VapeMama

I'm sorry you lost your baby, but so happy you found a new smile maker.

I lost a perfectly healthy beautiful 3 yr old 110 lb dobie the same way.

Never again will anything of mine be fixed when they're perfect!

Do you have a picture of your new baby?
Chiweenies are the cutest little dogs.

Just now have a chance to sit for a bit. Had company spend the night and did 8 racks of ribs on the fire pit Yummmy!

E-cigarettes boost quitting success among smokers, study finds
May 20th, 2014, 6:26 am

London(Reuters) - Smokers trying to quit are 60 percent more likely to report success if they switch to e-cigarettes than if they use nicotine products like patches or gum, or just willpower, scientists said on Wednesday.
Presenting findings from a study of almost 6,000 smokers over five years, the researchers said the results suggest e-cigarettes could play an important role in reducing smoking rates and hence cutting tobacco-related deaths and illnesses.
As well as causing lung cancer and other chronic respiratory diseases, tobacco smoking is also a major contributor to cardiovascular diseases, the world's number one killer.
"E-cigarettes could substantially improve public health because of their widespread appeal and the huge health gains associated with stopping smoking," said Robert West of University College London's epidemiology and public health department, who led the study.
Mainly funded by the charity Cancer Research UK and published in the journal Addiction, West's study surveyed 5,863 smokers between 2009 and 2014 who had tried to quit without using prescription medicines or professional help.
The results were adjusted for a range of factors that might influence success at quitting, West said - including age, nicotine dependence, previous attempts to give up smoking, and whether quitting was gradual or abrupt.
They showed that 20 percent of people trying to quit with the aid of e-cigarettes reported having stopped smoking conventional cigarettes.
That compared with just 10.1 percent of those using over-the-counter aids such as nicotine replacement patches or gum. Of those using willpower alone, 15.4 percent had managed to stop.
E-cigarettes contain nicotine - a stimulant not thought to be particularly harmful, although it is addictive - delivering it in a water vapor rather than in smoke from burning tobacco.
A relatively new product, they have become highly controversial, with public health opinion split over whether they might be a powerful tool in helping those hooked on cigarettes to finally give up, or whether they simply replace one bad habit with another.
Because switching to e-cigarettes from tobacco ones does not entail kicking the addiction to nicotine, some specialists say they could spell the end of smoking - which the World Health Organisation (WHO) calls "one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced".
But critics point to a lack of long-term scientific evidence to support the safety and effectiveness of e-cigarettes, and warn they may also re-normalize smoking, enticing children or other non-smokers to take it up.
West agreed that evidence about long-term use is e-cigarettes is scant, but stressed the balance of risks had to be weighed against the very strong evidence of tobacco's harms.
"It's not clear whether long-term use of e-cigarettes carries health risks, but from what is known about the contents of the vapor these will be much less than from smoking," he said.
Smoking tobacco kills half of all those who do it, according to the WHO, and has a death toll of 6 million people a year.
West said evidence shows that smokers who seek professional help from doctors or health clinics that provide stop-smoking services have the highest success rates in quitting.
"These almost triple a smoker's odds of successfully quitting compared with going it alone or relying on over-the-counter products," he said.
(Reporting by Kate Kelland; Editing by Catherine Evans)

I have 2 sisters, Crush. But they are both ''taken''. LOL

YAY! Got hubby's birthday present! HIS VERY OWN BEGINNER'S VAPING SET UP! 2 Evod 1100 mah batteries 2 T3s tanks (he wants to clearly see the fluid level) and a sample bottle of tobacco juice from Juice Monkeys. All he wanted was a basic setup...... for now.

I am so happy I've convinced him to try vaping. He's seen how much better I feel since the stinkies are part of my past, so he wanted to try it for himself! Happy dance here in NE Ohio!

As a thought, diabetics have issues already w dehydration, vaping can cause dehydration.
Which on turn can screw w your numbers, t2 diabetics have insulin resistance, so there for lack of fluids can make this a larger issue.
I have to hydrate like crazy stress of quitting smoking can cause #'s to rise as well.
Try testing before you Vape such as a fasting look at blood sample, Vape wait a 1/2- 1 hour test again watch the sample, as you go higher your sample is darker, as you Vape the same occurs, if your not drinking.
If you drink water in between the levels should be normal

Back to the old well taught lesson to most diabetics, drinking fluids will bring down your sugars, that's why when we go high we get thirsty, our blood needs the fluids.
I'm not a Dr just a diabetic of 29 yrs.

off my soap box.

As a nurse (and that by no means makes me an expert) my guess would be it's any one of the things Mtdobies mentioned above. Also, could it be that his dietary habits have changed some since he started vaping, or getting less exercise maybe?

Congratulations Tam!

YAY! Got hubby's birthday present! HIS VERY OWN BEGINNER'S VAPING SET UP! 2 Evod 1100 mah batteries 2 T3s tanks (he wants to clearly see the fluid level) and a sample bottle of tobacco juice from Juice Monkeys. All he wanted was a basic setup...... for now.

I am so happy I've convinced him to try vaping. He's seen how much better I feel since the stinkies are part of my past, so he wanted to try it for himself! Happy dance here in NE Ohio!

YAY! Got hubby's birthday present! HIS VERY OWN BEGINNER'S VAPING SET UP! 2 Evod 1100 mah batteries 2 T3s tanks (he wants to clearly see the fluid level) and a sample bottle of tobacco juice from Juice Monkeys. All he wanted was a basic setup...... for now.

I am so happy I've convinced him to try vaping. He's seen how much better I feel since the stinkies are part of my past, so he wanted to try it for himself! Happy dance here in NE Ohio!

Welcome! This is definitely a community that will support you! I'm so sorry for your loss, I know the anniversary of losing someone can be very difficult. Support of friends and family is important!

Well, it looks like I'll be better preserved than some other people.

Jaymitiguy, this forum is for vapers not vape shop B&M owners. The T&C of this site keeps B&M shops regulated as "Vendor/Supplier" status and cannot engage in general discussion topics. Each person that has responded to you since the creation of this thread is a consumer of the vaping products we discuss here. A vast majority on this forum are former smokers. So, a need to understand the products outside of the academic level is MUST! Just because you test them, doesn't mean you understand them or the marketplace for them.
Your academic pedigree does not outweigh the strength of our argument or experiences in the realm of vaping.
With regards to the FDA and big-tobacco, you are sorely misinformed. Big-tobacco and big-pharma hold the reigns on the FDA because they have the money to do so. And when they see a loss of profit due to the rising expansion that is vaping, they take notice and start ginning up a way to combat it. As far as tobacco companies starting their own e-cig shoot offs, well you need to understand that their motive is NOT pure. They dont give a damn about the health benefits of getting off the stinky cancer sticks. They only care about regulating us to get themselves back to their previous level of profitability.
Last but not least, I think the general concesus here is that you do a LOT more research and possibly take some small business courses.
As far as some of the people here that have rubbed you the wrong way... well, we're a tight knit group of vaping enthusiasts, and I don't think any of us would want to be counseled in the realm of vaping in a store by someone who has never smoked and had to beat the cigs with vaping. In this regard, experience trumps education.
Have a good day.

Its the blakent generalization that shows what she thinks about vaping and us as vapers. Its a psuedo-intellectual way to tack on a negative connotation. Its easy to do behind the comfort of a keyboard. Just interacting with a lot of the people here on VT, I'm enthused about what I see as far as diversity of occupation, lifestyle, and thought!
We're only nerds to people like her because we've taken the time to educate ourselves on a "healthier" alternative. The biggest difference between us and people like her, is that, we've taught ourselves HOW to think, and she's only ever been taught WHAT to think.

I'm actually okay with being called a vape-nerd, kinda like it. It's so much better than being called a smoker.

If you think about it, quitting smoking is QUITE a change to put your body through.

Cigarettes have thousands of chemicals, that you are putting directly into the body via one of the most sensitive organs you have. The lungs. Anything introduced in to the lungs goes directly in to the body via the blood stream and tissues and gets distributed throughout the body pretty rapidly.

Your body has an incredible ability to handle toxins. It also adapts to those toxins and builds up tolerances. And expends a tremendous amount of energy and resources protecting you from those toxins.

Then one day you just stop. And your body goes, huh? Wha? It has to go through rapid adjustment (withdrawals) to adapt. And it's not always pleasant and comfortable. Don't be surprised if you experience some new sensations you aren't used to. Like smell and taste too!

Feed your body, take some vitamins, drink water, and give it some time.

Also, vaping will dehydrate you so you'll want to take in a LOT more water. Not juice, not coffee or tea...just water.

It's definitely one off my ADHD.
I hate autocorrect! It's one of my ADVs.

It's definitely one off my ADHD.
I hate autocorrect! It's one of my ADVs.

It's a raspberry and cream juice. It reminds me of raspberry creamsavers candy!

Mwiker and Mommabird, 1 MVP2 is not enough in my experience! I had my first one about a week and had to have another! I love it, the big perk is the battery life!

Nice mod, 3Rutez!
I got my black MVP2 and Home canned peaches juice from Comp today! That juice smells so good! Like I remember Mom's home canned peaches when she popped the seal off.......oh the memories!

I never even win a dollar on scratch offs but vaping stuff im a lucky sob the ruckus one is 5 60ml bottles 4 renegade drip tips and a authentic patriot

Got my mod. It hits hard. Maybe even harder than the Stingray.