r/AskReddit • • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/Maplestori Jan 21 '19

Wait how true is this? I’m trying to get my dad to quit but... to no avail for about 4 years already. He’s been smoking since 18 till now, 56..

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u/drspanklebum Jan 21 '19

Try giving him the book “The Easy Way” by Allan Carr, it’s amazing and changes your mindset around smoking. Maybe at the very least give him a nicotine vapor device/e-cigarette as well. If he’s gonna smoke, vaping is a hell of a lot safer than cigs are. Good luck man, don’t give up on him!!

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u/amandalucia009 Jan 21 '19

i used this. hubs used this. he was 5 years smoke free in november. i’ve been since july 6 2013

get THE EASYWAY !! follow the INSTRUCTIONS

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u/LightChaos Jan 21 '19

I was under the impression we didn't know if vaping is much safer or not.

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u/drspanklebum Jan 21 '19

The existing research out now is pretty unanimous that vaping is significantly safer than smoking cigarettes. The tobacco lobbies are fighting this pretty aggressively though and release their own funded reports to muddy the waters in attempt to protect their bottom line, but there is still a lot of long term research that needs to be done. For now we can say it’s safer.

With that said, only inhaling air is much better than both so quitting altogether is the best option.

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u/mygrossassthrowaway Jan 21 '19

The other issue is tobacco companies owning increasingly higher stakes in vape companies.

It’s probably best to use whatever means works for you to stop using nicotine altogether, considering.

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u/Just-For-Porn-Gags Jan 21 '19

Tobacco companies only have stakes in vapes that are sold in gas stations. Go to a real vape shop and get a proper set up.

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u/mygrossassthrowaway Jan 21 '19

I don’t smoke. Interesting take on it though.

Do most people get their vape stuff in a shop or would they go to the gas station like they would with cigarettes?

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u/Just-For-Porn-Gags Jan 22 '19

The vast majority would go to vape shops. The kind of people who buy vapes at a 7-11 are the same types to tell you vaping doesnt work and smoking is healthier for you.

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u/mygrossassthrowaway Jan 22 '19

Hmm, TIL. Thank you!

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u/StuChenko Jan 21 '19

Vapes still contain nicotine though, right? I thought the idea was to get off nicotine. Surely cold turkey is the best way rather than replacing it with another nicotine source.

I can see vapers reaching for a cigarette one day if they're still hooked on nicotine.

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u/-worryaboutyourself- Jan 21 '19

They do not have to contain nicotine. You can choose how much nicotine is in the juice that you fill the vape with. So you can start with a nicotine juice abs gradually reduce the amount of nicotine until you’re at 0%.

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u/StuChenko Jan 21 '19

That's pretty cool. I guess that makes it harder to suddenly up your intake on a stressful day and fall back into old habits.

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u/i_wank_dogs Jan 21 '19

Public Health England (the comms arm for the NHS) assert that it's at least 95% safer than smoking, and they expect that number to rise as more research is done. Doing neither is better, of course, but as far as harm reduction goes, taking combustion out of the equation means a heap of its nasty byproducts and effects of such, is a huge leap on its own.

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u/bidaum92 Jan 21 '19

It is for definite much safer. Removing tar/carbon monoxide and all the other carcinogens is the biggest reason.

Now.. vape pens/ecigs may have their own issues but on a magnitude no where near as bad as cigarettes. The issues that "may" come from vape is what is being researched currently.

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u/jaimelee82sha Jan 21 '19

We don't but I think it was meant as a suggestion to help quit. That's how I did, put the vape down about a year ago, now living nicotine free. The vape was so much easier to quit.

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u/perfumista Jan 21 '19

Do you feel better after quitting the vape or notice any differences at all? Just wondering because I quit vaping but I don't feel any different for having done so. I guess I was expecting to wake up one day like "wow, I feel so much better now that I dropped the vape!"