I had completely lost confidence that I would ever quit. I _wanted_ to quit, but I was resigned to the fact that I never would. I didn't intend to _try_ to quit ever again. I knew I would fail, and that gets depressing. I got an ecig thinking maybe I could cut down. I can totally see trying an ecig increasing someone's readiness to quit or switch, however you want to word it. (I think of it as quitting tobacco, but not quitting nicotine, jmo.)
I was so firmly committed to NO MORE QUIT ATTEMPTS for over 5 years that I laughed at the idea of buying this new gimmick. I fought the idea for at least two weeks and chastised the thought. Of course she didn't give up and I spent the money, reluctantly. A funny thing happened on my way to an increase in my over 2 dozen failed quit attempts and it lead to $20k in my pocket instead of in an ashtray.
The common mistake I see in this thread is the confusion caused by the ANTZ and their delusional definition of quitting smoking and in defining smoking as a disease. Smoking is the act of lighting something and inhaling it into your lungs. From everything I've read and from a logical perspective, it doesn't need to be tobacco that is being burnt and inhaled that creates health issues.
Bio fuels create health issues. Societies that use wood for heating and cooking have health issues due to the inhaled emissions. The same is said for coal. You don't even need to light coal to develop lung issues, just mining it can seriously impact ones life. Ignited car and airplane fuels, ditto.
If smoking is a disease, then driving a car or flying in airplanes are also. Cooking or heating your home with wood or coal should also be diseases. Smoking is smoking, period. It has it's own dangers that may cause disease. Using an alternative product to cease soming is the same as walking or riding a bike instead of driving a car or using electric rather than wood or coal to heat your house.
The ANTZ can't even claim their nicotine is used to wean you off tobacco's nicotine anymore. They have pushed the evidence out that nicotine in and of itself is safe for long term use. They no longer are a treatment, they are now also an alternative, albeit a very expensive one.
Smoking is smoking. Tobacco and nicotine are not smoking. Until we somehow get past the propaganda that moved from smoking to tobacco to nicotine as the reason there are SMOKING RELATED ILLNESSES, this battle will continue. E cigarettes are an alternative to smoking that can lead to smoking cessation which has nothing more to do with being a medical device than electric heat does.
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