I started using an e-cigarette

[Root of Jesse]

Using e-cigarette is a first step to quit smoking

Also, the gateway for young people to become nicotine dependent. I know lots that have never smoked cigarettes who use e-cigs. I shake my head in wonder. Then again, you can sub THC for nicotine, and nobody knows the difference, except you, right?

 

[RuthD]

Also, the gateway for young people to become nicotine dependent. I know lots that have never smoked cigarettes who use e-cigs. I shake my head in wonder. Then again, you can sub THC for nicotine, and nobody knows the difference, except you, right?

It's better than smoking cigarettes with all the added ingredients in them. Who is talking about thc any way????

 

[BlunderAngel]

I had a friend who's e-cigarette turned into a flame thrower about 5 minutes after he plugged it into his laptop to recharge. The lithium battery holds charge far longer than other batteries. People who over charge tend to catch their house on fire.

Also, ecigarettes contain propylene glycol. Which is toxic.

But if you're smoking you're already poisoning yourself. And if you're using nicotine patches you're ingesting the dermal chemical of nicotine. So you're still getting your "nic" fix.

You can't open e-cigarettes and put marijuana in them. That's a myth.

 

[Root of Jesse]

It's better than smoking cigarettes with all the added ingredients in them. Who is talking about thc any way????

It's not better, unless all your thinking of is the stuff you allow into your body. You're replacing one habit with another. In some people's case, it's to come off of cigarettes, in some people's case it's just a cool new thing to do.

I think the purpose of quitting smoking is to ditch a bad habit. Your body is happier, too, because you're no longer infusing it with other chemicals.

It is said that the best way to ditch a bad habit is to replace it with a good one. I do not believe e-cigs are a good habit. My opinion, for sure.

 

[Root of Jesse]

I had a friend who's e-cigarette turned into a flame thrower about 5 minutes after he plugged it into his laptop to recharge. The lithium battery holds charge far longer than other batteries. People who over charge tend to catch their house on fire.

Also, ecigarettes contain propylene glycol. Which is toxic.

But if you're smoking you're already poisoning yourself. And if you're using nicotine patches you're ingesting the dermal chemical of nicotine. So you're still getting your "nic" fix.

You can't open e-cigarettes and put marijuana in them. That's a myth.

There's another kind that you most certainly can. It doesn't look like a cigarette with a glowing tip. It looks like, for lack of a better term, a bong, or a hookah. In some places, there are bars popping up where you take your, ahem, device, and pay for them to load it with a flavored nicotine dosage. So yes, you can switch that with liquid THC. But this is a digression.

Here's my point. If you smoke, and you want to quit, part of that is detaching from the nicotine, part of it is detaching from the ritual. I know, because I was doing it for 40 years. Nicotine is a mood-altering drug, a mild one, but over time, you require more and more to get the same effect, just like heroin. It's true that most of the harm to you comes from the other agents in cigarette smoke, and by eliminating the smoke, you're only using nicotine. So, in my opinion, if you use a nicotine gum, patch or ecig to help you quit smoking, it's like using beer to get off of alcohol.

The other point is our dependency, as a society, on mood-altering. Whether you're addicted to porn, booze, drugs, or sex, or any other addiction, we have a problem with dependency in our world today.

To say "Hey, at least he's not smoking!" is sorta like if your kid wants to go to a movie, and tries to sell it to you by saying that there's only a little sex and foul language, so can I go???" I heard a guy answer this question this way..."What if I told you we were going to have a pizza party, and that you could eat as much as you want. There's dog droppings in the dough. Only a little. Let's eat!" Kid got the point.

I understand that people want to feel good. Everyone has their crutch. Some folks, it's food, whether fast food or fatty food, some it's alcohol, and hey! I have mine. I like wine. Most days I limit myself to a glass with dinner. Some days I want a little more. But I've also gone the entire 40 days of Lent without drinking a drop. The point is to determine who's the master of your body. You, or the nicotine. You, or the wine. You, or the steak. Self-denial is the best way to get it. I've also heard people say "If you're going to give that up, and you're going to be grumpy all the time, I don't want any part of you." Those folks might do better with a step-down system. I guess. When I quit smoking, I didn't even tell my wife (I wasn't allowed to smoke in the house or car, thanks. Only at work). Because so many times I had failed. This time, I just did it, and told her after about 2 months.

 

[Root of Jesse]

I wanted to say, after my last post, that whatever gets you to quit smoking, I wish you well.

My only concern is that ecigs can be a replacement habit for smoking. The other part was off topic about replacing nicotine with THC, I do see potential for young people to do that.

I pray for your success quitting smoking.

 

[coddy]

Using e-cigarette is a first step to quit smoking

 

[Saleena]

Good for you OP, stay with it.

As for the nicotine causing cancer, well it is one of the more potent poisons in and of it self, I imagine it can cause some damage regardless.

See nicotine poisoning.

 

[Root of Jesse]

Using e-cigarette is a first step to quit smoking

It can be. But I know some young people who start on nicotine using e-cigs or e-hookahs and the like.

 

[Saleena]

Of course, kids will always be using something like that. It really doesn't take away from it's benefits over a actual cig. Just sayian.

 

[Root of Jesse]

Of course, kids will always be using something like that. It really doesn't take away from it's benefits over a actual cig. Just sayian.

No doubt.

I just don't know how replacing a bad habit with another bad habit is good for what's really wrong with you...

I say that from experience. I smoked for 40 years. I tried gum, and patches, which gave me the nicotine, but my real addiction was with self indulgence. I say it still is, to some degree. If I examine my habits and my thought processes about buying stuff, they're all about indulging myself. When I realized that, and started practicing self-discipline, in some areas of my life, I was able to put an end to those indulgences. Smoking was one of those, excessive drinking was another.

I understand that it's hard for people to search their souls for what makes themselves tick. And as I said in a couple other posts, if it gets you off tobacco, go for it. But they should also try to get off e-cigs. Nicotine is addictive.

 

[Wings like Eagles]

Using e-cigarette is a first step to quit smoking

Sounds like good advise to me.

 

[FireDragon76]

I use e-cigs and I have managed to cut back my smoking a great deal. I have other health issues that complicate quitting smoking. I quit smoking before using nicotine patches, and then quit altogether . But the past year I started smoking again because my life has been so rough and it actually helped my digestion (I have horrible IBS and food intolerances), so I switched to e-cigs.

Nicotine doesn't cause cancer, there have been several long-term studies in NRT users that have shown this. It is addictive but actually e-cigs are less addicting than regular cigarettes, because they do not deliver a big nicotine hit, it's much slower.

Propylene glycol is mostly harmless stuff. Sometimes it can dry out your throat a little bit but you get used to it in a week or so and it goes away.

 

[ToBeBlessed]

I used them for quite awhile and then realized I was spendind so much on them. So my doc prescribed the patch and I am using it to get off of the e cigs. The patch satisfys my craving. Now I have to wean myself off of the patch!! LOL. It's always something!

Good luck Ruth! Stay strong!

 

[ToBeBlessed]

I think everyone's different and it will probably be a different process for each of us. I will say however, trading addiction from one thing to another is not good. The patch or nicotine gum or electronic cigarettes, IMO, should be thought of as an 'aid' to quitting and not a method that you actually get addicted to.

With that said I wish all of you the best and hope God blesses you all with success!

 

[faroukfarouk]

I think everyone's different and it will probably be a different process for each of us. I will say however, trading addiction from one thing to another is not good. The patch or nicotine gum or electronic cigarettes, IMO, should be thought of as an 'aid' to quitting and not a method that you actually get addicted to.

With that said I wish all of you the best and hope God blesses you all with success!

Ms. ToBeBlessed: So do you have a preferred method to quit? or are yu reckoning on gradually cutting down, or just doing it cold turkey?

 

[ToBeBlessed]

Ms. ToBeBlessed: So do you have a preferred method to quit? or are yu reckoning on gradually cutting down, or just doing it cold turkey?

I have both the patch and nicotine gum.

I won't get addicted to them though I guarantee that. I'm not trading one addiction for another.

 

[faroukfarouk]

I have both the patch and nicotine gum.

I won't get addicted to them though I guarantee that. I'm not trading one addiction for another.

Sounds like you've been a smoker for a long time, anyway.

I hope it goes well for you.

 

[SaphireOwl]

I used them for quite awhile and then realized I was spendind so much on them. So my doc prescribed the patch and I am using it to get off of the e cigs. The patch satisfys my craving. Now I have to wean myself off of the patch!! LOL. It's always something!

Patches deliver a dermal dose of nicotine into the system. That's why it calms cravings. Because rather than smoking to get the nic-fix, you are now absorbing it trans dermally. Be careful. That patch area can develop issues too.

 

[SaphireOwl]

I have been using an ecigarette. It is propalene glycol or vegetable glycerin depending on what "juice" you use. It gives of vapor instead of smoke. It is 3/4 of the way to smoking. You recharge your eccaigrette and puff away and get your nicotine and the flavor of choice weather it;s a tobacco substitute or anything from coffee to cheesecake to black licorice. I have quit smoking using this product but still feel like I am smoking because I am still getting nicotine and puffing on something. I hear conflicting info if nicotine causes cancer or not in and of itself. Never the less I am off the butts. Still got a habbit though. Any thoughts about these things. I know some of you have heard of them. They have been on the news for a while now.

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