Vape marketing pretty much undid all the progress made to get people to stop smoking.
Honestly I see it as this kinda fucked up thing that’s pure capitalism greed.
Get people dependent on a super addictive chemical that has withdrawal symptoms as low as 1 hour intervals.
People spend a ton of money just to not feel the withdrawal symptoms.
It’s bad for health. It offers nothing.
Its barely a stimulant.
Just have some caffeine. It’s less expensive and not bad for your health. (In small quantities).
I’ve got two teen nieces vaping.
They think it’s cool. All their friends do it.
I really thought the next generations were going to be lucky they weren’t chained to a subscription that’s scraping years off their life and pocket. But I guess not.
Fuck big tobacco.
South Park named these douche flutes, and I used that reference to shame my friend, he either quit using it or doesn’t douche flute around me anymore.
Either way win win.
Thank you Matt and Trey.
Mouth fedora
China’s revenge for that opium business
Didn’t china crack down on vapes too?
For export? Maybe.
Germany did opium business with China? When?
When I went to Europe there were cigarettes butts everywhere, and people smoked like crazy, felt like US in the 70s
Depends totally on which country. And what demographic you visit.
South and East Europe smoke a lot more than North and West. People outside bars smoke because if they didn’t smoke they’d be inside.
Was Netherlands and germany
Europe the country! - USAsians
I understand its not a country.
People giving you flack for treating Europe like a country but tbh I’ve been to Germany (multiple cities), Spain (Madrid), France (Paris), Netherlands (multiple cities), and Norway (multiple cities) in the last 2 years at least and the only one without a smoking and littering problem was Norway (if I’m recalling correctly).
Yeah, tbh it shocked me. I live in California smoking is rare here.
Yeah that’s what I’m saying. Southern Europe (and I would count France under this too especially culturally) and Eastern Europe smoke a lot more. In Holland and Germany and the Nordics it’s a lot rarer.
I think the difference is cultural. Those countries tend to be more laid-back while the further north you go the more serious people are about life and rules. Just as an example, if your whole street has green front doors in Holland and you paint yours blue, you can bet you will get a visit from some local council pencil pusher ordering you to change it right back. In Spain you just do whatever the fuck you please with your own house. The only thing you get complaints about are actual dangers (eg plaster falling from the facade and possibly injuring people).
And I’m not saying that to bash them. In fact I moved from a northern to a southern European country in part because I like the looser outlook 🫶
I argue that vaping is far far worse than cigarettes given that the ability to “smoke” indoors is much greater.
I recently quit smoking after 6 or so years. I had no choice due to $$ and problems maintaining a state id (super fucking hard if you don’t have a physical address mailbox). I used to walk 3 to sometimes 15 miles a day as long as I had smokes. It was forcing me to get the fuck outside multiple times a day. Chain smoking plus cardio seemed to have a extremely positive effect on my blood pressure, because when I quit smoking, I completely stopped going outside 100%, save it for a minute or two throwing out the trash. My blood pressure SKYROCKETED and remains so ever since I was forced to quit smoking 🚬. Crazy but true.
I had literally zero issues going through the quitting process thanks to the nicotine gum (niccorette branded gum, the Amazon off brand had zero sweetener). It completely killed off the intense cig cravings I would usually get during no smokes periods. After a month and a half, I completely stopped going for the gum without even thinking about it. Done and done.
I’m constantly hearing others switch to vaping to stop smoking. I imagine if I was vaping, my addiction to nicotine would be much worse than with smoking, because the temptation to smoke (vape) would be easier to succumb to if I were able to smoke (vape) indoors. Above all, it is the nicotine that drives the urge to smoke (vape), it changes certain brain receptors and it’s irreversible. It takes many years for the receptors to return to normal after smoking cessation, at least that’s how it was for me the first time I quit smoking around age 21 two decades ago. Back then I quit cold turkey and it took 2 years for the random cig cravings to go away.
I’ve found quitting vaping is easier for the cravings than with cigarettes, because the tobacco has other stuff in it that makes the craving intense when I don’t have those, but vaping is something that I can set down and not be bothered so much. Circumstances of the present moment are particularly stressful and I’m working on staying sober, too, so as I’m alone right now, I’m smoking, but I’m only smoking 3-4 puffs before putting it out. I agree, the ease at which I can grab a vape would make it easier to take a small hit, and I would instinctively do that, but under ideal circumstances, vaping has made it easier to set it down for an extended period of time before stress really took off.
If there’s one thing nicotine is great for it’s handling stress. As long as you have some on hand 😊
I once observed a time ago whilst on mushrooms and DXM, after a very specific type of closed-eye hallucination was going on, where I was being carried through a vibrant, breathing, living world, and I stopped to smoke some tobacco, and upon returning by closing my eyes, I was on the same “screen” as I left, but I was no longer being “carried” through this landscape. There was just a woman in a gazebo with a river and wind, all moving independently. This experience showed me that nicotine stops a process in my head that I discussed with a friend who was a cognitive scientist, but I forget the terms he used.
I have quite a lot of experience with DXM. I binged on it for 3 months straight. One or two 8 oz Robitussin syrup bottles per day. The local flea market was selling them for a goddamn nickel each the bastards!
Anyhow, one night I was swimming around in head watching the movie “21 grams”. It’s one of those mixed up puzzle type of movies where all the scenes are out of order. It was very jarring and intense.
After it ended, I went to lay down in my bed. My mind reeling, thinking about what I just watched. Trying to process it. After a minute or so, I started to doze off, in the DXM hazy type of doze. In that very moment, I had this intense sensation of two massive big rigs hitting going Mach 10 crashing into each other at the center of my mind. A psychotic break of some sort. Super crazy shit.
On a lighter note, I had a couple sleep screaming episodes during this DXM binge. I was repeatedly falling asleep and instantly SCREAMING my head off. This according to my roommate laying down in the bed across the room.
“DUDE SHUT UP!!”
My maladapted tulpa, Valmar, was repurposed into Rusterd on DXM on the same night Pandora first played Solar Fake’s Nothing’s Wrong
…but was that a command, to shut up? Am I under investigation? Do these Arizonan retards in blue not know who I am? No, it does not make sense that the FBI would tell them. That would go against their intentions of…well, y’know. Obviously.
What is reality? I have nothing to hide. I understand I look like the Johnny Bravo of Charles Mansons. I have the authority of the tree of life. My robes are washed (clothes are still dirty), but they are tattered because I have been so traumatized. That’s where God has stepped in. And I think the FBI git that retard to flip way early on, so this ain’t just a police state, it’s a police vishnu.
I feel like I’m being set up all the time. I think my life partner has, and that the patient in the ward who answered the phone was really testing me. I think they’re gunna say I’m some insane cult leader and I’m just an artist with some problems that have been exacerbated by the circumstances of dealing with my manipulative life partner in light of his declining mental health. But God said I would be fine. But God also said God wouldn’t be there when the time comes. I don’t have anybody right now. I can’t make decisions on my own. I’m sorry I’m not good enough.
I suppose parents who vape raise kids who vape? Addiction sucks.
Germany fucking plague here in the states. My son friend I caught vaping. He grown but only 19. Pissed me off. I thought the kids of today had gotten away from that. But no my son said everyone was vaping these days. (But not him) they traded cigarettes for vaping and dumb shits think its better.
