What is the reason for switching to ecig?

[curlygirl]

I quit smoking analogs 8 weeks ago, but had slipped a few times. I didn't want to go back to smoking a 1/2 pack a day, so I went looking for an alternative.

I am so new to all of this, just got my 510 today....but I so agree with the posters about taxes and paying for others health care That in of itself is enough to keep me away from analogs!

 

[jwquantrell]

My number one reason was that I was tired of the "sin tax" that seemed to have no end on cigarettes.

Once I started, I realized the health benefits and the benefits to those around me that no longer had to put up with the smell of smoke.

 

[AJMoore]

1. Health
2. Cost
3. Cig's are stinky (home, car and on me)
4. Grandkids

 

[MaxUT]

The taxes got me interested. I was just fed up. I had switched to Roll Your Owns after the tax hike on packs. Then they went and upped the tax on Roll Your Owns so I went looking for an alternative.
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Less taxes and I get my lungs and taste buds back. Works for me.

Dittos on that. F-E-D U-P. Got tired of being a cash cow for the government, so screw 'em.

"I can see NOVEMBER from my house!"

 

[CoffNoMoJo]

Bronchitis. Nagging, horrible bronchitis. It started with the "fire safe cigarettes." Up until then, even after 42 years of heavy smoking, my lung capacity was still above average. Within a year all I did was cough and wheeze, and I could hardly walk across the room without stopping to catch my breath. I HAD TO QUIT SMOKING!

On 2/1/10 I saw a commercial for BecomeAnEx.org and in desperation checked it out. Somebody was talking about e-cigs on the forums and suggested suppliers. I poked around a bit and ordered a kit and juice. Thank God it was a 510 and Johnson Creek juice, because I didn't have a clue what I was doing and hadn't found ECF yet. I got my bewildering array of stuff 2/4 and smoked my last analogs 2/5. Cough and shortness of breath went away within a week. It's all good!

I wonder if the powers that be know/care that FSC's still burn? So what was the point?

 

[Zenfrogs]

I watched my grandfather die of lung cancer but still couldn't quit. Smoked for over 20 years (started at 14). Recently a cousin on the same side of the family was diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of 42. He is only 7 years older than I am and has two young kids like I do...that was my wake up call.

 

[Princessdee]

Taxes here, too.
I couldn't afford to smoke as much as I wanted to after all the tax hikes Spring of 2009.

 

[Kimmy]

Kinda wanted to quit, but didn't have the motivation to try hard or spend money on gum or patches that are absolutely nothing like smoking. I love every aspect of smoking, so ecigs were a no brainer for me. I got my first kits, threw my cigs into the junk drawer, and never looked back.

 

[DC2]

Since I had every intention of smoking until I died, once something came along that allowed me to keep smoking without dying, it took me all of 3 seconds to decide maybe living would be a better choice.

 

[the_antisheep]

To end smoking for a lesser evil. I'd rather not go out like some relatives before me if at all possible...

And I was sick of being the social pariah as well as funding the crooked government. Sad thing is that the majority of smokers (not me in particular, but statistically speaking) are in the bottom lower class. This is who the government preys upon, the weak and the poor.

Think about it:

Tax breaks for new gas saving car owners - what poor person owns a new car?
Tax hikes on gas - how many poor people own old gas guzzlers?
Sin tax on alcohol and cigs - how many poor people fit into users of these two items?

You ask me, the governments efforts are to make the poor poorer (or maybe to snuff them out completely using their own addictions?)

 

[Sam_Kun]

Most people reason is health.but i think e cig most fun is you can try so many flavor.you can finally find your favor taste.

 

[Deschain]

Health all the way for me, over two decades of smoking were taking their toll on me, I am now more than half a year into e-cigs and a non-smoker...I look better, feel better and smell better.

They've lost the novelty value now as well, so I am not spending money on tons of different flavours and messing around with different e-cig models - I have a core of two or three flavours that I am consistantly happy with, so I am now savng money as well.

 

[bassnut]

Most people reason is health.but i think e cig most fun is you can try so many flavor.you can finally find your favor taste.

Do you smoke cigarettes, Sam_Kun?
Do you vape electronic cigarettes?
I do not want children to be using electronic cigarettes because of the flavor. It's a great device for cigarette smokers to do less harm to themselves and the people around them.
Yes, it is very much about health.

 

[Sam_Kun]

Hi,Bassnut,

I have give up regular cigarettes for very long time.and now using E cig,but everyday we should test the e cig,so it feel like already smoke 50 cigarettes with different flavor,
i also not recommend children to use e cig also.children are future of us.we should protect them.

Sam

 

[Brewster 59]

And I was sick of being the social pariah as well as funding the crooked government. Sad thing is that the majority of smokers (not me in particular, but statistically speaking) are in the bottom lower class. This is who the government preys upon, the weak and the poor.

Think about it:

Tax breaks for new gas saving car owners - what poor person owns a new car?
Tax hikes on gas - how many poor people own old gas guzzlers?
Sin tax on alcohol and cigs - how many poor people fit into users of these two items?

You ask me, the governments efforts are to make the poor poorer (or maybe to snuff them out completely using their own addictions?)

It goes even farther than that how bout those rebates on the tax payers dime for those who bought new cars dont think to many poor people will be buying new cars.

 

[Brewster 59]

Do you smoke cigarettes, Sam_Kun?
Do you vape electronic cigarettes?
I do not want children to be using electronic cigarettes because of the flavor. It's a great device for cigarette smokers to do less harm to themselves and the people around them.
Yes, it is very much about health.

Here what I think, I really dont think many kids will go through the hassle of ecigs. I really think ecigs will only be used by smokers who cant quit. Think about it charging batts

 

[guava]

For me it was being tired of the stink. My job has physical requirements so I always had to make sure I was fresh out of the shower before work, and didn't smoke again until after work. Smoking began to feel like a "dirty little secret" and I don't like having to hide things. I've also been an athlete for my entire life and I started to feel the decline in wind, truly shameful for me knowing *I* was responsible for doing this shameful thing to *myself*.

Vaping since January has changed my life in a very positive way. I still have the occasional regular cig, but nothing like before, and I can feel the difference BIG-TIME.

 

[smokingisbad]

b/c i realized i was smoking wild horse lights instead of marlboro lights to save a buck or two.

 

[NCC]

When I woke up the morning of 1/15/2010, I had no intentions of quitting with the cigarettes. That is the day my first PV was delivered. I didn't buy it to quit smoking ... I bought it because I like gadgets, and I viewed it as such. Until I got the battery charged and took my first couple hits off of it. With that, my decision was made for me. I've inhaled cigarette smoke several times since then. Gladly, it tasted horrid to me. So, in a nutshell, the switch was kinda an accident ... but, I'm so GLAD of it. For health reasons.

I smoked 1 to 2 packs of MORE Reds for at least 35 years, ending 1/15/2010.

 

[Hawk52501]

#1 Federal, and then State,(thanks Chet), tobacco taxes.
#2 My little nephew theatening to throw my pack of smokes away everytime I saw him! And he still thinks my 510 is a burning cigarette....no throwing this away