Never tried them....don't know anyone who has.....then again, haven't seen them for sale, and don't know where to get them either (besides online).
IMO, Smoking is mostly a personality thing, not a physical addiction thing. 90% social and 10% physical, and the physical part disappears in a day or two. If you give a druggie smokeable cocaine, or weed brownies, etc...it doesn't matter what the method of transmission is. They'll take it and run with it. With Smokers, they keep going back to smoking, even with the gum and patches and everything else available.
Socially...some people need to feel special. They just do. If they can't do it constructively (by having an actual talent, volunteer work, etc.)--they'll do it in a destructive fashion, by getting face tattoos, or dying their hair with kool-aid...or they'll start smoking. It doesn't hurt them that many work supervisors also smoke, so they'll get special privileges like unscheduled breaks, time alone with higher-ups, etc.
Most of the world coddles smokers, then we non-smokers wonder why they, on their own, won't reject the overflowing teat that is being a smoker.
..........As you can imagine, I don't like to talk to people (friends, family, co-worker) about Smoking, because there's literally no way to get them to quit without telling them this harsh truth. You have frame it as a "Personal Growth" thing to get it to work, which is all but impossible to do without offending unless you're dealing with strangers.
E-Cigarettes are a step in the right direction.....so was doubling, tripling, quadrupling taxes on them. With Netbooks, Twitter, Ipods, etc, there's some competition out there for the Idle Hands Market, so numbers are starting to come down.
IMO, Smoking is mostly a personality thing, not a physical addiction thing. 90% social and 10% physical, and the physical part disappears in a day or two. If you give a druggie smokeable cocaine, or weed brownies, etc...it doesn't matter what the method of transmission is. They'll take it and run with it. With Smokers, they keep going back to smoking, even with the gum and patches and everything else available.
Socially...some people need to feel special. They just do. If they can't do it constructively (by having an actual talent, volunteer work, etc.)--they'll do it in a destructive fashion, by getting face tattoos, or dying their hair with kool-aid...or they'll start smoking. It doesn't hurt them that many work supervisors also smoke, so they'll get special privileges like unscheduled breaks, time alone with higher-ups, etc.
Most of the world coddles smokers, then we non-smokers wonder why they, on their own, won't reject the overflowing teat that is being a smoker.
..........As you can imagine, I don't like to talk to people (friends, family, co-worker) about Smoking, because there's literally no way to get them to quit without telling them this harsh truth. You have frame it as a "Personal Growth" thing to get it to work, which is all but impossible to do without offending unless you're dealing with strangers.
E-Cigarettes are a step in the right direction.....so was doubling, tripling, quadrupling taxes on them. With Netbooks, Twitter, Ipods, etc, there's some competition out there for the Idle Hands Market, so numbers are starting to come down.
