Sure. I think it is a positive switch to make so I will help illustrate my anecdotal experience and thought process.
When I was 15 I was supremely healthy and involved with organized sports, weight lifting and football. I started smoking with my friends and then we started skipping practice and I realized how much I hated the whole idea of working so hard to lose every week. I attended a public school and everyone had the right to play and it was just a shit-show. I felt like I was winning whenever I smoked, so I unfortunately threw the baby out with the bathwater and stopped pursuing all physical health activities at this point.
By the time I was 17 I was smoking at least a pack a day. My friend who introduced me to smoking cannabis would always light up a cigarette after we had a session, so it just became secondary and natural to me as well. This continued into college. Eventually I would wake up and have black coffee and a cigarette to start my day. Before I even went to class or did anything else I would get stoned off my gourd and then kind of wander through the rest of the day somewhat aimlessly. The highlight of my day would be getting stoned as fuck and destroying a bunch of noobs in public servers of Counter-Strike running de_dust2.
Fast forward 10 years and I had been now smoking 2 packs a day and basically getting high all the time when I wasn't working. I generally wanted to take a nap by 2pm and had no motivation, external or internal. Played videogames all day just like when I was 16. I started to have these weird visions of deja-vu when I was sitting on my couch smoking bongs and playing Modern Warfare 2. Except I didn't make maps, I didn't make textures, I didn't dick around with RVIS or BSP or any technical anything. Because I owned an X-Box and had turned myself into a goddamn idiot at that point.
Woke up one day with two herniated discs in my back and an unfaithful spouse and realized my life up to that point was over. I had to throw the whole thing out and start over. This was all really painful but in retrospect was exactly the kick in the ass that I needed. So I moved into a small space and took my cats and started lifting weights again.
Well. That was really painful. I wanted to die even more. Then I realized why - I had been poisoning my body through ingesting hydrocarbons for so long. This was around 3 years ago when e-cigarette technlogy was having a bit of a resurgence. The level of equipment and juice selection was significantly better than when I had tried it out previously, through "cig-a-like" devices that were really awful and not satisfying whatsoever. I decided to invest a few hundred bucks in the "cadillac" of vaporizers at the time, much like my idea with the Volcano... I would feel guilty for not using it if I spent so much money on it, therefore I would have to use it regularly.
After 3 months of not having an analog cigarette, I realized it was fairly ridiculous that I was still smoking anything. At the end of the day I had owned a Volcano for 4 years at that point but it was always a hassle to use. I was addicted to that "instant punch". Well, dabs will give it to you. All day, every day. It is all of the goodness from the plant that we have been after all along, stripped of all the carrier plant material used to generate it in the natural growth cycle.
At my height of cannabis abuse I would spend 90 minutes every Sunday grinding and rolling joints. It would be a failed session if I did not end up with half a dozen 1.5 gram hog legs. After transitioning to dabbing concentrates, my best analogy was that smoking joints was like panning for gold. We are inhaling this entire "stream" just to access or interface with these tiny particulates that are laced inside of it. After just experiencing the raw inhale of the strict goodness, it becomes so painfully obvious.
You can be a perfectly healthy individual and maintain your ingestion rates of these active compounds without any ill effects through appropriate application of effective vaporization temperatures.
Smoking is cave man level technology of narcotics administration. Literally it is a neanderthal saying to himself "there is something in this that I want inside of me, and I have no other idea of how to make that transfer happen other than lighting it on fire and inhaling the off-gassing substances". We need to help each other evolve past this point.
Thankfully vape pens and oil rigs are the new-new and the wave seems to flow unabated. This makes me really happy. I try to promote them to anyone I know who is a current smoker, regardless of substance.
It has been almost two years since I had a cigarette. It has been at least a year and a half since I smoked cannabis. The last time I hit a spoon someone passed to me my first thought was "well, why not, for old time's sake" then my second thought was "jesus christ nobody cornered this thing it was half cashed when it got handed to me why the fuck did I even bother" lol
I joke with a friend who was a great influence on me to quit smoking that I get higher and more nicotine satiated while being healthier than ever, all without smoking anything. I just inhale a bunch of boiling gasses! Vape 2 the future!
I still remember the first time I talked with someone who said that he takes a dab right before he maxes out on bench press. With a working weight of 350+ lbs. There is literally no way you could get that high from any traditional method of smoking and still retain the drive and the energy and the focus to do much of anything after that point, let alone bench press over 1.5x your body weight.
Now a days the first dab I do is around 4:20pm, right before I go to the gym. Never before, even on days when I don't lift. I feel a lot better, both about my relationship with the substance and my physical relationship with the universe.
tldr - transition to vaporizing concentrates instead of smoking, your future self will thank you
