Why did you start using an e-cigarette?

Why did you start using e-cigarettes?

  • To quit or cut back on smoking in an effort to improve my health

  • To have a sexy device with lights and dials

  • I don't know I just like taking polls


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prometheus

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I was recently informed that the only reason anyone on here uses e-cigarettes is because they look sexy and have lights and dials... So I figured I would post a poll and see what everyone really has to say. I can't believe that no one on ECF uses them to quit cigarettes. I know that I never even heard of them until I was looking up ways to quit but that could just be me. So what do the rest of you have to say. Did you do it for your health or because of the lights and dials?
 
I started using them because it was cheaper than smoking real cigarettes. In my country a pack of cigarettes cost about $7. Per month i was usually smoking about $250 away. And after a while because it was much more healthier.

Also i like gadgets, people are always asking me what it is i have (Ego-T). Its a great conversation starter.
 

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Wow, look sexy?? I try to hide it when in public. I'm actually a bit embarrassed. My reasons were three-fold.
1) pain on right side of chest where lung is
2) needed to quit for insurance
3) was going on vaca and didn't want to be without my nicotine

Tried nicorette. Worked really well for two years, yes 2 years! But lost my mom and went from nicorette back to smokes. Tried chantix and became homicidal. I had quit and gone back to many tomes for anything to work at this point. I was getting ready to leave on vaca and a friend suggested I try an ecig. Swear I never looked back!! Six weeks now!!
 

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I was recently informed that the only reason anyone on here uses e-cigarettes is because they look sexy and have lights and dials...

I read that thread...thanks for making me laugh all over again.

Me...I used them to completely quite smoking. I'm addicted to nicotine but wanted to get it in a safer way so ecigs is the way I choose to do it without the pretty lights, dials, and such.
 

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The poll does not include just wanting to get my nicotene in a safer cheaper way . I don't want to quit never did I just wanted to vape because it is way cheaper for me , more fun and I still get my nic .

Yeah I was going to add other reasons but at one point I was up to 7 and decided to try and keep it simple. The fact that you said it was safer speaks volumes and yes cost would be one heck of a good reason but what most are finding is that they spend more on e-cigs such as myself so I left that out too lol. Fun... yeah it can be but for most people I think the fun will die down after the first year or 2 and then it will just be our habit :) Besides I think its fun because we make it so... it helps us stick with it :vapor:

Plus if Big Tobacco ever did enter the arena I bet they suck the fun right out of it lol.
 

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Health concerns. I noticed a trend of european cigarretes, for example, camel cigar was just not turkish blend anymore, just all the same rubish tabaco with a lot of smoking kills warnings. Since 2004 those new packs just tasted bad and I used to love the smoking act flavour, then I stop liking it and after that I started to feel my health really taking a big punch and since the the taste changed a lot, I was not dying with pleasure anymore. Then tried an e-cig and then bloog cartos, what else to say??

I can have the pleasure back with no bad taste, headaches and other similar body aches and pains.:vapor:
 

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Since starting with an ecig 6 months ago I have more breath . I have sleep apnea and just to check that and any time the Doctor prescribes a new drug I bought an oximeter fo check my oxygen saturation level and heartbeat . Since quiting analogs my oxygen saturation level has gone from an average of 95% to an average of 97% .
 

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Health concerns. I noticed a trend of european cigarretes, for example, camel cigar was just not turkish blend anymore, just all the same rubish tabaco with a lot of smoking kills warnings. Since 2004 those new packs just tasted bad and I used to love the smoking act flavour, then I stop liking it and after that I started to feel my health really taking a big punch and since the the taste changed a lot, I was not dying with pleasure anymore. Then tried an e-cig and then bloog cartos, what else to say??

I can have the pleasure back with no bad taste, headaches and other similar body aches and pains.:vapor:

Because they use reconstituted tobacco thats been loaded with tons of new chemicals. Then they press it, dry it and then cut it into the strips we are used to smoking. Just like potatoes flakes that you add water to and tada! mashed potatoes lol!
 
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