Thought I had Heard It All

[englishmick]

I bumped into someone I work with occasionally who vapes. I asked her how it was going. She said she still vapes but has a few cigs a day.

Then she said she had asked her Doc about it. The Doc told her information is starting to come out that ecigs are more dangerous than cigarettes. Then he told her that ecig users are taking in small amounts of vaporised battery acid from the batteries. He said mark my words, in 10 years or so we are going to find out that those things are much worse than cigarettes. We will start to see large numbers of people coming down with a lot of serious diseases which we don't know about yet. New diseases that don't even exist today.

This lady thought it was probably nonsense but she wasn't sure. I told her not to worry but I don't think it helped much.

It costs $500,000 or something to educate these guys. And sometimes they end up thinking they are so much smarter than their patients that they can feed us any amount of bull and we will suck it up. My guess is he doesn't have a clue about ecigs, and he made that stuff up because he thought it would be good for her to stop vaping, and assumed she would just accept it because he said so.

To be fair most doctors aren't that dense.

 

[Amraann]

Many have posted here that their Dr's are very supportive of their vaping. Maybe she needs to find another Dr. ?

 

[ScandaLeX]

It's clear he is clueless. Sounds like he made all that up on the fly. Many Drs support vaping. He just an idiot who doesn't.

 

[Wolfenstark]

I bumped into someone I work with occasionally who vapes. I asked her how it was going. She said she still vapes but has a few cigs a day.

Then she said she had asked her Doc about it. The Doc told her information is starting to come out that ecigs are more dangerous than cigarettes. Then he told her that ecig users are taking in small amounts of vaporised battery acid from the batteries. He said mark my words, in 10 years or so we are going to find out that those things are much worse than cigarettes. We will start to see large numbers of people coming down with a lot of serious diseases which we don't know about yet. New diseases that don't even exist today.

This lady thought it was probably nonsense but she wasn't sure. I told her not to worry but I don't think it helped much.

It costs $500,000 or something to educate these guys. And sometimes they end up thinking they are so much smarter than their patients that they can feed us any amount of bull and we will suck it up. My guess is he doesn't have a clue about ecigs, and he made that stuff up because he thought it would be good for her to stop vaping, and assumed she would just accept it because he said so.

To be fair most doctors aren't that dense.

I hope I didn't inhale battery acid from my computer whilst reading that.

 

[Steamix]

As patients often expect and docs cultivate the image of know-it-all - temptations to feed an unsuspecting patient a load of crock runs high.

But crock or no crock, BP surely will see to it that it won'r run out of ailements to cure....

 

[skoony]

the Doctor and or clinic or hospital he's associated with
is promoting their own or some others NRT program.
regards
mike

 

[LeftofCenter]

OK, I can give him that we may find down the road more negatives than we thought, but he lost all validity when he said we are vaping battery acid...... How in the......Just......

 

[Bgren99]

Vaping battery acid? really? So he obviously has no idea how an ecig works therefore he is full of s..t. I work closely with the medical field and i can tell you, Dr's are booksmart but a lot of them have zero common sense, they just retain information they read very well. With that said I wouldn't be shocked if i end up with an extra lip in 10-20 years from some unknown vaping issue. I'm just not gonna buy an opinion from somebody who obviously has no idea what they're talking about. And at this point with all the information we have, any Dr that tells me I'd be better off smoking cigarettes instead of vaping...is not my Dr anymore

 

[SuperTaz]

I smell road apples on this one

 

[caramel]

He's correct about cigalikes, the airflow is through the battery compartment:

 

[ReigntheGamer]

Wait your not supposed to vape the batteries, but the juice. Aw hell.

 

[LeftofCenter]

Wait your not supposed to vape the batteries, but the juice. Aw hell.

Dude, you are so gonna get gills!

 

[AndriaD]

I think my own doc isn't sure whether to "support" e-cigarettes or not, but he DOES support quitting smoking, by whatever means you get there. So he's keeping an open mind about e-cigs, and asked some very intelligent questions about them -- which makes me glad he's been my doc for about 17 yrs; he's clearly intelligent enough to know he DOESN'T know EVERYTHING, and is willing to learn. Maybe it helps that he's 62 instead of some young stud muffin right outta med school, and his practice is mostly geriatric, so he's got a huge patient load of older folks still smoking, and reaping the consequences of it now that they're older.

Andria

 

[sparkky1]

My doctor told me I had Emphysema and cigarettes were going to kill me, I also heard you will get cancer holding your cell phone to your ear but not from the battery leaking but from something els should we be worried ?

 

[OlderNDirt]

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck:

QUACK, QUACK, QUACK!

 

[ReigntheGamer]

My Doctor was cool about it and listed me as a former smoker but also added when I got to 0nic I should quit vaping which I can understand. The it would be better to breathe just air thing kind of makes me lol though I live within 2 miles or less of 10 chemical plants so it maybe in my case better to hook up a respirator that's hooked up to an atty/mod.

 

[ian-field]

I bumped into someone I work with occasionally who vapes. I asked her how it was going. She said she still vapes but has a few cigs a day.

Then she said she had asked her Doc about it. The Doc told her information is starting to come out that ecigs are more dangerous than cigarettes. Then he told her that ecig users are taking in small amounts of vaporised battery acid from the batteries..

You'd expect a professional person like a doctor to not make such an elementary mistake in the terminology - lithium batteries contain *CAUSTIC* material, not acid.

Maybe they're thinking of back street amphetamine sulphate made with car battery acid.

 

[englishmick]

You'd expect a professional person like a doctor to not make such an elementary mistake in the terminology - lithium batteries contain *CAUSTIC* material, not acid.

Maybe they're thinking of back street amphetamine sulphate made with car battery acid.

I think it's like when you're talking to a 3 year old, trying to get them to stop doing something. Jack Frost isn't really going to come and get them if they don't go to bed, but the literal truth isn't important. Some doctors really do think they are that much smarter than their patients.

The lady I was talking to didn't have enough technical savvy to understand how ridiculous the battery acid thing was.

My doc thinks it's great that I stopped smoking. He didn't say what he thought about ecigs.

 

[AndriaD]

My doctor told me I had Emphysema and cigarettes were going to kill me, I also heard you will get cancer holding your cell phone to your ear but not from the battery leaking but from something els should we be worried ?

I think it's because of the electromagnetism in such close proximity to the brain. Living under those gi-normous long-range electrical wires is supposed to be bad too, for the electromagnetism.

Andria

 

[kbf101998]

So much misinformation out there! Yesterday Fox News aired a report of a 'New Study' just in ( they did not say who did the study) that reported that the vapor we are exhaling is producing formaldehyde particles that are harmful to others. They even interviewed a female doctor that supported that statement--and under the segment were the words "FDA has not issued any regulation of these products"
she even got in a couple of sentences about the 'children' being attracted and harmed by e-cigs...

and it goes on and on and on...