4 ms·
I'd been smoking about a pack a day for 15 years when I started seeing electronic cigarettes. They were a bit expensive at first, but once the prices started to
by tombrossman 11y ago
I'd been smoking about a pack a day for 15 years when I started seeing electronic cigarettes. They were a bit expensive at first, but once the prices started to come down I couldn't resist trying one. I like electronic gadgets and the idea of trying these (and being able to smoke in even more places) was appealing. I had no intention of quitting when I bought my first one, it hadn't even occurred to me.
Gradually the convenience of the electronic cigarettes shifted my habit away from regular cigarettes, and I found myself rarely lighting up a normal one. I also would take fewer puffs, I might do one or two drags and put it down absentmindedly, not thinking about smoking for a while after. It was 100% on-demand, no urgency to finish something lit.
I tell people I 'accidentally quit' now, since I just gradually weaned myself off tobacco and nicotine. I haven't smoked or used electronic cigarettes in about eight years, and the cravings are gone. I liked smoking and I might consider going back to it if the health risks disappeared due to advances in medicine.
I wonder why the medical community hasn't done more to embrace electronic cigarettes as a 'safer' alternative or method of quitting. Addicts of other drugs are treated using the same model. I don't expect them to embrace it as a safe alternative, but I think they could help others quit or reduce their traditional cigarette smoking habits.
- tomjen3 11y agoThe only reasons I can come up with is lobbying by stop smoking groups and stupid politicians.
- dragonwriter 11y agoThe medical community hasn't embraced e-cigarettes as a safer stop-smoking aid because there is only intuitive speculation and some preliminary research, but not substantial clinical research, that they are useful in that role, while other smoking cessation approaches, including those using more established alternative nicotine delivery methods, are more proven.
- woah 11y agoAnecdotal evidence from many people, myself included, suggests that they are far more effective.
- perfTerm 11y agoIs the medical community allowed to embrace something for which we as a society don't really know any of the long term consequences? Will these candy flavored vaporizers get more kids addicted to nicotine? Do people consume more nicotine with these vaporizers than if they had continued smoking cigarettes? Is long term nicotine vapor inhalation harmful?
- narag 11y ago1 - Embrace? What about just not being overly hostile? 2 - Are kids allowed to smoke? Should we ban sweet wine? 3 - No. Actually less. 4 - Most likely. But the question is if it's more or less harmful than burning packaged cigarrettes. It shouldn't matter, but I don't smoke or vaporize tobacco.