tried the other day for about 20 seconds lol... everyone looking at you as if "what the hell is that?" makes me feel really uncomfortable. How do i get over the fear of vaping in public?
How do you get over the fear of vaping in public?
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Wear black jeans so they don't see you pee yourself. I just stealth vape in public unless I am in a smoking area. All you have to do is blow the vapor into your soda straw, or suck it up more than once, hold it, or use 100pg (not my best recommendation) and most of the vapor goes away. If you want to invite confrontation just vape it and walk around like a boss. Then you can argue with guys in uniforms about how you're not smoking, but I don't have time for that.
yeh probably fear is not probably the right word but you know what i mean, the whole self conscious aspect of it
EDIT: Just realised there is a thread about this
EDIT: Just realised there is a thread about this
I know many people feel weird at first, but you will eventually become more confident as you vape in public places. At least this is how we felt. Just give it sometime.
Just think about this. you should be proud you are doing something to improve your health. and if someone does see and asks about it, you are actually helping them out. I feel really good about vaping in public and hope I can help someone get healthy every time I am out in the public eye(s).
I do it everywhere I go, I carry around a little card that says what vaping is, it amazes most people!
just bust it out & vape! Nothing like the plume of vapor coming off a Buzz Pro while in public, lmao
The cards are FREE here: ECF Store All you need to do is pay a couple bucks for postage. Lots of good information on the front and back of the card including the ECF web address and a place to put your email adress or your screen name.
i have found that if you look like you are doing something wrong, people will think you are doing something wrong, be confident and don't let their stares phase you. most people i see stop looking when they reaize i just put my "cigarette" in my pocket.
I think you should just ignore it. Its no big deak. A lot of people have already seen it on tv or in malls..they may not know all the details but many know it exists. It might just start a friendly conversation.
1, Learn all you can about e-cig, vaping, e-juice. Become a walking Wiki. Will increase your confidence in public.
2. Be considerate when close to others that may not smoke or vape.
3. Don't engage in an argument with a Smoke-Nazi, you will not make a dent.
4. Walk with a limp, look back at them. They will turn away.
2. Be considerate when close to others that may not smoke or vape.
3. Don't engage in an argument with a Smoke-Nazi, you will not make a dent.
4. Walk with a limp, look back at them. They will turn away.
It is so different in the USA. I'm not long back from Oklahoma and there wasn't one time in public I thought I shouldn't be vaping. By public I mean outside, whether that be the street or the outside tables of a cafe.
Here in the UK (where I live anyway), ecigs aren't as well known. The police stop me and ask what that metal pipe thing was they saw me smoking on was while they're getting the handcuffs out... and everyone is looking at what's in my hand like it's something only a crazy person would be holding, not at my face.
I agree with the OP, it's hard to get over that confidence factor, if you're in a place where ecigs aren't as well known or the people just aren't as respectful. What I do here in the UK is take my volt out that looks like a cig, and keep my ego in my pocket as a backup. I feel so much more at ease with a cig looking pv in the street. However, if I wanted to ask about vaping inside, I'd either stealth it or use my ego so I don't get people trying to harass me because they think I'm really smoking.
Since I got back from the USA though, I'm more inclined to just use my ego and pay no attention to whoever thinks I'm a junkie or whoever just wants to see what I'm puffing on. It took being able to use it outside in the states to be able to use it openly in the UK, so maybe find a comfort place to vape outside or take some good friends and get used to using it outside. You'll appreciate the freedom and it becoms something more comfy with time that way.
I don't like being asked the whole vaping question bc when I answer people it always gets too technical...lol!
Though, my friend seems to only vape for the attention in public...I guess it's all about your personality.
Though, my friend seems to only vape for the attention in public...I guess it's all about your personality.
I actually feel just the opposite. When I used to smoke in public I was horribly embarrassed. As in, feeling stupid, uninformed, unhealthy, etc. I felt like "idiot" should be tattooed on my head. Now when I vape in public my biggest fear is just somebody will think its a cigarette. 
When I first started (june 2010) everyone was looking at me and asking questions. Had to spend like 10 minutes to explain all the questions. Now over a year later it seems like everyone knows what they are. When people come and ask me now its not what does it do but does it work. I have turned on over 19 people to the vaping life style and if it only takes some guy staring at me enough to ask a question, well to me its worth it. Only thing I'm waiting to happen is what a cop will say when I get pulled over and he/her finds a syringe and menthol crystals in a little baggie. Lol, that's the only thing I worry about.
Al, tell the nice officer the truth, that you are using crystal menth... LOL
I use my PV just about everywhere I go and I like people asking about it. Maybe I’m just lucky but I don’t see all of these naysayers some folks are talking about. Any confrontation I have had has always ended up being positive. What is really important here? Worrying about what some snob is thinking or having the privilege to possibly save someone’s life.
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