anyone else feel embarrased vaping?

[ElConquistador]

I was pretty much a closet smoker, and don't make a show of vaping in public. That said, I'm 100 times less embarrassed about vaping than I was about smoking.

 

[Cavenerd]

When I'm at a stop light sucking on a black box and blowing clouds out the window then I'm sure that some may think I'm smoking 'other stuff'. I don't do it if there's a cop around though for that reason, 'cause I don't want the hassle, and they'd also see then if they pulled me over that I wasn't wearing any pants.
But embarrassed? No.

Ha! This is a digression from the thread, but several summers ago I was on a road trip and since it was hot I was driving shirtless. I put a sign in my rear window that said "I'm not wearing any pants."
I was pulled over twice.
Both in occurred in VA.
One was a lady cop...

*awkward*.

 

[caramel]

We're very shy here in the North.

 

[Cavenerd]

I just got that speech from mine too. Along with the usual one about how I have no filter between my brain and mouth lol.

My GF is efficient enough now with "the speech" that she only has to make an almost imperceptible "eye roll" at me and I know I'm doing "something". Having said that. I'd have it no other way.

 

[fraychek]

No. I don't vape a where smoking isn't permitted, but I also don't congregate with the smokers. I don't want to smell it or smell like it.

 

[OlderNDirt]

My GF is efficient enough now with "the speech" that she only has to make an almost imperceptible "eye roll" at me and I know I'm doing "something". Having said that. I'd have it no other way.

Sounds like she has you trained, first vocally, now visually. Beware, "the look!" Are you prepared for what comes next?

 

[AndriaD]

I never, ever, ever approach anything I do, think, or say from feeling like I need permission from other people. Now and then, I have to think about who might try to stop me from doing or saying something... but I never, ever, ever let myself think from the stand point that I might need someone's permission or approval to speak or behave as I see fit. Never. I am responsible for myself and what I do. I await permission from no one to act or speak.

So, for me, it isn't a matter of caring or not caring what other people might think. The fact is, I would never even notice if someone disapproved unless they actually confronted me...

Same here. I'm 53, almost 54 yrs old, I don't need permission from anyone, or even their good opinion. If they don't like something about how I look... they can look somewhere else.

Andria

 

[DC2]

If I was in a situation where I think I might feel embarrassed then I don't vape in the first place.
So if I'm vaping in any given situation, then I have no intention of feeling embarrassed about it or I wouldn't be doing it.

So I guess, in answer to the original question, that means no?

The way I vape, or not vape, is always situation specific.
Which means I might be stealth vaping, vaping out loud, or not vaping at all.

My wife does try to help me understand what's appropriate though...
Because my thinking about what's appropriate is not always what she thinks is appropriate...

Sometimes I listen to what she has to say, and sometimes not.

 

[Cavenerd]

Sounds like she has you trained, first vocally, now visually. Beware, "the look!" Are you prepared for what comes next?

I don't know what comes next!!

I'm scared.


Also, to add to the thread. THere's a difference in my mind between being embarrassed and being polite. Often, I won't vape in overly crowded places and/or places where vaping "might" be frowned on without, at least, asking first if vaping is permissible.

 

[AndriaD]

I don't know what comes next!!

I'm scared.


Also, to add to the thread. THere's a difference in my mind between being embarrassed and being polite. Often, I won't vape in overly crowded places and/or places where vaping "might" be frowned on without, at least, asking first if vaping is permissible.

Yes, exactly -- I don't vape in stores (mostly, though I have taken a few stealth puffs at times). But I'm not going to waste my time feeling embarrassed about vaping in the parking lot! Or when driving down the road. If someone doesn't like to see it... they can look away.

Andria

 

[TyPie]

I have never been embarrassed in any way. There is a time and a place, and I tend to be considerate of others and any applicable laws.
That said, let's make sure we are not deluding ourselves. On the job, in particular (depending on the type of job you have), if you were to be observed by the WRONG people or the WRONG TYPES (and you all know what I mean), it can have a cost now or sometime down the road.

For example, I can state for a fact that the environment for cigarette smokers in general is VERY DISCRIMINATORY. If you and another equally qualified individual were interviewing for a job, for example, and the interviewer(s) detect cigarette smoke on YOU, just use your imagination about what may be likely to happen. I have no doubt whatsoever that the same scenario would likely play out for vapers in many cases in the current environment as well. Unfortunately, even in some work environments, one just never knows what 'unwritten rules / policies' are at play. Don't shoot yourself in the foot, so to speak.

If your boss and human resources dept. all vape? Then, I would say, vape to knock your socks off......

 

[Alawot]

I had always been a considerate smoker, and now I'm a considerate vapor. It doesn't bother me what others think, in fact I'd be happy to answer their questions. Now my wife feels differently. She's still a smoker and doesn't want me to use my mod when I'm with her in public (even though it's just an istick 20 with an aspire mini). She said my old Blu's are ok though.

 

[The Cloud Minder]

Having been raised Catholic, I long ago burnt out any guilt reactions, so I don't get embarrassed anymore.

 

[Rocketpunk]

I get what you mean, OP. I felt weird at first in public, too, but that was almost three years ago, and now everybody kinda knows what they are. If anything, they just roll their eyes. I've never been confronted and told to stop. I don't vape in places I wouldn't be allowed to smoke, either (except movie theaters, that's the one place where I'll cheat), but that embarrassment will eventually go away.

 

[reklaw732]

I get embarrassed towards people that say things like "you know those things are more dangerous than real cigs?".

 

[edyle]

I'm pretty much embarrassed about everything - my wrinkled clothes, my pasty skin, my extra pounds, my bald head, etc. Vaping is the ONE THING I'm not ashamed or embarrassed about at all. Fiercely proud. Fiercely.
Also, I kinda like messing with people. A guy at the bus stop the other day saw me blow a cloud, and watched it as it rose gracefully in the air. I saw him look away when I looked in his direction, and before he looked back I slipped my mod into my shirt pocket. Then he looked again and I saw this hilarious look of confusion on his face. Like, waitaminute, he was smoking a second ago... huh?? I chuckled over that the rest of the day.

What's funny is when you take a puff on one of those white cigalikes that glow on the end like a real cigarette, the pretend to put it out by pressing it in the palm of your hand then put it in your pocket!

 

[edyle]

I never was embarrassed until some man came up to me and said " hey you could be smoking ANYTHING in that thing and no one would know the difference " I said, not really, it's a liquid not anything else... but after he said that in the back of my mind I'm thinking, does the general public think like this man? And since it's made me a bit uncomfortable, not so much embarrassed. But I'm like, do they think I'm doing something I shouldn't be in public? Is that what people think??? I did take the time to explain to the man, but he still had this dumb look on his face like I was smoking , well, you know...something I shouldn't be and trying to get away with it..now I can't get that out of my head...ugh!! Oh well, it does NOT STOP me from public vaping, it just makes me a bit uncomfortable. ..

Well that is certainly true.

The same could be said about a coffee cup; you could be drinking anything in that coffee cup and no one would know the difference.

 

[AndriaD]

Well that is certainly true.

The same could be said about a coffee cup; you could be drinking anything in that coffee cup and no one would know the difference.

W. C. Fields used to shoot up oranges with vodka and claim he was just having a healthy snack.

Andria