About husband 'smoking' an e cigarette in the house?

[Bejeena]

Title says it all really! I have told my husband countless times that I am not happy with him smoking his e cigarette in the house? He says ok but then continues to do so when I am either in bed or out.

A bit of background, we have an 8 week old baby and my husband stopped smoking when we found out I was pregnant and I was rather proud of him (he didn't tell me he had quit until he was 90 days without a cigarette)

He never smoked normal cigarettes in the house before and I don't see why he should smoke this electronic one inside either.

His argument is that it is just water vapour!

I should add he is a great man and a fab Dad, I can't fault him on most things, apart from this.

[TheOriginalSteamingNit]

YABU.

[IneedAsockamnesty]

Its his house as well as yours.

[loopyloou]

Your GP clearly knows nothing about E cigs. The vapour is in no way dangerous.

I think you ABVU to tell him what he can and can't do in the house if it isn't harming anyone.

[sonlypuppyfat]

I detest smoking hate it more than anything else but for Pete's sake get off his back he's doing his best.

[Echocave]

Actually Furry I think the debate is that if nicotine containing products have therapeutic uses (like helping people to give up smoking) that they should be classified as medicinal products and are regulated as such. But that's not helping the OP!

[ilovesooty]

Ignorance about vaping and threatened legislation will probably drive people back
to smoking. I suggest the OP informs herself

[livinginwonderland]

YABVU.

[Nanny0gg]

1. Is he actually giving up or is he as 'addicted' to these as he was to normal ones?
   
2. Has the OP said that she objects to the steam?
   
   Surely it's about the fact that she doesn't want her children copying their father's habit.

[ApocalypseThen]

I'd be a little concerned if he's using this e-cigarette more than he smoked. One of the issues giving up smoking us behavioural and it sounds like he's developing a physical habit which will be hard to break.

[EhricLovesTeamQhuay]

Hahaha at all the sympathetic posters telling her to give him a break! He's not actually giving up is he, if he's still smoking ecigs over three months later? I think the licence to smoke them inside makes people smoke more to be honest. I've seen highly addicted social workers puffing away constantly at their desks when previously they would have had to wait for a non existent free moment or when they leave the office.

I'd be fucked off too, for no logical reason except the pretending to quit whilst actually chuffing far more nicotine and expecting applause for it would get on my nerves.

[ginmakesitallok]

Ehric, don't be ridiculous!! He has stopped smoking. He is no longer killing himself and the people round him. Sure, he may still be addicted to nicotine, but where's the harm in that? I've found switching from cigs to ecigs really easy, doesn't take away from the fact that I've stopped smoking. So what if folk take more nicotine from an ecig than a cigarette , it's doing no one any harm.

[NeatFreak]

I wouldn't like it but can't really explain why... Don't think I'd actually stop someone from doing it though,

Fwiw, we went out for a meal last week and there was a sign up banning ecigs as they contain nicotine. I've no idea what is in them but this chain have decided not to allow it in their pubs

[Jolleigh]

How exactly does it make people smoke more when there's no smoke involved?

[ilovesooty]

They are not marketed as a quit smoking device.

[ginmakesitallok]

Oh, and as for normalising smoking, my ecig looks nothing like a cigarette

[ilovesooty]

Wetherspoons have banned Ecigs
It's basically up to the individual establishment.

[ilovesooty]

Ditto gin

[pinkyredrose]

Smoki was far more 'normalised' in the 60s and 70s, everyone smoked then and there weren't any e-cigs!

[ilovesooty]

I imagine that if you tried to vape zero nicotine in Wetherspoons they'd stop you.

[ginmakesitallok]

I assume wether spoons have also stopped serving Aubergine, tomatoes, cauliflower and potatoes, as they all contain nicotine too??

[PersonalClown]

It all depend on the e-cig type.

The one with the 'juices' that you refill have varying levels of nicotine. DP is working on lowing the amount of nicotine in his till he feels that he can quit them altogether.

The cheaper, conventional cig looking ones are either 1 or 2 strengths only.

[ThePuffyShirt]

I saw a man in a local bar smoking an e cigarette. It was most odd. He held it enclosed in his fist and sucked on it through his fist too, all very surreptitious. They are not banned in the bar, btw.

I think you are BU OP, but I wouldn't like it either, for no good reason.

[ilovesooty]

Good point about the food containing nicotine
Perhaps the OP is going to stop buying those as well

[GobblersKnob]

I don't think YABU at all, people smoke them at my university and I hate it and am trying to get it stopped. I find the 'just water vapour' irritating it hurts my eyes and throat and I am not the only one,

From this site


1: Secondhand Vapor

While e-cigarettes don't produce secondhand smoke, they do produce secondhand vapor. And even though manufacturers say that it's merely water vapor and therefore harmless, regulatory agencies and health experts contend that e-cigarette makers haven't conducted the research needed to prove this. Some individuals, particularly those with health conditions that make them sensitive, have reported that the vapor is irritating to their eyes, noses and throats, and that it affects their breathing and makes them nauseous. Opponents of e-cigarettes say people shouldn't be subjected to secondhand vapor until manufacturers have proven it to be safe for everyone, including children, the elderly and people with certain medical conditions.

e-cigarettes are unregulated and for a large part untested. When people first began smoking tobacco, it was thought to have all kind of heath benefits, sadly the were pretty wrong. I don't even like people smoking them in front of me, I wouldn't have people smoking them in front of a baby.

[ilovesooty]

Trying to get it stopped?
Ffs
Of course that's what pro regulation agencies say. It's about money pure and simple.