Smug ex-smokers
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Amen to that friend! Could't have said it any better! It is something I rather enjoy(smoking). And if I can achieve that with smaller detriment to my health and pocket book, why wouldn't you be happy about that? But I also don't live to appease others so its all good. Have a toot !
I would also equate it to an obese person trading in their cheeseburgers for rice cakes. whatever works I say. People also associate "vaping" or E-cigs to the ol' gas station special. And have no idea of the magical world vaping has evolved in to.
Two good points.
The guy I was referring to in the first post is a fat guy. "Congrats on having enough willpower to quit cigs cold turkey. Too bad you don't have enough willpower to stop eating so much."
And I suspect a good percent, if not a majority, of those who failed at vaping to give up cigs never got past the gas station specials or disposables. "It didn't work for me, so the whole concept must be stupid."
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Wow, I sometimes wish I could do that, but generally speaking that's not how I was built.My response to people like that is to smile and move on. They are baiting an argument because they feel that quitting cold turkey makes them better. I do not care to enter into a discussion with someone who already thinks I am not worthy of their presence. So I just smile, say congrats for going cold turkey and move on. It tends to make them irritated that I don't take the bait and leaves me feeling good for having avoided an argument.
If someone baits me for an argument, they'll get exactly what they came for.
I'm not very good at trying to be the bigger person.
But maybe that's because I'm 6'5" and about 99% of the time I already am the bigger person.
Or maybe it is because I don't like bullies.
And that goes for all bullies...
Be they of the physical, intellectual, social, or emotional kind.
Meow.
In my experience, mostly. When you show them something larger and more powerful, even something as simple as a Volt X2, they're amazed. Then pull out your VAMO or Provari or whatever you like and watch their eyes get very, very large.
My cousin, for whom this is typical, received a trio of Volt X2s as a gift (he requested them). After giving it a whole week, he declared that it didn't work, he didn't like it, and the vape looked dumb and he wasn't going to use it. He's also managed to lose one of the batteries already. Nobody quite understands how.
Saying this to two vapers, both with Volt X2s in their hands at the time was, perhaps, an error. You could have generated enough electricity to run the city from our eye rolls.
I get 50/50 from the smokers at work. Some chuckle and heckle me for using a "toy", but an increasing number of smokers have asked me the loaded question "Does that thing really work?" I have been vaping at work for two weeks now, already two of my co-workers have gone out and bought locally-branded eGo starter kits (overpriced) and another dug out and dusted of his "gas-station special" to bring it in and ask if it was worth a damn.
The winds of change are a-blowin'
The winds of change are a-blowin'
I have heard the same thing. My answer is because I still choose to use nicotine but without the 4000 chemicals and the smoke I was getting from cigarettes. Plus I am in control of my habit I can and have lowered my nicotine intake on my schedule not someone elses. This tends to get the current smokers thinking. I am proud to say from a pack a day analog habit I am down to 18 mg e Liquid and actually I'm vaping a sample of Go razzle at a 12 mg strength. I gotta say my next order may be for 12 mg.
My nasty ex boyfriend was like that. He quit cold-turkey and couldn't understand why I couldn't. One night, he heard me creeping outside for a cigarette (he was studying in the living room and I'd been reading in the bedroom). He stormed across the living room and ranted at me on the doorstep about how I was killing myself and how it aggravated his asthma and he'd never be able to work for NASA if he had to get another prescription of his asthma medication (at your age, love? They wouldn't take you anyway!). Naturally, I was upset although the rant at how I was packing up my car wrong when I was helping him move house in front of two elderly ladies was far more embarrassing! At least this time, there was nobody around to hear! But I digress! I was so upset, I was glad I'd rolled two cigarettes and I sat outside on the step and chain-smoked while I cried. About half an hour later, he came upstairs to apologise and I pointed out that there was no point in belittling me and making me feel like poop because this just makes me want to smoke. Reminding me of what I'm capable of and empowering me is the way forward. Later in our relationship (if you can call it that), I got into vaping. We were long distance by that time, or at least more so than we had been when we first got together, and over the phone he was thrilled. When we spent some time together at Christmas though, he was beyond negative! Despite claiming to be a scientist, he refused to listen to the science behind it. Propylene glycol, that stuff they use in asthma inhalers, aggravated his asthma...apparently! We're not together anymore. I'm very happy!
Other people were also very negative the first time I tried e-cigs. One woman in my class claimed they were useless and why didn't I just use the inhalator like she did to quit. I saw her again a few weeks ago and she smokes now... Another lady I took classes with last year was also quite negative at the time about e-cigs and she's since managed to quit smoking herself, I presume by cold turkey. Now that she's seen how effective they are in helping me quit, she's come around and is really supportive. We're even getting to be quite good friends which is lovely!
My response to those smug ex-smokers is that we're all individuals. Their method may have worked for them and I am thrilled that it did. I have tried cold-turkey, patches, gum and the inhalator and they just didn't work for me. I can't try Champix or other such methods because I have Seasonal Affective Disorder which I wouldn't want to make any worse. I can't afford hypnotherapy (although I'm contemplating some form of therapy to help with the hand-to-mouth thing when I get down to zero nic and to help me overcome my self-destruct tendency to reach for a cigarette when disaster strikes) so what am I left with?
I would, however, like to add that I am a very proud, not smug, ex-smoker. I have achieved something I never thought possible but whatever works for you, works for you and that's great!x
I quite smoking analogs 7 years ago. However, i have been chewing/ dipping for several years. Vaping got rid of my urge to chew. I feel this is a better alternative.
I say be smug right back. Tell them they shouldn't judge someone just because they sin differently than them. You gotta wonder what someone's hiding when they act holier than thou.
If someone can quit cold turkey, great. I applaud their effort...I've yet to encounter the "smug" cold turkey person yet. Most of the time, it's a conversation about whatever works. Everyone has a different path. Some people vape, lower their nicotine, and stop smoking. Then was a guy like me, who couldn't seem to stop and I feel as if I found a reasonable alternative.
Indeed! Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE has there own vises. Some of ours are on display (smoking or vaping-which I do rather enjoy) for all to see and therefore critique. Others are hidden. Like say a habitual toe nail biter or avid internet adult site visitor. Or whatever you can think of that someone would do in private. There just isn't some smug jerk with a stone to cast walking through the bedroom or closet at that moment. It's all relative to me. Consider the source and go about your day. "I'm not an a**hole! You made me become an a**hole!"
The most intolerant people towards smoking are always ex-smokers.
It is difficult for them (or anyone) to differentiate between vaping and smoking, especially when terms like e-cigarette are used.
It is difficult for them (or anyone) to differentiate between vaping and smoking, especially when terms like e-cigarette are used.
Yep... I'm knee-deep in a debate with one currently and his ANTZ stance is amazing - still I'm fighting the good fight and hopefully will open his mind up some....
When the maintenance guy at my apartment noticed I'd switched to vaping, he wasn't an a** about it, he mostly sounded like he didn't trust them, something about the battery could explode.
Well, ya, all batteries could explode
Found out later that he'd started off with Blu. I've since enlightened him to the world of eGo's, directed him to a local shop and last I heard he was going to pick up a kit soon
We're not trying to kill them
When I have been asked that I just tell them if cold turkey worked for you great, but if it worked for everyone we wouldn't have 90% of the smokers smoking or have millions spent every year on NRT's
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