• itsJoelle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I haven’t smoked a cigarette in six years. Most of the time I use nicotine lozenges during the day, and my vape is for when I’m drinking or I need to fall on my crutch. It’s familiar to my known vice, and stopped me from the more dangerous method of handling my addiction.

    Grand stand all you will about how it was ‘solved’ over night, but I got hooked on the bitch in the 2000’s due to family history and culture. People still smoke all around me, and it was only a matter of time before I tried it and got hooked. And I’ve made peace with that. That’s before we even touch a more terrifying addiction that exists all over my country within opiate-families despite them having a stronger controlled classification. While the chemical exists in the environment potential addicts will happen across it and subsist.

    ‘It beats smoking’ is a pretty important bar for me, as an addict, because it reduces harm to myself

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      1 year ago

      ‘Vaping is negative except compared to smoking.’

      ‘Oh yeah well what about compared to smoking?!’

      … ibid.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t think anyone is arguing vaping is a good thing, and nor was I. It would be rather foolish to do so.

        I was only giving my perspective at how it has been better for me and many others in my life.

        🤷‍♀️

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          1 year ago

          A guy in another subthread just told me to kill myself for saying nicotine is bad, actually.

          The endless reiteration of ‘but! vaping! beats! smoking!’ is a great big ‘who asked?’ at best. I know. I said that, first. It was the first thing I said, in the root comment. It is the opposite of news, and simply not relevant.

          That positive is not the negative I’m pointing out - as a response to the insistence there are no negatives.