So I had a flight to North Carolina last night to head to literally right after I got off work. I was rushing around to get ready in a firestorm as the boss did not inform me until after lunch that I had to go. Naturally I was throwing stuff in a suitcase and not paying as much care as I normally would.
After I landed and was waiting for an Uber to take me to my hotel, I realized that my tank was running low as I was taking rips waiting by the curb at RDU. I had my batteries, charger, and coils tucked in my laptop bag, but it was at this moment that I realized that I left my current 100ML bottle in the cup holder of my car back in Chicago.
It was around 11 by the time I finally got to my hotel and after a quick google and Yelp search I realized that there appears to be no late night vape shops in Raleigh like there is back in Chicago. I am one of those people that likes to take puffs at night before bed while I am reading email and decompressing. Since there was a gas station across the street from my hotel, I figured what the hell.
I have not messed around with gas station wares since I first quit smoking, but beggars can't be choosers. When I asked the clerk if the had e-cig juice, he looked at me like I was speaking Mandarin Chinese and pointed to the shelving behind the counter. Looking around, they had mostly the various cig-a-likes behind the counter, but tucked under the shelving adjacent to Camel "Snus" they did indeed have a line of juices called 'Lex-12'. When I asked about nicotine levels he was spouting off 1.8%, 1.2%, and I was like WTF? Then I vaguely remembered from my early days that many rookie e-cigs do this (as percentage of total nicotine in the bottle I presume?)
For the whopping price of 7 dollars and 32 cents, I got a 12ML bottle of a Caramel blend and headed back to my hotel. After popping fresh batteries in my Wismec and filling up my tank and taking a few hits, yup, as you might expect it was pretty awful. It reminded me of my various efforts to quit smoking previously when I would buy these garbage brands and cig-a-likes and then it would not be long and I was right back to my trusty packs of Marlboro Lights. I highly suspect that if the sum of most people's exposure to e-cigs was brands like this that almost nobody would successfully quit smoking. Maybe I am just being pompous now that I have a whole whopping 8 months of time off cancer sticks under my belt. However, when numerous people approach me these days and ask me my advice because they are impressed by my quitting and want to do the same, I tell them to take themselves to a shop and get a legit starter kit that will actually deliver the goods.
After I landed and was waiting for an Uber to take me to my hotel, I realized that my tank was running low as I was taking rips waiting by the curb at RDU. I had my batteries, charger, and coils tucked in my laptop bag, but it was at this moment that I realized that I left my current 100ML bottle in the cup holder of my car back in Chicago.
It was around 11 by the time I finally got to my hotel and after a quick google and Yelp search I realized that there appears to be no late night vape shops in Raleigh like there is back in Chicago. I am one of those people that likes to take puffs at night before bed while I am reading email and decompressing. Since there was a gas station across the street from my hotel, I figured what the hell.
I have not messed around with gas station wares since I first quit smoking, but beggars can't be choosers. When I asked the clerk if the had e-cig juice, he looked at me like I was speaking Mandarin Chinese and pointed to the shelving behind the counter. Looking around, they had mostly the various cig-a-likes behind the counter, but tucked under the shelving adjacent to Camel "Snus" they did indeed have a line of juices called 'Lex-12'. When I asked about nicotine levels he was spouting off 1.8%, 1.2%, and I was like WTF? Then I vaguely remembered from my early days that many rookie e-cigs do this (as percentage of total nicotine in the bottle I presume?)
For the whopping price of 7 dollars and 32 cents, I got a 12ML bottle of a Caramel blend and headed back to my hotel. After popping fresh batteries in my Wismec and filling up my tank and taking a few hits, yup, as you might expect it was pretty awful. It reminded me of my various efforts to quit smoking previously when I would buy these garbage brands and cig-a-likes and then it would not be long and I was right back to my trusty packs of Marlboro Lights. I highly suspect that if the sum of most people's exposure to e-cigs was brands like this that almost nobody would successfully quit smoking. Maybe I am just being pompous now that I have a whole whopping 8 months of time off cancer sticks under my belt. However, when numerous people approach me these days and ask me my advice because they are impressed by my quitting and want to do the same, I tell them to take themselves to a shop and get a legit starter kit that will actually deliver the goods.
