TeriJo

My game plan is to vape til my ears fall off. Still need that morning analog tho SO today I ordered some 24mg and hopefully that will dispense with that morning one. After reading about cleaning attys and all - and worse dead attys makeing one run for the analogs, I also ordred 2 attys. I just finished one of the 2 3ml sample bottles that arno sent me with my order, haven't even touched the big bottle I actually ordered yet. I'd done a calculator on one of the ecig sites and it told me I would need SIXTY cartridges a month at the rate I smoke, so I think I'll stick to dripping LOL. Once I've got myself completely weaned off the analogs (Hopefully I am not dreaming, right?) THEN I'll worry about lowering nicotine levels. All the research I did and I ended up with 18mg which seems to do fine except for mornings. And so I ordered. It seems that other than mornings I vape less than I smoked. So far. We shall see LOL for now GIVE ME NICOTINE!!!!

Back in the really REALLY olden days I smoked "Marlboro Greens". Smoking got way expensive. I bought a rolling machine and started rolling my own cigs. This saved money, but flavor? ummmmmmm no. LOL But Now that I'm vaping, I might can start looking for flavor. Hey, it could happen!

LMAO The appropriate action to take. Gotta love it. The first thing I researched was how dangerous these things might be. And the definitive answer was... "I dunno!!!!!!" everywhere I looked. They haven't really been AROUND long enough to learn LONG TERM effects, and they can't find any really bad short term ones. But folks still want to control what other folks do, whether it affects THEM or not. I've noticed that on a lot of issues, not just ecigs, not just health related type issues. By all means tell me what is bad for me. I just wish some folks would try some LOGIC skills for pity's sake. Once I weeded through the ecig sites disclaiming what the "other side" was saying, I finally found actual articles about it, which were amazingly, just as dumb as the ecig sites SAID they were. Now, I hadn't vaped at all....I was deciding whether or not to try it.... and these articles were a hoot and a half. If I hadn't wanted to try it I'd have never found so many funny quotes LOL Teri

I am a noob to the whole vaping thing, but it seems to be going well so far. And I'm not biting the heads off chickens like I do when actually quitting.......INCLUDING when I was on the patch. Go figure. LOL So maybe my thin lifeless hair (I used to have nice thick shiny hair) will be nicer ..... at least the part that isn't gray - interesting idea. You know the coughing and the additional sinus problems and all are related to the cigarettes of course. But I never really thought about things like circulation and other things. Great post, I must agree. Teri

See I have a REAL problem. I'm too damn OLD too be a chick, too YOUNG to be a dame, and too SKINNY to be broad. I guess I'm stuck with being a GAL. LMAO Interestingly some women find GALS to be offensive as well. Not sure why, but then I try not to think much about what Men say. I was in the Navy for 6 years, I've heard PLENTY of manly terms for just about everything LOL I'm too new to even start to think about how much vaping costs or doesn't cost me. And um....HI and stuff LOL Teri

I personally wouldn't start vaping if I wasn't hooked on regular cigarettes. But...that being said. . . I have no idea why people start smoking. I KNOW I'm a dang SMOKER and so I SHOULD know. LOL But it's been a long darn time, and I didn't start to be "cool". I started smoking at 9 years old. My friends hadn't even thought about it yet. I had seizures as a child. Now, I don't say this for the big sympathy vote, because I outgrew them years ago. I was 12 when I had my last seizure. I wasn't even smart enough for them to terrify me back then. LOL That said, I was the child of 2 heavy smokers. Being a normal kid I asked my mother why she smoked. "It calms my nerves" said the mommy. PROBABLY not the smartest answer to give a kid who "pitches a fit" when she gets upset. So I smoked. I got into wow I'm way cool with it years later, but I was already hooked by then, or at least had convinced myself I was. I told my children when they asked, the truth. "Because when it came to tobacco, I was an idiot. And when it comes to tobacco, I still am." 50/50 success there. One is a smoker and one is not. However, I don't think that was because my ANSWER worked. I think it's more because I caught the one that doesn't smoke early enough, and made her life very not fun over it before she'd gotten past the "this might be neat stage" However I'm meandering waaaay off topic. If you are feeling this deep need to experiment I suppose vaping is better than tobacco, but, really, bubble gum tastes way better. Butterscotch candies taste better. We'll like ya if you never ever ever vape. Stepping down from the "I'm an old lady and I know of what I speak" soapbox now Teri