E-Cigarette Forum Discussion Thread

[MadmanMacguyver]

wicked fun if ya ask me...and if ya ask my wife...you'ld be told I get REAL obsessive about how things are done when I do mixing but then again I do use the HIGH OCTANE stuff...easier for me to make sure I do it perfect...I prefer the lower chance for error of using high end setup and such...

The wife just commented about me in front of a little card table with gloves and my mixing setup looking the part of a mad scientist...

 

[phonedude]

I got started with a bottle of unflavored nic, about 5 empty bottles and some Loranne flavors I got at hobby lobby. It was nice that the vendor threw some free pipettes in with my nic order. They were really handy. The following month I ordered a bag of them. I never did get a syringe yet. LOL

I really haven't added much to that. Except I have added many more flavorings since then, but I just pick them up a few a month. I keep it extremely simple but it works very well for me.

 

[Linden]

I got dorky and took a few pictures minus child.
And yes, at 35 I was still often carded for cigarettes. LOL.

 

[hollyberry]

I got dorky and took a few pictures minus child.
And yes, at 35 I was still often carded for cigarettes. LOL.

You look very young!!

I'm 41 and, up until I moved to Maryland a few months ago, I still got carded for alcohol and (occasionally) cigarettes. At least I got a good laugh!

 

[kristin]

I'm wondering if I am an oddity...I don't like most of the flavors I try. For 2 months now I have been vaping V4L's WOW Cinnamon Roll (not sweet or buttery...just cinnamon and mild) with a few drops of Atomic Cinnacide thrown in to give it a kick. I started vaping with coffee and vanilla, both of which I now detest. I have tried some other flavors but nothing is even remotely 'appetizing' to me and I'm right back to my old standby. For the past 2 weeks I've done some flavor exploring, attempting to replace the V4L juice due to their high shipping costs they have and all I ended up with was a light pocketbook and a bad taste in my mouth...NOT an inducement to keep looking!

No - I'm the same way. I don't usually like what everyone else raves about. Reading Holly and Shannon discuss Malibu Pineapple made me think "cocnut pineapple" and I dislike cocnut, so no interest there. I never can really taste the fruit flavors other than peach - which is really the only other flavor I order from Nhaler. Cherry Cola - too bland. Mint chocolate - too mild. Etc.

I started with tobacco and quicikly switched to peach and French vanilla coffee. Drew changed the recipe for French vanilla coffee and I switched to Mochaccino and really have used that (with an occasional peach if I can't taste the Mochaccino anymore) for about a year now. My husband never ventures away from menthol (the stronger the menthol the better) unless he runs out before we can afford to place another order (like now he's using an old bottle of tobacco or pipe because he ran out of Polar Menthol Bliss and we can't place another order until his check is deposited Thursday.) Of course, it's not always the flavor's taste but how it performs, too. I've tried flavors that had little vapor or seemed to kill attys - from a company where another flavor i liked was just fine - so it seems like the flavors can effect performance sometimes. So, I haven't tried anything new in quite some time!

Morning all! Since all the ladies were sharing photos of their husbands, I thought I would add my contribution.

Lucky guy got the perfect salt & pepper hair - and a full head of it! Very sexy! His photo made me think "Bada bing!" LOL! Is he Italian? Greek?

Wow, lots of catching up to do. I'll properly comment as the day goes by, but first, a mini-rant...

It really pisses me off how under-rated some of the side effects of quitting smoking are, specifically anxiety and depression. It hit me like a ton of bricks when I quit, and being the vaping noob that I was, I attributed it to vaping, initially.

It was the scariest experience of my life. I seriously thought I was losing touch with reality at times. It was mostly resolved with meds, and it's only recently that I finally made the connection to quitting smoking. It's especially disheartening that my doctor didn't make the connection at time, even though we fully discussed everything that was going on in my life at the time.

What's equally disheartening is that all this occurred in spite of getting nicotine thru vaping. This makes it pretty clear to me that there's much more that we're dependant on from tobacco than just nicotine, and why NRT has such a low success rate. The smoking-cessation establishment really needs to get their heads out of their butts on the "nicotine is the root of all evil" stance.

Ok, that's my rant.... Good Morning All!

The more smokers who switch, the more that will ask the question, "What else have they been lying to me about?" Maybe that's why the opposition is so strong.

It's like they found out that nicotine had addictive qualities, declared that nicotine was why people smoke and that was the end of it. Never bothered to explain why people returned to smoking once the nicotine had been out of their system for YEARS. Never bothered to figure out why simply replacing the nicotine in smoke with another source of nicotine didn't keep people from smoking (other than to blame the smoker for being weak, stupid or uncaring.) The arrogance that they were right about nicotine, so the fault must be in the smoker - who must either be a victim of the disease of addiction or just evil and uncaring. Tobacco was so evil that its use in any form must be stopped, becaue admitting that there were safer forms of tobacco was admitting that they were wrong to force smokers to use NRTs for all of those years. (And all of that isn't even touching upon the drug industry's support of this poorly-concieved theory to make a buck.)

Pisses you off, doesn't it? It's exactly why I joined CASAA. Smokers need to hear the TRUTH and researchers and the medical community need to get off their asses and find alternatives to making smokers feel like the bad guys

 

[scinsc]

I ain't show'n my picture and I sho ain't give'n out my age. It's bad enough that I have to look at a mirror every now and again without sharing it with the world....but I do appreciate all the lovely ladies here, each and every one a beauty.

 

[MustangSallie]

His photo made me think "Bada bing!" LOL! Is he Italian? Greek?

Funny, he's not a "Bada bing" kinda guy, but you're right that's exactly how he looks when he cleans up and dresses up. Right the first time, italian.

 

[Linden]

Funny, he's not a "Bada bing" kinda guy, but you're right that's exactly how he looks when he cleans up and dresses up. Right the first time, italian.

I immediately thought "Godfather!"

 

[MagnusEunson]

Per the recommendations of the powers that be, I am only allowed to say "Hey good lookin'!" from now on.

-Magnus

 

[Randyrtx]

The more smokers who switch, the more that will ask the question, "What else have they been lying to me about?" Maybe that's why the opposition is so strong.

It's like they found out that nicotine had addictive qualities, declared that nicotine was why people smoke and that was the end of it. Never bothered to explain why people returned to smoking once the nicotine had been out of their system for YEARS. Never bothered to figure out why simply replacing the nicotine in smoke with another source of nicotine didn't keep people from smoking (other than to blame the smoker for being weak, stupid or uncaring.) The arrogance that they were right about nicotine, so the fault must be in the smoker - who must either be a victim of the disease of addiction or just evil and uncaring. Tobacco was so evil that its use in any form must be stopped, becaue admitting that there were safer forms of tobacco was admitting that they were wrong to force smokers to use NRTs for all of those years. (And all of that isn't even touching upon the drug industry's support of this poorly-concieved theory to make a buck.)

Pisses you off, doesn't it? It's exactly why I joined CASAA. Smokers need to hear the TRUTH and researchers and the medical community need to get off their asses and find alternatives to making smokers feel like the bad guys

It's especially troubling that if not for the focus on nicotine, more effective forms of NRT could have already been developed, that include more of the alkaloids in tobacco. It does show promise in the research that is being done into the "medicinal" uses for tobacco beyond nicotine.

It's a shame in a way, that in developing liquids for use in e-cigs, producers resorted to using pure, medicinal nicotine developed for NRT, rather than developing a full tobacco extract specifically for vaping. It's encouraging that some are beginning to develop WTA liquids. Perhaps someday I can toss my anti-depressant and anti-anxiety meds in favor of a full WTA liquid.

It would be especially ironic and fitting if research into WTA liquids led to better NRT products.

 

[MagnusEunson]

I just burned the effing sin out of myself cutting open a battery pack to get 26500s out that ended up being too Gods blasted long anyway (26650 dimensions). I am not amused. -Magnus

 

[kristin]

I got dorky and took a few pictures minus child.
And yes, at 35 I was still often carded for cigarettes. LOL.

Gorgeous!

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[kristin]

How did you burn yourself??

I just burned the effing sin out of myself cutting open a battery pack to get 26500s out that ended up being too Gods blasted long anyway (26650 dimensions). I am not amused. -Magnus

 

[uba egar320]

I got dorky and took a few pictures minus child.
And yes, at 35 I was still often carded for cigarettes. LOL.

I would have guessed 25. I hear 35 is the new 18 anyways lol.

 

[Randyrtx]

More catching up... you girls are all gorgeous... and I'd better just leave it at that


Oh, I just turned 55... our kids (my 2 boys and wife's girl and boy) are all way grown, and we have 9 grandkids between them all.

 

[MadmanMacguyver]

oh dang I'm the youngster of this group too...and I thought at 39 I was catching up in the game...

 

[MustangSallie]

Per the recommendations of the powers that be, I am only allowed to say "Hey good lookin'!" from now on.

-Magnus

Ouch, you got in trouble on this thread?

 

[MustangSallie]

You know I could have saved myself a lot of trouble and just ordered all my VR sample sizes in 30ml the first time around.

And I could have saved myself a lot of money if I would have ordered sample sizes in most of the other juice I've purchased so far.

 

[ClayK]

<-------- 36

Just a pup.

 

[MagnusEunson]

Alright... the positive terminal on these batteries were rigged to allow some effed up wiring. And they left me two cigarette burn-style marks when I was working on them. So figures, I'd get a cigarette burn for the first time while doing something vape related. And never w/ a cigarette.

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Sallie, I have no idea from where or why. It was a pretty specific accusation and I still couldn't place it. I let it go, took down my smiling face, and am laying off any compliments. -Magnus