Would you quit, or revert?

Would you quit completely, or revert to tobacco?

  • I would quit.

  • I would go back to smoking tobacco.


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Closet Toker

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I think perhaps you missed the part of the OP that said all of your stockpile disappeared, and you couldn't get anymore.


Then I guess I would be miserable and smoke again.
Perhaps try and save money by vaping 0 Nicotine, in between cigarettes?

I don't think our devices would be ban (atomizers, etc,). But liquid Nicotine is another story. No doubt in my mind, e liquid will be banned for sale in this country. Despite confiscation, I believe e liquid will be acquired from China still.
 
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SLDS181

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I'm curious to see if, all your vaping equipment was to disappear (let's call it magic), you would quit altogether, or would revert back to smoking tobacco.

My stuff magically disappears, and I can't buy replacements, but I'm still aware of the (one time) existence?

I'd build one from scratch :D

Seriously though, if it happened now, I'd probably be back to smoking that very day. Hopefully that will change soon.
 

Jules22871

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I posted this question not to debate the 'legalization' of e-cigs, but just to see how many people find the taste of tobacco now to be sufficiently repugnant to prevent reversion. I, and a number of others, some on this forum, now find analogs to taste very bad, enough so that I think (not entirely sure), I could not go back. I see now that Quo Vadis had posted nearly the same question in the Law forum before I posted this poll, and the results are turning out to be fairly similar, about a 50/50 split. Interesting.

Personally, I think there are so many possible sources of all the various bits required to make your own way to vape, we will never be forced to do without.

I would go back to smoking even though I know I would be dead within a year.

Even though analogs taste worse than anything I have ever tasted, the urge to smoke, to calm and quite my addiction, would make me go back to them. You'd be surprised at what you can deal with when you just have no other choice. People would be surprised at how fast the bad taste would seem normal again if they had to go back to smoking.

I have to go with the ones that said they would find a way to vape again. I think the super brains we have on this forum could figure out how to make an atty. The battery mods are easy enough to make and we can DIY the juice. And if all that fails, I have no problems getting my "new toy gift box" from China every month.
 

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I don't think ONE person WANTS to go back to tobacco... it is a rhetorical question.

1. You have a higher chance of getting off heroine than quitting smoking (proven).
2. Most people need multiple quit attempts to be successful.
3. A person usually reverts back to smoking slowly after an episode triggers a return.

The brain never outgrows that desire to smoke. To Ban the ecig would be to sentence all of us to the slow painful death of cigarettes and the poor quality of life it promises in later years even if you beat the cancer risk.

I do not want to smoke. I stop wanting to smoke once I realized that the cigarette was using me and not the other way around. If the answer to this question was this simple, I never would have picked up an ecig. I would have simply quit!

Now would I WANT to go back to tobacco.. NWIH!!!!
 

Jules22871

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as ive said before.... if my government no longer is looking out for my interests, and doesnt represent me, it is no longer my government. ive never thought about this kind of thing before, but when my government wants to kill me, i cant help but feel a bit betrayed.

I had not thought of it that way before. You have made a very valid point.
 

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I have always enjoyed smoking; not just the nicotine, but the ritual and ceremony of smoking. The only reason I ever considered quitting was because of the damage from the tobacco, but every previous attempt ended in failure. Then someone purchased the e-cig for me, and I gamely tried it while at the same time letting them know I would make no promises.
The transition was natural and surprisingly effective, and within six weeks of vaping I discovered I was no longer smoking. I never set any goals, but just gradually replaced all 30/40 daily cigarettes with e-cig use because I was enjoying it more than the tobacco. I still consider myself a smoker, just one who currently vapes - I am still free to smoke, but haven't felt the need since mid-July.
The vote then, for me personally, is I would most likely go back to smoking, at least if the e-cig stealing gremlins showed up anytime soon.
 

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here's the thing. my e cigs are duds. i can't afford new ones for another week, then it will take a week to get here. so until they show up, i am doing the analog thing, and sucking on nicotine lozenges.

once i get my NEW 901 not the thing that i paid too much money for, i am sure i will be off the analogs and right into vaping 24/7
 
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