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Originally Posted by Tidybuoy
I started smoking when I was 15 and was up to a pack-a-day when I was 24. I quit (cold turkey) when I was 25. I had previously tried to quit many times but only made it a few hours so I know how tough it is to quit. I was lucky to have a few days off and decided I would quit on my days off....
I threw away all smokes, ashtrays, matches, etc.. and then slept for 3 days. Back then, I knew I would not go to the store to buy smokes without blow drying my hair so I made sure I didn't take a shower and every time I started getting cravings I went back to bed. After 3 days I couldn't believe I had made it that far. On my way to work on day 4 I pulled into a 7-11 to buy a pack of emergency smokes but I left without smokes and I've been smoke free ever since (about 30 years!).
I'm totally opposed to the new vaping industry because they are going to suck the current generation in and we will eventually have a whole population that is hooked (and dying).
FYI, I have a friend that just quit using Chantex. He told me that this drug really worked and a few times we got to the store and forgot why he was there. He eventually just forgot to smoke.
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This is a fairly common reaction to vaping and comes from a source painfully aware how difficult it is to quit smoking; that somehow vaping is a gateway to cigarette smoking for teenagers.
Let me point out that vaping in the long run (30 days or more) is INFINITELY cheaper than buying a pack of cigarettes, which here in LA are now $8.00 a pack. Teenagers are nothing if not frugal, so economically, why would they move up to smoking from vaping.
Vaping is for the most part, odorless, if mom and dad are against the kids smoking and give a sniff test at home, smoking is a FAIL. This is probably also true at school and on the job.
Smoking is establishment, Vaping is indie and perceived as “cool”, cool for teenagers whips uncool every which way.
One aspect that is almost never reported is that e juice comes in zero nicotine levels, many teens opt for this rather than addict themselves to something that has given their parent’s generation so much grief.
So if it costs more to look less cool, just who is going to get sucked in by vaping?