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.

[ginmakesitallok]

Gobblers, there has been research which shows that vapour from e cigs does not contain any chemicals in harmful quantities reference to report here for example

[GobblersKnob]

Hmmm, but 'minimal risk' is still possible risk.

I'm sorry but I hate it, it feels like a massive step back to me, we are not used to smoking in public now and I find it rude to be smoking in lectures and in the canteen.

I don't mind people smoking them in pubd etc, because I don't have to go in them, but I do object to someone puffing away next to me when I am trying to learn.

[ginmakesitallok]

But it's not smoking! Once you get your head round that you can think about it rationally. (I don't mean YOU gobbler, I mean everyone!)

[fruitpastille]

Is there potential to refill them with other substances? Not saying this is the issue for op but it could be in public places.

[ginmakesitallok]

What sort of other substances fruitpastille?

[Wallison]

Oh ffs so now were are expected to take the word of sites called 'Discovery Fit and Health' which promotes, amongst other things, so called natural 'medicine' as evidence that water vapour will damage us?

Fffs.

[AlannaPartridge]

The ignorance of some people!

Do you know what the least harmful thing about any real cigarette is? The nicotine. In small doses, it's really not harmful - it's a bit like caffeine. (It is addictive, though). What's dangerous about cigarettes is all the tar and the gazillions of other chemicals that are stuck in too.

An E-Cig has NONE of those chemicals. It is a bit of nicotine (and some come with none at all) combined with some water vapour to give a realistic sensation of smoking - which a lot of smokers miss with the more conventional Nicorette type products.

They are 99% safer than cigarettes - and are the best things to have happened to smokers EVER. Great that we have people like Eric & Gobbers, who know fuck all about them, trying to ban them too, eh?

Fucking ridiculous.

[fruitpastille]

I know nothing, but other drugs perhaps? Just speculating.

[Wallison]

The only thing that these bans on e-cigarettes prove is that a lot of the impetus for anti-smoking campaigns is not based on health concerns but on trying to control people's behaviour. Which makes them look like hysterical fools.

[Wallison]

[fills ecig up with CRACK COCAINE]

[ginmakesitallok]

Fruitpastille, that is honestly the most ridiculous argument for banning ecigs in public that I have ever heard!!! I honestly don't know whether you can vape other drugs in an ecig. I imagine if you could and if someone wanted to stand in the street and vape cocaine/heroine/ other drug we would have heard of it by now. I'm off to a vaping board to ask....

[IamNotLegend]

I was smoking mine in Wetherspoons yesterday and wasn't thrown out. Also the people in the office I work in have never objected. I've asked if they mind and if they find it irritating. No one noticed until I pointed it out and have even converted a few of the smokers. If you leave it a few seconds before you exhale then there isn't any vapour as the steam dissipates.

[Wallison]

Actually, I think that fruitpastille has a valid point and I would take it further; there is nothing to stop people filling empty evian bottles with vodka and therefore all plastic bottles should be banned at work, on trains, in pubs etc. It's the only way to keep us and our children safe.

/captain vigilant

[Thymeout]

Wel,l my GP said the exact opposite to what the hospital doctor told you, OP.

No risk to other people and a hell of a lot safer for the smoker.

[IamNotLegend]

@ Wallison

[mehimandthegirls]

I OBJECT to people smoking E-cigs inside!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

only because I gave up to get pregnant and I'm SO FUCKING jealous. I miss smoking, I dream of smoking, I wish I could smoke smoke smoke aaallllll day

1 year down without smoking, its very fucking boring. and gossip is nooooo where near as good with out waving a fag out and clutching a coffee/wine

[mrsjay]

would you have a problem taking your baby out in fog because that is basically what an E cig is, or even the kettle is vapour, I think you need to calm down and maybe ask him to do it in the kitchen if you are really worried but I do think you are a bit ott

[earlgray]

As a non smoker I agree with jacks365.
I think its less of a problem now and you should support him but I would want it to stop altogether in time. Can't fully understand the situation because neither me nor dh have ever smoked but I think your dh has done well so far!

[Sidge]

Well e-cigs are certainly better than real cigs and you don't get the passive smoking risks. The smoker themselves who uses e-cigs is also better off as they're not getting all the carcinogens that cigarettes would give them.

However they're not completely harmless and can still cause airway damage and as they are unregulated you don't really know what you're using. Also they don't really help you to quit properly as you're maintaining a nicotine addiction which can make it easier to restart proper smoking.

(Oh and some have been known to be a fire hazard, so still need to be used carefully)

[ginmakesitallok]

What do you mean when you say "quit properly"? Why would I want to stop vaping nicotine? I have quit smoking cigarettes properly, smoked 20 a day for 20 years, never managed to go for one single day without a cigarette. I haven't had one cigarette, or wanted one, for over 3 m

[ginmakesitallok]

Months. They are only as much of a fire hazard as any charging battery....

[fruitpastille]

Ok, ok, I am not personally against them. Just theorising about why weatherspoons would ban them. Live and let live is my attitude generally.

[AlannaPartridge]

They do help people give up smoking if you consider that "smoking" means cigarettes.

You are not "smoking" when you have an E-cig anymore than you are when you suck a Nicorette lozenge. They deliver nicotine in a way that emulates smoking.

I am now a non-smoker because I use E-cigs.

[Sidge]

Because as long as you take nicotine you are keeping the receptors in the brain 'switched on' to craving nicotine. Quitting properly involves weaning off nicotine so they 'switch off'. It just makes it easier in the long term to stop cravings and reduce the likelihood of smoking again.

[AintNobodyGotTimeFurThat]

I'm a hater all things cigarettes.

I hate cigarettes and cigars with a passion and think it should be outright banned because of the nicotine and tar that is in cigarettes.

But even I see no problem with smoking an e cigarette in the house. It wont do any harm to the baby at all!

If you mean because you don't like the principle and you don't want your baby to grow up thinking that smoking is OK then I get your point. But your baby is very small now and wont understand that kind of thing yet. I know it's good for him to get into the habit of not doing it, but the chances are by the time your daughter is 2 he'll have stopped smoking all together as it's a great platform to stop smoking.