Metric to Metric help please.

[suesjools]

Although it is not easy for most people to give up smoking/nicotine, I would not say as far as to say that it is near impossible.
I gave up a thirty+ a day habit in 1977. No weaning off. Just stopped. It was difficult for the first month or so but never looked back after that. I'm glad e-cigarettes didn't exist when I gave up. I might just have succumbed to the temptation.

Wow, now that is impressive, (speaking as one who has tried and failed to quit more times than I care to remember). I only hope one day to have the willpower to quit myself.

Best wishes for many sales to all,

[cambrensis]

The problem is nicotine strength. A cigarette gives about 1.2% nicotine whereas a pipe is about 3.5%; This is why after 18 months of not smoking (the effect was immediate) I still take a little nicotine. Well after half a century of pipe smoking...

Everybody has different "do it this way...it's easy" stories. One thing I realised from the beginning was that it was not necessary to have tobacco flavouring, so I've always used fruit flavourings...or caramel!

The vegetable glycerine you can get much cheaper from a pharmacy, especially if own brand. There is no need to pay the higher prices some of the e-cig companies charge. As I said earlier flavourings must be based on veg glycerine too. You will usually find them cheaper in specialist shops for the caterer, but do double check the base is glycerine. Some are alcohol based and you can guess the possible effect when you apply electric current! Culinary veg glycerine is often labelled kosher - at least it is in the UK and I'd guess it's the same in the US.

[ZonkersCollection]

... Culinary veg glycerine is often labelled kosher - at least it is in the UK and I'd guess it's the same in the US.

I could be wrong, but i don't think kosher standards or labling is a gov. regulation.
Should be the same everywhere.

[ZonkersCollection]

So is someone here saying they are trying to give-up NICOTINE itself? and why?
Sue? Tony41?
If you don't like the Nicotine buzz, how did you ever get hooked on smoke?
Do you understand that Nic is NOT cancerous.?

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Can anyone name ANY advantages to smoke over Vapor?



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[burgyeb]

So is someone here saying they are trying to give-up NICOTINE itself? and why?
Sue? Tony41?
If you don't like the Nicotine buzz, how did you ever get hooked on smoke?
Do you understand that Nic is NOT cancerous.?

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No. But I can think of some advantages to not indulging in either smoke or Vapor. Now of course there is the risk that this may not be taken seriously, because it is coming from a non-smoker. One of the main reasons I did not/do not smoke is because I calculated the cost, and I'm a cheap skate. Could only think about how much I would save, and what else I could spend the money on.

Advantages of Not Smoking "Smoke" or "Vapor":

1) Save some serious money
2) Pay off your bills and debts with the saved money
3) Invest some of the saved money
4) Take your loved one(s) on a trip or vacation with some of the saved money
5) Build your business or career with some of the saved money
6) Buy a new home, boat, car, etc. with some of the saved money
7) Rid yourself of the odor, and health consequences of "smoke" (cigarettes, cigars, snuff)
8) Give your loved one(s) the gift of you longer, by not smoking "smoke"

P.S. Numbers 7 & 8 could be seen as advantages of Vapor over smoke

[cambrensis]

I have no idea what the tax and duty requirments are in the U.S. but they are considerable here. Tobacco, which is relatively cheap, is dutiable and tax at 20% is levied as well. The last time i bought pipe tobacco, I paid over £10 (approx $15) for 100g (a little under 4 oz. This would last me less than a week. On the other hand, the ingredients I mentioned earlier are much cheaper - very much cheaper. Vegetable Glycerine is a foodstuff and therefore not subject to tax, for example. I spend less than £40 in a year ($60) and that is decreasing steadily.

My father cycled to work, in very hilly terrain, and in later years would give up smoking for a couple of years as he thought it was affecting his breathing. He would later take it up again as his consumption of peppermints went up, his weight increased - and affected his breathing. This "cycle" (pun intended) went on for the last ten years of his working life! (Smoking curbs the appetite.) Eventually he died of lung cancer at the age of 84, just as his father had done - and he had never smoked.

So stay away from peppermints as well...and I hate to think what chocolate would do to the budget!

[tonyreddevil]

Eventually he died of lung cancer at the age of 84, just as his father had done - and he had never smoked.
but usually heavy smokers die from lung cancer.

[tonyreddevil]

my late dad smoked 140 cigarettes.but never died from lung cancer.but other respoirity diseases