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There was this guy named Tom (surname withheld to protect his family) who was so powerful that his personal smell could overpower the sneaked smoke in the boy's room. We would engage him to perform on the toilet while we all passed around a smoke and ash between his legs. We were never caught! Ahh the good old days, I miss him.......

I have an acute awareness of nicotine overdose. I've had a couple of catastrophic tank failures where an O ring or something lets go and I get a mouth full of liquid. Ok maybe not that much but it seems like it at the time and what happens? I get the hiccups. It doesn't last long, maybe 5 minutes or less and I just go back to chain vaping with a new tank of course It also happens when a drop of liquid manages to slip past the barriers but the hiccups usually don't even last a minute. I think the human body processes nicotine quite quickly because remember how soon we wanted that next cigarette.

Hi welcome and your post reminded me of a funny story from years ago when I was working in a local grocery store to help pay for University. I can't remember who told it but maybe a colleague or cig salesman but anyway goes like this: Customer comes into the shop and asks for a pack of Benson & Hedges. Clerk: Regular or menthol? Customer: Menthol Clerk: Regular, lights or ultra lights? Customer: ummmm Ultra lights I think, it's for the wife. Clerk: Ok hard pack or soft? Customer: Oh screw it give me a pack of Luckies.

Bebop12 a masterpiece of the highest order. It will be translated into many languages and hung on great walls and published in the finest of manuscripts! Thank you Tameiki.

OOPS yet again! Can't even misspell that word for homosexual.

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Today I was at the local coffee shop (y'all must think I live only at coffee shops and pubs) and enjoying my kopi o and a guy saw me vaping and rushed over to show me his rig and we spent an hour just vaping and comparing notes on flavours and tanks and sharing supply sources (I talked up the VT store and forum maybe he'll appear here). How to make new friends! Way cool! Anyway when I first started vaping seriously about 18 months ago I had the experience at an airport smoking lounge where all the smokers sorta ignored me and didn't engage in the usual banter. I likened it at the time to the line in Arlo Guthrie's 'Alice's Restaurant' : "And they all moved away from me on the group w bench". Now it seems that there's always at least one other vaper in the lounges usually more than 1. Hopefully this movement is growing as fast as the wave of gay marriages and it will be too powerful for the governments to ban it.

I can't believe this happened to me yesterday. I always thanks to the great advice on this forum, carry backups everywhere I go. Work or play. I carry extra batteries, tanks, liquids and lately a portable battery bank that will charge each of the batteries I carry plus my phone. I think it could jump start a 747 if needed. Anyway I got down to the pub which is honestly only about 5 minutes from my home and I carelessly hadn't checked my batteries before I left home and found they were all on the verge of death. My phone also had only 11% charge. No Problem I thought. HA! I plugged a mod into the battery bank and thought I could vape like using a passthrough. My only cable from the battery bank to devices had bit the dust! No connection. All those backups and I was thwarted by a broken cable. Now as I said the pub is only 5 mins to home, I could easily have gone back for a replacement, or fresh battery, but that would interfere with my drinking time which is limited because at 9 I have to go help close and play security to my Sig Other's shop while we bring the day's receipts home. Fortunately to end this long winded story, one of the staff at the pub let me borrow a 240 plug with a micro usb which fits the batteries I brought and although I was tethered to the wall like an old fashioned phone, I was able to not lose any valuable drinking time. Now I've added yet more backup. An extra cable. Sheesh! Soon I won't have any pockets left to put the money to pay for the beer.

I think that's great for you! I had a similar experience about a month into this vaping scene. I hadn't had anything to smoke for about a month and chain vaped and was so amazed that I could do that. So when friends came from Australia we went to very expensive very exclusive buffet restaurant in Kuala Lumpur for brunch. Now one of my favourite splurges used to be Cuban cigars and it's so cool that they are legal here, but of course imported so very expensive. This restaurant had a humidor exclusively dedicated to Cubans. The prices were from about RM 90 to RM 300 each. (divide by 3 for US dollars) This was an occasion so I decided to splurge. Normally before I would have bought the cheaper version, but I thought this might be my last time so I went for the RM 300 one. I got back to the table and lit up. OMG it was awful!!!!!! I too almost puked right there at the table. It was such a bittersweet moment. I lost one great passion but I gained the knowledge that I wouldn't have to indulge like that again. On a side note, I saved it (hell it WAS RM 300 after all) and brought it home and put it in a now unused ash tray. One day I came home from work and found it missing. The following conversation ensued: Me "Where's my Cuban?" Sig other " Your what?" Me "My Cuban cigar," Sig other "Where was it" Me "In the ashtray." Sig other "Oh that. I thought it was a cat turd so I threw it away."

Thanks all for the great replies. I guess I'm only partially alone I hadn't thought about that clothes thing but that's really a big deal. I know after a couple of hours in the smokers lounge at the airports, My clothes smell like I went back to two packs a day. It really doesn't bother me at all but I am very conscious of it when I get on the plane and notice people noticing. Yuck! Last night I was at the pub (surprise surprise) and BSing with a few guys all smokers. They kept offering me cigs everytime they lit one. I just kept saying, "No thanks, just keep blowing it my way." I feel so proud of myself after a session like that. And I've got to let you know that it may be true that second hand smoke kills, but it's not reliable. For my money I'd use a gun or poison or something proven.

Everyday without a headstone is a milestone! Congratulations! And I really really do empathize. I remember that first day so well.

Am I the only one who still loves the smell of all tobacco products? The actual use of them is not appealing to me. The few times in my over 500 days of vaping I've had to resort to analogues because of poor planning or system failure, I've enjoyed the first and maybe second toke, but after that all the bad stuff comes back to me. The bad taste, the uncool lung feel etc. But I still love the smell. On the street if I am following a smoker I follow like a dog in heat. At the airport I go to the totally unventilated (Why for fxxx's sake do they do that?) smoking area to vape among the smokers totally sucking up the second hand smoke. Some smokers ask why I don't just vape outside? I usually say, "It's too much trouble to explain that I'm vaping not smoking, and look at their eyes glaze over." Or, " I have a second hand smoke deficiency." Anyway, your thoughts? I know of course everyone's different in this venture. Happy vaping to all!

They're idiots in Washington D.C. Who think quitting smoking is easy They won't allow ads That show vaping has made quitting like playing Parcheesi, Playing Parcheesi is easy Quitting is now just as breezy. Vaping has taken all the pain with its fakin' And has made us now all smell Fabreezy.

Ahh interesting topic. I've gone into occasional coughing paroxysms for some till now unexplained reason. Very seldom but it has happened. I thought this was perhaps part of the really long term baby step healing process. I know you can't recover (in my case) 50 years of smoking overnight. I also know I'll never have lungs like before I started, but they do keep getting better. But whenever I have a coughing fit I seem to be at the pub and the smokers around me always say, "HA! I told you so!" I poo poo them because I know how I feel compared to when I was smoking, so HA! to them. Anyway I started paying attention to when these coughing fits happen and it seems directly related to anytime I change something like a new battery to an old tank, a new tank with an old battery, or a sample of a different brand of juice, or even clean the tank. Just anything different might bring on a fit of coughing. Not every time, but noticeable. If everythink is consistent for days or weeks, no coughing. Go figure. Hope that helps a bit.

A newbie quit smoking to vape Asked a vaper to teach him to vape Said newbie to vaper Is it harder to vape? Or to tutor a newbie to vape.

A beautiful island Lankawi That Malaysians think is like Maui But it's tax exempt At the vape stores they've spent Tax money they'd saved worth Ferarris. But the damnedable U S of A. Wants to take my vaping away To me a death sentence 'Cause I'll smoke with a vengeance If they outlaw vaping this way.

Hi Michelle, Jon here, and I don't think anyone is a lost cause. I am probably right up there on the die hard smokers list since I started at 12 and did 2 packs of reds or since living in Malaysia, Dunhill full flavour for nearly 50 years. It's been more than 500 days since I've vaped full time and it's now working totally for me. I too tried all the tricks to quit and added acupuncture, hypnosis, and of course patches and gum. Sheesh. The thing most helpful to me was to become informed about all the other chemicals in cig smoke that are highly addictive besides nicotine. If nicotine was the only addictive property, than using a patch and a fake cigarette for the hand to mouth habit would probably be a highly effective quitting method, but as we all know they hardly ever work for the long haul. Nicotine in high doses and clouds of vapour are really a great substitute for smoking when it works well. Good flavours help to because you learn to look forward to vaping. However vapour doesn't replace all those other chemicals your body is used to so you have to be vigilant and actively work at getting off those other chemicals. Die hard smoker and all, and totally fearful of life without cigs, I am now so happy with it. Even though I am one of the weird ones that still loves the smell of cigs pipes and cigars, and purposely go to the smoking lounge at airports to get my fix of second hand smoke, being without cigs has become totally painless to the point of not even ever thinking about it except when I get a glimpse of all those rows of shiny packs at places like 7 11. A quick twinge of nostalgia and that's it. Hang in there and keep vaping even if you don't stop cigs all the way right away. It really does get better. I wish you the best of luck.

I was thinking about this topic when I went to sleep last night. I too notice that my arms don't fall asleep at all any more. I used to wake up from sleeping on my stomach and my head resting on one arm that my arm was totally dead. Completely numb. I'd have to sit up and let the blood recirculate for a while. Now that just doesn't happen. Way cool!

Happy to help if you want me, but keep in mind current technology is always outrunning me even though I can run faster because I can breathe better I call my phone "the smarter than me phone"

Christov, thanks for the reply. When I actually get to "The True North Strong and Free" to see my new land, I of course will need to find liquid and equipment. Montreal isn't so far if you like to drive!

Hi Ben, welcome! How are things down east? I can't say enough good things about The Vapor Talk Store! The service I got was the best of any place I've ever done business with online.

Christopher, thanks for the personal attention!!! I'm totally flattered. The E Pipe is great for what it is. I guess I've just tried so many different vaping devices and methods over the past 500 plus days that I'd forgotten the limitations of the self actuated 'sucking' switch thingy, or maybe I'm not that great at sucking? I'm not in the least disappointed and as we all know, it is what it is. I've already got some advice on how to soup it up and I'll enjoy doing that too. Thanks again.

Hi Matt, yours was a great story to wake up to this morning. A reminder of what analogues can do is always helpful to me. It makes me so happy to hear that you are a survivor of what so many are not. Thanks and congratulations and welcome.

That's really great for you. Congratulations. I still get a surprising unexpected urge when I just happen to glance at the display at someplace like 7-11 .... all those pretty packs lined up behind the register. Then I just vape a couple of hits and all is fine. And 30 days is really a milestone. I remember well. And the health effects just keep getting better and better in baby steps, but suddenly you notice things like just running up a few flights of stairs and not being the least winded. It's great!

Thanks for the advice Joe, I shall give it a go! It's kinda a shame to have something like that and not really enjoy it