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To let DD (16) vape?

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WildInTheSky · 08/10/2024 22:56

DD (16) vapes and so do her friends. I’ve tried everything to stop her vaping but she still vapes. Would I be unreasonable to just let her vape at this point? She knows the health risks and is nearly an adult. I’ve tried everything to get her to stop vaping and I’ve offered to support her to quit too but she is still vaping so I don’t know what else to do at this point. What would you do?

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WildInTheSky · 09/10/2024 14:44

BlaiseBaileyFinneganiii · 09/10/2024 12:33

This attitude absolutely baffles me. You'd prefer your children to inhale a toxic amount of smoke that is proven to cause cancer when there's an alternative available that has none of those toxins in it? An alternative that, as it stands, shows no good evidence that it causes cancer?

Because you personally don't like vaping? Do you hear yourself??

Seriously OP, this is not the place for a sensible opinion. People talk the most painfully awful shite on here. As if in any logical world, it's preferable to smoke cigarettes!

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DD has never smoked cigarettes so isn’t using vaping to quit smoking. She’s just taken up vaping for the sake of it.

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WildInTheSky · 09/10/2024 14:49

So it seems there’s nothing I can do then and DD will still vape but just not in the house or garden? I’ve tried everything but she just doesn’t want to stop. Is there anything else I could do or do I just need to accept it?

She knows she can’t vape in the house or garden and I enforce that.

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thismummydrinksgin · 09/10/2024 15:04

I am in the same position, the thing is you can't stop them they are addicted. We bought ours nictonine gum and supports to stop which was successful only for them to start again. So next time we made it clear it was in the best interests to stop but he now had to finance the gum etc or access a stop smoking course. We don't allow in it in the house or in front of us. So we know and don't actively punish them for it but don't condone it and try to support cessation. Xx

thismummydrinksgin · 09/10/2024 15:06

WildInTheSky · 09/10/2024 14:49

So it seems there’s nothing I can do then and DD will still vape but just not in the house or garden? I’ve tried everything but she just doesn’t want to stop. Is there anything else I could do or do I just need to accept it?

She knows she can’t vape in the house or garden and I enforce that.

If you figure it out please share 😂 heartbreaking isn't it x

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WildInTheSky · 09/10/2024 15:08

thismummydrinksgin · 09/10/2024 15:06

If you figure it out please share 😂 heartbreaking isn't it x

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Will do but I don’t think we will be able to stop her from vaping unfortunately x

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