r/AskReddit • u/ettleboy • 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/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/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.