Hi everyone, my name is jordan and i could use some help. I want you honest opinion. I will be turning 19 in a couple months and have been smoking for a little over a year, I know it is terrible for me and i dont want to ruin the rest of my life from it, but i honestly love it, the social aspect ( especially with family and cousins) and it helps me with stress and just relax. Would vaping be for me?
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I encourage you to give it a try.
I only started vaping 9 days ago and love it. My DD was home from college this weekend and she wanted to give it a try. I had suspected that she had been smoking and she confirmed it this weekend. I purchased her a KGO and a couple of juices and she really enjoys it. She is not a heavy smoker but does enjoy the social aspect and during the drive to college and home.
There is so much wonderful advice on this forum but from one new vaper to another, find a reasonably priced PV (my starter kit was about $60), get some sample flavors and give it a try.
Best of luck to you.
I only started vaping 9 days ago and love it. My DD was home from college this weekend and she wanted to give it a try. I had suspected that she had been smoking and she confirmed it this weekend. I purchased her a KGO and a couple of juices and she really enjoys it. She is not a heavy smoker but does enjoy the social aspect and during the drive to college and home.
There is so much wonderful advice on this forum but from one new vaper to another, find a reasonably priced PV (my starter kit was about $60), get some sample flavors and give it a try.
Best of luck to you.
In a word............NO! Not smoking either. You are too young to know what smoking does to your body. Just stop with the hand to mouth thing and find another hobby.
Sorry to be so abrupt but that needs to be said. Smoking coats your lungs with tar. CO2 takes your breath away. The thousands of other chemicals including glue, arsenic, habituators, pesticides etal will ruin your health in general. Smoking is not a social activity it is a crutch that gives your hands something to do. If your coharts decided to jump off the tallest building in town would you follow?
vaping is a means to an end for most vapers. It (so far as we know) is one of the ways to break an addicition to nicotine. You haven't been smoking nearly long enough to develop a nicotine habit so you don't fit the profile of a nicotine addict!
Sorry to be so abrupt but that needs to be said. Smoking coats your lungs with tar. CO2 takes your breath away. The thousands of other chemicals including glue, arsenic, habituators, pesticides etal will ruin your health in general. Smoking is not a social activity it is a crutch that gives your hands something to do. If your coharts decided to jump off the tallest building in town would you follow?
vaping is a means to an end for most vapers. It (so far as we know) is one of the ways to break an addicition to nicotine. You haven't been smoking nearly long enough to develop a nicotine habit so you don't fit the profile of a nicotine addict!
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Agreed. Definitely give it a shot! If you've only been smoking a year, you haven't done too much damage. You're smart in checking out the idea after so short of a time. I won't name the risks - I'm sure you know them already.
There's lots of info here to get you started. Plus one on the KGO.
There's lots of info here to get you started. Plus one on the KGO.
You are still young and concerned about your health. I think that is awesome. If you're open to vaping then it would probably help you, especially since you haven't been smoking for decades. It definitely helps with the social aspect if you want it to, and can be a stress reliever.
You can still hang with the smokers with your PV, I do all the time. At first I was also treating vaping like smoking. Eat - go out and vape, drive - vape, every hour or so at work - go outside and vape. Keeping the same pattern I had before really helped me not want a cigarette, but now besides for gatherings and the much less frequent visit with my smoking buddies at work I have a different pattern and it's much less restrictive IMHO. Plus heading out to the smoking section at a bar may spark some good convert talk lol.
Good luck and if you need any advise, just ask. You've entered a very helpful forum
Good luck and if you need any advise, just ask. You've entered a very helpful forum
IMO you have to want to quit analogs. If you dont want to quit, vaping probably wont work for you.....unless you just like new things for fun.
Would most certainly take vaping instead of smoking, if you found this site and want to not smoke its the best place to start that journey, welcome.
The time frame of your desire to smoke or quit is personal no one can tell the the length of what you feel.Kinda like someone telling you your pain, impossible.
The time frame of your desire to smoke or quit is personal no one can tell the the length of what you feel.Kinda like someone telling you your pain, impossible.
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That would depend on how strong your addiction is. I smoked for 40+ years and vaping is the only thing that has been successful for me, just my opinion.
Thank you all very much for all of the info and advice. I wish i could just stop and not do it anymore but i have tried that and even though i havent been smoking for all my life I kept getting pulled back in. thats why i looked up this site to see if this could be an option for me, and a good one at that.
I'm surprised at the "just quit" responses. Who thinks over a year isn't enough to ingrain a habit? Not me. At the very least, I think these responses could have been "start with some nic, and wean yourself to 0 nic". Just my two cents.
I only smoked while going out for the night(once or twice a week) for a quarter of a century, sure it could be classified as a mild issue to some but to me taking up vaping and putting down cigs was a life changer in a ton of ways.Will you vape forever? no one knows, but improvement is advancement.
If you enjoy the social aspect of smoking...then by all means try out vaping! Just get something with lower nicotine (maybe 12mg or less - low as you can-) and if you'd feel more comfortable, get one that looks like a cigarette (the kGos, eGos, etc. are bigger...about as big as a Sharpie. Don't look much like a cig). Since you'd be using it mostly in social situations, the "cigalike" would be fine for you. Look at the kits here Smokeless Image | The Best Electronic Cigarette Priced reasonable, good product, great CS, and fast shipping. Plus the site has alternatives if you should get into vaping more.
I agree...vaping would be much better for you. There are so many great people here who will be ready and willing to help you get started and give awesome support.
Jordan, I'd say vaping over smoking and quitting over anything else. If you select to vape, ween yourself by going to lesser and lesser juices. There are calculators on the web (Juice Me Up is one) where you can make or alter juices to a percentage of nicotine if you have to. I started at 18mg nic in mid Aug and have worked my way down to a level of 11mg. 47 yrs since my first analog. I'm just lucky lung cancer hasn't hit me. I've had a part of my colon and my thyroid removed, but who's to say analog's didn't play a part in it.
If you have made up your mind to smoke definitely try vaping, it is a much better alternative. Try to keep the nic low.
I think your dead right, Some of the just quit advice seems condesending and some of the post sound almost exacly the same spiel my folks came up with when I started smoking. I remember when I first started smoking at about 13 and I think the addiction was even stronger then because it was infused with excitement at doing something stupid, and it was the highlight of the day / week if you managed to score some smokes from somewhere.
Anyway My advice would be to try quit but if its not working for you get vaping, but start with some low strength juice so you don't end up more addicted.
I dont that there anyone here that would advise to keep smoking as alot of us have successfully used vaping as a means to quit smoking. If you want to quit smoking, get some advise here on what to get and give it a try. There are plenty of inexpensive setups you can get to try it out and different levels of nicotine juices you can try to help with the nicotine cravings. Good luck.
What's up man! I'm 18 here, smoked for 5( i know at 13 right, sad) years at upwards of 2 packs a day on average. It's 1500000% worth it, it can save your life for sure. That's the most important thing, that and it turns into this side hobby of collecting awesome technology. Any questions at all just ask away, my girlfriend of...uhm...crap..i forget how long something over a year heh...loves that I vape now since i don't smell like an ashtray and she is really proud of my. So are my parents (30 year smokers) and my dad is curious now about it! So it's DEFINATELY something to think about.
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