Diabetics, Diabetes and Smoking
December 3rd, 2009
OK, this is an e-cigarette commercial. I wasn’t going to start it out this way, but that’s what it is.
I love to smoke. I’ve smoked since I was 17 years old, and I’m now 44. I’ve also been a type 1 diabetic since my 13th birthday. (Yea, that was a really sucky birthday present…)
I quit smoking when I was 34, when my wife became pregnant with our first child. I didn’t want to smoke around her, and I didn’t want the smoke to affect the baby. My son is 9 years old and knows that way back in the dark ages, I used to smoke, but I don’t anymore. But, I actually still do, and I love it.
I’ve been cheating on the smoking thing for the last couple of years, and have been smoking every once in a while when the kids aren’t around. But, it’s hard to hide the fact that you smell like an ashtray…. or just an old chunk of ass.
Well, last month, when I was at a gun show, I saw this dude, who was an exhibitor, smoking in the building. Smoking in a public building is illegal in my state, so I went up and asked him how come he was smoking, and he laughed at me. He showed me that he was smoking an electric cigarette, and that the “smoke” is really just ionized nicotine. So, you’re not smoking, you get the nic that you need, the smoke tastes like smoke, your throat burns like it’s supposed to, but you aren’t really smoking. You get everything you need to feel like your smoking, except the stink and the 4,000 carcinogens from the smoke. You can even “play” with the smoke, breathing it in and out of your mouth and nose like you can with real smoke.
I tried it, it rocked, and I bought the system. I’m sorry for you non-smokers out there that are reading through this, but this is the coolest thing I’ve ever bought. It feeds your addiction, at a quarter of the cost, you aren’t getting any of the bad stuff, and you don’t stink. Where’s the down side to these things?
Here’s the ad for the electronic cigarette. I’m posting it here, because I think it will help me live longer, with an addiction I’m having a hard time beating, at 1/4th the cost, and other type 1 diabetics may benefit from using something like this instead of the real thing, which we know will kill us…
Drop me a line if you’ve tried one of these, and tell me what you think.
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