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The common viewpoint that vapes don't really make people quit smoking because I know (x) people who went from cigarettes to vapes but never stopped vaping probably has to do with the smoker changing their mind, I think pretty strongly that most people who go from smoking to vapes (in order to quit) end up not quitting not because they can't quit vapes but because vapes cause so much less health issues than smoking they instead change their minds and decide they're fine with their cost-benefit analysis of vaping but not smoking