lets have a civil factual debate aboug E-Cigs

[JackInGreen]

31. My wife and I quit smoking when we moved into our new home with our son.

Or we were supposed to, I did pretty alright after a week of cold turkey (2 years of start and stop quitting after 5 years not smoking at all, the first steps got easy), she on the other hand had a harder time. She started sneaking smokes at work, keeping a pack there, bumming off of co-workers and friends in social situations. She kept it out of the house (as much as one can) and I credit her for that.
A friend mentioned vaping, and I was very against it at first. We were trying to quit at the time, so the only thing I saw was a way to 'not quit' smoking.
So, I quit, she kept it a secret, and really REALLY hated herself for it.
(honestly, I couldn't be angry, we'd been trying this for a long time)
I decided to swallow my pride, do some research, and normalize myself to the fact that the FACTS as they were, weren't on my side in making smoking and vaping equivalent in my mind. So we went shopping, she picked up a nice vaporizer and a couple of bottles of 'low octane' fluid, it cost us about $60.00 all told.
She was instantaneously a much happier person. She didn't smell like cigarettes, still kept it out of the house, and was no longer wheezing or losing her breath.
Not long after I found I missed smoking, and it was a point I'd encountered before, the point that often had brought me right back to sneaking a pack of newports or otherwise. Instead I sunk some money into a vape of my own, with no-nicotine fluid. I missed the smoking, the flavor, the sense of something in my lungs. I DID NOT miss the wheeze, the tiredness, the thrashing heart, the smell, or the expense.
My son said that I'd invested in the worlds most expensive vapor lollipop. If it kept us from smoking, so effing be it.
We're still not smoking.