Quitting smoking

[carlukepeugeot]

As Bash mentioned, i'm 'smoke free' nearly a year now and on the vaping malarkey. I don't spend loads on it or go 'cloud chasing' though.

I'm also now on the lowest nicotine (3mg) juice having weened myself down from 18mg this time last year.

Its a valid way to quit smoking if you do it right, but i'm sure if you just replace smoking with vaping... its probably just as bad.

P.S. I do still have a social fag with a drink. Nothing wrong with having a beer and a schmoke

Deffo not as bad - vaping is basically water, propylene glycol, nicotine and flavouring. Fags are like hundreds if not thousands of carcinogens + tar + all sorts of stuff.  Propylene Glycol is the delivery agent of inhalers, used in smoke machines etc, and is basically considered safe . Nicotine is also considered to be essentially harmless apart from being addictive of course. It is true that vapers are basically now creating the evidence  (one way or another) as to whether continual exposure to PG has any serious health implications, so really we won't know for sure until 10 years or more down the line, but the odds are still alot better than smoking tobacco.

Far better to be puffing on a vape than a fag, FAR better. The argument over it being pointless to quite smoking actual cigarrettes and switch to vaping is a strange one I have always thought. Most smokers enjoy smoking, and the hand / mouth action of it plus the exhalation of smoke etc are all part of the process and thus the addiction / pleasure. This is why vapes are so successful, as the user gets to carry on experiencing these aspects. If as is believed  / hoped the vapes are essentially harmless, why should anyone be judgemental about people doing it?
Theres lot of things people do that they enjoy, I don't get why vaping is so judged - I guess it's just by association with smoking ?

Some folks are addicted to coffee and guzzle it all day long, would people get worked up if they switched to decaff ?