why is it so easy to quit smoking with the E-cig?

[Rosa]

I always just tell people that I switched to electronic cigarettes. For me it's very much like switching brands.... but it's nice to know that my new brand won't kill me like my old brand would have. It's nice that my new brand doesn't make me smell bad or endanger my kids. Nice that my new brand comes in all sorts of great flavors. Basically, I like my new brand better than my old brand. Who said anything about quitting?!?

 

[JC Okie]

I always just tell people that I switched to electronic cigarettes. For me it's very much like switching brands.... but it's nice to know that my new brand won't kill me like my old brand would have. It's nice that my new brand doesn't make me smell bad or endanger my kids. Nice that my new brand comes in all sorts of great flavors. Basically, I like my new brand better than my old brand. Who said anything about quitting?!?

Absolutely! That's exactly how I feel about it, Rosa. I didn't set out to quit smoking....I set out to 1) save my own life, and 1)save some money. So far I've made a great start on one of my goals....I feel much, much healthier. Meanwhile, the saving money.......hmmmm..........well, so far.......hmmmmm.....well.........not yet.

But, the money I am spending is not going up in smoke...........ummmmm.....it's going up in vapor..........oh, well.....

 

[Fernand]

Exactly, Rosa. Besides, this country's obsession with combatting everything is tragic. People watch "Cops" and root for the brutal MFs who will come and kick down their doors some day (maybe for vaping?). Witches on CNN want "justice". The alleged individualists and small government advocates are the first to say that Lindesy Lohan and Paris Hilton need to go to jail. It's pretty pathetic. I'm happy that for now anyway I can enjoy my vaping.

 

[deback]

Nicotine is a valid potential treatment for lots of ailments. If you don't believe me, check out the research they're doing on nicotine's uses for everything from Parkinson's to mental illness to bowel disorders.

You're absolutely correct. There are medical benefits from nicotine. It's been proven to help avoid Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, rheumatoid arthritis, and probably many other diseases, as you mentioned. My mother quit smoking in 1988, cold turkey, and three months later, she got rheumatoid arthritis. She researched at the Michigan State Library the effects of lack of nicotine, after smoking for 40+ years, and she found credible sources that proved to her that she got RA because she quit smoking. And I've always believed that was why she got RA. She started smoking a year later, but she lived with RA for 13 years until she died at the age of 74½.

And that's one reason why I love vaping (not to mention the throat hits)! I'm still getting the nicotine, without the smoke, tar, 4000 toxins, smell, and everything else associated with smoking. I'm hoping it will help me avoid getting RA. From the first throat hit on 09/14/10, I knew I no longer wanted to smoke, no matter how much more work it is to vape, compared to smoking.

 

[WomanOfHeart]

I may have only changed the means of "feeding" my addiction to nicotine, but I'm not filling up my lungs with smoke, tar and all the other thousands of chemicals found in analogs. I'm not subjecting anyone to my second-hand smoke and stinking up every area where I used to light up. I'm not burning holes in my clothes or furniture, and I won't have to worry about burning down my house if I fall asleep with my PV in my hand. For all intents and purposes, I have quit smoking. If someone asks me if I smoke, I can honestly say "No. I vape."

 

[Fernand]

We've never had as much oral satisfaction WITHOUT CALORIES as with all the juice flavors. It seems a lot of people very quickly get into making their own mixes, buying more flavoring, more little bottles, not so much to find the perfect ONE, but to keep having fun with it. I've spent three hundred so far in the last two weeks on devices, accessories, flavors, diluents, little chemist supplies. Maybe it will stabilize, but it's certainly not just a smoking replacement, that too, but it's a whole 'nother creative dimension!

If anyone has Huysmans' Against the Grain (A Rebours), a novel written at the end of the 19th century, the hero is a reclusive nut case who revels in (among aother things) creating scents.

Against the Grain (A Rebours), J.-K. Huysmans (1884)

Specifically Chapter 10 is the juice mixer's tale:

10, Against the Grain (A Rebours), J.-K. Huysmans (1884)

 

[deback]

"There are medical benefits from nicotine."

Try doing a Google search for "nicotine benefits" and you'll find a wealth of information about this.