Those Electric Cigarette Thingys

[smokeysmoo]

Lets face it. None of us were the sharpest tools in the box. If we had been, none of us would have started the habit in the first place

Amen to that

 

[mr messy]

From ecig advertising the impression i get is they're not an aid to stop smoking but in fact quite the opposite! They are marketed as a way around the smoking ban. The users i know have no desire nor interest to give up and use it where they can't light up, just as it was intended. This 100% water vapour exhale, if tested, i'm sure would be bs. Don't need an ecig to look at or smell your own breath in normal human body workings!
Just another money making scheme exploiting and encouraging addiction. If it wasn't the manufacturers' wouldn't be fighting tooth and nail to avoid testing.
If proved to stop smoking without addiction to "vaping" and with zero emissions then i'll be happy to approve.

 

[welsh dragon]

From ecig advertising the impression i get is they're not an aid to stop smoking but in fact quite the opposite! They are marketed as a way around the smoking ban. The users i know have no desire nor interest to give up and use it where they can't light up, just as it was intended. This 100% water vapour exhale, if tested, i'm sure would be bs. Don't need an ecig to look at or smell your own breath in normal human body workings!
Just another money making scheme exploiting and encouraging addiction. If it wasn't the manufacturers' wouldn't be fighting tooth and nail to avoid testing.
If proved to stop smoking without addiction to "vaping" and with zero emissions then i'll be happy approve.

It is a shame, that people may be using them to get round the ban . They would be a very useful tool in helping people to give up.

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

Amazing how this thread has developed from a question on electronic cigarettes to the ex smokers being thankful for giving up.

Those that have given up please keep it up, those that relapse keep trying.

Having never smoked, and then reading on here how expensive it is (if you don't smoke you don't really appreciate the cost of a packet) I am so pleased never to have started. Means I have more money to spend on bike bits (as long as the wife doesn't realise how much I have spent on bike bits).
When I die I hope the wife doesn't sell my bike gear for what I have told her I paid for it! Someone would be in for a right bargain!

 

[smokeysmoo]

I know a guy who 'vapes' and has absolutely no intention of giving up. He's also a gadget freak and now has a battery on his e-cig similar to this,

The bloody thing even has a USB port on it so you can power your phone/tablet from it!!!

 

[welsh dragon]

I know a guy who 'vapes' and has absolutely no intention of giving up. He's also a gadget freak and now has a battery on his e-cig similar to this,

The bloody thing even has a USB port on it so you can power your phone/tablet from it!!!

Its people like that that, will get them banned. Stupid man.

 

[Colin B]

Only read OP so far but as far as I'm aware nicotine is odourless so don't get where the smell is coming from cos the smell from a real cig is tobacco .
Doing well you any harm I doubt it because the nicotine is delivered via a vapour unlike a cig and the nicotine e is absorbed Instanly into the Inside of the cheek so all that's being exhaled is vapour .
Right that's my 2 cents I'll go read the rest

 

[Colin B]

I think everyone would agree that regulation is needed. Its important to know what is in these things, otherwise they could be just as bad as ordinary cigarettes.

The Ingredients are on the bottle and considering they do t contain the thousands of carsanogenic ingredients a cig does I doubt they are as dangerous . juice contains 3 things glucose based carrier , nicotine and the flavour .

 

[welsh dragon]

The Ingredients are on the bottle and considering they do t contain the thousands of carsanogenic ingredients a cig does I doubt they are as dangerous . juice contains 3 things glucose based carrier , nicotine and the flavour .

In that case, the powers that be should a) leave them alone but b) ban them from public places just like cigerattes. That way anti smokers will be happy, smokers trying to give up, will be happy, but those who are just exploiting the ban will be miffed to hell

 

[smokeysmoo]

In that case, the powers that be should ban them from public places just like cigarettes.

Looks like Wales is making a START with that.

 

[Colin B]

The reason they can't be marketed as an aid to giving up smoking is because there no clinical trial to prove it , but let's look at me and I can say a few others have done the same .
When I first got an ecig I used three batteries and charged each one three times so that's 9 . I filled the cig 4 times a day and smoked 24 mg nicotine .
Now at about 200 and something days I use one battery a day and only put juice in once a day so I've reduced usage , I've also reduced nicotine levels to 12mg so you tell me are they helping me give up or not oh and I don't stink like an ashtray either

 

[welsh dragon]

The reason they can't be marketed as an aid to giving up smoking is because there no clinical trial to prove it , but let's look at me and I can say a few others have done the same .
When I first got an ecig I used three batteries and charged each one three times so that's 9 . I filled the cig 4 times a day and smoked 24 mg nicotine .
Now at about 200 and something days I use one battery a day and only put juice in once a day so I've reduced usage , I've also reduced nicotine levels to 12mg so you tell me are they helping me give up or not oh and I don't stink like an ashtray either

Good for you. And yes Wales is seeing sense perhaps?

 

[Colin B]

In that case, the powers that be should a) leave them alone but b) ban them from public places just like cigerattes. That way anti smokers will be happy, smokers trying to give up, will be happy, but those who are just exploiting the ban will be miffed to hell

Yep and while they're at it ban vegetarians from restaraunts cos they put me off my rare steak looking all pale and thin lol

 

[welsh dragon]

Yep and while they're at it ban vegetarians from restaraunts cos they put me off my rare steak looking all pale and thin lol

AMEN to that.

 

[mr messy]

Surely if manufacturers are selling ecigs as an alternative cigarette rather than medicinal alternative to a cigarette then they should be treated the same as a real one?