Do you ever feel like a junkie?

[WoodChucker]

I was out with some friends last night for dinner and when I finished eating (like always) I needed a cig. Well I looked around and didn't see anyone else doing it so I figured I'd go outside real quick but it was raining so hard that I couldn't. So now my only choice was the mens room and off I went. Once there I looked around and it was empty so I had pick of stalls,lol. When I went to take a hit off my 510 I could tell I was getting low on liquid, but no problem because I came with a backup bottle and filled her up. But while standing there it hit me, I felt like I was doing something really wrong and I'm not talking about the being in public thing, it felt more like what ( I think) a drug user or junkie would feel like. Have any of you ever felt this way?

I'm not worried about it or anything, I just thought it was strange that it made me feel that way. If anything you would think when I was smoking real cigs that might happened but it never did.

 

[the86d]

Black market supplies, and stalking the mailman rather than the dealer... a better option though. hehee

... and only when HR is around.

 

[beast775]

i see humans looking when im in public topping off a cart.kinda does look suspicious?

 

[WoodChucker]

i see humans looking when im in public topping off a cart.kinda does look suspicious?

LOL, you see humans? That really made me laugh, with you not at you!

 

[zoiDman]

I don't like the thought of having to sneak things. Not at my age. If its after dinner and people are going to talk and have coffee or what ever, I just stand up and say, "I'm going to smoke a cigarette."

I'm not saying you did anything wrong. But man that would be a hard thing to explain why you were in a bathroom with a small bottle of liquid filling up something with a battery and an LED.

Maybe my father said it best, "If something makes you feel strange and unfortable, maybe you just shouldn't do it."

 

[viktor]

I too feel like a junkie with ecigs sometimes. Smoking was bad but it felt natural, many people smoke. Now obsessed with spare batteries, blowing and washing the atomisers, paper clip to fish out the sunken Highping cart plug in my pocket, thank god i don't use syringe to refill my cartridges ..... man, smoking WAS easy, but I'm not giving up

 

[WoodChucker]

I don't like the thought of having to sneak things. Not at my age. If its after dinner and people are going to talk and have coffee or what ever, I just stand up and say, "I'm going to smoke a cigarette."

I'm not saying you did anything wrong. But man that would be a hard thing to explain why you were in a bathroom with a small bottle of liquid filling up something with a battery and an LED.

Maybe my father said it best, "If something makes you feel strange and unfortable, maybe you just shouldn't do it."

zoiDman, I did say why I was leaving when I thought I was going outside but I didn't stop at the table to let them know my plan had changed because of the rain. But I didn't feel I was sneaking away, my friends know me well enough to know what I was doing and they could care less.

 

[mrjaguar]

bah, I was a junkie, that never bothered me, and vaping nor refilling bothers me. I get questions, I show people, and I inform people. I'm doing the vaping community a good thing.

 

[Kirssstens]

My first cigarette was the beginning of a lifelong pattern of sneaking.

Some of the similarities are so transparent, they cannot be ignored. I for one choose to embrace that aspect of it. But ECF no likie, so I no go there.

Heck, I even vaped in my Dentist's office bathroom right before I had oral surgery. Ok, that was a little weird.

 

[Fullmonte]

I just get really annoyed at work. Every I go out for a break i pull out my gg and get bombarded with questions or disapproving stares.

 

[DallasEd]

I was a drug addict and an alcoholic.

It's not really the same at all.

But I know what you mean.

Be proud you're not smoking cigarettes or doing anything that can hurt someone else or land you in jail. Go forth and vape!

Ed.

 

[mrjaguar]

I was a drug addict and an alcoholic, I was also a junkie and a bum at one point. it's not the same, but I identify all the same. I do what I do, and it helps people, and it's not illegal hurtful, nor immoral.

 

[lasttango]

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THIS SAYS IT ALL

 

[lasttango]

Been drink free since 1994... and it's not the same thing... the addictive behavior is present, but not the destructive behavior... plus, I feel like I am doing something healthier.

 

[zbasspro]

No wonder I never see anyone on the friends of Bill W. boards, they`re all right here ODAT

 

[NCC]

I don't feel like a junkie. I DO feel like an addict, just like almost everyone else on this forum. We're all nicotine slaves. I feel a lot better about feeding my addiction this way than by smoking though.

 

[Shaka]

Back in the day (us oldies like to say that), smokers ruled.

In the finest restaurants, as soon as I puledl out a cigarette or cigar, a waiter was right there flicking his bic.

Now...social outcasts banished to sneak drags in the toilet.

My how times have changed! lol

 

[CaptJay]

Honestly, no I don't feel like a junkie (whatever that feels like). I feel like I'm in control, and making my OWN choices without hurting others, I feel more able to see smoking as the habit it is and not the lifeline I thought it WAS

 

[whalekillah]

I use the odd looks to tell my friends about e-cigs. I really don't find the need to explain myself to strangers beyond that.

 

[WoodChucker]

Sorry guy's!

I didn't mean for my question to sound like I thought what we do was on the same scale or any where near it for that matter as what a drug user must go through, nor was I trying to judge anyone! I guess my elevator doesn't always go all the way to the top when I'm trying to get my point across.

If I said my mouth felt like it was on fire because I ate a hot pepper, it wouldn't mean I really thought my mouth had a fire in it, right?

Anyway, sorry if I offended anybody!