Vape Poll?

[RocketPants]

I recently read a report (I don't remember where, someone here may know) that stated the average of smokers that quit by switching to e-cigs isn't substantial enough for anyone to make the claim that they are a safer and more effective way to stop smoking compared to other cessation products. It showed a graph that had the annual average of smokes bought from the past few years compared to each other, and saw no decline in relation to e-cig sales. The punchline of the article said that users of e-cigs aren't actually quitting, that they're just picking up another habit along with still smoking cigarettes.

That blew my mind. I've been smoke free for a few months now since I've been vaping and I didn't even try to quit, it just happened. I've seen hundreds posts from folks (on this forum and others) saying the same thing. So after I read that article, I got to thinking about how we could actually pull some numbers and see what the average poster here has done so far by making a poll of sorts. Have you quit smoking completely after picking up vaping? If you have quit, how long did it take? Do you vape but still smoke with the intent to quit eventually? Or maybe you vape but still smoke with no intentions of quitting?

I know some here may be embarrassed or unwilling to say that they haven't or can't quit, and that's fine. I definitely don't want anyone feeling alienated for whatever reason, so if you'd rather not answer, don't feel like you have to. There's a huge amount of people here in this forum (this is the biggest e-cig forum in the web, is it not?) and with the weight this place carries, I'd love to see this become something useful and start a trend among other e-cig forums. If we got the results I think we would get, it would be a huge advantage for us if presented to CASAA. The anti-ecig groups couldn't argue with those numbers in our favor. (Also, if this has been done before or is frowned upon in any way, my apologies.)

What do yall think?

 

[airframer]

Pure BS. A better poll wouldn't be the total number of smokers who have quit, but the success rate, which would be more telling...

 

[mare ze dotes]

I quit smoking rather quickly. It was a definite up grade to my lungs. ( thank you,me) That I can attest to.

 

[Recycled Roadkill]

I'd have to agree that it's pure BS too. I had no intention of quitting and believed I'd be inhaling cigarette smoke with my last breath.

I do wish that the skeptics would open their eyes to all the good that vaping brings and just quit the "it might" "it may" "it doesn't" "it can't."

 

[Jillian M]

I smoked a pack a day for almost 20 years. I tried pretty much everything you can think of to quit except prescription medications. Nothing I tried could keep me from smoking for more than a month.

I picked up a Blu kit from the corner store on labor day weekend and used that for about a week. Using the Blu I smoked 2-3 cigarettes a day. I upgraded to an eGo kit and after using that for 3 days I haven't smoked a cigarette since. I am going to upgrade to a ProVari very soon.


Nothing and I mean NOTHING has worked for quitting cigarettes this well for me ever. I don't even miss it. I'm around people who smoke all the time and it doesn't even faze me.

As a matter of fact a couple of my coworkers have switched to vaping too after seeing how well it's been working for me.

 

[JulesXsmokr]

we all here have found an "alternative to nicotine consumption" vaping....
all these polls out there are trying to link us to the old habit of consuming carcinogens, I don't like the link to vaping being a smoking cessation product. Those polls are sometimes very tricky when you are made to answer their questions with their pre-thought of answers, if that's what they have. In short, I don't participate in them, for their analogy may well not be what you intended for your answer to mean. Any poll about vaping should include - do you feel healthier, and does you doctor see it that way also..

 

[Vicshalls]

I got my ego and being the cheap person I am I continued to smoke until they were all gone. Once they were there was no looking back. Actually I did not want to finish what I had but keep in mind I am cheap and just could not see throwing them away since I had Paid for them. Yes I know that is crazy cause no matter what it all went up in smoke.

 

[DC2]

There have been many such polls done, both here and at the CASAA website.
There have also been many scientific studies posted in peer reviewed journals as well.

These results easily show that what you read is a load of crap.

The problem is not that the results are not already out there to prove this wrong.
The problem is that the mainstream media has no inclination to give them any air time whatsoever.

 

[Rickajho]

Isn't that one of the "research studies" that good old "dual use Glantz" is citing all the time? For contextual purposes we should probably dig up a (broken) link to it.

 

[Silent Scream]

There is no connection between amount of smokers who now vape and how much safer vaping is. What was that all about? It just 'is' safer, no argument. You can find any amount of agenda-driven polls that demonise vaping on the net and outside the net but they're not worth the brain energy you wasted recognising they existed.

 

[Ed_C]

While what you read doesn't sounds right to me, I'm not sure what good a survey of ECF users would be. We are not a random sample of smokers that tried to quit using vaping, we are a self-selected group of vaping fans. With the exception of the new folks that come in, we are here because we had some success. Smokers who tried and failed to quit using ecigs aren't represented here.

 

[Silent Scream]

While what you read doesn't sounds right to me, I'm not sure what good a survey of ECF users would be. We are not a random sample of smokers that tried to quit using vaping, we are a self-selected group of vaping fans. With the exception of the new folks that come in, we are here because we had some success. Smokers who tried and failed to quit using ecigs aren't represented here.

True, but smokers who tried to quit using e cigs and didn't like cig a likes or had all the wrong setups and didn't know places like this existed are very well represented in every anti vaping poll. Having said that, a poll on here well we'd all just agree with each other it wouldn't cause any great splashes lol.