Did someone actually quit smoking after using a vape? - eviltoast

Considering to buy one for a family member.

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    4 days ago

    I quit smoking using a vape and then quit vaping.

    I found that it was easier to quit smoking using a vape because I kept the same motion. I needed a powerful one to feel a similar hit.

    And I found it easier to stop vaping than to stop smoking because I could mix liquids to have any desired nicotine content, allowing me to reduce it very gradually. A lot of people simply replace smoking with vaping but that’s still an improvement.

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        4 days ago

        Because different ways to consume have different health hazards.

            • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              3 days ago

              How is that guy trying to actually argue that vaping is as harmful as smoking? What an insane thing to say.

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                3 days ago

                Well the argument is the video you linked, I don’t have time to rewatch it but you can look in the sources:

                https://sites.google.com/view/sources-vaping/

                Myth 1: Vaping is just as harmful as smoking

                Fact: Nicotine vaping is not risk-free, but it is substantially less harmful than smoking.

                I suggest you watch the material you link in the future and I’ll point out that no one is arguing that vaping is safe, only less bad.

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                    3 days ago

                    Who’s “you people”?

                    And well yes, new health hazards will be discovered about vaping, there is no doubt about it. Just as new health hazards are still discovered about smoking. But as of our scientific knowledge right now it’s better, and it’s unlikely to shift because the main source of toxins has been eliminated: combustion. I’ve yet to see a source that says otherwise and you have no other way than to use the current knowledge to make a choice.

                    I don’t really see your point, why should people keep doing what we know to be worse?

                    And what do you call mid, long-term? Because vaping has been around long enough to have people that have been doing it for almost 20 years.

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        4 days ago

        Smoking introduces a lot more chemicals than just nicotine. A lot of health hazards associated with smoking are from the smoke itself, not the nicotine. Vaping allows you to remove the smoke part of the equation. (Vaping also introduces a bunch of hazards on its own, but it’s still overall better than smoking)