So why is it?.....

[freeall]

vaping has come to be the next 'cool thing' as I see it. "Oh you vape too? Cool! you're cool, i'm cool, we both vape. It's come to be like a hobby people find the need to openly express they are interested in to find likeminded fellows and find acception/aknowledgement from others.

Headshot...

 

[TaketheRedPill]

-0- dislike for non-smokers that Vape.
I see, and agree there are other acceptable reasons for a person to start vaping.

A family friend, quit smoking over 5 years ago. Started Vaping 0mg last month to help with stress.
People that use Vaping as a means to control diet.

I'm sure there are many other justified reasons - it is a personal choice.

I recall a lot of early conversations where the major known side effect of vaping was, with waking taste buds, we were eating everything in sight ! Even mashed potatoes were amazing haha. So I'm not sure how well flavor-vaping would work for appetite suppression in food addicts?

 

[beckdg]

Many don't understand why you would choose to possibly damage your lungs breathing chemicals or nicotine if you were never fighting the addiction. For smokers like me we got nothing to lose.

Why a healthy person would choose to mess with their breathing ( when they don't need to) is very hard to understand and just kinda goes against rational thinking.

"I only drink spring water and won't eat preservatives. But did you taste this artificially flavored frootloop vape using chemicals unproven to be safe for inhalation?"

For me vaping broke a 35 year smoking addiction I feel better but my lungs will never be 100% again.


But yes, more and more " I never smoked but I saw these guys on YouTube chuckin rainclouds and it looks cool so I vape now posts" is exactly what the feds said would happen and it will get used against us I'm sure

( see? we told you vaping would attract people who didn't even smoke!)

C'mon, Thrasher.

Rationalize your initial reasoning for starting smoking. Do you see the parallels and potential to skip the greater evil?

Makes sense to me...

Not that I wouldn't like to go back and slap the cancer stick out of 12 yr old me's hand...

Tapatyped

 

[beckdg]

I think the crux of the matter is that these "hipsters" have taken something which has saved our lives, and turned it into cheap entertainment. It was not invented for that purpose, it was invented to help smokers get free of thousands of deadly chemicals without having to suffer virtual insanity to get there. And now it's a competition sport of some kind, which *might* be just the inspiration for all the existing and proposed draconian regulations -- which might remove this life-saving technology from those who truly need it.

Andria

We were once those hipsters.

And now we're complaining about our choices.

And condemning them for having a choice we didn't have.

Tapatyped

 

[freeall]

I don't even care if someone smoked cigarettes before starting vaping. The problem I have, are the people that want to flaunt it everywhere they go. Yeah, cause the old lady at the super market wants to see 2 young chumps looking like cheech and chong in their car. It's a joke.


Vaping attracts a lot of losers. People just wanna fit in. They wanna feel edgy or somthing. Makes them feel hardcore etc lol

 

[beckdg]

I don't even care if someone smoked cigarettes before starting vaping. The problem I have, are the people that want to flaunt it everywhere they go. Yeah, cause the old lady at the super market wants to see 2 young chumps looking like cheech and chong in their car. It's a joke.


Vaping attracts a lot of losers. People just wanna fit in. They wanna feel edgy or somthing. Makes them feel hardcore etc lol

I remember being a teenager, smoking cigs and facing this exact ridicule.

Don't you?

Tapatyped

 

[stevegmu]

I don't even care if someone smoked cigarettes before starting vaping. The problem I have, are the people that want to flaunt it everywhere they go. Yeah, cause the old lady at the super market wants to see 2 young chumps looking like cheech and chong in their car. It's a joke.


Vaping attracts a lot of losers. People just wanna fit in. They wanna feel edgy or somthing. Makes them feel hardcore etc lol

Maybe that's why so many wear black t shirts two sizes too small...

 

[Signmaker]

Thing that parents just wouldnt understand attracts a lot of losers. People just wanna fit in. They wanna feel edgy or somthing. Makes them feel hardcore etc lol

Do you want to turn this into a rant about people getting tattoos? Cause this is how you start that rant.

 

[stevegmu]

I think tribal tattoos are making a comeback...

 

[Rizzyking]

If it's a question of a kid smoking tobacco or vaping then vape away personally I would rather they vape and minimise damage whilst getting it out if their system likewise people who take up vaping for other practical reasons of which quitting tobacco is just one. If someone starts vaping because they watched some YouTube vids and their only interest is showing the world how much vapour they can chuck out when and where they want then I have a problem. They are the one's who will get into any fad ride it into the ground and move onto the next not caring about what the damage they did and there is a lot of them at the minute, they are not knowledgeable or safe and annoy the hell out of people.

I am worried vaping will be restricted but not for myself I'm quite well prepared for the future but I'm more concerned for those smoking now who may not have the option of vaping in the future. I've helped quite a few make the switch from tobacco to vaping and seen first hand the difference it has made to their life that's what I'm worried about losing. Cloud chasing by those who know what they are doing isn't the problem it's the instant gratification idiot that gets into vaping for no practical reason other then some stupid belief it's a cool thing to do.

Like it or not most people these days weren't smokers they have little time or inclination to properly look into vaping on any detailed level they are driven by the media and the idiot cool person chucking clouds all over the place is harming vaping and handing all the ammunition needed to those ignorants looking to impose their beliefs on all vapers and as a community we should get angry about it.

 

[jambi]

Seems like more often than not, they are vaping at 260 watts and complaining that their juice tastes bad...or metallic...or too hot....or they're getting dry hits.....or it's too harsh...................
What would you suggest to them? Different cotton? A different battery? Maybe a higher VG juice?

A fire extinguisher?

 

[NancyR]

I recall a lot of early conversations where the major known side effect of vaping was, with waking taste buds, we were eating everything in sight ! Even mashed potatoes were amazing haha. So I'm not sure how well flavor-vaping would work for appetite suppression in food addicts?

It isn't always about appetite suppression, one of my friends who has been a vaper longer than I have, while he started vaping to quit smoking now also enjoys the fact that he can have sweet and bakery flavors in his vape that he can't eat due to being a diabetic.

 

[Shotglass]

It isn't always about appetite suppression, one of my friends who has been a vaper longer than I have, while he started vaping to quit smoking now also enjoys the fact that he can have sweet and bakery flavors in his vape that he can't eat due to being a diabetic.

I LOVE the fact that I can appease my sweat tooth without stuffing my face

 

[TaketheRedPill]

It isn't always about appetite suppression, one of my friends who has been a vaper longer than I have, while he started vaping to quit smoking now also enjoys the fact that he can have sweet and bakery flavors in his vape that he can't eat due to being a diabetic.

That's great! Keeping variety in a diet can be hard for diabetics and a lot of the 'low sugar' bakery stuff I tried out when caring for Dad would give him the Montezuma trots. So I gave up on prepackaged stuff and spent a lot of time in the kitchen working on recipes. I'm sure he would have enjoyed a vape now and then, too.

 

[tj99959]

So why is it?.....

Because quite often they have the wrong reasons in mind, and they are not learning anything as a result.

There is far more to learn about vaping than 'turn it up'.

 

[AndriaD]

I don't even care if someone smoked cigarettes before starting vaping. The problem I have, are the people that want to flaunt it everywhere they go. Yeah, cause the old lady at the super market wants to see 2 young chumps looking like cheech and chong in their car. It's a joke.


Vaping attracts a lot of losers. People just wanna fit in. They wanna feel edgy or somthing. Makes them feel hardcore etc lol

What people do in their own cars is THEIR OWN BUSINESS and nobody else's. If they were doing it IN the supermarket, I'd agree with you, but in their own car? C'mon. You sound like those idjits that wanna stop folks from SMOKING in their cars -- which, again, is their own business and nobody else's.

Andria

 

[AndriaD]

We were once those hipsters.

And now we're complaining about our choices.

And condemning them for having a choice we didn't have.

Tapatyped

I'm completely puzzled by this post. Did you read this part: "taken something which has saved our lives, and turned it into cheap entertainment" or this part: "which might remove this life-saving technology from those who truly need it" ?

And as I said... it really doesn't bother me if bozos want it for cheap entertainment... it's safer than most stuff that bozos like that might get up to. My only problem with it is that those bozos are becoming "the face of vaping" to all those who don't vape, and as such, making us ALL look like bozos, and giving the ANTZ greater fodder for their brainless campaign, which might in turn cause this life-saving technology to be removed from those who truly need it -- NOT for cheap entertainment, but to save their lives from smoking tobacco.

Andria

 

[AndriaD]

They are the one's who will get into any fad ride it into the ground and move onto the next not caring about what the damage they did

Yep, exactly. The bozos don't care if vaping gets banned or regulated out of existence -- they'll just move on to the next fad, with never a thought for the poor smokers who've had choices removed thanks to bozos following a fad.

Andria

 

[AndriaD]

It isn't always about appetite suppression, one of my friends who has been a vaper longer than I have, while he started vaping to quit smoking now also enjoys the fact that he can have sweet and bakery flavors in his vape that he can't eat due to being a diabetic.

I LOVE the fact that I can appease my sweat tooth without stuffing my face

Right there with ya!

A lot of eating that overweight people do is just "boredom eating" -- snacking, usually on junk food with no known nutritive benefit... but lots of sugar/salt, fat, and chemicals.... Being able to vape INDOORS has kept me from doing a LOT of that sort of eating.

However, I seem to be slowly gaining weight anyway, even with far less snacking, so I'm thinking there really is something to that theory about metabolic change after quitting smoking. Even at 10mg, compared to ultra-light cigarettes, I know I'm getting far less nicotine than I did as a smoker; that, along with getting older, seems to be playing hell with my metabolic rate.

Andria

 

[jseah]

A lot of eating that overweight people do is just "boredom eating" -- snacking, usually on junk food with no known nutritive benefit... but lots of sugar/salt, fat, and chemicals.... Being able to vape INDOORS has kept me from doing a LOT of that sort of eating.

I refuse to give up my Nutter Butters.