My husband and I and the kids went to my friend’s house for the Super Bowl Sunday. It’s a great time to get together, enjoy great food, enjoy a great game, not to mention the funny commercials, and just enjoy each other’s company. It turned out something more than just fun though; it was also a revelation for me and my husband all because of this amazing stick called electronic cigarettes.
So how did the e cigarettes fit in the story? Well, you see, it was a time for kids to have fun too. My friend set up this big balloon where kids can bounce and have fun. So yes, there are about 8 kids there who never really cared about football but just wanted to play around. That is why nobody should smoke in the area right? I mean I’m a grown-up, I can take the second-hand smoke (I hope) but no, not the kids, especially my kids.
The game was getting exciting and my team was winning but in the middle of excitement, my friend’s other friend started puffing his stick. Blame it on the mother instinct on me but I reacted so fast and sent a warning signal to my friend to tell him that I didn’t like what his friend is doing with the kids around. To my surprise, my friend just gave me a smile and an “I can do nothing about it” lifting of the shoulder gesture. I was more surprised. I know my friend, he despised smoking especially in his house but he’s letting his friend get away with it. I can’t believe it! Well, not until I realized the guy was not emitting smoke at all. He’s not smoking, he’s vaping!
It was really cool! It was my first time to really witness a real person doing it; it was amazing! He wasn’t blowing second-hand smoke at all which means our kids are completely safe. I went closer to my friend’s friend and started a conversation about him using electronic cigarettes. I found out that he just started using it a couple of months ago but he absolutely like the way that it had made him control the level of nicotine that his body is getting aside from the obvious fact that he’s not causing any health hazard to other people.
I asked him if he wasn’t bother at all about the negative things that he heard about electronic cigarettes, I’m sure he heard plenty of them. He said it doesn’t change the fact that he was able to gradually stop his dependent to regular cigarettes, though not completely yet. But he is sure he’s bound to stop smoking after another couple of months or so. Electronic cigarettes have been very instrumental for him to become very responsible with his health and other people’s as well. Now, he’s down to half of what his usual nicotine intake level was and he hopes to bring it down to zero.
So it does work! I knew e-cigarettes are the real thing!
