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  1. Frankie

    Help me read this, please.

    I found a rather rare study of snuff (presumably, India is great on snuff) and blood pressure, but the numbers do not really support the claims. Maybe I am reading them wrong? Or does ST really increase your BP by 4 (four! Peanuts!) points only? I mean, this is not an issue. Four points. Ha! Any...
  2. Frankie

    End of story?

    "At or around this time, we made a healthy, informed, democratic decision to get back on drugs as soon as possible. It took about twelve hours." Hello. The older-timers know me, for the new Vapers: I used to be here, vape and enjoy life without smoking, but then early this year my health...
  3. Frankie

    Nicotine THAT bad? Or just a coincidence?

    I decided to take the plunge and quit nicotine use altogether. If I relapse, I will go back to snus, which seems to be quite safe. That was last evening. The next day... My BP went down 30+ points and my pulse got to *less* than 70. I *never* had my pulse lower than 80 before, 90-100 being...
  4. Frankie

    Do US Customs notify the sender or recipient?

    I sent two shipments on the same day. The one to the UK arrived long ago, the one to the USA seems to be lost. I wonder if the Customs upon seizing the stuff notify any of the parties shown on the envelope. In other words, i would like to know if it was confiscated or just stolen/lost. I...
  5. Frankie

    The worst e-juice by far

    Do you remember the member who almost put e-juice in his eye by mistake? Well, I am very careful about what I drop in my eyes, but after a serious decline of both vapour production and taste - and incline in harshness - I found out I have been vaping Visine. Yuck! (Serves me right for...
  6. Frankie

    Can you repair a gravity-dependent switch?

    I bought 2 USB passthroughs. One of them seemed to be DOA, but then I found out it worked in certain orientation - meaning horizontal or variously tilted in normal smoking fashion, but one part of the tube must be facing the ground and not the other. Now, these things were rather cheap - $15...
  7. Frankie

    Which way to blow the atomizer

    I usually do not cut the autoclean cycle. Too slow reflexes to unscrew the batt quickly enough. Pulling the cart off is all i can manage in the blink of the eye :(. So I let it do the job without cart, and when it finishes and the att is nice and hot, I blow it as hard as I can. Without the cart...
  8. Frankie

    Long term Mini Fogger test

    I received the Fogger by courier service (I thought it was sent by regular post, now I understand shipping costs better) yesterday and after thoroughly going through the formatting of batteries - 8 hours charge, 20 minutes use, 1 more hour charging - I found I love this device. It is small as...
  9. Frankie

    Blood Pressure WHEN vaping

    I suppose I am not the only one with a portable BP monitor. Could you, please, measure your BP when vaping and posti it? It might show the immediate effects of nicotine. And pulse, too. Pulse is influenced much faster. Reference table: ------------------------------------------------------...
  10. Frankie

    Battery shelf life

    Loving these things I might be throwing money away, because I do not use all of them all the time. So, my big question now is: What approximately is the battery shelf life? How long before an unused / rarely used device is dead? Is it better to use/charge often, even if the device is rather a...
  11. Frankie

    Dr. Oetker rum aroma

    Hello. I was summoned as a luggage carrier to a local Carrefour and while pushing the loads of stuff we allegedly need I bought this: Dr. Oetker Rum Aroma, 30 ml en vente sur eBay.fr (fin le 23-oct.-08 23:28:58 Paris) Problem is that the Slovak version states it consists of soya oil...
  12. Frankie

    Glycerinum

    I like very low nic content. (Weakling or not, that is MY problem.) So I mix/dilute a lot. But: I have problems getting vegetable glycerin in my country. Visited/called quite a few pharmacies all over the capital, none offered VEGETABLE glycerin, two had "some" glycerin, one refused to sell...
  13. Frankie

    Any happy JC users?

    I am new to the game, looking for the right taste, loving the idea of starter packs, reading Bertrand´s warnings and using VG to dilute (nicer vapour in my taste), preferring VG to PG based products. I like the Smokester JC NPG sample pack. But: I only have two atomizers plus a Health one which...
  14. Frankie

    Custom colours?

    My oldest son has just reached the age for advanced model making and plays around with lots of shades of model colours for his WWII tanks. Which makes me play around with the idea of having him use some of the shades to create a really customized cig for me. You know, he just finished summer...
  15. Frankie

    Nicotine and your heart

    For very personal reasons I have been contacting local doctors asking about alternatively delivered nicotine and its possible implications for heart conditions. Unfortunately, those I managed to contact were just repeating risks of smoking, completely ignoring the smokeless factor. Our local...
  16. Frankie

    Thank you

    I would like to express my thanks to all thwe people who helped me (you know who you are) as well as the others who contributed important facts elsewhere in the forum. Thanks to your help I had my first 2 DSE901s delivered in the morning, which means this is my first 24-hours without smoking for...
  17. Frankie

    Judge, prosecutor, detective... and a happy e-cig vaper

    This is not an experience, but it might turn into one soon. I am a translator and interpreter. Next Monday I am starting a week session as an interpreter for a DoJ project completely irrelevant to any form of smoking or tobacco use. BUT: The group I will work for comprises of several dozen...
  18. Frankie

    A Bit about Myself & a Cry for Help (of Course...)

    Hello. (This post might be skipped - just introducing/explaining myself. Read at your own risk.) xxxxxPrattle/startxxxxx I am new to this forum as well as to the whole possibility of inhaling nicotine without the smoke. A friendly doctor told me to consider trying this option...