Table 3 Contexts of e-cigarette use
From: Contexts of cigarette and e-cigarette use among dual users: a qualitative study
Contexts | Quotes |
|---|---|
Activities | |
Before/during work out or physical activity | “I use e-cig when I am engaging in more healthful activities.” (26 year old woman) |
When working | “So it’s like when I’m working I can’t smoke a regular cigarette where I’m working at, so I can smoke this indoors. So when I’m not on break, and then when I’m on break, I switch.” (28 year old woman) |
Places/situations | |
At home/indoors, | “My family, they don’t smoke. So it’s basically if I want to smoke I have to smoke my e-cigarette and not a real cigarette, because I can’t smoke in the house. And of course I’m not going to go outside and smoke a real cigarette in the rain, because that’s not going to happen.” (28 year old man) |
When alone | “Sharing e-cig is kinda gross. I mostly use e-cig when I am alone.” (22 year old man) |
Inside a vehicle | “He went back to traditional cigarettes, and then he still uses his e-cig in his company van and stuff. Because he can’t smoke in there.” (26 year old woman) |
When there is no time to take a shower after “smoking” | “When I don’t want to have to shower right after—e-cigarettes I like because I can smoke it, when I’m not stressed out it takes the edge off, and then I don’t stink.” (30 year old woman) |
Tobacco substitute | |
When cigarette is not available | “Yeah when I don’t have cigarettes, I use my e-cig.” (24 year old man) |
When hookah is not available | “I like hokaah too. Because of the flavors. And e-cigs are like mini-hookah to me, without all the hassles of a hookah.” (23 year old woman) |
When smoking is not allowed | “But cigarettes still, they fight the edge or what not. I’m smoking these, like the Logics. These Logic things are like ten bucks and last, it’s supposed to be like a carton… not a carton, but a pack of cigarettes, something like that. I’ll smoke one of those, keep it in my pocket at all times, you know what I mean? If I’m on the bus, chilling in the mall somewhere, as soon as I get out and there’s fresh air and I can smoke a cigarette, guarantee that cigarette is coming out of my pocket” (35 year old man) |