bigslick83

I do not wish anyone to implement themselves or this forum into goading children into trying ecigs. That is not my point.

I know ecigs are only for children over 18 years of age. (is it 19 in canada?)

I know ecigs do not use tobacco.
I know the benefits that ecigs have had on myself.
I know it is against the law to smoke unless you are over 18.
but did i do it?

yes!

will your kids do it?

probably

The point is that I would buy an ecig from my son and condone him using it (with 0 nic juice) before I would ever allow him to smoke analogs. This would only be well after I have caught him several times and explained to him the dangers of smoking.

Sure he might get a few of his friends interested, but I always got my cigs from other kids parents that allowed them to smoke before the age of 18. I could live with being the irrisponsible parent that steered children away from using nasty cigs by introducing to them something that is non addicting, cool, and with no relative side effects.

what about u? honestly, if someone judges you here, at least you can just click the x.

Oggy

I have been worried for several years that my son will start smoking just like i did. So far I have been really lucky that his Asthma has prevented this, but he is only 14 ATM. But if i had the option of him smoking or using a PV, i would be the one buying him the PV. After all the issues that smoking has caused me over the years, I would do everything in my means to keep my son from finding out these things first hand.

Dwellsouth

I've already had that conversation with my 16 n 15 year olds who know of and hear at school of kids their age that smoke cigs and weed and drink and brag about it.
Lots of discussion later, I told them I'd get them a disposable ecig if they ever just felt they HAD TO smoke something. They laughed, like yeah right, Mom!

It helps that their dad, my ex-OM, was never a cig smoker. I think it's much easier to smoke cigs when both your parents were cig smokers and you're surrounded by smoke and smokers your whole life. They had a break from my smoking when they went to their dad's and experienced life without smoking cigs, which they like a whole lot better than life with cigs!

So if I thought they'd smoke...yes, I'd give them an ecig so they could vaporize instead!

Now ask me how I'm dealing with the drinking part...a very common thing for teenagers down the bayou and everywhere!

PUFFDADDY

Well when my son gets a little older Im going to show him a slide show like they did me in school of what smoking does to your body, lungs, heart and so on. Then I don't think he will pick one up lol.... For me though I was smoking before I saw the slide shows so that didnt really help lol...

Dwellsouth

He'll pick it up if the people he loves and trusts are smoking around him regardless of what he sees. Not seeing people smoke is the best way.

Stehle

All but my youngest (30) smoke; probably because of me.

For Christmas I gave them all starter kits, PCC's and extra cartridges.
Hopefully they follow my lead and quit those nasty analogs.

I don't push and they have the tools. It's up to them now.

PUFFDADDY

Looks like Im going to be a closet vaperer when he starts to get older lol...

bigslick83

everytime I used to see a truth commercial I would lite up.

the assosiation will be there, if they are constantly around it. I loved diet coke as a kid, because my mother drank it. I can't stand it now that she is gone.

even after my grandfather passed away because of painful health complications likely due to smoking, I couldn't quit. (both my parents smoked)

the first day I had my pv, I explained it to mine and my girlfriend's boys and the dangers of the liquid. (they are six) They also observed how easy it was for me to quit smoking, and they don't miss the smell. I might leave my pv in the bathroom or something, and they will bring it to me and say something like "here you need this so you don't smoke" They see it as a life saving device for long term smokers. They dont understand addiction, but know that smoking can make you "sick", and it helps people not smoke.

my 6 yr old son is not some prodigy, yet gets the point better than some congressmen and fda officials.

Dwellsouth

At a Body Worlds exhibit you can see lungs that smoke(d) up close and in person...very disgusting.

Once you've made that decision in your head that despite all these bad things smoking can do to you, somehow, some way, it doesn't apply to you because (fill in blank), justifications we all use, then it doesn't really matter how disgusting or painful anyone makes smoking out to be.

To be honest, I would never admit these things to myself until I quit smoking using my personal vaporizer, in fact, I had all sorts of excuses and things I clung to that justified how it's really not as bad as they say or that somehow, in some contorted way, I was exempt or different. It's just how we make ourselves RIGHT, but much more importantly, NOT WRONG.

After the fact of quitting, I have some pretty dramatic life events that only now can I begin to admit were caused by smoking cigarettes, i.e. miscarriage of a perfectly healthy baby at 21 weeks gestation. Wow, how I CLUNG to that one little comment the OB/Gyn said about how so many babies of smokers are born healthy...twisted.

Soooo, I have to also take responsibility for the fact that despite all the DARE education and scare tactics being used on my children, they are apt to do whatever they see me do, plain and simple.

I also have to keep that in mind for the sake of Hub's grandbabies. They just simply should never see the people in their life putting an object up to their mouth and sucking on it, making a puff of smoke/vapor, etc.

Hope that's not TMI