Taking it Up Again - Reactions?

[chargingcharlie]

If it makes you feel any better, I was off of cigarettes and all nicotine for over 15 years until a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to get my wife into vaping and off cigarettes, so I bought her and myself starter kits. My plan was to get nic juice for her and 0 nic for myself until I found that nicotine actually has positive effects for people with colitis. I was chatting with my sister today, who is an RN, and she was happy to hear that my wife has already cut her daily cigarette usage in half and when I told her that I've been vaping she said "Why? You haven't smoked in so long." I told her that I heard the nic helps with colitis, and that I quit cold turkey no problem, so I'm not worried about quitting vaping if I ever want to. Her response was "Valing is so much better for you than smoking and, you're right...the nicotine might actually help you with your colitis." IMO, nobody is perfect. If vaping keeps you off the sticks then look at that as a positive think. Your son will understand when he's old enough to. Things could be worse, that's for sure. Plenty of kids out there grow up with alcoholics for parents today so vaping is far better. If it really upsets your son then just don't do it right in front of him all the time. But don't hide the fact that you vape. IMO, lying to him would be worse.


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[AndriaD]

I took a couple years hiatus from vaping, but recently started having strong cravings for analogs. I ran into a guy at church and he was puffin' on a mod and I said, "those things are amazing, aren't they?" He said, "man, this as been a Godsend. I haven't smoked a cigarette in two months." It made me miss vaping, so I decided to go to my favorite vape shop and it was overwhelming. So much had changed during my time away from vaping, I had no idea what to buy. I may as well have been a newbie at that counter, asking the guy about tanks and other things.

When I came home my son (he's 12) got very upset and almost started to cry. He shouted, "no, no! I don't want you to do that! What if you start smoking cigarettes again?" So I realized at that point I'm going to have to not vape around him, because he gets so upset about the whole thing. My mom, while she wasn't super judgmental, she kept saying things like, "poor G, this is making him so upset. I feel so bad for him" and "you know, this could tempt you to get back on nicotine. I mean, you probably shouldn't be sucking on that thing all day. Maybe just at night." The general consensus seems to be, "you quit vaping for two years. Why take it back up now?" People's reaction is about the same as if I'd come home with a pack of Marlboros and a lighter. Anyone else experienced people being judgmental about your vaping, especially if you took a break from it for awhile?

Just tell them, I'm vaping so I don't go back to SMOKING! I've already let anyone in my family who cares know that I probably won't ever stop vaping, because I already found out that not vaping means I crave cigarettes, and I went back to them for a while, and had to go thru giving them the boot all over again. Anyone who doesn't like it that I mean to continue vaping indefinitely... well that's their problem, not mine. If they honestly can't see that vaping is better than smoking... well, you really need to educate them about the differences.

Vaping does not lead to smoking. It leads AWAY from smoking. It is not poisonous. A 12 yr old is old enough to understand the difference between deadly and not deadly.

Andria

 

[HauntedMyst]

When I smoked, my kid would start crying and say "Daddy, I don't want you to smoke! Teacher says smoking is bad and I don't want you to die Daddy!" I said "Ok, I'll quit smoking. There is this new thing called vaping that they say can help you quit smoking!" So I quit smoking. Over the summer my kid says "Daddy, I don't want you to vape! Teacher says vaping is bad and I don't want you to die Daddy!" I put em on my lap and said "Listen to daddy pumpkin. Your teacher is a slack jawed reactionary half educated simpleton who gets her news from Facebook and Twitter feeds. Vaping helps daddy not be tense. If daddy gets tense, then maybe your mother and I will have to get a divorce because I'll take up drinking and you'll have to live in a trailer park and you know what? Then daddy will hate you and mommy will hate you for driving daddy away and it will be all your fault for trying to get daddy to quit vaping. Is that what you want pumpkin?" He hasn't talked to me about vaping since....in fact, I don't think he's spoken much since then. He may be drinking.

 

[Big Me]

You are a twisted individual, Haunted, but you do make me laugh.

 

[HauntedMyst]

Thanks mate!

 

[Amraann]

When I smoked, my kid would start crying and say "Daddy, I don't want you to smoke! Teacher says smoking is bad and I don't want you to die Daddy!" I said "Ok, I'll quit smoking. There is this new thing called vaping that they say can help you quit smoking!" So I quit smoking. Over the summer my kid says "Daddy, I don't want you to vape! Teacher says vaping is bad and I don't want you to die Daddy!" I put em on my lap and said "Listen to daddy pumpkin. Your teacher is a slack jawed reactionary half educated simpleton who gets her news from Facebook and Twitter feeds. Vaping helps daddy not be tense. If daddy gets tense, then maybe your mother and I will have to get a divorce because I'll take up drinking and you'll have to live in a trailer park and you know what? Then daddy will hate you and mommy will hate you for driving daddy away and it will be all your fault for trying to get daddy to quit vaping. Is that what you want pumpkin?" He hasn't talked to me about vaping since....in fact, I don't think he's spoken much since then. He may be drinking.

OMG that was so funny it brought tears to my eyes I laughed so hard!