E-junkie?

[murrajes]

I was looking at some youtube videos today...and the comments. One in particular bothered me. The video was a demo of a e-cigg and the comment was "I'd rather smoke cigarettes than be a e-junkie". Maybe I'm just super sensative today because of what happened at lunch but I'm feeling a negative vibe all around about PV's. Plus being a newbie at this and my OCD tendency to over-do and over-think.

Many years ago, I was a IRC addict (1980's?). I've always been intrigued by technology. Now it's taking over my physical being? Paranoid or just another new hobby?????

Yeah So, I need another glass of wine and drip some more ZERO nic juice.....

 

[ec!gg]

I was looking at some youtube videos today...and the comments. One in particular bothered me. The video was a demo of a e-cigg and the comment was "I'd rather smoke cigarettes than be a e-junkie". Maybe I'm just super sensative today because of what happened at lunch but I'm feeling a negative vibe all around about PV's. Plus being a newbie at this and my OCD tendency to over-do and over-think.

Many years ago, I was a IRC addict (1980's?). I've always been intrigued by technology. Now it's taking over my physical being? Paranoid or just another new hobby?????

Yeah So, I need another glass of wine and drip some more ZERO nic juice.....

Don't sweat it. A lot of people want to put down stuff they never tried or they follow the sheep as I like to put it.

 

[vape-addict]

I'm a vape addict and proud of it!!

 

[swedishfish]

"I'd rather smoke cigarettes than be a e-junkie"

...and pay $8.00 a pack for the pleasure of smelling like an ashtray. No one wrinkles their nose and acts like we stepped in dog s**t when we walk past.

 

[36tinybells]

People at work love that I vape, they love the smell of the day (French Toast is especially popular!). I was the only one I knew that vaped before- it took months, but now I know 8 vapers, most of them I or someone I helped switched switched them. Keep vaping. When they see you are not going back to smoking, they may get curious.

 

[TonyTT]

I was looking at some youtube videos today...and the comments. One in particular bothered me. The video was a demo of a e-cigg and the comment was "I'd rather smoke cigarettes than be a e-junkie". Maybe I'm just super sensative today because of what happened at lunch but I'm feeling a negative vibe all around about PV's. Plus being a newbie at this and my OCD tendency to over-do and over-think.

Many years ago, I was a IRC addict (1980's?). I've always been intrigued by technology. Now it's taking over my physical being? Paranoid or just another new hobby?????

Yeah So, I need another glass of wine and drip some more ZERO nic juice.....

What happened at lunch if you don't mind my asking?...and yeah I just started vaping and I'm self-concious about it. My friends really like the smell but laugh when I show them the mod I want that "looks like a dildo" (Provari). Also I always find when I show a non-smoker friend an e-cig, they always say "that's neat, I'm proud of you"....then for some reason the next comments are always "you seem to vape alot more then you smoked", and then suddenly the door is wide open for i don't know how good it is to still be relying on nicotine". "You're still relying on a chemical". I feel like when I smoked, it was dissaproval, grudging acceptance, mixed with caring worry. Now that my life is no longer in danger, it feels like it's free game to be patronizing with a zen "you should know better" attitude. I feel like I'm being used as a shining example to be brought out to show my still smoker friends, but that it would still be better to quit altogether. I guess it's one of those "give an inch and they take a kilometer" scenarios

 

[SuperLuckyLady]

Well, you know, almost everyone is addicted to something: caffeine, nicotine, coca cola, doing good, music, taking psychotropics (legally or otherwise), shopping, alcohol, food, etc. etc. etc. The thing is, you gotta carefully pick your addictions, and I think vaping is a relatively harmless one that I enjoy. So suck it up if you don't like it folks.

 

[kelleymcm]

equating nicotine with caffeine has always worked for me .....

since all most everyone has some kind of caffeine dependence,and it usually shuts 'em up

....& smokers pfffttt !!!

Ignore the ones that get snotty about vaping cuz they are just dealing with their own inner "crap I need to quit demons "

& are uncomfortable with the fact that YOU are doing something that they can't imagine doing ....

Don't ever let any of them make you feel bad about Vaping !! YOU know it's better for YOU and that is all that counts !!

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." — Dr. Seuss

 

[Batsu]

eh, people can say what they want, i don't have a 10.00 a day habit any more, andme, my car, my clothes, and my hair no longer smell like an ash tray. i laugh at the smokers huddled together in the freezing cold while i sit inside and vape.

 

[TonyTT]

Well, you know, almost everyone is addicted to something: caffeine, nicotine, coca cola, doing good, music, taking psychotropics (legally or otherwise), shopping, alcohol, food, etc. etc. etc. The thing is, you gotta carefully pick your addictions, and I think vaping is a relatively harmless one that I enjoy. So suck it up if you don't like it folks.

Totally agree...I just don't know where they get off being so high and mighty...I luve em, but I don't get it, it has the ring of human nature. Just wondering if anyone else has come across that situation...

 

[echofinder]

It is a strange thing, even for those who are used to smoking... I have many visitors come through my house & when they see me fiddling about with all the cartos & juices in my "chemistry set" I do frequently get strange looks - especially when the gloves & syringes come out to play. The worst was when a friend arrived unexpectedly with her young children whilst I was busy refilling the cartos. They of course wanted to see and touch everything, and explaining that the e-juice could make them sick or even kill them if they touched it (so stay away!) brought a wonderful look of shock from the mother haha.

The largest problem I have had centers around the term "vaporizer" - now, most of the people in my age range know exactly what a vaporizer is/does, but they associate the technology intrinsically with less... legal vapables. I grow very tired of explaining the mountain of differences between their experiences & my E-go.

Change breeds fear & confusion - this too shall pass.

 

[DeJaVou42]

Also I always find when I show a non-smoker friend an e-cig, they always say "that's neat, I'm proud of you"....then for some reason the next comments are always "you seem to vape alot more then you smoked", and then suddenly the door is wide open for i don't know how good it is to still be relying on nicotine". "You're still relying on a chemical". I feel like when I smoked, it was dissaproval, grudging acceptance, mixed with caring worry. Now that my life is no longer in danger, it feels like it's free game to be patronizing with a zen "you should know better" attitude. I feel like I'm being used as a shining example to be brought out to show my still smoker friends, but that it would still be better to quit altogether. I guess it's one of those "give an inch and they take a kilometer" scenarios

I've noticed the same thing! One person never said a word when I smoked, but now that I vape, I should "Throw that thing in the trash." Smokers, however, are amazed with my PV and are constantly asking where they can get one.

Its also always fun to pull your PV out when you're talking to some police officers and say, "have you all seen alot of people carrying these electronic cigarettes yet?"

 

[Teddy Hutchins]

I get it at work all the time, the smokers and ex smokers all say. you didnt quit you just substituted one for the other. Its people like that, that will give vaping a bad name. they also refuse to listen to the good in it.

 

[DeJaVou42]

I've been using Jibbas story about digressing from stage 3 emphysema to stage 1 after he started vaping. That always seems to open peoples eyes.

 

[Teddy Hutchins]

i bet back in the day that first person who rolled the first cigarette got some strange looks. everyone smoking a pipe then theres that guy. lol

 

[XMit]

I have found there are people that didn't say a word to someone who smoked and when they see a PV they loudly exclaim that you should, "stop sucking on that damn pacifier!".

If they are that ignorant and biased of something they have no knowledge of, it carries into other facets of their personality. I pay them about as much mind as the stuff that was in the toilet last time I flushed it.

 

[erich]

Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was on the receiving end of jokes about the "toy" he had invented.

George Boole, developer of boolean algebra, the basis of digital computers, was laughed at by colleagues as having created something with no practical purpose.

It took years for George de Mestral to market Velcro as clothiers thought it unsightly.

Moral of the story: haters gonna hate.

 

[classwife]

Please...


http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/new-members-forum/255864-why-we-dont-allow-drug-talk.html

 

[mooreted]

I think their statement says more about them than it says about you. Obviously whoever said that is immature with low self-esteem, they could even be some 12 year old brat. You can't pay much attention to what people say from the safety of their keyboards.

 

[erich]

Apologies. Was attempting to point out that the term does not apply to vapers.