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    Older Folks and Vaping Front Porch - Part Three

    Hello, hello...Been a while since I've posted here, but I'll be 63 in less than a month, so I qualify :). My wife, who is almost 60, has tried vaping several times, but it irritates her already-chronically-irritated stomach...so, she has remained on the cigarettes for most of the four years that...
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    This Is Why I Don't Support B&M Stores

    The quality of a B&M depends, to a large degree, on the knowledge of its owner. Sometimes, this just comes through the hard school of experience. I'm a regular at a local B&M which has been in business for three years, and was the first in this area. Their selection of hardware has grown, and...
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    wife smokes

    My wife tried vaping, and it aggravated her chronic stomach problems. She has tried numerous juice mixtures, and variable voltage, all to no avail, so I let her have her Old Golds (used to be mine too). I was truly one of the fortunate ones to be able to switch directly from a pack-and-a-half...
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    List of local stores

    I paid a "window shopping" visit to North Shore Vape a few days ago. I'm fairly well stocked at the moment, so I told them that I just wanted to check them out, since they're closer to my home than any of the other shops in the Twin Cities. Very pleasant people, experienced in vaping. One thing...
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    Are you "there" yet?

    Yeah, I'm pretty much "there" :) I never could afford to start a real "collection" of PV's: I was so thrilled to be saving so much money by not buying cigarettes! I've seen some units that I wouldn't mind trying, and perhaps owning; but once I got to the 5v GLV2, and then the 6v VMX (developed...
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    Looking for NiteLiteVapor liquids? They are at PVLiquids :)

    OK, I'm sure that there have been thousands of reviews of "Bounty Hunter," but it never hurts to add another! I've been vaping for almost three years, and was fortunate enough to leave cigarettes behind right away, after decades of being a pack-and-a-half-a-day guy. Within about a month, I...
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    What PV's are you currently using right now?

    OK, just to let you know, this is a local product in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. It's a VMX 6v, developed as a replacement for--and improvement over--the GLV2, when the GLV folks were unable to keep up with orders. The VMX accepts the larger tank, and has a stand-up end. It's relatively...
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    Angry at a Nurse. What Naysayers have you run into?

    I have a family doctor who is one of those people who, if he won a million dollars, would say, "It should have been TWO million." The first time that I told him that I was off of cigarettes and onto vaping, he said, "Yeah, I want you to quit that too." The next time I saw him, he agreed that...
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    Older Folks and Vaping Front Porch - Part 2

    Of course, that will vary from one person to another. I've been on one flavor (black licorice) almost exclusively for over a year; but I find that if I don't OCCASIONALLY try something else, I'm no longer really tasting what I'm vaping. I have a couple of flavors which are new to me coming in...
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    Minnesota State Fair

    Anybody else vape at the Minnesota State Fair? Their website and brochures said they had "designated smoking areas"--and that included e-cigs; I could see the areas marked on the map of the fairgrounds, but when I went to those areas, I saw NOTHING indicating where smoking and vaping were...
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    My personal reviews of a few of the shops in the area!

    It's somewhat understandable that The eCig Shop pushes the 6v VMX, as they developed it themselves when they found that GLV absolutely could not keep up with orders. I bought a GLV from them in early 2012, but eventually stripped the threads...and found that GLV is ALWAYS "out of stock" when it...
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    Looking for a B&M Recommendation in the Twin Cities

    The eCig Shop on Energy Park Drive...in the little strip mall right near the transitway. I've been shopping them and their Anoka store since right after they opened in late 2011. Good people, good products, prices are fair. I go either there or to their Anoka store about once a month to pick up...
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    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part 2

    Great vid, Uncle Willie! George was VERY underrated...too bad he didn't vape...might have extended his life a few years!
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    List of local stores

    The eCig Shop in Anoka also has a store at 2233 Energy Park Drive, in St. Paul.
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    My Doctor Thinks Vaping is a great alternative to smoking

    My doctor tends to be a bit of a killjoy, and on the first visit after having switched from cigarettes to vaping, he muttered, "Yeah, I want you to quit that too." A year later, his remark was, "Well, it's got to be better than cigarettes!" Well...that's SOME improvement :) Seriously, anybody...
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    How long did it take you to switch from cigs to ecigs?

    Nearly instantly, though everybody is different. I changed my setup a bit over the first couple of months before I finally settled on the 5-volt GLV-2. After two years, the threads on it finally got too stripped, and spare parts from the GLV website are always out of stock...so I just switched...
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    Help for a New Vaper

    Welcome to a new life, Loopy :) I don't know how much you smoked, or for how long, but I had been doing more than a pack-a-day for over forty years...and vaping was a true godsend! I can't help you much with the battery issue: My unit, a VMX (somewhat similar to the GLV-2) from the eCig Shop...
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    Do you still smoke and Vape?

    Vaping ALMOST exclusively since 12/1/11. The other night, my batteries went dead, and I had apparently forgotten to charge the other set, so I bummed a cigarette from my wife. I smoked the whole thing to get the nicotine, but I knew, two drags in, that I wasn't going to want another one. She...
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    What Flavor Are you Vaping Right Now?

    Black licorice from the eCig Shop in Anoka, MN