My granddaughter and her husband are the creative name types, but I have gotten used to the names of my great grandkids. Brinnley who will be 3 in February and Easton who is 8 months old, the oddest name they have can't be easily changed, but I don't think they want to change their last name, Craghead. I just hope both grow up with a good sense of humor. 
I agree with the rest of your post too, and I know that smoking even one would send me down the road I recently traveled, in the wrong direction. It took me longer than most to start feeling better but I have finally, and I want to continue to feel better, I'm not ready to die yet, and I know that I was heading in that direction. If I were younger I might not feel the same way and back then when I would feel something unusual I would just say "relax you're not old enough for that yet", well now I am old enough for that and I look at things differently. I have lived with panic disorder since 1976 and it mimics a lot of things like heart attack and I have told myself many many hundreds of times, relax it's just a panic attack, but now it well may not be so I choose not to smoke even one.
I am still buying his cigarettes but I say not one word to him about him still smoking, I have mentioned on occassion that I have heard that the federal cigarette tax is going to go up $1 a pack come January and I'm not happy about having to pay $10 more a carton. Lest you wonder why I buy his when I'm not smoking it's because when I did I smoked more that twice what he did, he smokes about half a pack, and it was part of the grocery budget which is my responsibility. he pays for other things, we share the expenses.
I want him to quit, but maybe I don't, I'm not sure, if he quits and doesn't vape which is a strong possibility, he will become the former smoker from hell I'm sure. On the other hand I listen to him hacking every morning and can hear that he is on his way to emphysema that killed his mother and brother and I don't want that either. Yep I do want him to quit even if it means flack about my vaping, but I will never say that to him, it has to be his choice.
I agree with the rest of your post too, and I know that smoking even one would send me down the road I recently traveled, in the wrong direction. It took me longer than most to start feeling better but I have finally, and I want to continue to feel better, I'm not ready to die yet, and I know that I was heading in that direction. If I were younger I might not feel the same way and back then when I would feel something unusual I would just say "relax you're not old enough for that yet", well now I am old enough for that and I look at things differently. I have lived with panic disorder since 1976 and it mimics a lot of things like heart attack and I have told myself many many hundreds of times, relax it's just a panic attack, but now it well may not be so I choose not to smoke even one.
I am still buying his cigarettes but I say not one word to him about him still smoking, I have mentioned on occassion that I have heard that the federal cigarette tax is going to go up $1 a pack come January and I'm not happy about having to pay $10 more a carton. Lest you wonder why I buy his when I'm not smoking it's because when I did I smoked more that twice what he did, he smokes about half a pack, and it was part of the grocery budget which is my responsibility. he pays for other things, we share the expenses.
I want him to quit, but maybe I don't, I'm not sure, if he quits and doesn't vape which is a strong possibility, he will become the former smoker from hell I'm sure. On the other hand I listen to him hacking every morning and can hear that he is on his way to emphysema that killed his mother and brother and I don't want that either. Yep I do want him to quit even if it means flack about my vaping, but I will never say that to him, it has to be his choice.
They do know that it is going to be a boy. And he has all ten fingers and ten toes accounted for. They are going to name him Colton, unless when they meet him he does not look like a Colton. Then all bets are off as to what his name will be. If they have a backup name they aren't telling. My daughter in law can be spontaneously creative so I hope my son's more grounded and staid personality will temper the choice of a name. I am hopeful for something I can pronounce and spell.
I can understand people who vape and quit smoking being passionate about their success and enthusiastic in encouraging others to give it a try. But I do find that the passion and enthusiasm is being taken to the extreme by some. And of course they are very vocal here, which is to be expected. I tend to view it in a similar light as how I view politics and religion. Anything taken to the extreme is not good or healthy or helpful. In their passion, they can be hurting their cause more than helping it. No one likes anything shoved down their throats. And just because you believe something or it worked for you does not mean it will work for the next person or that it is the only way to get from here to there. My biggest pet peeve is that some keep insisting on calling cigarettes analogues or stinkies. Grow up, it sounds ridiculous and makes a person sound silly. And I think it takes away from any important information they are trying to share. I hear those terms and stop listening to the person and discount what they are saying.
I believe I know myself well enough to be pretty sure that if I have a cigarette, I will smoke the whole pack. That is me and I choose to not test that theory. I wish I could. It would make my life a lot easier if I could smoke a cigarette once in a while when I need one or want one. Who knows, maybe I could. Not worth it to me at this point. Maybe some day I will find myself giving it a try. Not today. I do not believe someone who is vaping and smoking a couple of cigarettes a day is doing themselves much harm. I think the harm comes in from the agony they put themselves though from beating themselves up over it or letting others judgment cloud their success and happiness. You can not tell me that cutting back from 3 packs a day to 10 cigarettes a day is not a good thing. That should be encouraged and not frowned on.
