Electronic Cigarettes

That is a horrible birthday gift.

That is a horrible birthday gift.

this.


i get that your intentions are good, however, your efforts may annoy this friend. they'll quit when theyre good and ready.
buy them something they'll enjoy.

When I was smoking my friends took my pack and smashed it on the ground and punched me in the stomach. True story.

I quit smoking, but not from them. Point is nothing you do can make them stop, only them wanting to commit to not smoking.

Start running, do c 25k, it makes the taste of smoking horrific right after a run.

That is a horrible birthday gift.

That's not really quitting. It's just another way of getting the drug into the body, albeit much less annoying to those around the person.

That's a very nice, thoughful birthday gift, IMO.

Smoking is the WORST way to get your nicotine. Heart disease, emphysema, lung cancer, COPD, etc, etc, etc. These are not particularly nicotine problems - they are smoking problems.

"quit or die" is a stupid choice when there is a spectrum of lower harm choices that they can make. They can always go for completely abstaining from nicotine later - after they stop killing themselves and hurting the people around them with smoking.

Hi there! I have a Joye 510 that helped me quit, they have starter kits for around $50 and they have rechargeable batteries and use flavored nicotine "juices" that you buy separately to drip inside. I like that all the parts are replaceable so it is relatively low cost to maintain/replace parts as needed (batteries and atomizers tend to wear out after awhile). I also like that it's relatively small and discrete, most people don't even notice it.

And yes I am still hooked on my ecig but it's been over a year since I had a cigarette and I am healthier than ever, saving lots of money and time and some icky health-related smoking symptoms have disappeared so for the person that doesn't count it as quitting...you really don't know what you are talking about, just sayin'..........

They're all pretty much the same design. It's the flavors that are very diverse. My fiance has a few of them. He got a bunch of different flavors. However, using E-cigs alone probably won't help your friend quit. He may need the E-cigs and something else like the patch or the lozenges or the gum. Right now, my fiance is on the lozenges. He still wants to smoke, but he's not as crazy as he is when he used the patches.

she wont quit unless she wants to quit. It may drive a stake through your friendship if she thinks you are interfering. I wouldnt take that risk. She knows ecigs are out there, she knows there are the patches, gum, cold turkey, and other methods but if she hasnt taken the step to do it then she may not want to quit.

I quit smoking using an e-cig. For the uninformed, it's not different than the patch or gum or any other cessation device. If the individual is committed to using the e-cig rather than smoking a real cigarette, they work. I know 4 people, including myself who've tried numerous times and methods to quite and the e-cig is the only thing that's worked.

I've been smoke free since Sept. I used a Joytech 1000 Mah twist and vivi tanks for the juice. I personally loved this set up because I didn't want anything that actually looked or felt like a cigarette and the tank was great because I could just fill it up and it would last me most of the day and don't have to sit there dripping onto an atomizer.

It is important that your friend have a plan in place though...I started out at a very high nicotine content as I was a 2-3 PAD smoker. I did that for a couple months and then started going down to the next level every month or so until I got to zero. I still use mine occasionally...usually when I'm drinking or something, just as something to do with my hands, etc...but really, I hardly even think about it anymore. It took me about 5-6 months to get to zero nicotine.

Whatever people may think about them, they work well in helping you quit and worst case is harm reduction therapy essentially. I can tell you that after just a month on the e-cig with no cigarettes at all, I could breathe again...started running again, etc. You may be getting the nicotine, but you're not getting all of the tar and thousands of other chemicals that come with the cigarette. If your friend is really committed, they work wonders...and I had tried just about everything under the sun.