One of the main reasons I even wanted to stop smoking and look for alterative ways to "feed my addiction" is because i have an almost 3 year old son. I have to make sure he is no where near me if i want to light up. Is it safe to vape around children? Frowned upon? Do you? This mama needs some advice
vaping around small children?
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I try not to do it. More to avoid image repetition. But I don't hide either. They all know daddy is a smoker, and this is how daddy is learning to NOT be a smoker.
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I don't have children but around my nieces and nephews I try to vape outside or in a different area. Of course their dad (my brother) smokes around them all the time but I try to advoid it. Their mom doesn't care if I vape around them but since we don't know for sure that it's not harmful I try to avoid it as much as possible. They usually track me down though because it smells like Vanilla Cupcake or Bananas Foster around me.
I go out to the garage just like when i was a smoker. Probably not harmful to my 2 and 4 year old but not willing to take the chance.
Now instead of the wife complaining that i am a smoker she complains that i was gone for 10 minutes vaping. I can't seem to win that fight.
Now instead of the wife complaining that i am a smoker she complains that i was gone for 10 minutes vaping. I can't seem to win that fight.
Lots of people seem to think it's somehow more dangerous to vape around children than it is to vape around anyone else; since it's been shown that there are such small traces of any of the chemicals in "2nd hand vapor" that they're not even measurable, the logic of this escapes me.
If you try to hide it, the kid will eventually find out, or at least know you're hiding *something*, and be VERY eager to find out WHAT; if you act like you're "ashamed" of it but do it anyway, the kid will lose respect for you. I can't fault those who want to keep their kids safe, but to me, this hiding out from kids while vaping seems ridiculous and way overboard. You're vaping in order not to smoke; to me, that seems completely sufficient.
If you try to shield kids from every least little thing, you will fail; if you try to keep them from every germ, they will not develop an immune system. If you go to these kinds of lengths to avoid "contaminating" your children's air, how do you feel about them riding in cars or schoolbuses? Which, I assure you, is far worse for them than anything that comes from an e-cig.
Andria
If you try to hide it, the kid will eventually find out, or at least know you're hiding *something*, and be VERY eager to find out WHAT; if you act like you're "ashamed" of it but do it anyway, the kid will lose respect for you. I can't fault those who want to keep their kids safe, but to me, this hiding out from kids while vaping seems ridiculous and way overboard. You're vaping in order not to smoke; to me, that seems completely sufficient.
If you try to shield kids from every least little thing, you will fail; if you try to keep them from every germ, they will not develop an immune system. If you go to these kinds of lengths to avoid "contaminating" your children's air, how do you feel about them riding in cars or schoolbuses? Which, I assure you, is far worse for them than anything that comes from an e-cig.
Andria
They know what i do and why i do it and see me do it all the time when we are outside and such. They just know that daddy doesn't do it in the house just like when daddy's cigar smoking buddies come over that we don't smoke cigars in the house.
Nope, Not gonna do it.
Kids got enough crap in their lives, They don't need any of my baggage.
I do the same when I am out and about. No Smoking Signs to me mean No Vaping.
Why start a fight.
Jim
Kids got enough crap in their lives, They don't need any of my baggage.
I do the same when I am out and about. No Smoking Signs to me mean No Vaping.
Why start a fight.
Jim
No judgement on anyone, we are all adults and make our own decisions, but I would never do it. I actually try and vape in privacy around non vaping adults too, especially when they are strangers. Many people are not educated about it, and I don't want it getting a bad rep.
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