The Doctors are back and want your stories!

[RIMP]

Bump this up

 

[dee5]

I sent in my story too : )

 

[Vocalek]

Let's hope they get at least a couple hundred stories.

 

[atom48]

I spotted this on my Facebook feed this morning... Evidently The Doctors are gearing up for a column in the USA Weekend about ways to stop smoking, and they want peoples tips, tricks, and stories! I think it's a great way to spread the word about personal vaporizers and e-cigs! If you want to share your story with a chance for it to be published in their article, go here... Former Smokers: Tell Us Your Best Quitting Tips!

I shared mine...with a big plug for e-cigs, as the best invention of this millenium!!

 

[RIMP]

Bump this up We need to make our voices heard people

 

[Grammie]

Come on people, we need more!

 

[RIMP]

There are over 20,000 members worldwide in this forum. If just 10% of them would contact these people, we could help ourselves and others in the whole world Please, to get the info out that a lot of people don't know.

 

[rothenbj]

There are over 20,000 members worldwide in this forum. If just 10% of them would contact these people, we could help ourselves and others in the whole world Please, to get the info out that a lot of people don't know.

That's how I feel about popvox but there still are only a thousand or so votes. That's P"apathetic".

 

[otrpu]

OK, I gave um my story.
709 views, only 27 responses, what's wrong with everybody?
Cheers,
otrpu

 

[DC2]

That's how I feel about popvox but there still are only a thousand or so votes. That's P"apathetic".

I'm firmly convinced that most vapers, even here on this website don't know...
--The significance of the threats we face
--The fact that we CAN do something about it

I'd like to believe that if they knew those things, we would see a lot more people taking action.

 

[Jibba73]

I posted my story and responded in another thread here on ECF. Since this is posted all over ECF, I'm sure many people have responded elsewhere and/or just not posted that they did respond to the posting...

 

[Vocalek]

I'm firmly convinced that most vapers, even here on this website don't know...
--The significance of the threats we face
--The fact that we CAN do something about it

I'd like to believe that if they knew those things, we would see a lot more people taking action.

I agree, absolutely. So I took action and started a thread titled "Dear Vendor" in each of the subforums in the Vendor forum. I'm getting a lot of "likes" but some flack, too, for "spamming".

I left this reponse to one of those complaints:

Apologies for the appearance of spam. I looked, but did not find a specific forum that is read by ALL the vendors. If there had been such a thing, I would have posted once, there. If I had a list of email addresses for all the vendors, I would have sent out message to each of them.

You haven't been a member for very long, so you may not appreciate the battle that we are in. We smoked for decades and kept hearing, "You must quit" from our doctors, from the American Lung Assocation, from the American Cancer Society, from the American Heart Association, from the World Health Organization, and many more. We tried. We tried over and over and over.

We finally found something that worked, and these groups want to ban it!

We have talked to them until we are blue in the fact, but they have their hearts set on everyone "quitting altogether". Since they fear our being able to save our health by switching away from smoking, because we are still using nicotine and they disapprove, they have to do everything they can think of to quash these products.

Tell the public that the products contain carcinogens (but forget to mention that they contain no more than is found in FDA-approved nicotine patches). Tell the public that you are "concerned" that the products may be aimed at children--even though there is zero proof of that. Tell the public that "we don't know what's in the vapor" (despite a review of 16 toxicology tests published in Journal of Public Health). Send out model legislation to all of the public health professionals across the nation, telling them to include e-cigarettes in smoking bans (Americans for Nonsmokers Rights has done this).

We need to reach the public. We have no money for advertising campaigns. This is a once-in-a-bluemoon opportunity to reach the public.

This notice first appeared in the Media and General News sub-forum on September 9. There are 27 responses. I posted it in the E-Cigarette Success Stories sub-forum, and there are 28 responses there.

This forum has nearly 70,000 members, with almost 10,000 active members. Surely we can do better than a couple of dozen stories told to The Doctors.

If you have a better idea than asking the vendors to contact their customers as a means of reaching thousands of vapers, please tell me what that might be.

 

[Vocalek]

I posted my story and responded in another thread here on ECF. Since this is posted all over ECF, I'm sure many people have responded elsewhere and/or just not posted that they did respond to the posting...

It was only posted in two places until today, with a total response count of 55. That's why I did what I did.

 

[Caver]

I submitted my story. Hope it helps!

 

[TWolf]

thanks for doing that mass posting Vocalek.... submitted my story and passed along the link to some others.... don't wonder the forum much so I would have missed this otherwise.... much appreciated!

 

[Vocalek]

Giving this a bump back to Page 1 in case some folks have been out of touch for a while and have not seen it.

 

[Nunnster]

Added my story to the mix

 

[Vocalek]

Bumping this, as it has dropped off the first page.

If you haven't told your story to The Doctors, please consider doing so.

 

[VaprMade]

My story was told! I usually dislike putting things about myself on the net, but this along with the white house petition are exceptions.

 

[LeAnn]

I put my story out there and wish every vaper would submit theirs! I don't want to have to hide to vape! This is a good cause and we are getting stronger and should voice our opinion, not hide them hoping that the public and government won't notice what we are doing. I live in a free country and want it to stay that way don't you?