Group Conscience

[Sasseaux]

Hi, I'm Sue, a new vaper and an old alcoholic addict. Sobriety date 3/12/89. I am so happy to have found vaping. I have not had a whole analog since last week sometime. Friday, I lit one and it was so nasty I put it out. I like vaping so much better! I have a SE I got at the mall and a Screwdriver I got last week. I like the SE for sitting in traffic as I'm paranoid someone will think the SD is a crack pipe.

Thanks for starting this forum. I wondered where I would hang out. 12-step forum suits me well!

[BardicDruid]

Well for my two cents worth I say keep it public and open, after all we're here for e-cigs not meetings. But if we can word out and help someone so be it. Oh and my date is 7/12/92

[Mossman]

Hey all, I'm Ed, and I'm an alcoholic... I just celebrated my 3 year anniversary (or "birthday" in some parts) last week.

I was pretty jazzed when I saw "Friends of Bill W." among the groups! I've been coming to this forum off-and-on for about 2 months now, and didn't even know this sub-forum existed until today..

I say keep it open... I've never heard of any non-alcoholics disrupting an open AA meeting out in the "real world", and if anyone did that here, they'd just be making an ass of themselves.... In terms of anonymity; I feel a lot less anonymous at an actual AA meeting than I do here... But I'm a firm believer in rule 62, and I don't care who knows I'm an alcoholic, anyway...

Personally, I liked the fact that I could roll up and start posting, without having to wait for an approval process.

[songsofcerulean]

Hi all, I'm Cate and I'm an alcoholic.
I'm glad that this group is open and not dependent upon requests to join. As someone said before me, we do all have screen names, and don't have to link any of our real life information to our accounts. Since we're not really here to have meetings, simply to have a gathering place for those of us that have something more in common than just using e-cigarettes, I don't see a need for this to be closed. (But if you are looking for forum recovery, soberrecoverydotcom/forums/ is a great place for both AA and NA. And since I'm new here I can't post the actual link. )
Thank you all for being here!
Cate

[Mr. Tasty Vapor]

My take.

While I have no problem announcing that I'm a friend of Bill W. I do so because I was a very open drunk f-up. And I don't mind who knows what I've done, what I've been through and the solutions I've found.

However, I'm announcing this on an e-cig forum, not AA. If one is truly concerned about maintaining their anonymity, announcing affiliations to 12-step programs on a public forum might not be the place for this.

If anonymity is a concern, get a consensus and act on that.

If not, hell, my vote...I could care less, this is an e-cig forum.

[Mr. Tasty Vapor]

Oh, BTW, I'm Geoff, and I'm an proud alcoholic and vaper!

[Debbie Lee]

I feel the same way you do. I have no problem as of yet breaking my own anonimity People everywhere I go in a social setting where there is alcohol know where I come from and are behind me 100% and don't take it personal that I am a recoved alcy. not cured but recovered from a hopeless state of mind and body. that said I am fine with this so far being open. I am very happy I have 25 years of sobriety and thank God for it and meetings all 12 steps in a row ad infinitum......

[Ariel]

My vote is to keep it open.

[phillyd]

Hi I'm Phil and I'm a Vapoholic and ya I was introduced to Bill on
May 6,2006.

I am new to this site but one thing comes to mind when it comes to addiction, Our Primary Purpose is to Help Others no matter what the problem and to Achieve Serenity.

I suggest keeping it OPEN