Does anyone vape like they smoked?
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I love to carry on a conversation with those people who tell me that ecigs are just as bad as cigarettes.
I used to get, "Those things have antifreeze in them". I get to explain that diethylene glycol was in antifreeze and was replaced with PG because animals liked the sweet taste and were dying because people poured it on the ground when changing it. PG is safe for human consumption. It's in that Coke you are drinking. It's an anti-foaming agent. PG is in your kid's snowball juice and it's in most toothpastes and many foods. It's a liquid thickening agent. Check the label in the store.
Then, they say, "But nicotine causes cancer!". Well, actually it doesn't, cigarettes have chemicals that do, but none of them are in ecig juice.
Then, they become interested and start asking and want to know what's really in it. I get to tell them it's a simple concoction. There's propylene glycol and/or vegetable glycerin (in salad dressing), water, cake and candy flavors, and zero to about 2.4% nicotine.
They walk away informed. Most of them want more info to give their brother in law who says he can't quit smoking. I give them a vape store card and I write the URL for ECF on the back.
I used to get, "Those things have antifreeze in them". I get to explain that diethylene glycol was in antifreeze and was replaced with PG because animals liked the sweet taste and were dying because people poured it on the ground when changing it. PG is safe for human consumption. It's in that Coke you are drinking. It's an anti-foaming agent. PG is in your kid's snowball juice and it's in most toothpastes and many foods. It's a liquid thickening agent. Check the label in the store.
Then, they say, "But nicotine causes cancer!". Well, actually it doesn't, cigarettes have chemicals that do, but none of them are in ecig juice.
Then, they become interested and start asking and want to know what's really in it. I get to tell them it's a simple concoction. There's propylene glycol and/or vegetable glycerin (in salad dressing), water, cake and candy flavors, and zero to about 2.4% nicotine.
They walk away informed. Most of them want more info to give their brother in law who says he can't quit smoking. I give them a vape store card and I write the URL for ECF on the back.
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At home I pretty much just vape the way I smoked. But, in public, I tend to vape in places I would've never considered when smoking analogs. I'm not a cloud chaser, I'm a flavor junkie. So, I don't blow billowing cumulus clouds wherever I go. I vape in grocery stores, doctor's waiting rooms, the hospital, the VA medical center and just about everywhere I didn't smoke analogs. I just do it discreetly. I don't consider it "stealth vaping" because I'm not really hiding anything. I just try to not be obvious. The grey man that no one ever notices, can come and go wherever he likes and can usually do whatever he wants.....because no one notices him.
I pretty much Vape the Exact same way I Smoked.
Asked people before I Vape in someone else's Car, Don't Vape in Stores Restaurants or Movies, Don't Vape inside Work Buildings, Vape in Public Outside Areas if not Densely Crowed, etc.
The Exception being that I do Vape Inside my House. Something I NEVER did when I Smoked.
Asked people before I Vape in someone else's Car, Don't Vape in Stores Restaurants or Movies, Don't Vape inside Work Buildings, Vape in Public Outside Areas if not Densely Crowed, etc.
The Exception being that I do Vape Inside my House. Something I NEVER did when I Smoked.
Same here. Outside of my home I treat it the way I did cigarettes, only vaping in the smoking area (or around the corner to get away from the cigarette smoke), never in businesses. But I do get to vape in the house, which might be a drawback because I hardly move around anymore. Maybe I should go back to going outside to vape, at least I'd be moving!
Its different. I smoked like 10 cigs a day (every for 4 min) and now i vape like 40x 1/4cig a day (1min). So much more often and much less at a time. Its better that way not to mention other pros of 
After 2 1/2 years of vaping I don't have the physical/mental need to light up a cigarette every 30 minutes of the waking day. So in that sense I do not vape as I smoked.
I'm retired now and the only people I'm around are my kids and my family. My kids encourage me to vape, they like the smell of the vapor. So do my cousins and their kids. (The youngest is 21 years old).
I'm retired now and the only people I'm around are my kids and my family. My kids encourage me to vape, they like the smell of the vapor. So do my cousins and their kids. (The youngest is 21 years old).
I retired about 2 months before I started vaping. Right before I retired the company instituted a no smoking rule in company vehicles. I had just gotten a new company vehicle. Right after that, I had to go to Birmingham for a school and hated the idea of not being able to smoke on the way (about 4 hours drive). I'd drive for an hour and pull off onto an exit and vape, then get back on the road.
By the time I got back from the school, I had started smoking with the driver's window cracked enough to suck it right out if I really had a nic fit. It was January-February and I didn't want to stand in 20 degree weather and smoke. Every night when I'd get home, I'd open the vehicle up and spray it full of Ozium.
If I had only discovered ecigs back then. I could have vaped and no one would have known the difference!
By the time I got back from the school, I had started smoking with the driver's window cracked enough to suck it right out if I really had a nic fit. It was January-February and I didn't want to stand in 20 degree weather and smoke. Every night when I'd get home, I'd open the vehicle up and spray it full of Ozium.
If I had only discovered ecigs back then. I could have vaped and no one would have known the difference!
I closet vape in public but I now vape in my home and I never did that with cigarettes. It is nice to not have to sit outside in the heat or cold every time I want a cigarette. I love the fact that I can have a vape and no one is the wiser---no stinking smell masked by perfume anymore!!
I don't vape quite like I smoked, but I follow a lot of the same lines of respect. I don't vape inside at work because I like the idea of going outside for a break, but when I'm working out in the field I will stealth-vape instead of taking breaks. I vape anywhere in my house whereas I only smoked in my room or outside. I will vape in my girlfriend's room until she wakes up, but after that we'll usually go outside just because her mom is still under informed, and she doesn't like the smell of some of the juices I've passed to my girlfriend. I won't vape in someone else's house unless specifically given permission. (Occasionally I forget to ask before my first hit and that usually inspires a grand conversation.)
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In my business smoking is a fire hazard. I can vape way more places then I could smoke. Out on the shop floor, in my office, even in the bosses truck! In public, I still think like a smoker tho, I don't vape indoors such as grocery stores or the pizza joint. Most all my friends and family are smokers, so in their cars, homes it's not an issue. And at home the missus and I seem to unconsciously have contests fogging each other out, her with gummy bears, me with vanillas. My house has never smelled better!
I vape like I smoked....i thought that's the whole idea is using it to replace smoking. So why wouldn't you do it where and when you used to smoke?
Great question, the issue imo is some like to act like vaping is" super" and want to treat the rest of the world as their statement.Them being in my opinion a tick on the .... of society.Kinda like the old ladies at costco who have "service dogs"( pocket poaches).today if you have a rental house and do not allow pets in your building, some idiot can get a service stamp for a pet dog or turtle and you have no legal way to keep em out, and can not charge more for the damage before and after you find away to get them out.On the vaping front so many will tell you its ok to vape like they were the virgin mary, but they are just drama queens.You are doing the right thing to respect others, I salute you.
Only been at it for a couple weeks but I am really liking it and will most likely continue to vape as I had smoked just out of consideration for others.
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