I might have made my first convert.
As I mentioned, my wife has some mobility issues and so doesn't get out much. Yesterday we had a hairdresser arrive at our house to style her hair, we've just moved here so we've never used the guy before. As soon as he entered the house my reformed nose, now equipped with a sense of smell, could detect that he was a smoker.
I asked if he smoked (despite the obvious) and he said yes, he'd just had one before coming up to start work. I assured it him it didn't bother us at all but that we had quit 3 months ago after smoking heavily for forty years and that it was dead easy, would he be interested in knowing how?
He said he'd love to know, as both he and his wife had been trying to quit for ages, had tried all the conventional methods, even hypno, but nothing had worked. (My wife tried hypno too, years ago, and she told him she smoked immediately she left the clinic, he laughed and said he'd done exactly the same.)
I said we'd quit with electronic cigarettes, and he said he'd never heard of them. (They're as rare as rocking horse .... here in AU, so I wasn't surprised.) So I showed him my Provari and my wife took some puffs on her eGo and he looked impressed. I said that if he was interested I'd set up a couple for him to taste after the haircutting session, he said that he'd love to try.
I asked what he and his wife smoked, to get an idea for suitable flavours, and he smoked a brand I knew and his wife smoked menthols. I asked him if he fancied a tobacco flavour or something else, giving him a choice of about 30 flavours we had on hand, and he picked mocha coffee.
So he went off to do my wife's hair and I started to set up some things for him. I settled on a couple of basic cartomisers on eGo batteries and filled them with appropriate juices, at 24mg strength since he seemed pretty well addicted. I also got out some G4 clearos, and Ego tanks (A & B) and some other stuff so I could show him how different types of system were filled and maintained.
After a while he and my wife emerged, apparently the colours he used had to set for 20 minutes, or some such similar malarky that I don't pretend to understand, but anyway, there was a break. We made some coffee and he took his first vape on the Mocha.
He immediately said "This is just like smoking, I could quit with this, I'm sure."
He also wanted to try the menthol, as he sometimes smoked his wife's if he ran out. I was hoping he would try the menthol, as it provides a hit which will impress even the most jaded palate. He said "my wife is going to love this!" and vaped away happily on his mocha until the hair colour had done its thing.
After he returned to his snipping and so on I wrote up a lift of useful resources, suggested starter outfits, good suppliers, useful forums (this one at the top of the list, of course) so he had a starting point for further research.
When he finished his labours we discussed vaping a bit more, I gave him the customary warnings about it not being proven to be safe etc, showed him more stuff about the various options while he vaped happily.
He was a really nice guy, we swapped emails etc and he says he's definitely going to give it a try, and I'm sure he will.
Just a happy little story.
Cheers
As I mentioned, my wife has some mobility issues and so doesn't get out much. Yesterday we had a hairdresser arrive at our house to style her hair, we've just moved here so we've never used the guy before. As soon as he entered the house my reformed nose, now equipped with a sense of smell, could detect that he was a smoker.
I asked if he smoked (despite the obvious) and he said yes, he'd just had one before coming up to start work. I assured it him it didn't bother us at all but that we had quit 3 months ago after smoking heavily for forty years and that it was dead easy, would he be interested in knowing how?
He said he'd love to know, as both he and his wife had been trying to quit for ages, had tried all the conventional methods, even hypno, but nothing had worked. (My wife tried hypno too, years ago, and she told him she smoked immediately she left the clinic, he laughed and said he'd done exactly the same.)
I said we'd quit with electronic cigarettes, and he said he'd never heard of them. (They're as rare as rocking horse .... here in AU, so I wasn't surprised.) So I showed him my Provari and my wife took some puffs on her eGo and he looked impressed. I said that if he was interested I'd set up a couple for him to taste after the haircutting session, he said that he'd love to try.
I asked what he and his wife smoked, to get an idea for suitable flavours, and he smoked a brand I knew and his wife smoked menthols. I asked him if he fancied a tobacco flavour or something else, giving him a choice of about 30 flavours we had on hand, and he picked mocha coffee.
So he went off to do my wife's hair and I started to set up some things for him. I settled on a couple of basic cartomisers on eGo batteries and filled them with appropriate juices, at 24mg strength since he seemed pretty well addicted. I also got out some G4 clearos, and Ego tanks (A & B) and some other stuff so I could show him how different types of system were filled and maintained.
After a while he and my wife emerged, apparently the colours he used had to set for 20 minutes, or some such similar malarky that I don't pretend to understand, but anyway, there was a break. We made some coffee and he took his first vape on the Mocha.
He immediately said "This is just like smoking, I could quit with this, I'm sure."
He also wanted to try the menthol, as he sometimes smoked his wife's if he ran out. I was hoping he would try the menthol, as it provides a hit which will impress even the most jaded palate. He said "my wife is going to love this!" and vaped away happily on his mocha until the hair colour had done its thing.
After he returned to his snipping and so on I wrote up a lift of useful resources, suggested starter outfits, good suppliers, useful forums (this one at the top of the list, of course) so he had a starting point for further research.
When he finished his labours we discussed vaping a bit more, I gave him the customary warnings about it not being proven to be safe etc, showed him more stuff about the various options while he vaped happily.
He was a really nice guy, we swapped emails etc and he says he's definitely going to give it a try, and I'm sure he will.
Just a happy little story.
Cheers
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Great work Hobotivo. Saving two lives at a time is pretty impressive stuff.
