Sorry that some of us are a bit skeptical, not of your research but of much of what has passed as research where e cigs are concerned. It is our hope that your research will be unbiased and untainted by a prejudice against anything that looks like smoking as so many previous studies have done. It is my hope that this research and subsequent studies will not simply revert to recommendations of Chantix and Nicorette gum as the preferred road to tobacco cessation/alternatives, although the current NRT's have a dismal success record and in the case of Chantix, a dangerous and sometimes deadly quit drug.
You will find a lot of us who vape are in agreement with sherid's observations. Whether you personally agree or not is immaterial as long as your research is HONEST and TRUTHFUL, not slanted or tweaked to support some pre defined conclusion desired by the funder. We've all seen plenty of that kind of 'research result'.
The survey really does show us that you don't understand vaping at all, I don't count puffs, I do have a pretty good idea how much e liquid I go through in a day, in the various flavors I'm using that day. I also had some problems with the hardware as I use a variety of devices and delivery systems. I never used a look a like. I started with an Ego T.
The answer to how much I vape, for me, is how much I need to vape. Stressful times will see me vape more. Boredom will see me vape more. Doing exacting mental work will see me vape more. If my hands are busy I vape less. To quantify that is nearly impossible in a one size fits all survey.
As I have not smoked since starting with an e cig nearly 2 years ago I had to go back and think about how much I smoked on a daily basis, and a lot of those probably burned up in the ashtray. I always had one lit if I was awake and not in a no smoking situation. I spent a lot of time outside smoking, at the office. I used to take my thorny problems out there with me so I could solve them faster.
I would happily be your lab rat but I live on the West Coast. I can't really afford to fly back and forth.
Just for info purposes, I am 72 yrs old, soon to be 73. I smoked for 55 years, the last 20 of them at 2 cartons a week. I tried to quit many times, gum, patch, hypnosis, acupuncture at the end. Nothing lasted more than a week. The gum made me nauseous, the patch caused me to hallucinate and hypnosis and acupuncture didn't give me any benefit. The worst part of trying to quit was the lack of mental acuity I suffered each time. I could not think, solve problems with my usual facility, I was extremely irritable and downright cranky. My employees begged me to smoke. I also gained a lot of weight.
