Are you done stocking up?

ROFL ... All of my vape stuff is old. Even the Provaris & mechanicals I just bought are old, the cartos I just bought are old! I stocked up in 2011 when the end of vaping was looming over our heads. All I've done is just add more of the same stuff to the pile. AND, trust me on this, I enjoy my vape just as much as the next guy ... just haven't been chasing the latest & greatest for the last six years. (and can pretty much vape for free for the rest of my life)

what I vape
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At my age, I figure a 50 year supply is probably enough.

OOPS! I mean my eliquids. I started vaping in Sept 2015 and bought abt $1,000 in premade juice to see what I would like. Had to find some flavors to vape. I've been vaping them but I'm down to the flavors that didn't pass the tests over time.

Getting ready to go full on DIY.
 

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Well...add me to the long list of people whose CC have been hacked just recently! Got an early call from my bank with the info. A charge of $1,165.99 had been attempted at Best Buy online at 5:03AM this morning. CC declined it, and contacted me within 3 hours of the attempt.

I haven't bought anything online for myself related to vaping since Aug. 3rd, but I did just use a credit I had at a popular vaping website yesterday afternoon. Bought a couple cheap starter kits and some coils for a friend just beginning vaping, and the total was a whole $5.18 more than I had as a credit. Their website kept popping up an error message, and wouldn't show the CC blanks for me to enter my info. I chatted with them about the problem, so they called me, and I gave the CC info. by phone. I'd dealt with them 1 other time and had no CC problem afterwards, so figured they were OK. Now...I'm doubting it!

Getting new CC tomorrow sometime, since they're overnighting it to me. But it sure is frustrating, not knowing exactly where/with whom the fraud attempt originated.

just :(




...and now with age verification we are expected to give out even more personal info so the crooks can do an even better job of hurting us
 

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Thanks! :D I thought it was appropriate for the times.


Fight the FDA » Advocate for Vaping Today

I will be submitting mine.

I'm currently writing a comment to submit. Should it just be a comment on how/why we quit, how soon after starting vaping we stopped smoking, etc. Or is it ok to include our thoughts on what the FDA is doing? I'm working on something like this as an ending to my comment.

"I'm almost 6 years smoke free and will never go back to smoking now that I have the effective tools to control it. Effective tools that the pharmaceutical companies were never able to provide. Effective tools that the FDA is trying to take off the market with their draconian regulations. The FDA views our success stories as "anecdotal." There are 100s of thousands of us "anecdotes" out there now and more and more of us are becoming another "anecdote" daily. And that's the problem. E cigs are a highly disruptive technology. They've definitely disrupted the cigarette money flow to the palms that demand to be greased and that is what this whole regulation farce is about. Money."

I told my smoking story and attempts to quit prior to this section. So, stop after the "I'm almost 6 years smoke free......" sentence or add the rest of it?
 

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I'm currently writing a comment to submit. Should it just be a comment on how/why we quit, how soon after starting vaping we stopped smoking, etc. Or is it ok to include our thoughts on what the FDA is doing? I'm working on something like this as an ending to my comment.

"I'm almost 6 years smoke free and will never go back to smoking now that I have the effective tools to control it. Effective tools that the pharmaceutical companies were never able to provide. Effective tools that the FDA is trying to take off the market with their draconian regulations. The FDA views our success stories as "anecdotal." There are 100s of thousands of us "anecdotes" out there now and more and more of us are becoming another "anecdote" daily. And that's the problem. E cigs are a highly disruptive technology. They've definitely disrupted the cigarette money flow to the palms that demand to be greased and that is what this whole regulation farce is about. Money."

I told my smoking story and attempts to quit prior to this section. So, stop after the "I'm almost 6 years smoke free......" sentence or add the rest of it?
I think you should write what you want. Larry Faircloth can decide it he wants to use it.
:)
 

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I'm currently writing a comment to submit. Should it just be a comment on how/why we quit, how soon after starting vaping we stopped smoking, etc. Or is it ok to include our thoughts on what the FDA is doing? I'm working on something like this as an ending to my comment.

"I'm almost 6 years smoke free and will never go back to smoking now that I have the effective tools to control it. Effective tools that the pharmaceutical companies were never able to provide. Effective tools that the FDA is trying to take off the market with their draconian regulations. The FDA views our success stories as "anecdotal." There are 100s of thousands of us "anecdotes" out there now and more and more of us are becoming another "anecdote" daily. And that's the problem. E cigs are a highly disruptive technology. They've definitely disrupted the cigarette money flow to the palms that demand to be greased and that is what this whole regulation farce is about. Money."

I told my smoking story and attempts to quit prior to this section. So, stop after the "I'm almost 6 years smoke free......" sentence or add the rest of it?

I gave my whole story as well as a short something to the Fda..

I said that the vaping experience as it stands is able to be personalized and tailored to the individual and it is that tailoring which makes it possible for people like me to quit. And then I said please don't take away someone else's ability to have that same tailoring to their needs, as it is exactly that which makes it possible for people like us to quit smoking.

You can say as you will, but I said that because I wanted to speak to the amount of products on the market today verses what will happen if they remove all but a few of them and I thought that short statement did that.

I did forget to state how long I have been smoke free though.. oops.
 

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I think you should write what you want. Larry Faircloth can decide it he wants to use it.
:)

I decided that too after a bit and went on and submitted it. I kept it all at the end of my story so it would be easy to clip out if my musings on the Fraud and Death Administration aren't helpful to the cause. :)
 

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I'm currently writing a comment to submit. Should it just be a comment on how/why we quit, how soon after starting vaping we stopped smoking, etc. Or is it ok to include our thoughts on what the FDA is doing? I'm working on something like this as an ending to my comment.

"I'm almost 6 years smoke free and will never go back to smoking now that I have the effective tools to control it. Effective tools that the pharmaceutical companies were never able to provide. Effective tools that the FDA is trying to take off the market with their draconian regulations. The FDA views our success stories as "anecdotal." There are 100s of thousands of us "anecdotes" out there now and more and more of us are becoming another "anecdote" daily. And that's the problem. E cigs are a highly disruptive technology. They've definitely disrupted the cigarette money flow to the palms that demand to be greased and that is what this whole regulation farce is about. Money."

I told my smoking story and attempts to quit prior to this section. So, stop after the "I'm almost 6 years smoke free......" sentence or add the rest of it?
I would include more personal details about how you found ecigs, etc how your health has been impacted. What I told is my vaping story and did not say anything about FDA. Just which products worked and how I had tried to quit with other things, what they were etc.
 

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I would include more personal details about how you found ecigs, etc how your health has been impacted. What I told is my vaping story and did not say anything about FDA. Just which products worked and how I had tried to quit with other things, what they were etc.

Oh,I did. 33 years of smoking, all the failed quit attempts, putting down cigs for good after I took my first puff on an e-cig, improvements in my health and endurance. It's in there. I just wasn't sure about adding my "take" on what they're trying to do at the end. That's why I grouped my thoughts on it at the end. I figured it would make it easier to separate out and discard if that's not helpful to him. :)
 

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It feels weird, not having a vape package in the mail these days, but I'm done with the shopping, until we know what's going on...

I got three vape mail packages today.. you can live vicariously! :)

Hahaha
 

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It feels weird, not having a vape package in the mail these days, but I'm done with the shopping, until we know what's going on...

I got one today. Very overdue from FT. I have one enroute somewhere from Focal and a small FT order waiting for in stock.
 

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Oh,I did. 33 years of smoking, all the failed quit attempts, putting down cigs for good after I took my first puff on an e-cig, improvements in my health and endurance. It's in there. I just wasn't sure about adding my "take" on what they're trying to do at the end. That's why I grouped my thoughts on it at the end. I figured it would make it easier to separate out and discard if that's not helpful to him. :)
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