POLL: E-smoker or Vaper?

["Misfit"]

 

[Deaf Vaper]

It's a dumb old term, but bear in mind that the question was asked 9 years ago....

Note to self: Check the date of OP before commenting!

 

[SirLugg]

Vaper ... the further we distance ourselves from the smokers ... hopefully the less hassle we will get ...

I do understand the need for cigalikes etc to get non smokers converting tho

Well, Mart, that didn’t pan out too well huh? [emoji1787]

 

[ZT]

Well, Mart, that didn’t pan out too well huh? [emoji1787]

Nah bastards are still after us!

 

[eyeball kid]

Well, Mart, that didn’t pan out too well huh? [emoji1787]

Nah bastards are still after us!

The Old dears call us Robot smokers round here.
Kind of like imagining that everyone I see with a vape in the street is liable to have their face move off like in westworld.

 

[Kong]

One of the most frequent points of debate that I've seen over the last couple of years is the terminology describing what we do so I thought it would be interesting to have a poll.

Before you think the answer is an obvious one take a look at just SOME of the comments and arguments I've heard for each of the answers 1 and 2. Its not meant to be an exhaustive list of pros and cons and these just came from the top of my head. Feel free to add your own views.



View attachment 1217E-SMOKER

It feels like smoking, it looks like smoking, why change the name of what we do?
We are still smokers, just smoking in a better way
We call them e-cigs, electronic cigarettes, why not be e-smokers?
'Vaping' isnt understood
A familiar term is more attractive to smokers tempted to switch
I dont like the word 'vape' or 'vaper' or 'vaping' or 'vapouriser'

VAPER
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It isnt smoke its vapour
We should distance ourselves from our former disgusting habit
Its unhelpful for our image to have references to smoke
'E-smoking' reinforces misinformation to the general public
So what if 'vaping' IS a new word?
By calling it vaping I'm more likely to be allowed to use it in a public place/pub etc


Personally i'm happy to describe myself as a vaper and what I do as vaping. I struggle with some of the terminology for our devices. I dislike the word 'personal vapouriser' as to me that sounds like something a lady might carry in her handbag to spray on her pulse points
I therefore generally call them ecigs. I see valid arguments on both sides though. I can also see how over time, preferences may change as vaping hopefully becomes more mainstream. Really we are all recreational nicotine users but what a mouthful THAT is!

So I'm mixed. How about you?

Vaper.

I quit the darts and picked up vaping and it really helped, haven't touched one in nearly a year now, I threw myself into the vaping community and got very indulged in different avenues of vaping, I like the term Vape, it feels better to say, and I could never go back to calling myself a smoker, and as far as it goes for the term "e-smoker" as you stated it actually doesn't make much sense... pretty much everyone that has quit smoking and started vaping will agree that the preferred term would be vaper and not smoker, no-one wants to go back down the route of being a smoker...

 

[zouzounaki]

i still say esmoker is best.

 

[Miss Pepper]

Just goes to show how vaping has changed in 9 years, since this thread was first started.

 

[Simon G]

i still say esmoker is best.

I still call myself an ex-smoker.

 

[zouzounaki]

I still call myself an ex-smoker.

that’s the one. just a single letter out.