, I think I'd be more open to the vaping....
BTW... I have a daughter in school working on her doctorate (she's a 4.0 yes I brag on her
), she has never smoked and NEVER allowed me to smoke in her home, now when I'm visiting her I vape and she embraces it so much, constantly trying to guess what flavor I'm using that day...She's not said this but I think it's because she worries I'll start smoking again.... I think she is now using my parenting philosophy on me
Good luck, I really hope you stay away from the tobacco
but back to your question, IMO as Elvis and many others told you... their house their rules, maybe you should look for your own place.... because IMO what you are asking for isn't unsafe and it even sounds like you're trying to be adaptable and safe.... no offense but if you were mine, I'd be concerned that you'd go back to tobacco. In thinking that way, I think I'd be more open to the vaping....
BTW... I have a daughter in school working on her doctorate (she's a 4.0 yes I brag on her
), she has never smoked and NEVER allowed me to smoke in her home, now when I'm visiting her I vape and she embraces it so much, constantly trying to guess what flavor I'm using that day...She's not said this but I think it's because she worries I'll start smoking again.... I think she is now using my parenting philosophy on me Good luck, I really hope you stay away from the tobacco
Print out some pamphlets for them
Lots of great info here. Might put their mind at ease.
CASAA Printable Material
Lots of great info here. Might put their mind at ease.
CASAA Printable Material
Furthermore... My former fiancee's been in a coma since 2010 due to a stroke. We were heavy smokers and decided to start vaping. His son is starting to smoke, he carries it in his blood. Every time he lights up I remind him of his dad. And he rebutts "What about you?" And I try to reason with him, better never pick up smoking...
thanks everyone! its great to great different points of views from people like me and also from parents who vape!
I guess i felt kind of mad because my other friends who vape are able to vape in front of their parents.
at the end of the day.. their house their rules!
keep commenting! this is good!
I guess i felt kind of mad because my other friends who vape are able to vape in front of their parents.
at the end of the day.. their house their rules!
keep commenting! this is good!
haha! this is the thing! i have broken it down with them! they are very open minded parents/people and let me discuss and debate their rules. i broke it down with them, and even told them how it isnt bad for the house because its vapor and that it actually makes the house smell better. they have even complimented how my car smells and i told them that it was because of the kiwi liquid i was vaping and they were impressed.
but when i broke it down with them, they realy didnt have a reason, and they aknowledged that they didnt have a real reason to be concerned. So i think it is just a sort of "what would the other parents do?" sort of thing.. i dont know! haha
Any nicotine exhaled is negligible. http://publichealth.drexel.edu/SiteData/docs/ms08/f90349264250e603/ms08.pdf
haha its not a heated debate or anything, and they arent mad, we are just a debating type of family. they are always open to new ideas within the household. i didnt mean to come off as self-entitled. but i do see your point.
the only thing that im concerned about is the fact that my dad basically told me "if i ever see you smoking that pipe in the house, im going to throw you out in the street" lol and this was without any warning. its like they are open minded to everything, and understand how it is not smoke, and agree with me that what i am doing is a healthy alternative, but when they actually see it, they get verry mad.
i wouldnt dare vape in the house any more but i just dont want them to think of me as some sort of drug addict or something. Idk. i guess they just need to be educated about it.
Im not gonna push the issue i guess, but i dont want them to see me as a bad guy or a failure or something. it kind of breaks my heart.
It is their home.. that could be one of the reasons. My pg/vg leaves residue... No not like smoke but it still does.
I just cleaned vg residue off my car window. Yeah nothing like the thick layer of cigarette smoke.
Any that is not the point. It doesn't matter why... If the prospective buying asks and you lie (then they can prove it).... well you don't want to go there.
It really doesn't matter the buyer is the buyer. If you wanna be smug in this market and say well I don;t want to sell to them... that is just crazy.
And no. I ain't vaping through a coffee filter.
There is a saying, what they don't know won't bother them.
When I began vaping in the office the owner's wife [also an owner] made a fuss, it turned out that it was because I was vaping tobacco flavors and they could smell the tobacco. I immediately switched to Non Tobacco flavors and never had a problem since.
Possibly you could find a juice that is more neutral or even unflavored and vape that while they aren't there.
When I was a smoker, I never ever smoked in front of my grandparents, they knew but I didn't vape out of respect. If it bothers them to see you vaping then out of respect, don't vape in front of them.
I vape in my house, but it's my house and my rules.!! I never smoked in my house because it would have been inconsiderate to stink up the house.
When I began vaping in the office the owner's wife [also an owner] made a fuss, it turned out that it was because I was vaping tobacco flavors and they could smell the tobacco. I immediately switched to Non Tobacco flavors and never had a problem since.
Possibly you could find a juice that is more neutral or even unflavored and vape that while they aren't there.
When I was a smoker, I never ever smoked in front of my grandparents, they knew but I didn't vape out of respect. If it bothers them to see you vaping then out of respect, don't vape in front of them.
I vape in my house, but it's my house and my rules.!! I never smoked in my house because it would have been inconsiderate to stink up the house.
Hey mate... my wife doesn't want me vaping in the house ( I could take it or leave it). I did make a milestone this weekend. We were up at the Shoe at Ohio State. I vaped the 2 hour drive up and the 3 hour drive home (Wife and youngest daughter in my car - I made sure to blow the vapor the other way). It was forever getting out of that stadium.
even though I respect their rules and everything, my dad continues to beat me down about it by calling it a "pipe" or a "(device)" and says that i "smoke" and i tell them that i quit smoking and they say "no, that is smoking".
now that i think of it, i guess i was in denial when i said they were "open minded about it" they are such open minded people and love to discuss things like religious freedom, politics, philosophy, and pretty much anything . but when it come to vaping, they turn ito some sort of nazzis. idk everyone has problems with their parents
now that i think of it, i guess i was in denial when i said they were "open minded about it" they are such open minded people and love to discuss things like religious freedom, politics, philosophy, and pretty much anything . but when it come to vaping, they turn ito some sort of nazzis. idk everyone has problems with their parents
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one of these days you will be able to make the rules. When I was a kid absolutely no pets on the furniture. Now, both dogs and cat are always on the furniture. My mom came over to my house and said, you know when you were a kid I would never let an animals on the furniture. I said Thanks ma... but it is my house now.
Arrange (somehow) for another parent to talk with them. Hopefully communicating something along lines of "I'm so glad my kid vapes at home now, instead of sneaking out to smoke."
Rules, especially unreasonable home rules, were meant to be changed. Just takes a bit of strategizing.
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