I had an idea pop in my head last night......want to bounce it around with ya'll see how it holds up.
My husbands, battle group is leaving for a nine month deployment this July.
These sailors will not only be leaving their families for nine months, will miss all the major holidays, they are going into hostel waters, will be working 60-90 hour work weeks, and are not expecting a lot of liberty ports.(at this point None, but they are unlikely to do that to the crews. Not going to be a fun cruise)
So the living conditions are going to be about as stressful as you can get for these sailors.
What if I took two small boys, with crews of roughly 350 at least 100 of them will be smokers.
Use one ship as a control... they continue with their Normal stop smoking programs. Which includes all the lectures one could ask for from the medical officers, and totally free patches, gum and pills.
The smokers of the other ship, are given an explanation on the ins and outs, and how to's of e-cigs. Online support for issues and problems.
510 starter kits, and charging station ports in the major work stations.
Set the ship store/ or a POC up with spare parts and e-liquid. Everything they would need.
They will still have access to regular cig's from the ship store, lib ports and other smokers. So the possiblity to fail is still there.
Possible Info Gained....
How many/% smokers take the bait and attempt to quit.
How many/% successfully quit smoking vaping vs traditional methods in a controlled but stressful environments.
Could do self reported medical reports, survey how they feel smoking and then after vaping for nine months.
The whole battle group is planning on or just finished taking the PRT (Physical readiness test/ 1.5 mile run, sit ups, push ups) will have another while out at sea and they will have another PRT when they return. PRT's are done about every six months.
So we could compare PRT results before, right after starting and after vaping for a while.
So thoughts, input, let me know I'm an idiot
ETC...........
My husbands, battle group is leaving for a nine month deployment this July.
These sailors will not only be leaving their families for nine months, will miss all the major holidays, they are going into hostel waters, will be working 60-90 hour work weeks, and are not expecting a lot of liberty ports.(at this point None, but they are unlikely to do that to the crews. Not going to be a fun cruise)
So the living conditions are going to be about as stressful as you can get for these sailors.
What if I took two small boys, with crews of roughly 350 at least 100 of them will be smokers.
Use one ship as a control... they continue with their Normal stop smoking programs. Which includes all the lectures one could ask for from the medical officers, and totally free patches, gum and pills.
The smokers of the other ship, are given an explanation on the ins and outs, and how to's of e-cigs. Online support for issues and problems.
510 starter kits, and charging station ports in the major work stations.
Set the ship store/ or a POC up with spare parts and e-liquid. Everything they would need.
They will still have access to regular cig's from the ship store, lib ports and other smokers. So the possiblity to fail is still there.
Possible Info Gained....
How many/% smokers take the bait and attempt to quit.
How many/% successfully quit smoking vaping vs traditional methods in a controlled but stressful environments.
Could do self reported medical reports, survey how they feel smoking and then after vaping for nine months.
The whole battle group is planning on or just finished taking the PRT (Physical readiness test/ 1.5 mile run, sit ups, push ups) will have another while out at sea and they will have another PRT when they return. PRT's are done about every six months.
So we could compare PRT results before, right after starting and after vaping for a while.
So thoughts, input, let me know I'm an idiot
ETC...........
