jonnoh

Welcome indeed.

Welcome! Glad you could join us.

I was toking on my i stick and about to set it down to reach for the deodorant bottle and the cat chose that very moment to give me a tail hug. I tripped on the cat, sent the deodorant and i stick and the cat and myself flying. Something hit with shattering crash and I thought never mind broken bones was it the PV? After picking up the pieces, the only casualty was the deodorant bottle which lost a corner and contents. Hard to believe because that deodorant bottle has glass as thick as a submarine port hole so as to cheat us on the contents I'm sure. Before cleaning up I checked and yup! The i stick and tank were totally fine and so was the cat and myself. Following the advice of so many here, I also had backups for that deodorant bottle Happy that the outcome was good for you too Earthling.

I so agree with that. I can't believe the propaganda I hear around school and the pubs and coffee houses that vaping is worst than smoking. I have no idea where they hear these things but the stories are so ridiculous. Doctors need to get on board with this because it's certainly better than all their other completely ineffective tools like gum, patches, anti depressants or whatever weird drugs they now prescribe. And fun too!

Congratulations and Celebrations (to quote Cliff Richards) Thanks for all the help and encouragement over the years.

Thanks for the congrats! This time I really deserve it. I do so admire people who can quit tobacco no matter how they do it. But I love doing it this way enjoying my days and my relatively new habit. Note: Habit, not Addiction. Quitting smoking without any feeling of deprivation and adding a whole new dimension through vaping is a win win! There once was a smoker named Jon After years realized smoking's a con He changed his ways Now engulfed in a haze Of vapour with flavours tres bon. LOL Bebop!

Today I celebrate the forty second anniversary of my twenty first birthday, and more importantly the completion of two whole years without cigarettes because of vaping. This is a great opportunity to thank y'all for reading my corny poems and stories and song parodies, but mostly I want to thank y'all for the advice, encouragement and support over all these days. You folks here have made this incredible (in my mind) journey so much more enjoyable and rewarding. I can now say with confidence that I am a former smoker, and a current vaper. (I won't say reformed smoker, I won't join THAT club) When I started smoking back in 1964, I had no idea that I was joining a lifelong club committed to one thing. That one thing was to make sure day after day, year after year, and in my case, decade after decade that there were always enough cigarettes and matches (or zippo fluid and flints, or bics or crickets) to make it through the day or night or party or weekend or holiday or occasion. or activity to the point of obsession. It was never far from my thoughts. I learnt from my grandfather to always tap my pockets before leaving for the day for wallet, keys, cigarettes, matches. If all were stocked it was ok to go. Now because of vaping, I've been two whole years without worrying about where the next pack is coming from. How far am I to the nearest seller of cigarettes. Is there a store still open. OMG I'm down to my last three. I hope they sell cigs here. Better stop for cigs before we start on this trip. Better go to this club instead, they sell cigarettes in case we run out. I wish the bell would ring so I can smoke. This plane trip will never end and then the horrible immigration line, so let's see ... how long til I can smoke? Damn! This airport doesn't have a smoking lounge? On and on. Vaping doesn't do that to me. I'm much more serene and less ocd. The side effects of this? No more morning coughing up a lung when waking. No more scrambling for, "where the hell did I leave the cigarettes" when waking. Lower blood pressure and cholesterol. Better sleeping. Climbing stairs without feeling the need to make a heavy breathing phone call. (JK) Less colds and respiratory infections. No more limbs falling asleep or cramping while sleeping. Male function Dramatic improvement in taste and smell. Still can use vaping stuff to have that bad boy James Dean type image without jeopardizing health. No more panic attacks because of not being able to catch breath, or get to the top of the breathing cycle. No more obsessive worrying about this chest xray will be the killer even though of course everyone, especially x smokers are still statistically more likely to get smoker's ailments, the worry isn't there thus improving every day life. It has truly been an incredible journey and again thanks with all my heart to the folks here on VT, and the countless engineers and chemists, both professional and amateur who work so hard to make this activity better and better every day. Finally a huge French Connection United Kingdom off!!!!!!!!! to the FDA, Congress, and Big Tobacco for all their attempts to impede our progress and success.

Well I can't help you with that specifically because I've never had one, but I can share the frustration. Every time I work on one of these fussy little things it reminds me of the time I was industrially changing the points on a Chrysler 383. (Anyone remember points:?) The distributor was at an angle and the screws were aluminium so they wouldn't stick to the screw driver. I dropped one inside the distributor casing and being a young lad, and not having patience, I thought, "what could happen"? What can happen........The screw can grind itself up and go down the shaft and destroy the gear at the end of the distributor shaft when you are driving in the middle of nowhere ten miles from the beginning of civilization with no one around and no matter how you try to wrap friction tape around the gear to bind the thing together just long enough to get out of the middle of nowhere and have to walk the ten miles only to find out that the 383 has been out of production so long that the gear or distributor is a special order item while the state police are putting a notice on your car saying you have one day to move it or it will be impounded so you ask a friend to help push or tow it somewhere and you damage both bumpers on his and your car and you say to yourself, "I'll just junk it, The car only cost fifty dollars anyway, but you can't really let yourself do that because you don't have money to buy another because you just left a thirty dollar deposit on the ordered distributor...... can happen. So.... I think nothing you can do that that Nautilus can cause such drama, but I'd be wary

Welcome! Gallon jugs? Kid in a candy store concept.

Yesterday in a moment of insanity or senility, I left to fetch lunch and go banking I forgot my vaping supplies. When I got to the first corner I felt in my pocket and found ........... nothing. I a quick fit of panic I headed toward the roundabout to return to get my stash. But as I approached something crossed my mind and that was I really don't need it. I can go about my business and vape when I finish. But another thought crossed my mind, and that was that banking isn't a finite timed activity. I could have to wait a long time before getting waited on. And then another thought: This is a great time to see how I feel without vaping at my disposal. So I went for it. It turned out quite ok. I fetched the lunch, went to the bank did my business and they even screwed up my plan as usual. As I was leaving the cashier shouted over, "Do you want any 1 ringgit notes?" I said, I'll have to see if there's any extra money at the shop." So I had to drive to the shop, get money, go back to the bank, get the notes and THEN go home to my vaping stuff. And you know what? I mostly forgot that I didn't have my stuff. It turned out to almost be a non issue. I didn't even think of buying a dreaded pack, or even really keep reaching for my missing equipment. I got wrapped up in what I had to do and just got on with it. It's a great feeling to know that after almost 50 years of two packs a day, I'm really over it. I have no intention of stopping vaping, because I do really enjoy it, but I think I don't NEED it. So cool!

So does anyone know? Can you get it online or do you have to go to a B&M?

I always try to look for a gearhead analogy to help my feeble brain understand things. I remember when I got my first car that had a voltmeter instead of an ammeter. I think it was in a 1973 Pontiac Grand Am. It had reverted to full gauges from idiot lights. All my early 1950s cars had ammeters until I got some 1960s cars, most of which had idiot lights. I never understood the benefit. The battery and generator/alternator were working OK if the needle was on the plus side in either case. Now vehicles are mostly equipped with the totally confusing 'check engine' light which I can do, and usually see nothing by opening the bonnet and looking. I also can understand the idea of not discharging a battery too far because all the RV enthusiasts maintain that it's battery murder to frequently discharge a house deep cycle battery below 50%, but until very recently these batteries are all some variation of lead/acid. So someday we might have a setup that has a 'Check Mod' warning?

Congratulations! It's a great achievement indeed. Maybe we who have significant milestones under our belts should get annual pins like those "kiss me I gave blood" pins or something. Cuz every birthday or anniversary without a head stone is a milestone. I think I stole that from a 'Golden Girls' episode.

Oh very cool! I've already blown myself up many many times, but it's usually been with hydrogen production, or petrol, or mismatched frozen car batteries. Vaping safely is very calming. Welcome!

49 year former Marlboro fan here. Next piece of advice: Have backups for the backups of the backups.

Welcome! I'm glad you can find some good B&M shops where you are. I thought I was gonna be all set when I was in Moncton earlier this year but alas, I went to Walmart which I'd heard was a holy grail of vaping equipment and there was nary an inkling of what the hell I was talking about. Finally a young guy took pity on me and directed me to another supermarket that supposedly had a dedicated vape shop. When I found it, they only had non nicotine cigalikes which I bought just because I felt sorry for the lady who looked like she hadn't had a customer all day and she was so enthusiastic about her wares, but they really were crap. Fortunately I had enough juice and tanks to last till I got back to USA.

Welcome indeed!

Hi Sarah, Bienvenida a VT! I'm also in one of those 'out there' places: Malaysia. I've found here it's hit or miss on the import tax issue, but here there are many many within the country online sellers that have already jumped through the government hoops and sell the stuff at fairly reasonable prices with very good express delivery service. I can't get the greatest juices like Fadora's well complimented juices but I can get acceptable and even good ones here. Maybe you can find the same thing in Argentina? I'm a gonna get me some Fadora juice next time I get back to the land of the free, home of the brave and over regulation and over taxation.........

Congratulations! I'll hit two years on 4 May and I heartily agree with your well expressed thoughts. I'm still so grateful, to have found this activity that keeps me off cigarettes, pipes and cigars and will do everything in my own power to preserve our right to remain smoke free in the way that works for so many many of us. If vaping was taken away by legal means, I'd still do it if I had to make my own equipment and juice, but I have no interest in being forced into a vaping closet and I know if I couldn't vape, I'd be right back on the analogues with the sword of Damocles hanging over me. A horrible choking painful death sentence. I agree too that the folks on this forum have been invaluable in education, information and plain support and I too will be forever grateful.

Here in Malaysia where the weather report is so boring. 33 yesterday, 33 today with a 90 percent chance of 33 tomorrow. So I get in my solar heated to over 40 car and start the engine, turn on the air con, and take a hit on my pv. It produces almost nothing until the air con cools the car to a more reasonable temp. I always figured it was the temp of the air that made that happen. I have noticed that stealth vaping in the lav of an airplane produces less vapour than when on the ground. Which is rather convenient.

Oh yeah, let me add: BCarter. thanks for being the champion of the real purpose of vaping. Having read your many posts, I think you are as grateful to be off cigarettes as am I. I think you are right that we need to stay focused on the fact that this is a real weapon against the power of tobacco over us. We can chase clouds all we want once our right to choose life over eventual illness and horrible death by vaping instead of smoking is embedded in stone.

I can't give any recommendations because every time something works great for me doesn't seem to last at being great. I keep going back to my older stuff and think, "Oh yeah I remember why I loved this", then a few days later it loses its luster and I remember why the newer one was wonderful. But I admire the way you are researching this. I can't believe how much money I wasted playing with the cigalikes trying to get something that was as close to smoking as possible. Once you realize what's out there that can give you great satisfaction that cigalike lust just fades away. Two years later I'm still loving the chase for the perfect vape..... Far more fun than trying to find a cigarette that to quote the old commercial, "really delivers the flavour" .

This is really a good sign. I somehow thought you needed a note from your psychopharmacologist to say something positive to someone else in America, but then I've been gone for a long time. JK! By far the most common reaction I've got in Malaysia is dis interest unless someone complains that, " That man is smoking!". At which point I save the waiter, server, worker trouble and just say, "Don't worry, I'll put it away". The next time I go to the same place, just stealth vape in the lav. I do wonder though if the other customers think I'm on diuretics.

Again I'll have to be the odd man out. Maybe that wouldn't last long, but somehow I get a little thrill thinking about going into a sort of forbidden zone. Makes me feel young? I remember Dee's Pizza which was a forbidden fruit when I was a kid. It was an after school hangout where you could play pinball and buy pizza and cokes and wonder of wonders smoke! No one questioned your age, and of course the cigs you were buying were for your father. I remember those times fondly and can still if I close my eyes hear the jukebox playing 'Snoopy VS The Red Baron' by the Royal Guardsmen and 'Silence is Golden' by the Tremeloes! I've always kinda liked projecting the bad boy image of James Dean whilst actually inside being a good boy. But now in my elder years, I'm sure that fogged filled shop would get old pretty quickly. I'm happy to give up that fantasy in favour of the real purpose of vaping. I know it's saved my life, and two years into it I sure don't want to lose it to government idiots. I don't want to be shoved into a closet of stealth vaping everywhere. I'm happy to share how well this has worked for me. I've always hoped that everyone who smokes and wants to stop would have these incredible (to me) resources and success. Some days I'm still in awe that I went the whole day, week, month, year without smoking.

A fender bender in Malaysia is usually settled there on the spot with drivers saying things like oops I didn't see you, sorry, and the victim saying, never mind it's a small matter. But if someone wants to file a police report because they can't resolve on the spot, you have to go to the nearest police officer station because the cops drive right by. At the police officer station you have to fill up form and forms and more forms and have them stamped as official and better yet produce 8x10 colour glossy photos with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back or each one..... but I digress. Then you have to wait whilst they finish their tea and then go to the mosque to pray for an hour or so before they assign fault and then you can go on your merry way.