I would not believe that vaping may work and it might replace notorious smoking. To be honest I was not even interested in it. I've been smoking for twenty years, four packs a day, or on longer or more exciting days sometimes even eight packs. I loved smoking. Despite our home being covered in a constant layer of smoke and nicotine. Despite the fact that I haven't developed any irreversible adverse health effects yet, but at the same time it was clear that smoking already had its toll on my body. And despite the knowledge that my habit will yield a much shorter lifespan with horrible misery at its end. The day did not start until I smoked half a pack along with my first coffee. I loved and hated smoking, with the same dissonant ambivalence the majority of smokers experience worldwide.
I was bound to stay on this track until my partner discovered e-cigarettes. While back then the vast amount of scientific evidence was not available yet, the arguments based on common sense supporting e-cigarettes were more than enough to accept that vaping is much more safer than smoking. And this is something very important, to evaluate the relative harms compared to smoking, and make a life-altering decision for ourselves, instead of waiting for a non-smoker purist preaching abstinence to tell us what we should or should not do to solve our problems. None of the world's smoking cessation experts could have convinced me about their faulty old cessation methods, no matter what they would have done. On one thing we are on the same page though: people should stop smoking somehow. May I stop it in a way that suits me, please? Luckily, five years ago I could, but I would be in trouble to do so today.
Is it the smoke that kills? Yes, it is. Do e-cigarettes smoke? No, they don't. It's as simple as this. The one thing that remained yet to be seen whether the experience could provide enough satisfaction to completely replace smoking. Kinga, my partner took her precious time, and delved deep into the online forums, collecting pros and cons, reading the success stories and experiences of people already vaping. After thoroughly filtering the information, one day she came home with an ePower device, and started not smoking.
I bastardly kept on smoking of course. Although I tried her e-cig and it was surprisingly satisfying, it was not enough for me to make a decision. But after a few days it became clear that somehow vaping is actually working. Even the benefit of smoking less seemed to be enormous enough to come to the decision of getting my very own electronic cigarette.
Hi folks,The dilemma above resulted in a refillable cigalike KR808, and I started vaping. If someone would have told me back then, that only four years later I will be standing on a stage next to the Parliament giving a speech arguing for tobacco harm reduction and criticizing the moronic local public health grandees, I would have been laughing my arse off. But this is a story for an another time.
I've started playing with the idea of vaping, but I do have a few specific criteria that makes me uncertain about which device to choose or whether the device that would suit me exists at all. I don't want to push buttons, as I usually keep the fag hanging from my mouth with both hands occupied, so pushing buttons would drive me crazy. For the same reason it should be lightweight enough to prevent falling out of my mouth all the time. I smoke a lot, so the least frequent refills and charging would be the best. Do you know a device that fits these criteria? Thanks in advance for the hints and help.
02/08/2011 17:03, my very first post on ecigiforum.com
No start is easy, but mine proved to be a bit more difficult than I expected. The tiny device turned out to be a bad decision, I spent more time charging and filling it than actually vaping the little bugger. But still, it was good enough to find out that the problem was not with vaping, but the capacity of the device. It was obvious that I needed something bigger, so in under a week I surprised myself with an ePower too.
With that device suddenly everything fell into place. As a veteran smoker I was not too keen to throw out perfectly good cigarettes, so I had to burn through my last carton as well. I ended up smoking them for almost a month, despite it normally being enough for two days for me. After a few days I limited my smoking to only accompany my morning coffees, but after a short week I began to dislike even that, as my newly recovered taste buds started to rebel against the awful tar-like taste of cigarette smoke. I couldn't believe I was not only doing, but enjoying this for twenty years. Finally I've ran out of cigarettes, and it was an incredible relief that I did not have to smoke the awful crap anymore. Ever since I've never looked back, a few weeks of vaping was enough to eliminate a dependency developed over twenty years.
Did I know back then what do I undertake, what the long term effects of vaping might be? I did not, I could not. What I did know is that if I don't stop smoking I will end up with small bloody pieces of my lungs being coughed up. I had to measure the possible harms of inhaling flavoured fake smoke known from concerts and theaters against the harms of smoking for a lifetime. After five years I can tell know that giving a shot to vaping was one of the most important and beneficial decisions of my life.
That decision based on common sense from five years ago is now backed by a plethora of scientific evidence. New vapers of today no longer need to navigate in the dark whether tobacco harm reduction with vaping is a valid choice or not, they only need to avoid the traps of public health made of lies. Even if there were no scientific studies at all to back vaping, it would not render my own experiences, nor the experiences of my friends and loved one void, as vaping restored our health and feeling of comfort from being shackled by smoking to a level of quality known only by non-smokers.
I will be forty soon, and honestly, I never felt so well before, except for the period before taking up smoking. I vape the way I've been smoking: a lot, and I do it since five years, so I reckon I would experience any adverse health effects first hand. I'm still waiting on that. Then I am being told by the so called experts that I did not actually stop smoking, for I did not do it in a way they approve. The irresponsible, jealous, dumb buffoons.
Shall we say that vaping is entirely harmless? No, we shall not, in this world practically nothing is completely safe, whether we ingest or inhale it, or just grease it on our skin. Shall we say that vaping for a smoker is of enormous health benefit? Of course, it's a question no more, it's a fact. Shall we say that vaping instead of smoking means all of the benefits of stopping smoking? Of course, just ask any vaper who've stopped smoking. Shall we say that vaping is the answer to the long-stranded efforts of tobacco control? Shall we say that vaping is one of the biggest public health breakthroughs ever? Based on the evidence and facts, we clearly shall.
In a rather perverse way, as more and more evidence was being gathered over the years, the world seemed to be turning against vaping more and more as well. The question whether the culprits behind this sad phenomenon are blind, stupid, or simply corrupt will only be answered by time. No matter what, I am confident that the only known real-world solution to the global problem of smoking will take its rightful place in the end and the blindfolded scaremongers will find themselves trapped under the mountains of lies they cherry-picked over the years.
I don't know when this day will come, when the self-righteous and obsolete public health and tobacco control bodies will finally give in to the overwhelming amount of evidence supporting vaping, but it's reassuring that there are serious people in other countries not afraid to go against the status quo established by the tobacco and parma industries, the government and cessation zealots. One thing is sure though, if I won't be around by then, it won't be because I was a smoker. And I have vaping to thank for this.
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