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  1. lolady

    Confused Old Lady - 50 Yrs Marlboro Reds - Grateful for Any Help, Advice, Recommendations

    I did manage to dump a bucket of two of text into the blog. As I feared, unless you or a loved one are old and/or sick, on a boringness scale from 1 to 12, it's probably around a 17, if you stay awake long enough to count that high. Still working on replies, apologies for the delay, and for...
  2. lolady

    Pill-Poppers' Special

    If your medical condition includes chronic pain, or any other element that requires you to take medications with label warnings about operating machinery, or especially ones that, depending on where you live, require you to get a new prescription every month, drop it off and pick them up in...
  3. lolady

    Diabetics Beware!

    Psych! The scary headline is just me being bad. From everything I've read, only a very tiny fraction of diabetics notice a "spike" in blood sugar levels as a result of inhaling propylene glycol. The chances are very small that either you or I will be one of them, and if we are, there's a...
  4. lolady

    Kill The Biggest Dragon First

    If Sun Tzu didn't say that, he meant to. I know this because his mother told me so. She was a lovely woman, and a very good friend of mine. I'm old, remember? Nicotine is a physically addictive substance, but for most of us, nicotine addiction is only a part of our addiction to cigarettes, and...
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    Interview Your Doctor

    This isn't the standard CYA "talk to your doctor before you consider changing anti-perspirants," because far too many people, doctors included, do not yet understand that inhaling water vapor and inhaling the Carolina Colonel's 43 selected toxins and carcinogens have some differences. The other...
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    Preamble To A Ramble

    If you're one of the Great Ones of Iron who quit your 10 pack a day 200 year smoking habit cold turkey despite having the entire ICD manual engraved on your medalert bracelet, being older than Eric the vampire, and so poor that you just got evicted from your van down by the river, all props and...
  7. lolady

    they gave lolady a blog and now look!

    they gave lolady a blog and now look!
  8. lolady

    Confused Old Lady - 50 Yrs Marlboro Reds - Grateful for Any Help, Advice, Recommendations

    You are all wonderful - this has been such a momentous week! I know I've gotten scandalously behind with replies, so first I'll get rested, then shoot for catching up here and making good on that blog threat!
  9. lolady

    I started vaping, because...

    A big ol' Classic AOL-style ME TOO! During my most recent cold, I couldn't help noticing that my air intake process is no longer able to withstand being double-teamed by stopped-up nostrils and coughing fits. There are so many people - doctors, all the people at my fabulous neighborhood...
  10. lolady

    Confused Old Lady - 50 Yrs Marlboro Reds - Grateful for Any Help, Advice, Recommendations

    Kindasortically. The plan I worked out with the smart shaman is to put myself in the same mode as when I switched from Neurontin to Lyrica (pills), and very carefully substitute e-cigarettes for Marlboros little bit by little bit. I was actually thinking about putting the (stultifyingly boring)...
  11. lolady

    Confused Old Lady - 50 Yrs Marlboro Reds - Grateful for Any Help, Advice, Recommendations

    LOL Del Boy, I think I've done enough "long" to last us for a while, and certainly to tire me good and out! I just popped in to say that today I practiced with the little electric hookah-doodle - I ♥ it! The weight is much better for sitting there for a long time, bad days, and being...
  12. lolady

    Handicapped and new to e-cigs...need help on refilling

    I've pasted everything here into my Wisdom File! I'm staring The Big Fill in the face, too. With neurotrash AND low vision. I was thinking of trying one of those third hand things (and my 10x magnifying mirror) but I'm kind of liking the muffin tin idea better now...
  13. lolady

    Confused Old Lady - 50 Yrs Marlboro Reds - Grateful for Any Help, Advice, Recommendations

    Hey, I just noticed - we get BLOGS here! :w00t: More on this breaking story, as it develops...
  14. lolady

    Tobacco companys probably hate e cigs

    CBB, you're a very wise woman! At this point, I doubt anybody can predict specifics of how it will shake out, but we can be sure that at least 99% of the sound and fury is driven by the question of who will be supplying the e-cigarette industry with nicotine.
  15. lolady

    Confused Old Lady - 50 Yrs Marlboro Reds - Grateful for Any Help, Advice, Recommendations

    O Frabjous Day! Calloo! Callay! The wondrous package from PKZap27 has arrived! I've sent him about a million stupid questions about connecting things to other things to increase my chances of an explosion-free transition, and - ♫ Fanfare ♫ I actually smoked one for about 3 hours! It...
  16. lolady

    Confused Old Lady - 50 Yrs Marlboro Reds - Grateful for Any Help, Advice, Recommendations

    I'm going to study every video and e-liquidapplicationology treatise on the internets to prepare, and hoping my years of having to use eye drops every way too often will be at least useful enough so that I do not offend these noble liquids with my clumsiness. So that's why none of the...
  17. lolady

    Confused Old Lady - 50 Yrs Marlboro Reds - Grateful for Any Help, Advice, Recommendations

    When I began to think about breaking up with cigarettes, I'd never heard of ECF! I was vaguely aware e-cigarettes existed, but I thought they were just theatrical products - something prop departments had cobbled together to appease the "arm-flapping and fake-coughing" elements in the...
  18. lolady

    Is This The Coolest Forum Or What?

    Restrictions, schemrictions! Most forums have a 10,000 character post limit. Take it from somebody who regularly faceplants into those things - this one doesn't. And the people here are so amazing, I'm still not entirely convinced it's not a mirage, or a Dickensian fleck of mustard).
  19. lolady

    Confused Old Lady - 50 Yrs Marlboro Reds - Grateful for Any Help, Advice, Recommendations

    Thanks, Vocalek! You are rapidly becoming my Forumology Guru! I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to keep up with this incredible outpouring of goodwill that I've had to throw basic courtesies to the wind - including forum-joinin' courtesies like poking around and figuring out all the little...
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    Confused Old Lady - 50 Yrs Marlboro Reds - Grateful for Any Help, Advice, Recommendations

    And just when I thought it was safe to put down the sinus spray... Here I am again, back to railing against the pitiful inadequacy of language, reduced to the simple declaration that my heart is full of gratitude, and zapped with a mega-dose of that...