Tally - Who quit, Need a Count

[n2xe]

First Tally results with 250 respondents.

The rules - everything is pretty straight forward except the answer to "would you go back to analogs" question. This caused much debate at N2XE Laboratory and had the staff scrambling.

We decided that anything with the word "hope" meant "yes". After all, hope is nothing but deferred disappointment so hope= yes. Stockpiling also = yes unless the respondent indicated the necessary knowledge to manufacture both hardware and software. Basically, if you did not decisively say no, it counts as a yes. It's pretty funny how many creative ways you all hedged about going back to tobacco. The most honest answers were from previous smokers with less than 10 years on analogs or more than 30 years. Everyone in the middle equivocated a bit but they meant "yes" they would go back to tobacco.

The stats:

250 respondents:

248 quit, 2 didn't or 99% to 1 %
Average quit time off of analog = 5.44 months
Average smoking career - 26.4 years
Who would go back to analogs? 75% of you

 

[cskent]

Ahh, the vagueries of questions and answers in survey's. I know them well. ECF has a section just for polls. You might want to set one up as a multiple choice so your answers will be more definitive.

 

[DC2]

Interesting...

 

[FreakyStylie]

Thanks for sharing what you've compiled!

 

[n2xe]

Interesting...

Very... I love polls

 

[Beez]

I am surprised that the time until off analogs was 5 months... Maybe speaks to how many users were not intending to quit. Very interesting results.

 

[DC2]

I am surprised that the time until off analogs was 5 months... Maybe speaks to how many users were not intending to quit. Very interesting results.

I think it points to two things...

1) New vapers are growing exponentially, and are outnumbering oldtimers more and more every day
2) Oldtimers don't venture into the Polls area as often as they should

Just my thoughts...

 

[ckc]

If i'd done a poll before i started on the E-Cig asking 'will you smoke for the rest of your life?' my answer would have been 'more than likely'. I think the "75% of peeps will go back too cigs" is just because until people get to that situation they haven't a clue what they'll do.....lets hope we won't have to find out.

 

[n2xe]

I think it points to two things...

1) New vapers are growing exponentially, and are outnumbering oldtimers more and more every day
2) Oldtimers don't venture into the Polls area as often as they should

Just my thoughts...

I could tally up how many quit for more than a year--it's not a big number. Most of the respondents were pretty much newbs. But that makes sense since this is Support Central for new vaepeurs.

 

[ec!gg]

This is a very interesting poll. I like your thoughts DC2

 

[Delilah718]

Wow - it's heartbreaking to think 75% would go back to smoking... For argument's sake-- Let's say that vaping is banned -- I would rather FIGHT than SWITCH! I would urge all vapors to seek any means not to smoke and create a nice SMOKE OUT where cigarettes stay on store shelves for a week or two.... I wonder how much revenue would be lost in 1 or two weeks when cigarettes are not sold? I have a feeling that suddenly there would be a slew of reversals from all of the haters!