To vape?

[MammaMa9]

AIBU to vape? I’ve never smoked cigarettes. Vaping is my one vice, I don’t drink or have any other vices. I find that vaping helps with my stress! I know people will say it’s stupid but I enjoy vaping

Utterly stupid.

The cost.

The long term unknown effects.

The pure aesthetics.

The anti-social stink.

Starting vaping rather than using it as a switch from cigarettes does indeed comes across as utterly stupid.

What's the point? Find another 'coping' method that doesn't smell/cost anything/have unknown life-long health implications. Utterly pointless.

At least cigarettes are regulated and if you look hard enough you can find out what's in them causing you harm.

What responses are you actually hoping to get? Do you think everyone will applaud this silly behaviour?

Yep, not even unreasonable; definitely stupid.

Idiotic. The one use case I can think of it using it as a way of quitting cigarettes, which are worse. But otherwise, just idiotic.

I don't understand why you started unless you started vaping as a teenager and now "hooked" no adult needs to start vaping

Have a watch of the Jordan North documentary on raping on iplayer. It's no nonsense, with some science. Worth 30 minutes of your time.

Vaping!!!

Vaping was supposed to help wean people off cigarettes, not as an excuse by users to now do it in the car, on the bus, in shops, at the dinner table!

I understand that it may have been stupid to start vaping but it helps my stress now and I enjoy it

Oh I do it everywhere!

It’s disgusting. Please stop

Do what you like if you can afford and enjoy it. You're an adult.

You'll always get a vast amount of condemnation on MN for vaping.
Oh the health risks, the antisocial element, the horror and the judgement.
Meanwhile many will be ticking down the hours to wine o' clock.

Vaping is meant to wean you off cigarettes. And then stop.

A one way ticket to lung cancer...

Why would you want to inhale unknown chemicals into your body??

Find a different vice. Take up jogging. Take up yoga. Take up skipping. Or knitting or crochet.

Helps with stress? If anything it is likely to make stress worse. All it helps with is temporarily relieving the stress due to nicotine withdrawals.

Ugh the stench of those sickly sweet vapes 🤢 bring back cigarettes, and I’m not even a smoker

You would not have come to post this if you didn't, on some level, feel that you were being unreasonable to continue vaping. I don't generally start posts asking if I am stupid to eat dark chocolate or read my book before bed. So clearly, you already know the answer and just coming up with excuses.
Vaping doesn't help with stress any more than another activity. There is no mechanism by which it would. It's a rank habit and I am saying it as someone who vapes and is struggling to give up.

Vape if you want, who cares whether judgemental strangers think you're being unreasonable!?
I quite like the smell of some of them. They're a considerably safer alternative to tobacco, I think that has become lost in all the derisory hype surrounding them.

Nope. Don't do it. I smoked, then vaped to give up, and now I'm way more addicted to vaping, im probably on the equivalent of 2/3 packs a day and it's 1000 x harder to stop. Stopping cigs was easy enough you just needed willpower, you barely even noticed the craving. Stopping vaping is another ballgame, I get physical pain from withdrawal, my bones ache etc. Nicotine gum doesn't even take the edge off.

At this point I don't even know how to give up, except maybe taking up smoking again. Biggest mistake I ever made.

It doesn’t help your stress - it relieves the stress you feel from needing a nicotine fix because you are addicted

you’re an adult and free to ruin your health in any way you see fit, but do not delude yourself that it is beneficial for you in any way

Keep it away from other people. The flavorings are contact allergens and asthma triggers for some people. Your vapor can give someone hives or make them need their asthma inhaler. It’s as bad as exposing people to cigarette smoke.

You are free to make choices for yourself. You have no right to harm other people.

They're a considerably safer alternative to tobacco

considerably? The studies that exist seem to suggest otherwise. Not as damaging, but still doing damage.

Hearing how much everybody here hates vapes makes me want to vape. I smoke because I enjoy it, not every day but in the bath with wine etc.

Vape away. Also whoever is claiming vapes stink is a moron, they are hardly offensive, it's vapor with a minor scent. They will be then first person to buy some winter spice candle, a glade plug in, and a bottle of shit perfume at Christmas, yet can't abide a whiff of blue raspberry they will only experience for seconds in passing. Utterly pathetic.

Enjoy your vape.

Then you’re even more stupid, you’re not allowed to do it everywhere