Best vape ever and why it matters

[farmer_bric]

As if I was at an AA mtg:

Hello, my name is farmer_bric, and I am a vaper! .... Polite golf applause as everyone awaits my story.

.......n it, quitting smoking is HARD! I started vaping 6+ months ago, and somehow I thought it would get easier and easier. In a way it has, but also it a way it hasn't I have been searching for nirvana, and today I found it .... at least for the present time. Are we ever going to free of this curse ?

When I started smoking, 53+ years ago, James Dean told me that it was cool and the ladies loved it I fell for it and started a lifelong addiction, which has cost me $$$ as well as untold health problems. My vaping experience has been totally positive, but my loving wife who never has smoked says " All you vapers are just desperate people afraid that you will start smoking again!" Well ladies and gentlemen, is this the case?

I have had wonderfull experiences vaping, meeting other vapers and benefitting from their experiences. It is almost that I feel you are family

After a bit of being in a prolonged vaping trough, I tried a new vape today of Halo's HX3. My god it was good, and made me feel again that I could lick this addiction. I know that I am addicted to nicotine, so what, a lot of people are addicted to a great number of different things. What I don't want is for my addiction to affect the people I know and love through second hand stuff!

Sorry to drag on, but I wish all you vapers out there all the best and the winds in your sails. Keep on vaping and stay away from the stinkies

 

[ChellyNelly]

I'm not afraid I will start smoking again at all. I'm a recovering addict as well from IV opiates and I'm not afraid I will start using again either. These are conscious choices that we make, so what is there to be afraid of?

 

[priorities]

Welcome and congrats to you!! You imho are doing the best thing..and isn't it just the best feeling..? It's fantastic...!! So happy you found one you love too...and there is so so much more to try...you have the nicotine..hang in there..don't get discouraged...you'll do great...roam round these forums...you'll meet some special people here and they will encourage you I promise...** take good care.....*

 

[farmer_bric]

I'm not afraid I will start smoking again at all. I'm a recovering addict as well from IV opiates and I'm not afraid I will start using again either. These are conscious choices that we make, so what is there to be afraid of?

ChellyNelly, I wish that I had your confidence and conviction. I am an old guy who has seen and lived a lot of life. I have seen, and done, things that were not in the best interst of anyone concerned, just because we are human beings. Peter Gzowski, who was addicted to nicotine, wrote in a book titled " Addicted: notes from the belly of the beast" where he detailed his convulsions over his addiction, and the problematic situation of addiction in the human species. I am not of the camp who believes that conscious choices are always possible. I only wish people the best of luck. I have been lucky in my life.

 

[kingcobra]

Best of luck Farmer, 53 years is a long time, My dad smoked from about 1924 to about 1985 when he finally was able to quit, and he lived until 2005. So it's never too late in life to get off those things, once you cross over to the other side though and you know you've beaten the devil then it's a nice feeling

 

[aurea]

I try to get people to think of it like coffee. If this were a cup of coffee in my hand would you be telling me to quit? Would you be so worried?

All you vapers are just desperate people afraid that you will start smoking again!"

Your damn right! And every time I'm afraid I'll give a single penny back to Marlboro I vape that .... away! I tried everything to quit smoking and nothing worked, until I found vaping. And if this keeps me off of cigarettes I say, "AMEN and HALLELUJAH!!"

Congrats on finding the right "sauce"! Vape on!

 

[Smile n' shine]

Thanks for sharing your story Farmer_Bric Congrats on finding a bit of Nirvana!!

I'm afraid I'll smoke again, I don't think a die hard smoker is ever really off the hook. Does that make me desperate? Yes and no. Yes, because I've tried everything to quit and no because vaping is actually working.

We are all wired differently and some of us will struggle with this for the rest of our lives. But it is never too late to quit and never too late, to keep trying to quit, whatever the reasons.

Yes We Are Family

 

[ChellyNelly]

We're never off the hook, of course not. That's the nature of addiction -- cunning, baffling, and powerful. The moment you don't give it full credit is the moment you become weaker. Everything you do is a conscious choice, and big decisions like going back to the stinkies are made by a series of smaller, bad decisions until you eventually come to the crossroads of to smoke or not to smoke. People who continue to put themselves into situations in which there are a lot of smokers/pressure to smoke should be most worried. You know what they say, if you stand at the bar long enough, eventually you'll drink

But the way I look at it anyway, just because I'm not off the hook doesn't mean I should be afraid

 

[Cm7b5]

Farmer: lots of Canucks on this forum, eh?

I started vapeing about a month ago. I had quit analogs for about three years, after smoking for 37 years. By "quitting" I mean, I used gum instead of tobacco and then weaned myself off the gum for the last year. Unfortunately the craving for nic never left and I was always aware of smokers around me. I would watch them leave the room and knew they were heading outside for another one.

I knew all of the negatives but couldn't stop the call of nic. I play live music once a week and over the past year I began to cheat at the gig. Something about getting offstage with your band mates who would immediately head outside for a couple of quick smoke, filled with the high of performing. For a year I kept it under control but I knew where I was headed.

Smoking two on Tuesdays graduated to bumming one for wednesday morning. I hate being a bum, so I would buy packs and give them to the other players. Then I began asking the odd smoker I saw if I cold buy a smoke off him.

When it began to take over too much of my conscious time, I decided to try vaping. Fortunately, or unfortunately, vaping seems to fit my lifestyle/perception of smoking almost too well.

I never saw smoking as Totally evil. My parents both smoked for forty+ years and they are both completely healthy at 88! As a boy I used wrestle with my father and I never thought he smelled bad. I associated the smell(to a point) with positive activitites like play fighting with dad.

I'm also addicted to the dexterity required and the whole Process and Paraphenalia of smoking. Vaping is similar except it's even more P and P focused. Reading the forums, comparing the different Mods and juices etc. is too alluring. Watching videos by Grimm Green and Mr. Bonner makes it even more alluring ie I was very happy with my ego c until I started watching videos with these guys exhaling luxurious quantities of lung-filling vapor out of sexy, high tech devices. Suddenly my ego c seemed like i was dating the ugly girl when really I should have been dating Sophia Loren or Jennifer Aniston or Kim Kardahian (choose according to your age).

I'm hoping that, after I get my sexy, Made-by-Ferrari-looking, Super T PrecisionPlus 18500, I'll be able to stop obsessing about vapeing and get the costs down to a justifiable level and move the whole vapeing process into the background and not give it somuch prominence in my day to day life.

 

[UnoAllaVolta]

Gzowski is the man. I still can't get over the cancellation of his tv show; probably led directly to my eventually breaking the tv addiction, over 10 years now without. Woohoo. Never forget his interview with PET; "... we are the hollow men ..." (sigh).

 

[UnoAllaVolta]

So what's the Halo HX3 like? Where'd you get from?

 

[Bdbodger]

I starting vaping and I liked it . At least it stopped me from smoking . I never intended on stopping smoking but realize it isn't good for me . If I couldn't vap I would smoke simple as that . I have a smoke once in a while now and now that for the most part I don't smoke I no longer worry about it .

 

[MisterMike]

My mother, who hasn't smoked in 37 years, is baffled by people who only smoke when they're drinking or have one every couple of weeks, or whatever. She maintains to this day that all it would take for her to start again is one cigarette.

I know that I'm exactly the same way. It happened when I found half a stale pack under the seat in my car after getting stranded in Montana at the side of the I-94, 60 miles away from any civilization, at 10 at night. It happened when I got laid off without any warning and bummed a smoke off of a fellow layoff-ee.

So, yes, I'm afraid I'll start smoking again in a moment of weakness. It'll probably always be that way, too. Difference is, that this time I have a substitute, and I know I don't need the tobacco.

 

[Cm7b5]

I remember that show! First Gzowski was the host and then he was replaced by Paul Soles, who was the voice of Spiderman in the TV cartoon. You know the one with the theme song, "Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can."

 

[Bdbodger]

When I starting vaping I went down to 6 analogs per day right away from 40 a day . I bought a pack os analogs a couple of weeks aga and it took me over a week to go through it . That is better than the 2 PAD habit I use to have . Could be a lot of months before I do that again .

 

[farmer_bric]

So what's the Halo HX3 like? Where'd you get from?

First the definitive answer - got it from Jugheads. Now the artsy-fartsy answer - can't really say I'm sitting here vaping it right now, and the best I can say is "a bit grassy, hint of fruit but can't say which kind, VERY aromatic, nice smooth aftertaste, no real tobacco taste". After a description like that, I'm sure you will run out and buy a case

 

[Dirty]

So what's the Halo HX3 like? Where'd you get from?

Straight from halo or straight from juggy

HX3 is an awesome juice, tobacco base with menthol and I get a kind of choclaty/hazlenutty like undertones, an amazing throat hit as is with halo juices.

Also on topic, no fear whatsoever in going back to smoking - I never looked back once I found some juices I like and more importantly a powerful battery that can deliver a hot vapour that makes regular cigarettes pale in comparison.

 

[Mookie]

Yes, I'm worried. I've been vaping over six months and know if you put a cig in front of me now that I would smoke it. Everyone says that once you vape that cigs taste awful. I've only had one (a couple weeks ago) and unfortunately I loved it. Positive note is that I only smoked half and made myself put it out. Today I almost caved and bought a pack.

I think I was actually more satisfied in the beginning when I wasn't looking for nirvana. Once I started looking for "bigger and better" pvs and juices I seemed to never be satisfied for long. Now nothing tastes good for more than a few hours. Then I'm switching to something else and on and on we go. I wish I could settle on a couple of pv's and juices. I don't know if I'm just too picky or if just don't know what the hell I'm doing. I'm not technical and don't know anyone else who vapes. I'm hanging in there but the thread is getting very thin.

Sorry, don't mean to be a downer when most people here are so happy vaping. I wish I could get there and stay there too!

 

[Pipeous]

been vaping over a year. I have to odd cigar every few months to remind myself they don't taste as good as vaping... cigs just smell rank to me now, yet my subconscious every once in a while thinks I want one... I smoked almost as long as you. it gets easier for sure but we always will seem to have that hold in the background. I just stop myself and remember how bad they taste and make me feel, then vape on one of my pv's and life is good again

 

[Archnemysis]

Suddenly my ego c seemed like i was dating the ugly girl when really I should have been dating Sophia Loren or Jennifer Aniston or Kim Kardahian (choose according to your age).

I still remember my first vape, kind of like my first smoke. Was on an ego, and I knew I was going to be headed to vaping. But it didn't take too long for the ego to feel like a yugo.