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  1. hippiebrian

    Older Folks and Vaping Front Porch - Part 2

    Every time I come here I try and get all caught up, but fail miserably and never get a post in, lol! Well, little update. So long as I make it to tomorrow, it will be a week without cancer sticks! Woohoo! Between getting back to vaping and the snus it's really been a piece of cake going...
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    Vaping History Lesson, enjoy =)

    I do remember going to the pet store to get fluvial foam for my carts on the old Blu to try and get them to work well enough! I tried the tea bag and kept getting a mouth full of hot juice, lol. Did the cartomizers, dual coil cartomizers and carto tanks just prior to going back to analogs...
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    Trust me, I’m a healthologist (and now you can be one too…)

    People believe the weirdest things because, well, they read it on the internet and everything. I am currently losing weight mostly for my own health and because we have a 2 month pool going on at work and 400 bucks goes to the person who loses the most weight in 2 months (I am far more...
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    Poisonings From E-Cigarette Liquid Up Sharply

    The use of e cigarettes is up. The number of calls to the poison control center goes up. Go figure. This is a serious non-issue. Also, most calls to poison control centers are non-threatening issues, merely precautionary. I hate media sensationalism!
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    Smokers' brains biased against negative images of smoking

    I don't think cigarettes are ruining smokers' abilities to see negative ads. It's the negative ads themselves. We as a society are bombarded with such negative images on t.v. and in other media that they are useless. We tune them out. Then there is the fact that they throw out the worst...
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    Teens Drink E-Liquid With Energy Drinks

    I'm thinking this is just sensationalism and bad reporting, and I'm betting it isn't happening on any kind of level that would make any type of difference in teenager safety. That said, if this is all they were doing, big deal. Does anyone else remember beeing in high school in the...
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    Spanish e-cig user gets pneumonia

    I am not a doctor nor do I play one on t.v. That being said, pneumonia is an infection, either viral or bacterial. Now, unless the oil contains said bacteria or virus and the organism can survive while mixed with a substance with the antibiotic properties of both propyl glycol and vegetable...
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    tobacco and depression?

    It isn't the nic, at least not alone. I have quit with just vaping and got horribly depressed. That's at 24mg. It is definately the maoi's, maybe combined with the nic, but not the nic alone. At least for me, that is.
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    Had oral urgery today & they asked me not to vape for a MONTH!!!!!!!!

    I had to laugh, sorry. A year and a half ago, I got dentures due to a genetic thing. I was still smoking at the time, and the doc said no smoking for 2 weeks minimum after he pulled all my teeth but three (yup, 20+ in a single sitting!). You should have heard him yelling at me while I was...
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    Long Beach regs, well...

    New Long Beach, Ca. regulations go into effect next month. What this article doesn't say is that vaping will even be banned in vape shops. Seriously. I can go to a shop and buy everything I need to vape at home or in the few areas left that it's legal but cannot be exposed to vapor in the...
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    Attorneys General on the tobacco warpath

    So a parent can bring their obese child to get their diabetes medicine to, say, Rite Aid, and walk out with 5 liters of soda, an ice cream cone and as much candy as they can carry but it's wrong for then to see a cigarette pack being sold? Who believes this malarkey? An alcoholic can get...
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    New VTR.

    My third day into mine and I'm loving it!
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    Innokin vTR YES or NO

    Treated myself to one for my birthday and, though I'm only 3 days into it, I'm loving it! My mvp's (I have 2) are now backup devices. The VTR is shorter so it fits into my pocket better (some might not like the weight in their shirt pocket but I am fine with it in the pocket of my nomex at...
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    tobacco and depression?

    Thanks for all the info! I've been off all cancer sticks for 3 days now and, with the snus, I'm just fine. It just struck me as weird that just the little bit of maoi's in tobaco is all I apparantly need to keep my head straight. I know a lot of people, actually most of them smokers, who are...
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    Snuff

    I am still waiting for my stuff from Mr. Snuff. It comes from Britain, so I expected a wait, but am anxious to get some. That said, I picked up some snus and have been off cancer sticks for 2 days! Git it down to two a day then ran out and didn't buy anymore. I'm pretty stoked. Get to...
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    Flavors that may contain Diacetyl, are there really this many?

    This right here. Vaping has been around for 10 years now with no major issues reported, and I think we need to take at least a little comfort in that. Sure, we don't know about what could happen with 25 or 30 years of vaping yet, but 10 years os a good stretch to have no real issues. Smoking...
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    Why have my farts...

    Soon we'll have to go outside here in Long Beach to vape. I think, while outside, I'll hold any farts until I'm back inside to cut loose. Take that, you anti-fun zealots!
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    tobacco and depression?

    I've never been a depressed person. Now I started smoking at a young age and was up to a pack a day by 13 or so. Whenever I'd quit without replacement of some sort, I'd get horribly depressed. Even when I was strictly vaping alone, the depression would rear it's ugly head once sending me back...
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    Vaping After a Heart Attack / After Heart Disease Diagnosis

    I had a mild heart attack almost 4 years ago. I asked about nic patches or gum at the time and the doc was strictly no nicotine whatsoever. Problem is, I get real depressed when I quit nicotine (or, I'm finding out, the maoi's in tobacco) so I figured that would be worse. He offered a...
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    E-Liquid Paranoia

    I just got a whiff of the "paranoia" you speak of. Like you, I agree that vaping is multitudes healthier than smoking, even considering anything they might find out later. The fact that it's been around 10 years already and no real health issues have been reported should put your mind (and...