12 years ago

[rosesense]

Congratulations

It's trailblazers like you and the other long term ECF members, who were able to stop smoking and switch to vaping using cigalikes etc - that I admire the most.

Thanks, @AngeNZ . Sometimes I wonder how we did it when I think of the devices available today. I remember the 510 and later the Provari being absolute game changers. I remember buying cotton batting from Joann's when we figured out we could just change the cotton and keep using the atty. Also, bought the aquarium foam but didn't use that much.

 

[FranC]

Thanks, @AngeNZ . Sometimes I wonder how we did it when I think of the devices available today. I remember the 510 and later the Provari being absolute game changers. I remember buying cotton batting from Joann's when we figured out we could just change the cotton and keep using the atty. Also, bought the aquarium foam but didn't use that much.

That's funny, rose. I bought the foam too and never used it.

 

[Territoo]

That's funny, rose. I bought the foam too and never used it.

I used the blue foam for a bit. It was better than the cotton. But I soon gave it all up for dripping. Stovepiping on bare atties until the invention of the driptips.

 

[somdcomputerguy]

It has been an amazing 12 years..

'Grats!​

 

[tokarev]

Congratulations Rose!

I'm coming up on 13 years myself. Funny thing is, although I stopped smoking almost instantly upon receiving my first 901 kit I can't remember exactly when that was.
It was in February 2009 though. I'm sure about the month if not the exact date. I think I smoked one or two cigarettes a week or two after I started vaping but that was it. Haven't smoked since. I was doing RYO back then so no spare packs for "just in case". There may still be some old dried up rolling tobacco somewhere in my spare room with all the junk though.
Back then I used to carry a pocket protector full of 901 and 801 pen style ecigs (backups for your backups, etc.). Never knew when the battery would die or the atty would pop on you. It's been a journey, that's for sure.

 

[rosesense]

Congratulations Rose!

I'm coming up on 13 years myself. Funny thing is, although I stopped smoking almost instantly upon receiving my first 901 kit I can't remember exactly when that was.
It was in February 2009 though. I'm sure about the month if not the exact date. I think I smoked one or two cigarettes a week or two after I started vaping but that was it. Haven't smoked since. I was doing RYO back then so no spare packs for "just in case". There may still be some old dried up rolling tobacco somewhere in my spare room with all the junk though.
Back then I used to carry a pocket protector full of 901 and 801 pen style ecigs (backups for your backups, etc.). Never knew when the battery would die or the atty would pop on you. It's been a journey, that's for sure.

I really liked the 801 but not the 901 for some reason.

Congrats to you on 13 years!

 

[Bliss Doubt]

I'm coming up on 13 years myself.

Congratulations on 13 years!

I don't know if I should feel fortunate to have been born when I was. On the one hand, I was in this world when vaping was invented, to help so many smokers quit. Had it not been for vaping, I would have died from smoking, probably by now. On the other hand, I was born into a family with a lot of smokers, both parents, lots of uncles and, significantly, my aunts. Smoking among men goes back a lot further in history than it does among women, so in the 20th century, long before Virginia Slims claimed to offer "smoking equal rights", women were somehow enticed to use cigarettes.

My rural Alabama relatives had no smokers, and were strict on their kids when they were caught smoking. My Texas relatives of the generation before me had the smokers. None of my grandparents smoked, so it is in that next generation when packaged cigarettes became that convenient, affordable temptation.

This is the first time I have contemplated the actual history of cigarettes, though I did learn, in school history, that when the early conquerors and explorers of this continent took tobacco back to Europe, it was called everything from a cure-all to a demon.

I always write too much.

 

[rosesense]

Congratulations on 13 years!

I don't know if I should feel fortunate to have been born when I was. On the one hand, I was in this world when vaping was invented, to help so many smokers quit. Had it not been for vaping, I would have died from smoking, probably by now. On the other hand, I was born into a family with a lot of smokers, both parents, lots of uncles and, significantly, my aunts. Smoking among men goes back a lot further in history than it does among women, so in the 20th century, long before Virginia Slims claimed to offer "smoking equal rights", women were somehow enticed to use cigarettes.

My rural Alabama relatives had no smokers, and were strict on their kids when they were caught smoking. My Texas relatives of the generation before me had the smokers. None of my grandparents smoked, so it is in that next generation when packaged cigarettes became that convenient, affordable temptation.

This is the first time I have contemplated the actual history of cigarettes, though I did learn, in school history, that when the early conquerors and explorers of this continent took tobacco back to Europe, it was called everything from a cure-all to a demon.

I always write too much.

Thank you and thanks for sharing. It was very interesting to me.

 

[rosesense]

My history with smoking was a bit different than most. I hated it, the smell made me ill. My mother smoked off and on and I nagged her relentlessly. If she smoked in the car, I insisted on all windows down. My dad didn't smoke but many of my aunts did and it seemed everyone smoked, everywhere...grocery stores, attorney and doctor offices, every office even government ones.

I played with smoking a bit but didn't really get hooked until my job had a break room where the classes I taught were held. All of the students smoked during my class and I couldn't escape it. I figured maybe if I smoked, I would be able to tolerate it and so it bagan.

 

[MLEJ]

This is the first time I have contemplated the actual history of cigarettes

It's very interesting (to me at least) how cigarettes have risen & fallen, been perceived, and been the test-case or proof-case for so much (mostly marketing technique, politically tenable taxation, & government overreach).

I was born into a family with a lot of smokers

Every female in my family except my father's mother smoked when i was growing up, along with most of the males. It's no wonder i stared at age 9. Every female in my family smokes now. None of the males do, except one who enjoys a cigar on rare occasion. It's no wonder i haven't given it up entirely. i find the whole psycho-social dynamic of it fascinating. Shoulda been a sociologist or something, if only i was smart.

You don't write too much.

 

[PapawBrett]

First, congrats. A lot has changed in 12 years. Cig-a-likes and aquarium roam, that sounds like back when Vapers were still chasing dinosaurs.
VV eGo's and Kanger T'3s were already on the scene when I started. But they kept getting broken on a Big Truck. Everything gets a rough life in a Big Truck. Then @classwife directed me to REOS Mods. Squonking a cartomizer while steering 78,000 lbs. at 75 mph took some adjustment. Then came the RM2, and no looking back....

 

[MLEJ]

All of the students smoked during my class and I couldn't escape it. I figured maybe if I smoked, I would be able to tolerate it and so it bagan.

Contrasting that experience with today, it's crazy how so much has changed so quickly. Thanks for sharing that.

 

[Bliss Doubt]

My mother smoked off and on and I nagged her relentlessly.

My parents wouldn't brook any griping from me. I only ever complained when I'd come home from a vacation with relatives who didn't smoke, at which times the smell of my home stood out in sharp contrast, and felt oppressive, sick, depressing. At those times I could feel a kind of stickiness in the air, and it felt as though it covered me. When I asked the parents to stop smoking, it's hard to remember the reaction clearly, because it was harsh, it was "shut up about it", or "go sleep outside if you don't like it", something like that. It's a strong, strong addiction, and people will protect it more fiercely than they will protect their children.