Aww, thank you everyone, for sharing your stories! This seems like a really supportive community and I've learned a lot already from browsing various threads in different areas.
I don't know how common smoking is in various fields, but I've been in the mental health field for a little over six years. I'd watched a good 75%-80% of my co-workers of various positions outside in the designated smoking areas. Of course working in the field comes with a lot of stress, like a lot of careers probably do. Honestly, drinking or smoking has never been an option for me that even really crossed my mind during stressful times. I don't know, maybe hearing a co-worker talk about her vape pen a while back just stuck in my mind as a curiosity I wanted to explore.
I've taken prescription ativan when I'm super stressed in the past, but vaping calms me and takes the anxiety burden right off my shoulders most of the time. I'm going to stay with the lowest dose of nicotine I can. I'm hovering around 3mg, but have a 10mg nearby for the rough times.
My mom has been a heavy smoker for the longest time, and started when she was fifteen. I'm thinking I'd like to get her a setup for Christmas so maybe she will be curious and use it on her own free will. It's hard to listen to her intense coughing fits... just painful to even imagine what that's like because she coughs so hard. Crossing my fingers!
Vaping is a pretty amazing innovation, I was taking meds for stress/anxiety and have been able to cut them out as well not too mention the inhalers. I have been floored by how much it has helped me. Curiosity is what led me to vaping and as cliche as it sounds really changed a lot of aspects of my life. As soon I quit smoking and started feeling better I started working out again, which lead to eating better, and that in turn lead to just taking overall better care for myself. If you do get a starter kit for your Mother I hope it works for her as well as it has for the majority of the forum members. This is a very helpful community we all share one base goal to better ourselves by giving up a horrible addiction, I know it has been a great resource for me in my journey to a happier, healthier lifestyle. And I am pretty sure it will be the same for you. Vape on!!!
