E-pipes

[Hideto]

Let me preface this by saying I'm not a smoker and never have been. Let me also add I'm so glad smokers now have an alternative that allows them the same pleasures they want while no longer being a danger or damage to anyone not also a smoker. Congrats, guys!

We all know someone who was/is a pipe smoker. We all know famous people who are/were pipe smokers. I don't know about you, but the pipe smokers in my life were gentle, wonderful people, the best being my beloved uncle Jack. Gentlest, kindest, sweetest soul, and always most at peace when smoking his pipe. My neighbor was equally warm and friendly and kind, and looked so handsome with a pipe clenched in his teeth carefully.

With the marvels of modern science in these new e-cigarettes, you can enjoy what you like about smoking but control ALL the variables. No deadly, harsh chemicals, no stained fingers and teeth, no stinky clothing. You can even smoke without having ANY nicotine in your mix at ALL.

With this in mind, I've always wanted to smoke a pipe in the romantic fashion of my uncle Jack, my neigher Mr. Cunningham, Bing Crosby, and all those romantic figures, but didn't want the associated health risks, no matter how small anyone claimed them to be. I've done quite a bit of reading around different vaping sites and want to get some advice.

I'd love to smoke an e-pipe but have questions:

If I choose 0% nicotine juice, are their any health risks left that are currently known about? What are they and what do they mean to me?

Can I make the room I'm in smell wonderful with juice/vaping the way my uncle could with his real/traditional pipe?

As someone who's never tried even one puff of any tobacco product, not even to be edgy, cool, or rebellious, what can I expect to feel in my mouth, throat, and lungs if I use a 0% nicotine juice?

I'm not looking for a buzz, I don't care about any "throat hit", or anything else a traditional smoker would care about/want. I just want to taste and smell what a traditional pipe smoker tastes and smells, I want the room to fill with the aromatic fragrance of whatever flavour juice I'm smoking, and I want to conjure up images of Gandalf the grey sitting on a hill with Bilbo Baggins, enjoying a pipe full of the shire's best Longbottom Leaf. I want to do it all without fear of any serious health risks normally associated with smoking tobacco products of any kind.

Can someone guide me how to achieve this? I'd be forever grateful, and it would make me an even stronger ally in the war to keep e-cigarettes both available and affordable. I'm deeply anti-tobacco. I'm becoming more deeply PRO-e-smoking!

[Raenon]

Yes, an e-pipe can offer you what you like.

There are many fragrant zero-nic options available to you, and they _seem_ to be safe.
Obviously, no one can make an absolute claim of absolute safety, but barring trace elements in tobacco flavoring (found in minute quantities compared to even the cleanest cigarette), you won't find many baddies in e-cig liquid or vapor.
It's even safer if you mix your liquid yourself, with flavorings, vegetable glycerin, and maybe a really small amount of grain alcohol to help it mix and flow more readily.

Just last night I mixed up a batch of tobacco absolute, VG, grain alcohol, and small amounts of chocolate and caramel notes for my DSE-601 epipe. It smelled wonderful and I got several compliments from my family. I added a small amount of nicotine after I got the flavor right, but I could have just as easily left it out.

[Raenon]

For the record, I never smoked a pipe before I got my 601, though I did smoke cigarettes before switching to e-cigs.

The 601 really gives that image though, of the "pipe clenched between the teeth", with it's richly colored wooden bowl and black stem. It's easy to fill yourself, too, and the cartridges and batteries will last a long time between swaps.

[deback]

Keep in mind, Hideto, that e-cig suppliers will tend to encourage you to start vaping. They sell e-cig stuff for a profit.

"If I choose 0% nicotine juice, are their any health risks left that are currently known about? What are they and what do they mean to me?"

Nobody knows for sure, since e-cigs are too new. It doesn't make sense to me, though, that breathing or inhaling VG, PG, 0% nicotine juice, and flavorings into my lungs is completely harmless.

"Can I make the room I'm in smell wonderful with juice/vaping the way my uncle could with his real/traditional pipe?"

No, the smell from the vapor is gone in a few seconds. It doesn't linger, as far as I know. My non-smoking family has told me they smelled nothing when they came into my house after I had been vaping constantly.

[deback]

Also, since I started vaping a month ago, I've had pain in my gums, and currently, I have pain deep in my right cheek, up by the top wisdom tooth (that's no longer there). I don't know if this mouth pain is due to vaping or from quitting smoking (toxins leaving my body...).

[Rosa]

My husband cannot smell my vapor from across the dining room table.

[BiohazardVideo]

deback, the pains are probably your mouth healing from being baked on a regular basis. I talked to a dentist and he let me know it's normal.

[BiohazardVideo]

My kids say my cappuccino vaping smells like baking cookies...

[deback]

About three weeks ago, I was watching my two grandsons at my house, and we were watching a Disney movie in my bed in the evening with the light out. I was vaping with the e-cig cupped in my right hand (on the right side of the bed) and hiding it from my almost-5-year-old grandson, who was to my left. I was blowing out the vapor to my right and away from him (thinking "this is great! I can vape and no longer have to sneak outside for 15 seconds, so my grandsons won't see me smoke!), but at one point, he said, "What's that smell?" I think the smell was there for only a couple of seconds, because he said nothing after that. The 3-year-old, on the far left of my bed, never said anything about a smell. They never realized I was vaping, and I hope they never will.

[deback]

deback, the pains are probably your mouth healing from being baked on a regular basis. I talked to a dentist and he let me know it's normal.

That's what I've thought, and I hope that's the case. I know sore gums/sore mouth is one of the symptoms of quitting smoking. And I haven't seen others posting about having sore mouths caused from vaping.

Being baked?