And I must say that this is the best stop smoking aid ever. The design of the device is nothing short of amazing. It actually feels like you are smoking, and you can smoke it anywhere.
It actually brought back memories last night in a restaurant when I got coffee and dessert and pulled out the e cig and had a few drags. It’s been about 10 years since smoking in restaurants were banned here, so an after meal smoke was a blast from the past.
Any other experiences? And also, it seems too good to be true. How long until its found that this causes cancer and other problems or goody two shoes will ban “smoking” these things indoors?
Life causes cancer. As I said in another thread this week, I know tobacco causes cancer, as well as heart disease and gunky lungs and emphysema and a whole lot of terrible stuff. The most anyone can come up with for the ecig is “maybe.” I’ll take “maybe” over “certainly.”
I try to be sensitive to the security issues ecigs bring up. They, as you know and I know, are not covered by (most?) smoking bans. But they do look so much like cigarettes - the red tipped LED ones especially - that I can see a smoker down the bar seeing it and deciding that he can light up, too. I don’t want to put security guards and bar managers in the position of having to deal with that. So I’m more likely to go to the Smoker’s Exile outside or use my blue tipped LED ecig indoors.
What really keeps me up at night is waiting for Them to ban them entirely as “untested” or “potentially unsafe”. Anything that pisses off *both *the FDA and tobacco companies is on shaky ground against some pretty powerful lobbyists with an unfathomable amount of money to spend. Hopefully if/when that happens we’ll have plenty of warning and I’ll have some spare cash to stock up.
I use the “inferno” by a company called Volcano…It has a clear tube for the liquid and a black battery at the end. Basically I look like FDR smoking. There is no led that lights when you puff, but the clear tube definitely gives it somewhat of a crack pipe look.
But it’s great. Why wouldn’t it be considered a “stop smoking aid”? Because the FDA didn’t say so?
I lived in Springfield, Missouri and they banned the e cigarettes indoors. The area is conservative, Bible belt, and don’t even want the illusion of smoking, even though it is a huge college town. Home of Missouri State.
Probably a legal problem. My physician was delighted I had one, had never heard of it, and asked if I needed a prescription to get it.
If it is advertised as a smoking cessation aid, it probably must have tests and studies and licenses and hundreds of other things.
And the states and feds would want a cut.
Exactly. Companies haven’t paid for studies to see if they actually work to help people stop smoking (to be published in The Journal of The Incredibly Obvious, one assumes), or paid for the FDA approval process, so they cannot be marketed or sold with the claim to be a “smoking cessation device”.
After trying to quit on gum, I think the e cigarette is my answer. I’ve only recently started, so I’m still trying to figure out what flavours work for me. So far, the waffle, chocolate, and mango flavours I’ve been working on haven’t been all that impressive. I am fond of the vanilla cupcake flavour I got, but still have plenty of others to try out. All I know is before I quit smoking, I was really starting to hate the taste of tobacco.
My only concern right now is that since I’m not stepping outside for a smoke, it’d harder to track how much nicotine I’m putting in my system. My friend’s boyfriend tried e cigarettes unsuccessfully and told me that when he went back on cigarettes, he went from half a pack to a full pack a day because of the nicotine level he got used to while on e cigarettes. I’m not sure if that was meant to deter me so he’d have a smoking buddy… but it just makes me all that more determined not to go back to analogues.
I think many e-cig cartridges have various levels of nicotine; pretty sure the Magma ones even go down to 0 nicotine. So you can wean yourself down, or not at all, depending on your preference.
I have the setup but was having such trouble with the cartridges for some reason that it’s all in a box right now. Will be using them in a couple weeks though, as I’m moving and need to cut down on expenses. Will give them a more proper shot, then.
I’ve been vaping for almost two years now. I screwed around with cartridges for the first couple of weeks, then I tried dripping… and never looked back. No fuss, no muss.
That’s absurd. Has anyone actually questioned them on the rationale for banning water vapor indoors? I know it’s probably some stupid bureaucrat, but I would like an answer from one of the members that voted for this: why? The “illusion” of smoking? These devices keep people from smoking.
AFAIK, no carcinogens, no harm, no smell, no risk to anyone: all of the reasons for smoking bans in the first place. Why extend that to a product which does none of the above?
I’m not saying I don’t buy it, but I really don’t buy it. When you get your nicotine buzz, do you smoke another? Likewise, with the e-cig, you aren’t going to keep puffing once you are satisfied with your level of nicotine. It starts making you sick, so you stop. Would you drink 15 cups of coffee if you didn’t have an indicator nearby? Of course not, you are awake and starting to shake.
If that’s a concern, get the half strength, or quarter strength liquid. Again, I’m only on day…nearing 4 now, but this is amazing. I really don’t even WANT a regular smoke…it seems too strong compared to the vapor..
Well, thing is, I wasn’t a heavy smoker when I was smoking, a pack every three days or so (more if I’m out with friends and drinking). My habit was pretty routine: wake up, smoke half, get to work smoke half before heading in, half at mid-morning, one at lunch, half at mid-afternoon, and then two to three during the evening.
I’m using 18mg juice right now, and I reach for my e cigarette throughout the day. Pretty easy to just keep on puffing randomly when I have an office to myself right now. So I’m not really sure how to guage if what I’m taking in is equivalent.
With real cigarettes, because I had a set routine and set time for the smoke breaks my brain would often be roaring for some nicotine around my routine. Now that I puff throughout the day, my brain doesn’t roar for it. Haven’t made myself sick with too much nic yet, but I’m a little cautious on what I’m doing is like having a lit cigarette on my hand the whole day. Minus the stink though… I am so glad to be rid of the stink.
Well, I’m glad this topic was brought up, 'cause I dug out my stuff and it’ll be a lot easier for me to use this than to smoke all the time. I have a few blank tanks and some vanilla bean juice, and I think this will do me for a bit. NO clue how long they last for me; last one I took travelling, it leaked all over the place and that’s when I kinda gave up. I smoke clove cigarettes, black ones, so yeah, anything to at least cut down on that is awesome.
Do you have a cell phone or a watch with an alarm? Set it for 5 or 6 minutes; that should be equal to a half cigarette break. When it goes off, you’re done. Put the ecig in a case, rather than loose in your pocket, so you don’t absentmindedly puff.
As I said in another thread this week, I know tobacco causes cancer, as well as heart disease and gunky lungs and emphysema and a whole lot of terrible stuff. The most anyone can come up with for the ecig is “maybe.” I’ll take “maybe” over “certainly.”