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Just checking. I was going to tell my story, but nevermind.
prolly has a J.O.B.
Figures, he lives in Japan.
Not sure if this is the best place to put this, but thanks everyone for the responses. I know it's only anecdotal, but good to hear others are experience similar results. Looks like I had 'receive email notifications' unchecked. Corrected. Hope you receive good test results Coyote628.
I remember full well when the Doctor told me that my future life span would be measured in weeks, rather than in months or years, if I continued to smoke. I was 68 years old at the time. So I switched to vaping.
I am now 80 years old, so you tell me if vaping has worked for me.
But what do I know .... I'm just a dumb ole codger that vapes!
(should be sitting on a park bench all wrapped up in an overcoat)
I am now 80 years old, so you tell me if vaping has worked for me.
But what do I know .... I'm just a dumb ole codger that vapes!
(should be sitting on a park bench all wrapped up in an overcoat)
Really good to read everyone's own experiences of vaping and how it improved their lives. I've heard this echoed many times and goes to prove that switching to vaping really is a positive thing and definately a big step in the right direction.
I hate to think where I would be now if I had continued smoking. On a positive note, I'm so glad I made the switch. Its stories like these that should be shouted from the tree tops to make more people aware (especially those in power) of the vast benefits of vaping.
I hate to think where I would be now if I had continued smoking. On a positive note, I'm so glad I made the switch. Its stories like these that should be shouted from the tree tops to make more people aware (especially those in power) of the vast benefits of vaping.
Nothing wrong with hanging around on a park bench and vaping TJ.
You will likely find me there looking for a real person to play chess with.
Against the law here in Utah (Tobacco control act 2012)
I just thank the Deity (if such a word is acceptable today) that your politicians have saved you from yourself.
Vaped since early 2010. Smoked for decades before discovering vaping. I check my pulse and Oxygen levels periodically while riding my exercise bike and typically get 55-60 pulse range under load toward the end of my ride with 99% Oxygen saturation. When I smoked I huffed and puffed doing the bike ride.
Vaping is obviously the smart choice compared to smoking burning tobacco.
Vaping is obviously the smart choice compared to smoking burning tobacco.
Smoked 40 years, 2 and half packs a day the last 5 years. I haven't had even one cig in 6 years. I was probably spending about $3000/year on cigs then. I would like to stop vaping one day but there no comparison. I just had my first cold in many years but I think that is because people are not wearing masks and keeping a distance any more.
You haven't had a cig for 6 years. People weren't wearing masks and keeping distance the 1st 4 years of you being cig free yet you still didn't get a cold.
Your right. I will clarify. I have had the flu once (before the pandemic) and one bad cold (after the pandemic) in six years. I am not constantly ill and getting bronchitis all the time. Cigs are no longer a problem, just people and there germs
I think it makes sense for countries with universal healthcare to want the people in it to not die slow expensive deaths. In the UK it actually costs them money when their citizens are unwell especially if it's a long-term unwell. In the US it may cause some productivity but ultimately it's profitable for people to die in complicated slow expensive ways. It's an economic boom more than it is a productivity downgrade. You have multiple different interests making loads of money off of your death and those interests have apparently a first amendment right to receive money in order to make laws that the corporate interests want. And that's without even getting into the tobacco companies profiteering. Or the anti-smoking groups being almost completely funded through the purchase of cigarettes... To me it makes sense.
The studies that do come out in other places tend to not be comparative. If you take vaping and compare it to not vaping or smoking or using any tobacco product of course vaping isn't great. It can't stand up to not vaping but when you compare it to other tobacco products that's when you really see the benefit. Unfortunately the vaping lobby if it could even be called that did make a reasonable push at this time to be labeled a tobacco product and not a smoking cessation product. At the time had they wanted to become a smoking cessation product the hurdles that they would have had to overcome would have been horrendous. But to be a tobacco product at that time meant continued ability to sell produce manufacturer etc. But because they are a tobacco product and not a smoking cessation product the government has complete and utter grounds to do as they wish. Instead of having to prove that vaping benefits smokers they have to prove that vaping benefits everyone which is a very high bar. It's hard for you to prove that me vaping is going to help that person over there who's never smoked never vaped never done anything and that's what they have to do to be able to stay legally permissible on the market. Which is impossible basically.
But the same is true for anything we take into our bodies. The drug/substance MAY help some/many people under certain conditions - but may be harmful or lethal in others, especially if the substances is misused.
I don't know of any drug that is harmless. Even those that provide a large benefit also do damage to the body at the same time. That is where a proper risk/benefit analysis is useful. Unfortunately, the FDA does not do that with the drugs submitted for approval - they mostly exist to provide a "legitimacy" to the drugs that are produced to treat illnesses.
Regardless of the government's official label/propaganda of vaping not being a smoking cessation method, does not change the fact that vaping IS a highly effective method for quitting smoking.
I don't know of any drug that is harmless. Even those that provide a large benefit also do damage to the body at the same time. That is where a proper risk/benefit analysis is useful. Unfortunately, the FDA does not do that with the drugs submitted for approval - they mostly exist to provide a "legitimacy" to the drugs that are produced to treat illnesses.
Regardless of the government's official label/propaganda of vaping not being a smoking cessation method, does not change the fact that vaping IS a highly effective method for quitting smoking.
"In government, every serious mistake is, at bottom, a matter of disproportion. Furthermore, risk assessment is a basic test of rationality, as is weighing the tradeoffs when responding to risk. ... the idea that health and longevity are values superior to all others is crude biological materialism. There must ... be limits to prophylactic measures against even clear and present dangers. Otherwise, public health officials will meet no resistance to the primal urge of all government agencies: the urge to maximize their missions. As happened during Prohibition, increasing swaths of the nation are ignoring officiousness that is not plausibly related to a proportionate public good, and that is clearly related to social bossiness. ... Todays public health imperium threatens to envelop everybody and everything, forever." - George Will, 2/10/22
... Oooo,, just thought of something. I used to get 3-4 coldsores a year as a smoker. Sometimes they'd last 4-6 weeks each. That was one third of my life with a scabby lip.
I cannot recall the last time i had one as a vaper, certainly haven't had one for at least 5 years.
Also, since vaping i haven't caught any life-threatening diseases and no limbs have fallen off. I put that down to the antimicrobial properties of PG
I cannot recall the last time i had one as a vaper, certainly haven't had one for at least 5 years.
Also, since vaping i haven't caught any life-threatening diseases and no limbs have fallen off. I put that down to the antimicrobial properties of PG
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