I'm wondering if there has been a serious attempt to assess the success rate of quitting analogs among ecf members.
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Honestly from my experience converting a few people the long term rate has been zero. I just can't keep them as excited about it as I am. I am also fortunate in the fact that I can afford to "play" with all my gadgets. vaping has certainly not saved me any money compared to cigarettes. On the contrary I probably spend 3-4 times as much. But its so much fun.
An ECF survey would be worthless due to those that gave up on vaping probably aren't hanging around here.
Of my 26 v-verts (vaping converts) within the past year, I know of five that no longer vape. So that's 22/27 = 81.48% success rate. Note, I included myself.
Of my 26 v-verts (vaping converts) within the past year, I know of five that no longer vape. So that's 22/27 = 81.48% success rate. Note, I included myself.
An ECF survey would be worthless due to those that gave up on vaping probably aren't hanging around here.
I agree.
For myself, it's been over a year and a half since I've had a cigarette (started vaping).
I now have four family members and friends who have quit smoking due to vaping in the past year. I'm also mailing a new kit to my son this week ... whose ready to quit cigs. (yea).
I'm not sure how many others have quit smoking, but I've given info to many others (strangers) who have asked me "what are you smoking??". Hope it helped them, too.
I get asked that a lot when I'm vaping in public. I've started carrying a few cards from vendors I've ordered from. Hmmm...that just gave me an idea. Making up my own card that has info about vaping and a small list of places to check out online.
An ECF survey would be worthless due to those that gave up on vaping probably aren't hanging around here.
Yeah, this I would expect. I was thinking more along the lines of sending a survey via email to those that had signed up as ecf members so you could reach even those that were no longer active, but had not yet been purged. I was just curious since there seem to be so many former analog smokers here and other quitting methods seem to have very low success rates.
Quick edit: This is not saying that I'm advocating this. I was just curious if it had ever been done.
i converted 2 of my old co-workers to vaping... one just got a provari (ya im a bit jealous)
working on my bro and a few other people who wont even TRY it...
eeh worked for me and i feel healthier so thats what really matters
working on my bro and a few other people who wont even TRY it...
eeh worked for me and i feel healthier so thats what really matters
I've converted one ex-girfriend and my boss. And I am proud to say that they do cary the torch with enthusiasm. My boss' whole family stopped the analogs 2 months after he started vaping
I smoked my last deathstick maybe a month after I started vaping. That was over a year ago. I think I may be cured.
I quit 100% the moment I started vaping as well. My wife is still in the in-between stage, but she only smokes stinkes occasionally. Everyone else I know went back to cigs soon. I think there definitely needs to be a will to quit and an interest in vaping.
I think there definitely needs to be a will to quit and an interest in vaping.
I feel like the oddball here my fiancé smokes so does my aunt and half of my friends. I started smoking hits off my fiancés cigarettes and then bought a few packs before a friend of mine that vapes said wft man if you think you need to smoke, smoke this. So as dumb as it sounds I started vaping to avoid cigarettes not to quit. Been vaping for about a year now and loving it.
Hopefully you get what I mean there.
Hopefully you get what I mean there.
I know what you mean. I only started vaping because my kids bought me a kit for Father's day last year, and I only used it so as not to hurt their feelings. I never had any intention of quitting. About a month later I smoked my very last cigarette.
Here are links to several published surveys.....
(the links were available from CASAA.org Survey Studies: Electronic Cigarettes )
Electronic cigarettes: a survey of users BMC Public Health | Full text | Electronic cigarettes: a survey of users
BMC Public Health 2010, 10:231 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-10-231
Etter JF, Bullen C. Electronic cigarette: users profile, utilization, satisfaction and perceived efficacy - Etter - 2011 - Addiction - Wiley Online Library
McQueen A, Tower S, Sumner W. Interviews With "Vapers": Implications for Future Research With Electronic Cigarettes.
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Siegel MB, Tanwar KL, Wood KS. Electronic cigarettes as smoking cessation tool: Results from an Online Survey. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2011 Apr; 40(4):472-5. http://www.ajpm-online.net/webfiles/images/journals/amepre/AMEPRE3013.pdf
(the links were available from CASAA.org Survey Studies: Electronic Cigarettes )
Electronic cigarettes: a survey of users BMC Public Health | Full text | Electronic cigarettes: a survey of users
BMC Public Health 2010, 10:231 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-10-231
Etter JF, Bullen C. Electronic cigarette: users profile, utilization, satisfaction and perceived efficacy - Etter - 2011 - Addiction - Wiley Online Library
McQueen A, Tower S, Sumner W. Interviews With "Vapers": Implications for Future Research With Electronic Cigarettes.
Interviews With
Siegel MB, Tanwar KL, Wood KS. Electronic cigarettes as smoking cessation tool: Results from an Online Survey. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2011 Apr; 40(4):472-5. http://www.ajpm-online.net/webfiles/images/journals/amepre/AMEPRE3013.pdf
Why people waste more money using PV? that makes no sense. If you tell people that you spend 3.4 times more that using analogs, of course nobody is going to try.
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