Safer to Puff, E-Cigarettes Can’t Shake Their Reputation as a Menace

Re:Safer to Puff, E-Cigarettes Can’t Shake Their Reputation ... by awinder on Thursday November 03, 2016 @08:41AM (#12863473)

If I remember correctly, cold turkey has worse rates for initial quitting but the lowest rates of people returning to smoking for those who "made it"

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Re:Safer to Puff, E-Cigarettes Can’t Shake Their Reputation ... by gr3yh47 on Thursday November 03, 2016 @08:47AM (#12863501)

IIRC it has to do with the anguish of quitting - if you went through the difficulty and pain of quitting cold turkey you probably don't want that to be for nothing

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Re:Safer to Puff, E-Cigarettes Can’t Shake Their Reputation ... by infogulch on Thursday November 03, 2016 @09:15AM (#12863652)

Sunk cost strikes again? This time for good.

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Re:Safer to Puff, E-Cigarettes Can’t Shake Their Reputation ... by takingflac on Thursday November 03, 2016 @01:21PM (#12865954)

I wouldn't say sunk cost so much as you now have a better understanding of what the price is now that you have paid it once.

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Re:Safer to Puff, E-Cigarettes Can’t Shake Their Reputation ... by gozur88 on Thursday November 03, 2016 @05:04PM (#12867940)

Cold turkey is how my dad did it after 40 years of 2 packs a day, unfiltered. He went through a couple weeks of hell, but as far as I know he hasn't smoked in 21 years.

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Re:Safer to Puff, E-Cigarettes Can’t Shake Their Reputation ... by brokenmachine on Thursday November 03, 2016 @09:31PM (#12869691)

I have worked with quite a few elderly people, and I've heard many stories of people just quitting cold turkey after many years of smoking, as soon as the catastrophic health effects became common knowledge.

I think the older generation is just generally more accepting of discomfort than todays cream-puffs.

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