I’m not kidding myself. Vapes can’t be good for you. Breathing in anything other than oxygen is not a good option. I’m addicted to the vape! There is a stereotype going around in the bloody mainstream news about these product's enticing children to take up the habit. This may be true as they apply over 30 different flavors and they come with flashy packaging, why not make it no different to smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol? Put an age restriction on them! Treat them like the purchasing booze. I’m a little over the novelty of being cool. I’d rather be dead than popular for vaping!
Not promoting the use of these devices but if we’re comparing these to smoking cigarettes there is no comparison. I honestly believe this. I haven’t had a cig in 3 to 4 years but I’ve been smoking a vape fort his amount of time too. I swapped one addiction to another. In my mind there is no comparison. Vaping is definitely the lesser of the two evils in my eyes. If it makes me cool than I guess I’m a cool kind of guy!
There is zero coughing. I used to cough my guts up when smoking cigarettes. I would be constantly be coughing up lovely brown stuff and my lungs would hurt. Nice stuff like that. Every smoke would burn my throat and lungs but I kept going for over two decades. With the vape I can honestly say I haven’t coughed once in 3 to 4 years.
I don’t stink of smoke and I don’t have to spend a fortune like I did with the fags. In Australia a pack of 50’s costs close to hundred dollars. The tax keeps going up and not in small increments eiter and the government can’t understand why illegal cigarettes take up to 65 percent of the market. You can’t be poor and be expected to spend hundreds of dollars for a product most people have to find money for every few days or less. A vape will last me about five days. I am spending over a third of what I did on smokes. This makes it affordable. What I used to spend on cigs I can now purchase 3 vapes that almost last me a fortnight. Vapes by the way cost about 30 dollars each.
There is a grey spot in the distribution of vapes. They are illegal as far as I know to sell. This is why the tobacconist always ushers me to the corner of the store and tells me to keep the cash out of view of other customers. The obeadiant customers who like paying tax - They will only except cash too. But there are no guide lines. The government doesn’t know how to tackle it. Apparently pharmacies were meant to supply vapes providing you had a script from your doctor, who didn't know what to prescribe either. There has been no education for the health professionals, the pharmacy or the tobacconist stores on what to do. At the end of the day it doesn’t effect me unless the tobaconnist stops selling them and after four years of service I doubt this will be an issue. If the feds seized all vapes and the government put into place some legislation then I would quit. It would be hard but so was quitting cigarettes. Even if the worst case scenario came into place, I would never take up the darts again. I have zero desire to smoke a cigarette again.
After writing all of the above, I do plan on quitting. I say this every time I’m about to finish my last one but it won’t be too far off now. Within the next months, weeks I am hoping to tackle this addictive monster..