Can e-cigarettes help you to quit smoking?

From all that I have read about E-Cigarettes, the liquid is equally as detrimental as tobacco.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/28/health/juul-north-carolina-lawsuit-settlement/index.html

I see a lot of young kids vaping (using E-Cigarettes), and I suspect if the trend continues they'll be an explosion of health related woes attached to the practice in the coming years.

I do know of a few that have gone to E-Cigarettes, and none have kicked the habit as of yet, with a few that have gone back to smoking cigarettes.
 
Wouldn't a nicotine patch work better to help stop someone from smoking, instead of vaping more chemicals into their body?
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Gemma said:
Wouldn't a nicotine patch work better to help stop someone from smoking, instead of vaping more chemicals into their body?
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One would certainly think so, which leads me to believe that E-Cigarettes are just another avenue for those who smoke, to get away from tobacco and switch to a chemical laced liquid, with the idea that E-Cigarettes help people kick the habit, but I'm not sold on the idea.
 
I know how tough it is to quit because I quit after 39 years of smoking.

My husband asked me to quit, so I did. But as we moved across country, I carried around a cigarette carton plus one pack for ages, because I didn't want to find the cravings so unbearable that I would blame him ... since it was my fault that I had been smoking in the first place. And these were American Spirit cigarettes, medium blend. But eventually I threw them out. It's been since 2009, so ...

The other trick is to never smoke another cigarette. I hear of people who quit for years, then picked up a cigarette and were hooked again. Ugh. Who wants to go through quitting multiple times?
 
Devi said:
The other trick is to never smoke another cigarette. I hear of people who quit for years, then picked up a cigarette and were hooked again. Ugh. Who wants to go through quitting multiple times?
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Yup. I quit when I was 30. About 12 years later a friend asked me to light a cigarette for him. He was literally on his deathbed, blinded by cytomegalovirus from AIDS, and couldn't do it for himself. I hesitated for a moment and was about to tell him my vow to never put another cigarette in my mouth, then thought, "Oh get over yourself and light the cigarette for him." Which I did. Thank goodness it tasted terrible to me. That was the last time I touched a cigarette.
 
Devi said:
The best way to quit cigarettes is to quit. It isn't fun, but it works.
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Agreed. Cold turkey is the best way. Throw those coffin nails away, buy some gum to chew instead and tough it out. Do not, under any conditions, think that tapering off is going to work better.
 
hollydolly said:
My husband Vapes.. and vapes a lot, almost chain vaping..after 45 years of almost chain smoking cigatrettes he changed to vaping. ...if he can't give up smoking then I prefer if it that he's now not taking the killer tar into his lungs!!
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just to add , he doesn't Vape in the house of course.. altho' he would if I didn't get on at him... and he vapes using an electronic pipe and not an imitation cigarette...

he has various styles of these..

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StarSong said:
I've never seen a vaping pipe before. Interesting.
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when we're sitting outside a pub or restaurant garden, the pipe is a source of fascination for other people, including the waiters...

ETA..just taken a picture of some of his collection of vaping pipes.. he uses them on a rotating daily basis.. the one he has with him today I believe is a favourite..


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After a 50+ year, pack a day cigarette habit, I switched to vaping.

All I succeeded in doing was substituting an alternative delivery system to feed that nicotine monkey.

Costs me about a $1 a week to vape, rather than $7 to $8 a pack per day.

I'm addicted to caffeine as well as to nicotine.

Smoking was fashionable was I was a teen. If I could counsel my younger self, I wouldn't have ever started. Wouldn't have started shaving my legs, either...
 
SmoothSeas said:
After a 50+ year, pack a day cigarette habit, I switched to vaping.

All I succeeded in doing was substituting an alternative delivery system to feed that nicotine monkey.

Costs me about a $1 a week to vape, rather than $7 to $8 a pack per day.

I'm addicted to caffeine as well as to nicotine.

Smoking was fashionable was I was a teen. If I could counsel my younger self, I wouldn't have ever started. Wouldn't have started shaving my legs, either...
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Your words are my words, too, SmoothSeas.
 
SmoothSeas said:
After a 50+ year, pack a day cigarette habit, I switched to vaping.

All I succeeded in doing was substituting an alternative delivery system to feed that nicotine monkey.

Costs me about a $1 a week to vape, rather than $7 to $8 a pack per day.

I'm addicted to caffeine as well as to nicotine.

Smoking was fashionable was I was a teen. If I could counsel my younger self, I wouldn't have ever started. Wouldn't have started shaving my legs, either...
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I don't want to take this thread off topic, but I never had a problem with hairy legs...
 
I smoked for 27 years and the last 17 years of that I spent trying to quit. Cold turkey worked for me. And I listened to my body. When I couldn't walk up a flight of stairs without running out of breath, I knew it was time to quit for real. I also kept looking at a chart that showed what happens to your body when you quit similar to the attached. It was encouraging to know how my body was healing. Good luck.
 

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We were both smokers for over 20 years. The ingredients in cigarettes are very harmful. We found out about vaping in 2015. After a few trial and errors we were vaping instead of smoking. The deep coughing stopped, life expectancy increased, saved a bunch of money, and it tastes real good. The street ejuice has been banned, and you can not buy vaping stuff online any more. The effective part of vaping is that the ejuice contains anywhere from 18% down to 0% nicotine...18,12,6,3,and 0. So you can taper off nicotine and still have an oral fixation device. :) The two other main ingredients are water, nicotine, flavorings, and a propylene glycol or vegetable glycerin base (or sometimes a mixture of PG and VG) are in many food additives.. My significant other can only vape VG, she is allergic to PG....so she uses 100% VG. I like 70% VG 30% PG 6% nicotine. Here are my vaping devices.

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Flavors from left to right...menthol tobacco, dazzle, marilyn, big, sophia, strawberry doughnut, betty, graham cracker, and cotton candy.
 
Paco Dennis said:
We were both smokers for over 20 years. The ingredients in cigarettes are very harmful. We found out about vaping in 2015. After a few trial and errors we were vaping instead of smoking. The deep coughing stopped, life expectancy increased, saved a bunch of money, and it tastes real good. The street ejuice has been banned, and you can not buy vaping stuff online any more. The effective part of vaping is that the ejuice contains anywhere from 18% down to 0% nicotine...18,12,6,3,and 0. So you can taper off nicotine and still have an oral fixation device. :) The two other main ingredients are water, nicotine, flavorings, and a propylene glycol or vegetable glycerin base (or sometimes a mixture of PG and VG) are in many food additives.. My significant other can only vape VG, she is allergic to PG....so she uses 100% VG. I like 70% VG 30% PG 6% nicotine. Here are my vaping devices.

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Flavors from left to right...menthol tobacco, dazzle, marilyn, big, sophia, strawberry doughnut, betty, graham cracker, and cotton candy.
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My o/h is aware how difficult it's becoming to get e-vape stuff online, but he's still able to get his stuff from the same supplier, he's had for about 5 or 6 years online....he also buys his own flavours and mixes his own..

You're absolutely right about one thing tho'..my husband hardly ever coughs now, and in the latter years of smoking cigarettes he coughed so hard sometimes, especially in the mornings. it was like he was going to choke to death.. *Tar*... He'd be out in the back garden, and I could hear him while I was sitting indoors...
 
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I'm reading a book right now, "The Devil's Playbook" by Lauren Etter. It says that BIG TOBACCO, like Reynolds and Philip Morris spend millions and millions every year in various labs figuring out how to get you hooked. They even call the young generation as "replacement smokers" that are needed to replace those smokers that die of cancer or just die. The book says that 1/2 of the smokers today will get cancer. That's pretty bad odds. Smoking addiction is a multi-billion industry. Apparently there have been many "Malboro Men." They had to be replaced as they died of cancer. Dying of cancer is not very macho.
 

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