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'.
I was vaping for years before I joined ECF, but it was research that brought me here. Specially a nasty battery accident.Well, that might not tell us much anyhow. If a mod found the oldest forum member account, which would be from 2007, that doesn't necessarily mean that member started vaping at that time. They could have started vaping a year or 2 after they become a member, but just came here to gather information. When vaping was new, I'm sure there were a lot of smokers who waited a while to actually try it because they didn't know what the hell they were inhaling. There were lots of rumors that it was anti-freeze, for instance.
That's just a myth, you can't get sick from that. So it's not your fault after all.just now having a first cold in all this time. My fault tho it was cold windy and i did not cover my head.
Good job!!!I switched to vaping 5 1/2 years ago after smoking a carton a week for 40 of the previous 50 years. Last April got a lung exam and xray, all A ok. For the past 2 years reformed diet, low carb, and exercise, 1.5 - 2 hours of low heart rate aerobic training daily and 90 minutes of lifting weekly. Along the way dumped 30 lbs of fat, added 12 pounds of muscle, normalized blood pressure, blood sugar, etc. Vaping didn't interfere. I'm 71.
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.Good job!!!
but then I would have to die, and that sounds unhealthy too.
Hate to go off topic, but you seem to be someone who probably sees doctors a lot. If I'm right, what to they think about you vaping...do they even say anything about it being a better option for you over smoking or do they pretty much ignore it or treat it like smoking?
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!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 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!
Ha ha! After some health issues I had this year I am just grateful I can still walk, everyday is a day to celebrateKeep going! 10 years here, 10 years there...pretty soon you'll be back in the womb.
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.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!
Allowing people to stop smoking is going to be important to rescuing the health care system.
Allowing people to stop smoking is going to be important to rescuing the health care system.
Well I guess it's all in how you look at it. Dead seems to be the healthiest state a living thing can achieve...
Hell, you can't even die when you're dead. You're virtually invincible.
- 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.