Feels like I'm just a newb all over again, but I just passed NINE years last month.
Time flies when you're Tootle Puffin'.
Time flies when you're Tootle Puffin'.
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I was vaping for years before I joined ECF, but it was research that brought me here. Specially a nasty battery accident.
That's just a myth, you can't get sick from that. So it's not your fault after all.
Madonna had to write, well sing, that song because she was born devirginized I think,
Sorry. Carry on.
Anna
Sorry. Carry on.
Anna
Stopping smoking didn't make me healthy, just less unhealthy. I think the best thing vapers can do to defend vaping is finish the job, diet, exercise, lose the weight, look the part.
I have heard it said you'd have to gain 350 lbs to like be as unhealthy as smoking,
So really, we as vapers all need to gain like 700 lbs to look the part. My logic may be faulty here, maybe we need to LOSE 350 lbs but then I would have to die, and that sounds unhealthy too.
I personally think vapers should not have to like, amend OTHER habits to like, "look good," I drink A TON of diet pepsi and when people query me about it, I go "Yea, maybe I will deal with this addiction once I am five years smoke free."
Being an ex smoker is really good for dispelling residual shame and dismay with fat kids. I just ask them if I "look healthy" and they go "yeah you are all skinny" or whatever and then I tell the family about my almost oxygen tank smoking history and they feel better I'm like, "It's not about how you LOOK you look fine/handsome/lovely/adorable (sometimes I am lying but not always) it's about your HEALTH.
I love having it in my back pocket,. Chills families right out.
Here is one thing I DO not understand though? Like, a lot of nutritionist are fat themselves,. IDK how they justify all the nutrition information when the kid is sitting there, going "you weigh more than me?"
I don't get it. I worked with one in Sierra Vista and she's lovely but also clinically obese. So are a lot of docs (fat.)
Whenever I got asked to run a smoking cessation class I was like ,"Um I don't think that would go so well given I'd smoke on break and I'd add in EXTRA breaks, specifically announced for the purpose "We are all taking an extra smoke break now."
I mean.....
Anna
So really, we as vapers all need to gain like 700 lbs to look the part. My logic may be faulty here, maybe we need to LOSE 350 lbs but then I would have to die, and that sounds unhealthy too.
I personally think vapers should not have to like, amend OTHER habits to like, "look good," I drink A TON of diet pepsi and when people query me about it, I go "Yea, maybe I will deal with this addiction once I am five years smoke free."
Being an ex smoker is really good for dispelling residual shame and dismay with fat kids. I just ask them if I "look healthy" and they go "yeah you are all skinny" or whatever and then I tell the family about my almost oxygen tank smoking history and they feel better I'm like, "It's not about how you LOOK you look fine/handsome/lovely/adorable (sometimes I am lying but not always) it's about your HEALTH.
I love having it in my back pocket,. Chills families right out.
Here is one thing I DO not understand though? Like, a lot of nutritionist are fat themselves,. IDK how they justify all the nutrition information when the kid is sitting there, going "you weigh more than me?"
I don't get it. I worked with one in Sierra Vista and she's lovely but also clinically obese. So are a lot of docs (fat.)
Whenever I got asked to run a smoking cessation class I was like ,"Um I don't think that would go so well given I'd smoke on break and I'd add in EXTRA breaks, specifically announced for the purpose "We are all taking an extra smoke break now."
I mean.....
Anna
Well I guess it's all in how you look at it. Dead seems to be the healthiest state a living thing can achieve...
- you can't get high blood pressure,
- you can't become diabetic,
- you can't get cancer,
- you can't catch a cold,
- you can't catch a virus,
- you can't be in pain,
- you can't be overweight,
- you can't get a heart attack or a stroke,
- etc., etc., etc.
My doctor is an old guy (89!!!)but he thinks young. At first he said he was cautiously optimistic about vaping.
“Well we KNOW how smoking ends up” he said. He is the doc who diagnosed my husband’s cancer. With a stethoscope. Everything he said was confirmed in further tests.
Anyway, he said I likely had early stage emphysema 7 years ago. Just before I started vaping. The last time I went for a check up he said my lungs were clear, my heart healthy as a 30 year old’s.
He still won’t promote vaping, he wants more proof, but he says it seems to be working for me and can’t see a reason I should stop.
Good enough for me.
I remember feeling 10 yrs younger when I quit smoking and started vaping. I felt 10 years younger when I changed my diet. 10 years younger when I found an exercise that works for me, Tai Chi and walking. So thanks to vaping my whole lifestyle changed and I feel 30 yrs younger overall LOL!
Keep going! 10 years here, 10 years there...pretty soon you'll be back in the womb.
Ha ha! After some health issues I had this year I am just grateful I can still walk, everyday is a day to celebrate
When I switched to vaping, my doctor would always ask "Are you still using e-cigarettes instead of smoking?" And when I would say "yes" she would follow it up with a joyful "Good for you!!"
For the 6 months of summer I walked 2 x 1 hours daily. Resting heart rate declined from low 60's to low 50's. Over two years of better diet and exercise lowered blood pressure from low 160's to low 120's. The way I see it stopping smoking was necessary before I would ever do the other things. I bet 75% of the people in medical waiting rooms are there because of self inflicted illness caused by lifestyle. Allowing people to stop smoking is going to be important to rescuing the health care system.
Healthy people aren't profitable.
We need to save the children.
Let's use some common sense here
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I am not sure that the powers that be want to rescue the cash cow. They will milk that cow until it is dead. Those with real cash don't use the health care system in the way tha most of us do. Take the president of Cigna Healthcare or any member of congress, making millions whether by salary or graft, these do not worry about a PCP, pre-approvals, pharmacy formularies and networks. They don't need no stinkin' network.
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