Anyone else shy about e-smoking in public?
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I feel funny about vaping in public, like I'm doing something someone is going to yell at me about. But it doesn't matter all that much as I get out extremely rarely since I was injured a number of years ago. In fact, my feelings probably have a great deal to do with the fact that I rarely am around people I don't know anymore.
Getting together with friends is also fairly rare for me since few live near me anymore. However, I got to see lots of my friends at a gathering the other weekend and finally got to show off my e-cig. I was a little reluctant to take it out at first except when outside. Smoking was restricted to outside areas, and I didn't want to offend the hostess or anything. When I did start using it, the interest level was just as high as I'd imagined when I first saw these things! Even the non-smokers approved of the utter geekiness of a tech cigarette, not to mention the bright blue LED
. I'd guess that the vast majority of my friends are smokers and ex-smokers. We don't put up with preaching so actual anti-smokers were non-existant.
I got so many requests for links and info that I couldn't recall everyone who asked and ended up posting an intro to starting vaping for everyone (which got some who were unable to be there interested as well). I know it wasn't just idle curiosity too because I was being reminded that I needed to send the info almost as soon as I got home. At least one friend has already received hers. She's a flight attendant working overseas flights so I asked her to keep me updated on how it goes over at her work. Some others are having money problems but sure sound determined to get one.
Getting together with friends is also fairly rare for me since few live near me anymore. However, I got to see lots of my friends at a gathering the other weekend and finally got to show off my e-cig. I was a little reluctant to take it out at first except when outside. Smoking was restricted to outside areas, and I didn't want to offend the hostess or anything. When I did start using it, the interest level was just as high as I'd imagined when I first saw these things! Even the non-smokers approved of the utter geekiness of a tech cigarette, not to mention the bright blue LED
. I'd guess that the vast majority of my friends are smokers and ex-smokers. We don't put up with preaching so actual anti-smokers were non-existant.I got so many requests for links and info that I couldn't recall everyone who asked and ended up posting an intro to starting vaping for everyone (which got some who were unable to be there interested as well). I know it wasn't just idle curiosity too because I was being reminded that I needed to send the info almost as soon as I got home. At least one friend has already received hers. She's a flight attendant working overseas flights so I asked her to keep me updated on how it goes over at her work. Some others are having money problems but sure sound determined to get one.
I chose the medium strength nicotine carts because nicotine has a calming effect on me. My doc wanted me to start taking meds for anxiety, but I won't do that because of the known and unknown side effects. Since I started vaping a few weeks ago, I am sleeping all night. I am more relaxed.
I'm happy to hear that.
I too have always used nicotine to surf through stress and to have fun too. Maybe you will find you can lower the nic level - I've halved mine already with no problems and willpower has never entered into any of my vaping experiences.
I would call myself shy, but I'm mostly a homebody. So, it hasn't really come up yet. But, for the most part I don't think I would feel comfortable vaping anywhere that I wouldn't normally smoke. I'll probably keep it to my car, posted smoking areas indoors, and outside in general. But, that's just me.
There's a smoking balcony at my work place where people usually smoke, and I'm too shy to pull it out lol...sometimes I smoke an analog cuz im so shy iono
OMG same here! I've been too shy to vape around co-workers because I don't want to have to answer questions about safety, FDA approval, etc.
Sometimes I pull out an analog, then feel guilty afterwards.
Lol that's crazy I sit in class and at the library and openly vap (over 5 months now), and pretty much everywhere I go and no one ever even notices even when I blow out a huge cloud unless they are looking right at me. Only time some one has ever approached me with hostility was at a deli when I was waiting for some people I was rapidly vapping just hoping to catch someones eye (a shadow from my former ADHD high school trouble maker days), and the manager walked by me a few times acting like she was going to go to the bathroom then stopped and turned around and walked back, then began walking by acting like she was looking for something while carefully avoiding looking at me. I realized she was probably trying to smell for smoke (I had been careful not to blow it out when she was watching but then huge puffs, and I was sitting in the back corner which isn't a place one would randomly walk by 4 times in 5 min and it was kind of obvious that she was intentionally trying to seem busy but only succeeded in looking like a confused zombie wandering around in a daze). Each time she would go back behind the counter I would begin rapidly puffing again, and finally she walked up to me and said "Are you smoking?!" I gave my most innocent bewildered smile like I would if she had just asked me if I was an alien here to destroy earth. She then said "my cook said she saw you smoking something I just need to know because that is illegal here and the city is very strict about it (I realized she was switching to threat mode and decided to make my move)" to which I held up my hands innocently (I had a black 901 in one hand and a bottle of juice and a cell phone in the other) and said "I don't smoke, I don't even smell anything, I'm just waiting for my family to get here to eat" followed by another innocent/confused look. She then said "oh I'm sorry she's a little off, she must not know what she's seeing" followed by a few more apologies and then she went back behind the counter and I flashed a grin at the cook who had been staring at us during the whole ordeal. My group showed up, we ate, and then as we were leaving the manager lady said "hey again I'm sorry about all that ya'll come back and see us," I told her it was no prob and turned around and saw my mom looking at us confused, she asked what she was talking about and I said I didn't know (fam doesn't know I have it either btw) and we left. Oh also once when I first got it I was sitting in class and I would blow out a big puff by the window (the walls are white so from across the room you really cant see it unless the sun hits it) and this lady across the room said "is something on fire?" and she was looking at the window, everyone turned around and I looked around (the smoke dissipates very fast so no one else saw it) like I was seeing if something was burning then shot her a "maybe you're going crazy" look and everyone kind of laughed about it and went on with class, I noticed she kept looking at the window every few seconds so I let out another big puff (barely inhale and then blow it all out at once to make a thick cloud that pretty much disappears after passing the window then dissipating completely in a few seconds) and she turned and saw it and jumped up saying "SOMETHING IS BURNING I SEE SMOKE!" at which point two of her friends got up and walked over by the window looking around and sniffing, finally turning around to her and saying there's nothing burning you need to get your doctor to fix your meds (jokingly), and then went back and sat down. I just giggled to myself for the rest of class (she kept looking at the window) and doing it once more (I used it through class but just blew it to the side where no one would notice) when it was time to go and everyone was leaving, I saw her face light up as she turned around and saw it but then looked at her friends and just left (she never made the connection between the smoke and me). Good times.. Also, don't be afraid to use it in public, it isn't smoke and doesn't hurt anyone, and most people have no idea what it is unless you tell them. I smoked it all during one of our lab tests in front of my professor, and at the end he asked me if I had some sort of aerosol thing, I showed him the stick and said it was an inhaler that helps me breathe better (actually true if you think about it), he asked me about it (curiously not angrily, he's a doctor and loves medical inventions), I told him I would do a presentation about it later in the year for an oral report and that I didn't want to tell him yet because it would ruin the surprise and he just kind of laughed and we went back to class. I rather enjoy it not being public knowledge because if no one knows what it is, and it clearly isn't burning tobacco, then they simply have no way to get upset about it (even if it was FDA approved how many teachers, bosses, etc would let people just puff away in the middle of class/work/etc, especially if they know you are getting pleasure from it?). However, I got my sister one for Christmas (she picked up smoking cigarettes a couple years ago down in Houston and gladly switched after I used it in the middle of our Christmas-eve extended family get together with no one noticing except her). And a few months back I got my grandmother (a smoker for like 50 years, whom my mom and aunt have been trying to get to quit for years) to buy one (without mentioning it to anyone else) and she actually quit smoking and started using it. She showed it to everyone this Easter and told them that she had quit and they all thought it was a ......n miracle, and then she was like "and it was all thanks to Damon for showing me it and telling me what to get, otherwise I would have never even known about it" and everyone looked at me with a look of extreme surprise (they still don't know I have one, apparently they think I just read about them and spend my winter vacations writing reports about them for intellectual curiosity, but in any case they think they are wonderful since they got my stubborn grandmother to quit smoking after 50 years of telling people to mind their own business if they asked her about quitting). If you are still reading, sorry for making this so lengthy, it's been a lonely night of studying for finals
Good story Satire
And despite staying silent about your own use, still converting several people... that's nice!
And despite staying silent about your own use, still converting several people... that's nice!
The only time I vape in public is at the bars(Milwaukee still allows smoking in the bars) and i figure it just looks like i'm smoking. I did have one bartender ask me about it but other then that no ones noticed.
these are funny..Im totally embarrased to smoke it in public..but Im mostly at home all day so I never have to worry about that aspect too much..
Well ive been telling the gang at work about it as long as ive been researching it all and filling my brain with all the knowledge this forum offers. So when my first order gets here they will be prepared to watch me Vape at my desk.
The public thing might be a more "at owner discretion" thing. We will have to see. But im seriously excited about dumping analogs with a much nicer alternative. And maybe even educating a few people about it and handing them a card with this forums address on it is a great idea from the other posters.
If one of you distributors could upload the explanation cards you use in pdf format or something, i would gladly hand them out also. Free advertising to boot
Dying to get my order and get the batts charging,
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The public thing might be a more "at owner discretion" thing. We will have to see. But im seriously excited about dumping analogs with a much nicer alternative. And maybe even educating a few people about it and handing them a card with this forums address on it is a great idea from the other posters.
If one of you distributors could upload the explanation cards you use in pdf format or something, i would gladly hand them out also. Free advertising to boot
Dying to get my order and get the batts charging,
Silver
G'day,
I am from Western Australia and although I've spent a few hours on this forum, this my first post.
First off, I have found the information provided on this forum really useful, this includes your hour long video Spikey, which I've watched twice. Thanks everyone!
I ordered a couple of DSE 901's and all the fixings, including 18mg e-juice, from David Yang at eastmall and was concerned that the shipment wouldn't clear Customs.
I'm glad to report, according to shipment tracking, my parcel has left Customs and is heading my way. Should arrive on my doorstep any day now!
I will let you know when it arrives, and start contributing to this forum with my newbie impressions...
Hahaha... Speak of the Devil! The courier has knocked on the door with my package from eastmall. His item description is kind of unintelligible. It is 3 words. Looks like "Gift of Pon," or "Gift of Porn," Lol. Whatever, it sailed through Customs.
Guess I better open it and charge these babies up!
Guess I better open it and charge these babies up!
Ugh!! Breaks my heart a little, to hear this. When I went to Australia I had to use an adapter like this... you can't just bend the prongs around to fit.
EDIT to add: this was for my laptop, which has a wall-wart that works on either 120 or 240 volts. Dunno but I think your charger dongle thingies *might* be okay with just the adaptor & not the converter. Anyone know?
EDITED AGAIN! You don't need the converter. All my doohickeys are labeled 120/240... shoulda looked before posting the above.
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There's a smoking balcony at my work place where people usually smoke, and I'm too shy to pull it out lol...sometimes I smoke an analog cuz im so shy iono
Now I smoke with my stinky smoker friends. They are all tempted to go the e-smoking route. They ..... about the price. I've told them "Just wait until the next tax hike. You'll stop whining."
'Gift of Pen' is what he wrote. Gift of Porn? I can see where your mind is at!!! haahaaaa
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