Your friends reactions to vaping

[RipCigs]

Hello everyone,

I assume most of you are ex smokers. I have been on analogs for years, switched to vaping a couple weeks ago. The switch was very easy to me as I enjoy vaping far more than analogs. What I find interesting is my friends reactions to this. To give you an idea, it's people between 25 and 30 years old, mostly with college degrees. For 1 in 3 the first sentence is: Don't you know that's worse for your health than cigarettes?
I mean I expected a level of prejudice since vaping isn't widely spread here yet, but I don't know where all that negative hype came from. All I've seen is one study confirming formaldehyde in non realistic circumstances, what spread such a negative opinion about ecigs?
Happy to say though, after some conversation and giving them a few puffs, more than half are interested or have already asked me to help them with buying an ecig for them.

What are your experiences?

Cheers

 

[dbrandt01]

Well in person I have 1 friend and my girlfriend. The rest are online friends I met through my channel from vaping videos.
My one friend smoked and she now vapes. My girlfriend is just glad I'm not smoking, so she likes me vaping.
My dad like it, he hasn't smoked in 5 weeks from the 2 packs a day he was smoking.

I haven't really seen negative reactions on my end.

 

[Hitmetwice]

Yeah, about the same, skeptical at first, but after a couple years they all notice the improvement in my health so they are more understanding and receptive.

People read headlines and they are mislead by the fear mongering and ignorance and pass uninformed judgments on that. Can't blame folks, they just don't have a clue and believe everything they read.

 

[philoshop]

Welcome to ECF RipCigs!
The negative propaganda is all over the media across much of the world. Unless someone is willing to work to find the real facts about vaping they're likely to believe what they hear. What you did to help educate your friends is a terrific way to get the word out, so thank you for doing that.
It sounds like you might enjoy looking through the 'Media and General News' forum on this site. Lots of information there.

Best Regards

 

[RipCigs]

Welcome to ECF RipCigs!
The negative propaganda is all over the media across much of the world. Unless someone is willing to work to find the real facts about vaping they're likely to believe what they hear. What you did to help educate your friends is a terrific way to get the word out, so thank you for doing that.
It sounds like you might enjoy looking through the 'Media and General News' forum on this site. Lots of information there.

Best Regards

Thank you for the warm welcome and directions, I'll be sure to check it out. Overwhelming amounts of information on this forum, looking forward to learning more and sharing my "experiments" with gear!

 

[snoopy22]

never had any never reaction from friends. all ive heard is that smells better than cigarettes

 

[evan le'garde]

Most of the people i know suffer from peer pressure given the circumstances of their social lives. I can't see any of them giving up smoking for vaping. The real problem that i can see is that the smaller varieties of electric ciggies, which are what most people start with, don't really hit the spot. The temperamental nature of the more disposable or semi-disposable devices turns some people off and aren't likely to progress and so go back to tobacco products.

 

[RipCigs]

Most of the people i know suffer from peer pressure given the circumstances of their social lives. I can't see any of them giving up smoking for vaping. The real problem that i can see is that the smaller varieties of electric ciggies, which are what most people start with, don't really hit the spot. The temperamental nature of the more disposable or semi-disposable devices turns some people off and aren't likely to progress and so go back to tobacco products.

I agree, starting off with a lower quality product easily turns people away. Even some not so cheap ones, I for example received a Joyetech e com twist as a gift. It was amazing for a few days, then the coil went amazingly bad amazingly fast. But as it was a gift, I decided to fiddle with it and do some research.
Now I'm extremely happy with my vision spinner 2 + kanger aerotank mow (with some adjustments such as putting in a single coil and a different wick method). Also mixing my own juices and feeling better, just so grateful for that gift The joyetech atomizer can be salvaged but it's kind of an hassle and it can't be recoiled..
Point being, without doing a fair bit of research (which lets be honest, most smokers will find it easier to simply light a cig), it is easy to call the whole thing a crap and put it away.

 

[evan le'garde]

I agree, starting off with a lower quality product easily turns people away. Even some not so cheap ones, I for example received a Joyetech e com twist as a gift. It was amazing for a few days, then the coil went amazingly bad amazingly fast. But as it was a gift, I decided to fiddle with it and do some research.
Now I'm extremely happy with my vision spinner 2 + kanger aerotank mow (with some adjustments such as putting in a single coil and a different wick method). Also mixing my own juices and feeling better, just so grateful for that gift The joyetech atomizer can be salvaged but it's kind of an hassle and it can't be recoiled..
Point being, without doing a fair bit of research (which lets be honest, most smokers will find it easier to simply light a cig), it is easy to call the whole thing a crap and put it away.

Exactly right. Some just either don't have the time or the patience to make it work for them. There is a lot of maintenance involved. I prefer to just do all the work such as make the liquid, build all my coils at once, then just get on with vaping until more maintenance is needed. So at times there is a lot of fiddling around involved. And who can be bothered with all that ?.

 

[kaahn]

Most of the people i know suffer from peer pressure given the circumstances of their social lives. I can't see any of them giving up smoking for vaping. The real problem that i can see is that the smaller varieties of electric ciggies, which are what most people start with, don't really hit the spot. The temperamental nature of the more disposable or semi-disposable devices turns some people off and aren't likely to progress and so go back to tobacco products.

And why do you think big tobacco is putting out these cigalikes ay? Yes to keep people from making the switch. They want you to keep smoking so they put out a horrible product. Don't you think they could put out something more advanced? They don't want to...they want you to keep buying those analogs.

 

[evan le'garde]

And why do you think big tobacco is putting out these cigalikes ay? Yes to keep people from making the switch. They want you to keep smoking so they put out a horrible product. Don't you think they could put out something more advanced? They don't want to...they want you to keep buying those analogs.

I've been thinking recently that maybe these same companies have been talking to the big battery companies too. Highlighting the fact that the batteries we use are being used in devices that these batteries were not intended for.

 

[tln37]

I have the same experiences like yours. My my friends and co-workers would say the same thing or, "I hear it's as bad or worst then smoking a cigarettes." I would then asked them so what did you hear that makes it worst or bad? They all would only replied, "That's what I read..." or "...heard about it." They could not give a definitive answer to why or what makes it bad. I guess like all of us when we hear something that is bad we will assume it is bad and it doesn't matter why. Mostly because we're not into "it", whatever that may be. As "vapers" we just need to educate ourselves and others on the pros and cons of vaping.

 

[kartoffelfaust]

Most just ask what the heck the device is (surely its neither cell phone nor walkie-talkie). Then they just assume "so, your still smoking, just different form-factor". Sigh.

Wife and kids are happier though.

 

[houla09]

Some people have been very supportive since I've smoked approx. 35 years, others think it's worse to vape from the mis-information going around. Do have a friend who after giving my vape a try, is looking into vaping too. I think the biggest thing I've run into is that people think it's all tobacco flavored- they don't know about the various juices available.

 

[Squarebanks]

Hello everyone,

I assume most of you are ex smokers. I have been on analogs for years, switched to vaping a couple weeks ago. The switch was very easy to me as I enjoy vaping far more than analogs. What I find interesting is my friends reactions to this. To give you an idea, it's people between 25 and 30 years old, mostly with college degrees. For 1 in 3 the first sentence is: Don't you know that's worse for your health than cigarettes?
I mean I expected a level of prejudice since vaping isn't widely spread here yet, but I don't know where all that negative hype came from. All I've seen is one study confirming formaldehyde in non realistic circumstances, what spread such a negative opinion about ecigs?
Happy to say though, after some conversation and giving them a few puffs, more than half are interested or have already asked me to help them with buying an ecig for them.

What are your experiences?

Cheers

I was sitting in a restaurant yesterday over lunch and I was vaping. This restaurant has a smoking section so I just sit back there so I can vape while I drink my coffee and then after I'm done eating.

At one point I look up and on the TV is a news piece about how e-cigarettes are "getting tweens and teens hooked on nicotine," and that companies were specifically marketing to teens with "colorful and fun packaging"...

It's garbage (fear mongering as many call it) like this is why people sometimes have negative opinions about e-cigs. Teenagers do what they want...if they wanted to smoke cigarettes they would freaking smoke cigarettes...personally I'd rather see teens buying a vaporizer (even though they would be getting it illegally just like cigarettes, I've never been in a vape shop that didn't ID me) than see them getting hooked on cigarettes.

Anyway...people tend to be pretty stupid in general and form strong opinions on things that they know absolutely nothing about.

Okay...I'm done ranting now. Cheers!

EDIT: I guess technically it's not "illegal" for someone under 19 to purchase an e-cig. It's just that most stores have the 19 policy, at least from what I understand.

 

[NancyR]

I find it a lot easier now than when I started. 3 years ago I was living in a fairly small town, no vape shops, and I was the only one using anything bigger than a cig-a-like. Now I go out and see all sorts of people using everything from egos to god mods, so less to have to explain

 

[SnakeEyes]

Hello everyone,

I assume most of you are ex smokers. I have been on analogs for years, switched to vaping a couple weeks ago. The switch was very easy to me as I enjoy vaping far more than analogs. What I find interesting is my friends reactions to this. To give you an idea, it's people between 25 and 30 years old, mostly with college degrees. For 1 in 3 the first sentence is: Don't you know that's worse for your health than cigarettes?
I mean I expected a level of prejudice since vaping isn't widely spread here yet, but I don't know where all that negative hype came from. All I've seen is one study confirming formaldehyde in non realistic circumstances, what spread such a negative opinion about ecigs?
Happy to say though, after some conversation and giving them a few puffs, more than half are interested or have already asked me to help them with buying an ecig for them.

What are your experiences?

Cheers

I'm part of the minority as far as being an ex smoker other than a couple puffs here and there. If my co-workers see me vaping I've gotten "I didn't know you were a smoker?" I reply that's because I wasn't I just enjoy the taste and feeling I get from vaping. I then usually get a few more questions as to if I thought vaping would get them off of cigs, etc.

 

[XUSN]

In the past almost two weeks since I gave up analogs, I've had several of my smoking coworkers come to my office to ask me questions about my vaping kit and how I like it. A couple of them indicate they are going to give it a try after I tell them how much better I feel and how the flavors are so much better than analogs.

One of my long-time cohorts who switched to vaping 2 1/2 years ago came in to congratulate me on making the switch.

Although I only recently switched to vaping, I agree with NancyR that it is getting easier to acquire decent equipment and liquid at a reasonable price. I follow business trends and I understand vaping has gone from a "niche" or "cottage industry" to an industry with $2B of annual sales within the last several years. Vape shops are opening up in communities at a very fast rate and some of the on-line retailers are very good. I have been extremely happy with the vendor I have used the last couple of weeks.

I fear that as the trend of people switching continues to grow (and it will), the big tobacco companies are going to throw their lobbying muscle into the politicians to ruin the vaping marketplace. There will be added incentive for the politicians to act due to the lost tax revenue on traditional cigarettes. We are already seeing this phenomenon in a majority of the States.

 

[ngkb9]

I've had a few friends tell me that vaping is actually worse that smoking cigs... till they did their research. Now some of them even have starting vaping which is great!
I do have friends reactions to when i bought a mechanical mod. They had been vaping on evods and thought the vapor was great. When they tried my mod, they couldn't believe how much vapor was produced!

 

[houla09]

Just got my first mod last week, and there's no comparison to the evods