VAPING vs SMOKING (Inconveniences)

[PaporPlas]

After wiping the oozing ejuice from my PV for the umpteenth time. I was thinking about how "inconvenient" it can be to vape.

Then it occurred to me that smoking has some inconveniences, as well. MY LIST:

• vaping means you have to deal with a liquid that sometimes leaks and gets on your hands and clothing.
• SMOKING means you have a smoke smell that makes your body, clothes, car and furniture stink.

• VAPING requires the user to keep refilling their cartos, carts, tanks, or drip.
• SMOKING requires the user to keep on hand a pack of cigs or cartons, ash trays, matches/lighter.

• VAPING doesn't taste exactly like cigarrettes.
• SMOKING tastes like burnt matter, because it is.

• VAPING one has to deal with batteries and technology issues.
• SMOKING one has to deal with ashes, butts, and the risk of burning their houses down.

• VAPING is something that can be done in many places, so the Vaper might find themselves "chain-vaping", at times.
• SMOKING is something you can't do in very many places, including indoors, so the smoker frequently is banished to smoke "outside".

• VAPING around others creates a concern that vaping might be "like" smoking - thus a concern to them if they "breath" in some of the vapor.
• SMOKING around others creates "second-hand-smoke" that is dangerous to the health of those nearby.

• VAPING the newer user has to figure out his/her best nicotine level (6mg, 12mg, 18mg, 24mg or 36mg).
• SMOKING to get their nic fix the smoker ends up intaking thousands of dangerous chemicals that are "laced" in with the cig. Not to mention the smoke inhaled.

• VAPING because it looks like smoking, the uneducated assumes it is as bad as smoking.
• SMOKING because it is smoking, you can die from it.
  
  My entire point here is that everything in life has "inconveniences" and just because vaping has some, doesn't mean there aren't more in smoking. : )

Any I missed?

 

[Patrick21]

Never let it get you down, when you have found the perfect ecig for you and the right liquid etc; you shouldnt have the leaking problems. i know when i first started i had all sorts of problems, atomisers running low, leaking, stickiness etc; but after a while i learned to deal with it and try to minimise getting those sorts of problems. you will get there eventually

 

[moonlessnight]

Vaping: being healthier and living longer
Smoking: death by something awful

 

[GitMoe]

A lot of those vaping issues seem like "new vaper" issues to me. We all experience them and it's part of the learning curve with vaping. But your last point is the one that matters. Smoking will kill you...

 

[PaporPlas]

A lot of those vaping issues seem like "new vaper" issues to me. We all experience them and it's part of the learning curve with vaping. But your last point is the one that matters. Smoking will kill you...

Yes, much of the "inconveniences" with vaping is New Vaper related. That'a pretty much the point of my post. Cuz I see so many new vapers say, "It's just easier to smoke." When in reality, it ain't! : )

 

[cags]

SMOKING means you have burn holes in your clothes, furniture, rugs, etc., etc.

 

[KeysBum]

The biggest inconvenience relates to retirement planning. Vaping has fouled the whole thing up in that I'll now probably outlive my money. I guess I'll just have to live with that.

 

[scalewiz]

It's a pretty sad, lazy life we lead if we decide smoking is "easier" than vaping.

 

[PaporPlas]

It's a pretty sad, lazy life we lead if we decide smoking is "easier" than vaping.

I know....​right.

 

[base234]

I've had all those issues to some extent or another except one. I've been able to work my way through them so they're not issues anymore. Vaping around others has never been a problem. I can stealth vape with best of them but mostly I vape openly in public. And I enjoy it. Not one person EVER has objected, commented (edit: negatively) or given me a dirty look. Maybe it's my cheerful attitude.

 

[mooreted]

Well, death from emphysema and lung cancer are pretty inconvenient.

--I don't have leaking issues
--Filling cartos is easy
--Cigarettes taste nasty
--We already deal with batteries in the umteen gadgets we all have
--Don't see chain vaping as a problem
--Don't care what other people think, but I try to be respectful: I'm not in charge of people's crazy attitudes
--I find that many places are open to vaping, you'd be surprised if you ask first
--The learning curve is a hassle
--Again, not in charge of people's crazy ideas

I think it will get better as time goes by. I'm certainly not stopping until I feel like it.

 

[Jiffy22]

I can't begin to tell you how many times when I smoked in my car that I used to try to ash out the window (I smoked with my windows half down) and hit my window instead and had hot ash fall on me and my floorboard! Then I had a crushed analog that had to be relit and I just got frustrated. Especially having to smoke while driving and its FREEZING outside.

 

[PaporPlas]

I can't begin to tell you how many times when I smoked in my car that I used to try to ash out the window (I smoked with my windows half down) and hit my window instead and had hot ash fall on me and my floorboard! Then I had a crushed analog that had to be relit and I just got frustrated. Especially having to smoke while driving and its FREEZING outside.

I know...right.

And peeps complain on here about "leaking cartos"! Not even close.... : )

 

[Alac]

Vapeing: Might want to loosen the carto a 1/4 turn to keep an auto battery from fireing.
Smokeing: Insureing that the cherry is fully out to keep an ashtray from catching fire.

 

[PaporPlas]

vapeing: Might want to loosen the carto a 1/4 turn to keep an auto battery from fireing.
Smokeing: Insureing that the cherry is fully out to keep an ashtray from catching fire.

Good One!!!

 

[Meggers]

Bottom line for me? I can breathe again. I can walk up stairs. I can walk 14 min. miles and not get winded. And the lack of hacking up brown smurfs. That's nice.

 

[papawhiskey]

I prefer Vaping to analogs now. Like everyone else, I had the leaking juice learning curve too. Now, if I could just get my wife on E's full time then things would be even better.

 

[merlin440]

LOL Chain Vapping...

Well all i can say as a former 3-5 pack a day of analogs, I only went to places I could chain smoke, so I don't see chain vaping as a inconvenience.

 

[murrajes]

I can't begin to tell you how many times when I smoked in my car that I used to try to ash out the window (I smoked with my windows half down) and hit my window instead and had hot ash fall on me and my floorboard! Then I had a crushed analog that had to be relit and I just got frustrated. Especially having to smoke while driving and its FREEZING outside.

Or, when it's raining. I'd leave the windows open to smoke even when it was pouring down rain and my whole side would be soaked! LOL!

 

[PaporPlas]

or, when it's raining. I'd leave the windows open to smoke even when it was pouring down rain and my whole side would be soaked! Lol!

c l a s s i c !