Days like today make me really happy I vape instead of smoke

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realitykid

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Driving to work today the car said it was 16 degrees. The Windows remained rolled up as I hapily Vaped my way down the road. Also not having to go outside for a smoke break is nice when it's under 20 degrees. ;)

I'm in agreement there. It's been getting pretty cold here in Oregon lately, especially in the morning and evening. As a new vaper, I must say that being inside while vaping is one thing I highly enjoy. I don't miss having to go outside to smoke and I even slightly find it funny when my friends have to go outside to smoke while I can stay inside and look out at them from the window.
 

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I remember going to hockey games and they decided to ban smoking in the stadium, so they created a pen outside one of the exits using barriers. As soon as the horn sounded to end the period, all the smokers would bolt toward that area and for some of them, it was halfway around the stadium. Once you got to the area, there was nothing to block the wind, no roof or canopy to keep the rain or snow off of you, and people were packed in shoulder to shoulder, but they never made it larger by simply moving the barriers a bit. There were security guards prowling around the outside of the barriers to make sure the jostling didn't turn into shoving and then fists. I remember standing there being bumped from all sides as I tried to catch a quick smoke, watching the guards patrolling these law-abiding citizens who were forced like animals into a pen to enjoy their legal habit and I thought, "This is America now? Really?" Imagine if any other group in society were treated like this. There would be widespread outrage. But since we were "dirty smokers" it was not only okay, it was cheered.

So yeah, I don't miss being treated like that.

Going outside to smoke in the cold is the worst, but going out on a really hot, humid day isn't a lot of fun either. You come back in stinking of smoke AND sweat.
 

pianoguy

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16 degrees? That would be welcome right now. It was -21 with the wind chill this morning in Minnesota for my six block walk from the bus to work!

Brrrrr! I'll be doing lots of stealth vaping today. :)

Amen - 16 would be a heat wave. It didn't get above 0 yesterday, and is all the way up to -7 so far this morning. If I went outside to vape, the cloud would probably fall to the ground and shatter.
 

JuniorNA

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crazy part is, i still go outside for my "smoke break" but i vape instead.
Since i work in a cube farm, it's good for me to get out and walk around, otherwise i'd go postal and destroy all mankind in the office.
So i go out with my friends, and they smoke and i vape. and it's colllllld as hell here in NJ. 20 degrees also !

what i like the best is those mid-sleep smokes - sometimes if i couldnt sleep, i would get up..have a drink of OJ, and a smoke and i had to go outside in the freezing cold - and we all know its freezing when we wake up from a sleep, no matter what the temperature. I like that i just grab the eCig now and vape away instead of freezing my jewels off at 3am in 10degree weather.
 

Bullette the Cowdog

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Yep. When I lived in Wyoming. (I'm a Wyoming Cowdog). I would have to get all bundled up for the -20 degree weather to go to the UNheated garage to smoke. Along with my down vest & down jacket, I had my smoking gloves & my smoking balaclava. Had to pull it down past my nose & mouth to take a drag. Jeeez...it was funny. And the garage stunk of fuel too. LOL

Hi I'm Bullette & I'm a nic addict fur shur. Woof!
 
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