To Quit Smoking — Let’s All Vape

LifeZette ^ | 5/4/16 | Kristen Fisher

[5150 FREEPER]

There is plenty of evidence to suggest that smoking e-cigarettes can be harmful — but now the Britain-based Royal College of Physicians thinks smokers should use them as a way to quit.

Their report says the devices are helping people more than harming them — at least so far.

“This is the first genuinely new way of helping people stop smoking that has come along in decades,” John Britton, director of the U.K. Center for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies at the University of Nottingham, said in a statement.

E-cigarettes deliver nicotine without the tar — and without some chemicals linked to cancer.

[KC_Conspirator]

I vape now, with the occasional setback. Far better for oneself.

[KC_Conspirator]

Any doctor would echo what you just said.

[publius911]

I think the jury is still out on vaping. Something tells me in 20 years or so it will be linked to cancer.

Abusing just about anything that can be ingested or inhaled can cause cancer.*

The irony is that even more an addiction than nicotine, the relentless taxing greed of government is an addiction far worse.

If compassion and saving lives is the goal, why hasn't the sale of cigarettes been banned?

And even more egregiously, why is the nicotine-free form of vaping taxed as highly and the addictive kind?

*For a real education, google Bruce Ames, University of California professor and researcher about natural carcinogens in food and the "natural" environment...
I have not yet seen any real science about the carcinogenic dangers of water vapor. I wonder why the elected criminals haven't yet taxed cold and flu vaporizers as vaping devices.

[publius911]

The problem I have seen so far with vaping is that people doing it do not have to use any designated areas and are blowing smoke all over the place with the excuse that it is simply water vapor.
Even if that is true, you are puffing nicotine into people’s faces that don’t want it.
That’s the problem I see with vaping. Whether it is dangerous or not, the vapor engulfs everyone around you and people will be complaining.

Better stay out of the kitchen then; water vapor all over the place. Vaping nicotine free would distress you just as much; because "it's the right" PC thing to do.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.” -- C. S. Lewis

[T-Bone Texan]

After vaping I will never go back to nasty tobacco products EVAH.

What flavors do you use?

Mine is a mix of “Butter Rum Lifesaver” and something called “Granny’s Custard”.

I did not use vaping to quit smoking; I was never a big smoker in the first place. However, I love vaping so much I had to enforce a few rules on myself:

No bringing it to work.
No driving and vaping.
Not inside the house proper, only in the garage (where I hang out a lot anyway)

I use an ancient RDS powered directly by an 18650 battery - no electronics or safeties, and if I accidentally activate it in my pocket, hoo boy, look out wiener!

[T-Bone Texan]

Congrats on quitting smoking.

You know, they actually DO have vapes with timers/timing devices in them, but sadly they are for cannabis only at this point.

I was at a party and a guy was using one; he got it from CO where they are legal. It times out after a while.

[Ransomed]

Thanks, I know I’m not out of the woods yet. Think a good thought.

Per the weed vape having a timer turnoff, is it to save the battery or to keep from getting too whacked or what? The idea I had was to mimic an actual cig for those that want to get as close as possible to the actual ritual of smoking. I know that if I didn’t kick nicotine cold turkey and tried the juice with nicotine I would be hammering it hard. I think a lot of these guys do that, because the vape device never burns down to the philter. You can just keep hammering it with no natural stopping point, like lighting another cigarette would be.

Freegards

[pierrem15]

My preferred blend: JVapes Minthol

It's clear, no tobacco flavoring and more mint than menthol. Some of the other menthols I tried were so strong it was like inhaling Vap-O-Rub.

[pierrem15]

Forgot to add: in Europe I got odd looks standing outside the hotel blowing huge clouds of vape :-)

[pierrem15]

Typically it includes vaporized propylene glycol

PG has been approved as a food additive for 50+ years. As I understand it, it tastes somewhat sweet but cannot be metabolized at all by the human body and just passes through.

The liver in cats, on the other hand, partially metabolize it into some nasty by products that can poison the animal. So make sure your cat stays out of your juice. :-)

[T-Bone Texan]

It was explained to me that the timer was to dose the pot liquid correctly.

It utilized prefilled, disposable dripper units that came in different flavors/types of pot. It was the diameter of a AA battery, whereas my nicotine vape is a lot bigger and clunkier.