What should the vaping kids do instead of vaping?
Then vaping screwed it all up.
I hate the myth - which I assumed is being propagated by the companies that profit off of it - that vaping was a replacement for smoking, and that people who vape would otherwise smoke. No. There was a clear period of time between when smoking was on its deathbed and when vaping exploded.
Yes. In my social circle a whole bunch of us switched from smoking a pack+/day to vaping, about 10 years ago.
Edit: You edited your reply after I started. I think abstinence works fine for something like nicotine. Unlike say sex humans don't have any innate craving for nicotine, I've never consumed it in my entire life and I don't feel like I've missed out on anything.
Btw, do you know if schools in the U.S. sell sweets? (My school used to have a 'tuck shop' for this purpose).
The success rate of quitting is really up to the individual, much like weight loss or other self improvement stuff. But even if it's hard it's the thing you should do.
I'm really not sure what you're arguing. "Quitting is hard and a lot of people fail so .. don't quit." That's some lame mentality right there.
No, I asked: what should vaping be replaced with?
If they're not smoking you don't want them to start vaping.
Obviously the goal is "not inhaling things that aren't air".
Do you mean nicotine gum? Isn't that bad for your gums? Or do you mean plain chewing gum?
Ultimately, all cessation methods are aiming to require 0 nicotine at their conclusion. As for the "best thing" to do when trying to quit, financial loss seems to be a good incentive. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1414293
If it were, then nobody would start smoking.
This is like saying the rhythm method has a 100% success rate. It's only true if you do it perfectly. Nobody does.
On a related note these days I think most kids are banned from using cellphones in school. So they'd have to purchase a separate calculator.
I don't remember the finer details of anti-drug propaganda from school that well anymore, but I do remember my anger at how patronizing, insulting and obviously ineffective most of it was. And how it often used the exact same manipulation tactics that DARE told us drug-pushers would try to use on us. Why, when people grow up, do they not remember the well intentioned but misguided intervention programs they were subject to in their own youth?