I picked four. I started vaping after many years of being a non smoker. For the nicotine to avert Parkinson's disease. A friend of mine died with emphazema. He developed Parkinson's after quiting. I think the Parkinson's bothered him just as much as the Emphazema. I noticed my hands starting to shake, and decided to try it out. I vape at 8mg and seem to have reached the better level for me. Anything stronger leaves me dizzy. I only vape when I am alone and don't seem to crave nicotine when out with my wife.
Why did you start vaping?
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I'm also a #3. I smoked for 30+ years, well over a pack a day. While researching for my first purchases I felt fairly confident that I'd at least like it enough for it to displace a portion of my cig habit, especially since I'm another for whom ability to satisfy hand-to-mouth and sensation of inhalation aspects is probably most key. (And yes, was also enthusiastic that it could improve the chances of being able to do that despite given locales.) But I never would have believed that shortly thereafter I'd be completely off cigs -- and by 'accident.' Zero intention of that going in.
Six weeks before that I'd been visiting family, and reiterating flatly that there was no foreseeable chance that I'd ever try to quit. Would have needed a major motivation if not personality transplant for that lol. Said the only way I could think of at that time that I'd even consider would be something like a two-week specialized spa or retreat (read: non-hospital) program to kick things off, which if they exist (I looked once and was surprised by what I didn't find), would cost what, maybe $25K? Don't think so! If you'd told me then that not much more than six weeks later I'd be off cigs, I'd have only been able to guess that I must have gotten the baddest of bad health news or something... But even that wouldn't have necessarily made sense, since I'm probably the type who, if given the WORST of bad health news, would see it as making quitting rather irrelevant at that point.
Then one day I finally followed through on the mental note I'd made a few years ago to occasionally check up on whether this Chinese "Ruyan" thingamajig I'd seen mentioned in some obscure place ever made it to the US in a reliable way... WOW. I was simultaneously thrilled yet dismayed at all I'd somehow managed to miss out on during that time!
Also shortly after beginning to vape, there was the first very serious health emergency with my 80-ish mother in another state. I never would have believed that throughout the stress of arranging to and then getting out of town ASAP; then throughout a five+ hour drive to her state; and throughout a week of practically living in her room in cardiac ICU, on a sprawling tobacco-free campus in deep snow... I'd feel virtually no need for a real cigarette. Then came weeks of single-handedly trying to provide some holiday spirit, decor, festive meals, etc. for my small family, and doing all chores for my parents... And deep worsening of anxieties over where all that goes from here etc. etc... STILL no need for a cig. And I'd already been in my own personal rut before all that and before the ecig. (But not the kind that finally spurs you to some kind of action!)
Just amazing. I was THE LAST person who could have ever been expected to quit smoking... and just by 'accident.' In the middle of about the most stressful time in my life. And when I was feeling no motivation/willingness to put myself through anything at all to improve my lot.
Six weeks before that I'd been visiting family, and reiterating flatly that there was no foreseeable chance that I'd ever try to quit. Would have needed a major motivation if not personality transplant for that lol. Said the only way I could think of at that time that I'd even consider would be something like a two-week specialized spa or retreat (read: non-hospital) program to kick things off, which if they exist (I looked once and was surprised by what I didn't find), would cost what, maybe $25K? Don't think so! If you'd told me then that not much more than six weeks later I'd be off cigs, I'd have only been able to guess that I must have gotten the baddest of bad health news or something... But even that wouldn't have necessarily made sense, since I'm probably the type who, if given the WORST of bad health news, would see it as making quitting rather irrelevant at that point.
Then one day I finally followed through on the mental note I'd made a few years ago to occasionally check up on whether this Chinese "Ruyan" thingamajig I'd seen mentioned in some obscure place ever made it to the US in a reliable way... WOW. I was simultaneously thrilled yet dismayed at all I'd somehow managed to miss out on during that time!
Also shortly after beginning to vape, there was the first very serious health emergency with my 80-ish mother in another state. I never would have believed that throughout the stress of arranging to and then getting out of town ASAP; then throughout a five+ hour drive to her state; and throughout a week of practically living in her room in cardiac ICU, on a sprawling tobacco-free campus in deep snow... I'd feel virtually no need for a real cigarette. Then came weeks of single-handedly trying to provide some holiday spirit, decor, festive meals, etc. for my small family, and doing all chores for my parents... And deep worsening of anxieties over where all that goes from here etc. etc... STILL no need for a cig. And I'd already been in my own personal rut before all that and before the ecig. (But not the kind that finally spurs you to some kind of action!)
Just amazing. I was THE LAST person who could have ever been expected to quit smoking... and just by 'accident.' In the middle of about the most stressful time in my life. And when I was feeling no motivation/willingness to put myself through anything at all to improve my lot.
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Kirstin,
I love that you're doing these polls. I chose #3, but really, I switched to vaping because I like it. That was the main reason. Honestly, if I was that worried about the health aspects of smoking, I would have tried harder to quit before. I tried them because they were new, then I simply LIKED e-cigs better. I get lots flavors, it's clean, doesn't smell...all good stuff. As I've said before on other threads, the health benefits are just a bonus.
I love that you're doing these polls. I chose #3, but really, I switched to vaping because I like it. That was the main reason. Honestly, if I was that worried about the health aspects of smoking, I would have tried harder to quit before. I tried them because they were new, then I simply LIKED e-cigs better. I get lots flavors, it's clean, doesn't smell...all good stuff. As I've said before on other threads, the health benefits are just a bonus.
Truthfully, I started vaping to save some money. I really enjoyed smoking, but the cost was getting too high. I had planned to do both, but the more I vaped, the less I liked smoking and after a couple of months, I quit smoking and just vaped.
Number 1 reason was to keep the experience and be healthier. Number 2 was cost. Number 3 the environment. A lot of waste and endless CO2 come from analogs.
XD Leave it to the newbie to be the ONLY one in a section. Yes, it's true, I did start for the flavors, but let me explain. I enjoy hookah, quite a bit, as well as cigars. I've always had a draw to smoking for various reasons, but have always tried (and succeeded for the most part) in staying away for on very large reason. My grandpa smoked and developed throat cancer.
You have to understand something about my grandpa, he is a very strong, noble military vet who I find to be a lovable jackass really. In one year, he lost about sixty pounds when he had no business losing weight, got irritable because he was on basically a mush diet fed through a throat tube type thing and generally became something else for a long minute. Thankfully, he's still alive and doing much better now. The jackass can now die when he's meant to.
Why am I then not a cigarette Nazi and do believe that the "facts" of second hand smoke is overblown? My grandmother on my mom's side has lung cancer; never smoked a day in her life and never worked or lived in a smoking environment.
So, in short, my success in staying away from cigarettes has been through sheer willpower alone, and I have always decided that if I smoke something, it'll be because it tastes good and not because I 'have a craving'. Thus, cigars and hookah. Well, with the flavors in electronic cigarettes, it certainly tastes good. I get my good smoking flavors AND stay away from nicotine with non nic flavors AND inhale no smoke. That's a win-win for me.
You have to understand something about my grandpa, he is a very strong, noble military vet who I find to be a lovable jackass really. In one year, he lost about sixty pounds when he had no business losing weight, got irritable because he was on basically a mush diet fed through a throat tube type thing and generally became something else for a long minute. Thankfully, he's still alive and doing much better now. The jackass can now die when he's meant to.
Why am I then not a cigarette Nazi and do believe that the "facts" of second hand smoke is overblown? My grandmother on my mom's side has lung cancer; never smoked a day in her life and never worked or lived in a smoking environment.
So, in short, my success in staying away from cigarettes has been through sheer willpower alone, and I have always decided that if I smoke something, it'll be because it tastes good and not because I 'have a craving'. Thus, cigars and hookah. Well, with the flavors in electronic cigarettes, it certainly tastes good. I get my good smoking flavors AND stay away from nicotine with non nic flavors AND inhale no smoke. That's a win-win for me.
I believed quitting would be nice but I really just wanted to cut back to reduce the health risks I was subjecting myself to. I had been trying to control my smoking for many years. I had tried using all of the NRT products and various prescriptions to cut back. Whenever I tried another product I found myself thinking about smoking almost constantly and my stress level increased. When I discovered vaping that all changed. Vaping made the it easy to control my smoking. So much so that I no longer smoke at all. I loved smoking, but I love vaping much, much more!
I love my nic, and had no intentions of quitting, wanted to, but I enjoyed almost everything about smoking. Then I got a disposable, and after that was done, I had to go back to analogs, yuck, and being deployed, not easy to get replacements, month and a half wait for anything here.
Erg almost home to all of my vaping goodness.....
Erg almost home to all of my vaping goodness.....
I'm useless on this one in terms of providing an accurate answer.
'Cause when I bought 'em I didn't know what they'd do. Seriously sick of cigs for money and health reasons, but not up for another round of withdrawal symptoms and failure , figured maybe I'd be able to quit smoking, or maybe cut it down, and maybe just vape forever if I liked it, or maybe cut nicotine gradually altogether, or maybe not...
depending on how they performed for me. Is that true for many others?
As it turned out, after one cart I quit smoking entirely, and was in total blissed amazement, and at this point have no intention of cutting down nic or quitting vaping, as nic doesn't scare me much.
Thing is, didn't a lot of us buy just to see how we'd answer those questions once we checked it out?
And I doubt I'd have tried at all if not for the talk about ease and taste. My idea of "electric cigarettes" was of something totally gross tasting and unsatisfactory before I hit this forum.
'Cause when I bought 'em I didn't know what they'd do. Seriously sick of cigs for money and health reasons, but not up for another round of withdrawal symptoms and failure , figured maybe I'd be able to quit smoking, or maybe cut it down, and maybe just vape forever if I liked it, or maybe cut nicotine gradually altogether, or maybe not...
depending on how they performed for me. Is that true for many others?
As it turned out, after one cart I quit smoking entirely, and was in total blissed amazement, and at this point have no intention of cutting down nic or quitting vaping, as nic doesn't scare me much.
Thing is, didn't a lot of us buy just to see how we'd answer those questions once we checked it out?
And I doubt I'd have tried at all if not for the talk about ease and taste. My idea of "electric cigarettes" was of something totally gross tasting and unsatisfactory before I hit this forum.
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I know what ya mean but Kristin clarified/re-focused a ways back that (iirc) she wanted to hear why ppl kept vaping (became vapers per se), not why they bought an ecig in the first place.
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I answered truthfully, but equal to what I see is my majority view reason was something that was not one of the options: I love gadgets!
I suspect that I'm not alone in this. Anyone who owns more than one mod (or more than two or three unmodified models) is a fellow gadget nut.
I suspect that I'm not alone in this. Anyone who owns more than one mod (or more than two or three unmodified models) is a fellow gadget nut.
I voted #3 because it was the closest answer to why I started vaping. I started because i heard about it on the radio and thought it sounded like a great alternative to smoking cigs and smelling like cigs and ultimately dying from cigs. I never thought I would get this far. Tomorrow will be two full weeks of not a single cigarette and very few before that, when I first started vaping. I just didn't know what I was doing and had a smoke here and there. Now they taste disgusting to me.
I chose # 3 because it was the biggest reason I started to vape. I also wanted to save money but my health is the most important thing for me and my family. I just started today and I love it so far.
I just wanted to say 'Thanks' Kristin for putting in the effort & taking the time to think up these surveys.
Thats all........
Thank You!
Thats all........
Thank You!
I started vaping on December 5th 2009. I chose "To get sufficient, safer nicotine for a nicotine dependency." but I don't really feel that is accurate for me.
They banned my clove cigs and the ones from indonesia had me coughing up blood. They were also becoming increasingly hard to import as the dealers stopped accepting credit cards.
I wasn't interested in quitting because I didn't want to get fat. So vaping seemed like a good solution. 4 seemed to be the closest as the coughing up blood really did bother me. Turns out I didn't have much of a nicotine addiction, just a hand to mouth fixation.
Good luck with the study, we appreciate your efforts on our behalf.
They banned my clove cigs and the ones from indonesia had me coughing up blood. They were also becoming increasingly hard to import as the dealers stopped accepting credit cards.
I wasn't interested in quitting because I didn't want to get fat. So vaping seemed like a good solution. 4 seemed to be the closest as the coughing up blood really did bother me. Turns out I didn't have much of a nicotine addiction, just a hand to mouth fixation.
Good luck with the study, we appreciate your efforts on our behalf.
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