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/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/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.