E-Cigarette User Age Poll - Page 3 - E-Cigarette Forum

luffy · 07-24-2008, 08:37 PM

started smoking at fourteen, am now 36 (apparently...according to me I'm still 24 and always will be)

i used to hide my cigs up the chimney...def did NOT have parents who would understand me smoking....probably one of the reasons I did it! Got caught several times and managed to wriggle out of it somehow until my cigs fell out of my pocket in the car...ooops, couldn't get out of that one

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My parents moved to Hong Kong when I was 18 and going out to stay with them the first time has got to be one of the worst experiences of my life.... I got the nicotine patches but they just did not work, I ended up hanging out the window to smoke when I could and being an evil c*w the rest of the time...it was awful...despite the b****y nicotine patches. I fessed up next time I went out.."I SMOKE, LIVE WITH IT!" did not go down well but we had a better time in the end

At my age I still have a father who goes on about my smoking ( despite the fact that he is far from perfect and smoked a pipe and cigars for years...) anyone else get this?

so that's my story, thanks for reading...or not

luffy

BettyRedondo · 07-28-2008, 01:48 PM

Kit, did I laugh when I read your posts about "blow backs", now that did make me feel all of my 39 years!!! Used to buy a single cig off the ice cream van outside the school gates and share!! Don't know if it was about smoking though, probably more about kissing boys!!!

dnakr · 07-28-2008, 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheEmperorOfIceCream

My dad was like that. I got to put my side of the argument after the whuppin'...

Exactly - after the "this will hurt me more than it does you" talk - LOL

DeviLFisH · 07-28-2008, 05:49 PM

interesting ....for some cases .here sneak to smoke

JUST LIKE ME

I smoke at home but is when my parents not around or while they are sleeping ..

I will go to toliet smoke blow the smoke out of the windows.

if they are sleeping at nite I will smoke in my bedroom and same blow the smoke out from the windows.

actually I think aback now..with e cig now I seem easy to smoke anywhere ! be it they are in the living room I can still can sneak to s moke ..

I think back is it e cig make me smoke more??since is easy for me to smoke
but in the same time it automatic cut down my usage of real cig..till now few sticks per day only ..

kinda mix feeling here and I still wanna smoke real cig...sometimes.

overall I just see how it go..I even order two more set of e cig.

now I got problem where to hide my e cig cart in my bedroom

linda · 08-23-2008, 08:59 AM

i am only 33,but i like smoking,after 3 years smoking tobacco,i start to smoke e cig,i think e cig is very suitable for me and i like it,haha.

stevoG · 08-23-2008, 10:13 AM

I started smoking the day i turned 18. Legal age. I did it because i was a cook at the time and was sick of the other cooks getting all bent out of shape everytime there was a rush saying they needed to go smoke to calm them down. I was sick of doing all the work so they could go smoke so i got fed up and went and joined them.... Man were they surprised!!! So now im 24 my mother knows i smoke but i still have not done it around her. Didnt smoke much for the first six months until i moved out on my own... Quickly went up to a pack and half from there. Smoked for about 6 and a half years. Now e smoking exclusively

apachedug · 08-24-2008, 01:14 AM

Steve my story is a bit similar to yours--anyway, I'm 45, and started smoking when I was 16. 29 awful years of it... (I only tried quitting once, back in 1988--I was preparing to go back to college which involved moving to Pittsburgh & didn't didn't want to 'arrive as a smoker'.

(Anyway, I lasted all of 2 days & gave up--never tried again. And now this is my 50th day of being cigarette free, thanks to these e-cigs.)

My story is similar to Steves as I was a junior in high school, and working weekends in a restaurant. Occasionally one of the kitchen staff would offer me one, I'd take it, puff awhile, couldn't figure out why people got hooked on 'em though. Had no desire to do it.

Then one Friday night after the dinner rush, we were out back and one of the waitresses asked me why I never inhaled. "Whaddya mean?" After she showed me, I retched for half an hour--and a week later was hooked.

The thing is, when I told my parents about it they wearily said "Well, we knew one of you kids would start the habit..." (There were 6 of us, and both our parents smoked.) I wish they had kicked my butt!

DeviLFisH · 08-24-2008, 03:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by apachedug

Steve my story is a bit similar to yours--anyway, I'm 45, and started smoking when I was 16. 29 awful years of it... (I only tried quitting once, back in 1988--I was preparing to go back to college which involved moving to Pittsburgh & didn't didn't want to 'arrive as a smoker'.

(Anyway, I lasted all of 2 days & gave up--never tried again. And now this is my 50th day of being cigarette free, thanks to these e-cigs.)

My story is similar to Steves as I was a junior in high school, and working weekends in a restaurant. Occasionally one of the kitchen staff would offer me one, I'd take it, puff awhile, couldn't figure out why people got hooked on 'em though. Had no desire to do it.

Then one Friday night after the dinner rush, we were out back and one of the waitresses asked me why I never inhaled. "Whaddya mean?" After she showed me, I retched for half an hour--and a week later was hooked.

The thing is, when I told my parents about it they wearily said "Well, we knew one of you kids would start the habit..." (There were 6 of us, and both our parents smoked.) I wish they had kicked my butt!

now we are season smoker we can roughly see fellow smoker is it playing with it or addicted by the inhale part

I do saw girls smoke for fun?they just suck and blow.

never inhale.

sagicorn62 · 08-24-2008, 03:38 AM

i'm 45...started smoking at 12....got my 1st smoke from an older woman that i had a crush on (she was 14)....been smoking ecigs for 3-weeks...epuffer to start, then with help from this board, got a better experience with a 901.

pegling · 08-24-2008, 07:01 AM

I must have been a bad kid ~ started smoking at 10 and that was 40 years ago.

Used to swipe them from my Dad. He was smoking about 3 packs a day so he never noticed. Back then you could buy cigs at any age so I was buying my own by 11 ~ 50 cents a pack, mind you!

I was about 17 when my parents found out. They weren't very happy but Mom started giving me cartons for Christmas.

Now if all 3 of batteries weren't dead right now I'd be e-smoking. Can't my last working battery charge just a little quicker?

View Poll Results: What Age Are You ?
25 Or Under	110	15.32%
26-35	200	27.86%
36-45	194	27.02%
46-55	149	20.75%
56-65	59	8.22%
66 Or Over	6	0.84%
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07-24-2008, 08:37 PM	#21
luffy Full Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Bridgend Posts: 63	started smoking at fourteen, am now 36 (apparently...according to me I'm still 24 and always will be) i used to hide my cigs up the chimney...def did NOT have parents who would understand me smoking....probably one of the reasons I did it! Got caught several times and managed to wriggle out of it somehow until my cigs fell out of my pocket in the car...ooops, couldn't get out of that one. My parents moved to Hong Kong when I was 18 and going out to stay with them the first time has got to be one of the worst experiences of my life.... I got the nicotine patches but they just did not work, I ended up hanging out the window to smoke when I could and being an evil cw the rest of the time...it was awful...despite the b**y nicotine patches. I fessed up next time I went out.."I SMOKE, LIVE WITH IT!" did not go down well but we had a better time in the end At my age I still have a father who goes on about my smoking ( despite the fact that he is far* from perfect and smoked a pipe and cigars for years...) anyone else get this? so that's my story, thanks for reading...or not luffy

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07-28-2008, 01:48 PM	#22
BettyRedondo Senior Member ECF Veteran Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Bournemouth England Posts: 253	Kit, did I laugh when I read your posts about "blow backs", now that did make me feel all of my 39 years!!! Used to buy a single cig off the ice cream van outside the school gates and share!! Don't know if it was about smoking though, probably more about kissing boys!!!

07-28-2008, 05:49 PM	#24
DeviLFisH Super Member ECF Veteran Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 836	interesting ....for some cases .here sneak to smoke JUST LIKE ME I smoke at home but is when my parents not around or while they are sleeping .. I will go to toliet smoke blow the smoke out of the windows. if they are sleeping at nite I will smoke in my bedroom and same blow the smoke out from the windows. actually I think aback now..with e cig now I seem easy to smoke anywhere ! be it they are in the living room I can still can sneak to s moke .. I think back is it e cig make me smoke more??since is easy for me to smoke but in the same time it automatic cut down my usage of real cig..till now few sticks per day only .. kinda mix feeling here and I still wanna smoke real cig...sometimes. overall I just see how it go..I even order two more set of e cig. now I got problem where to hide my e cig cart in my bedroom

08-23-2008, 08:59 AM	#25
linda Full Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 23	i am only 33,but i like smoking,after 3 years smoking tobacco,i start to smoke e cig,i think e cig is very suitable for me and i like it,haha.

08-23-2008, 10:13 AM	#26
stevoG Full Member ECF Veteran Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 112	I started smoking the day i turned 18. Legal age. I did it because i was a cook at the time and was sick of the other cooks getting all bent out of shape everytime there was a rush saying they needed to go smoke to calm them down. I was sick of doing all the work so they could go smoke so i got fed up and went and joined them.... Man were they surprised!!! So now im 24 my mother knows i smoke but i still have not done it around her. Didnt smoke much for the first six months until i moved out on my own... Quickly went up to a pack and half from there. Smoked for about 6 and a half years. Now e smoking exclusively

08-24-2008, 01:14 AM	#27
apachedug Senior Member ECF Veteran Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Pittsburgh, PA USA Posts: 176	Steve my story is a bit similar to yours--anyway, I'm 45, and started smoking when I was 16. 29 awful years of it... (I only tried quitting once, back in 1988--I was preparing to go back to college which involved moving to Pittsburgh & didn't didn't want to 'arrive as a smoker'. (Anyway, I lasted all of 2 days & gave up--never tried again. And now this is my 50th day of being cigarette free, thanks to these e-cigs.) My story is similar to Steves as I was a junior in high school, and working weekends in a restaurant. Occasionally one of the kitchen staff would offer me one, I'd take it, puff awhile, couldn't figure out why people got hooked on 'em though. Had no desire to do it. Then one Friday night after the dinner rush, we were out back and one of the waitresses asked me why I never inhaled. "Whaddya mean?" After she showed me, I retched for half an hour--and a week later was hooked. The thing is, when I told my parents about it they wearily said "Well, we knew one of you kids would start the habit..." (There were 6 of us, and both our parents smoked.) I wish they had kicked my butt!

08-24-2008, 03:38 AM	#29
sagicorn62 Full Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: iowa usa Posts: 39	i'm 45...started smoking at 12....got my 1st smoke from an older woman that i had a crush on (she was 14)....been smoking ecigs for 3-weeks...epuffer to start, then with help from this board, got a better experience with a 901.

08-24-2008, 07:01 AM	#30
pegling Full Member ECF Veteran Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: south jersey (yeah it's not north jersey!) Posts: 62	I must have been a bad kid ~ started smoking at 10 and that was 40 years ago. Used to swipe them from my Dad. He was smoking about 3 packs a day so he never noticed. Back then you could buy cigs at any age so I was buying my own by 11 ~ 50 cents a pack, mind you! I was about 17 when my parents found out. They weren't very happy but Mom started giving me cartons for Christmas. Now if all 3 of batteries weren't dead right now I'd be e-smoking. Can't my last working battery charge just a little quicker?