I remember back in the day...

[Nunnster]

Well, day-um, it's not my fault! Where da Hades ya been?

'Things' are full o' vapor and flavor! Health wise? Been a long time since I could be dis ornery and not hurt...

I started good ol college and been super busy with other things, haven't had much time to post around over here, mostly just been lurking and catching a few posts now and again.

 

[Poeia]

I think new vapors do still struggle....At least i hope they do....then i wouldnt be alone

It's a different struggle. People who started vaping more than 2 years ago were struggling with getting what they needed from equipment that was in its infancy. We shared ways to fiddle with it to get it to work.

People starting today have to find the best equipment for them. Each item works better but they could give up before they find their best setup.

 

[jonayran]

I remember when popping off the cap to my atomizer and removing the filler and said "hey! I can drip juice in here and just vape it like that!"

 

[hittman]

I remember when I saw a short local news story in spring of 99 where they showed people using Njoy ecigs and I thought, "Hey, I gotta check this out".

 

[SnakeFarm]

I remember strolling through the mall on the third day of what I knew was yet another doomed quit attempt and seeing a kiosk selling little kits with two cig-alikes. The proprietor told me a bunch of lies about performance and satisfaction, so, being desperate, I complied when he instructed me to bend over and back up to the cash register. I remember three days later thinking "Hey, this is actually working, sort of." I remember a few days after that thinking, "Hey, this is not working at all, but before I give in to the monkey, I'm going to go online and see if anybody has hacked these things over the acceptability line. I remember finding the ECF and being gently encouraged to get a "Riva" battery and some stronger juice, use snuss or whatever it took to stay off the "stinkies." I remember getting a Provari after about four rounds of Rivas. I remember thinking, "Wow, I haven't smoked a cigarette in over a year!" But, everything since then is kind of blurry.

 

[dhowardpeters]

I remember strolling through the mall on the third day of what I knew was yet another doomed quit attempt and seeing a kiosk selling little kits with two cig-alikes. The proprietor told me a bunch of lies about performance and satisfaction, so, being desperate, I complied when he instructed me to bend over and back up to the cash register. I remember three days later thinking "Hey, this is actually working, sort of." I remember a few days after that thinking, "Hey, this is not working at all, but before I give in to the monkey, I'm going to go online and see if anybody has hacked these things over the acceptability line. I remember finding the ECF and being gently encouraged to get a "Riva" battery and some stronger juice, use snuss or whatever it took to stay off the "stinkies." I remember getting a Provari after about four rounds of Rivas. I remember thinking, "Wow, I haven't smoked a cigarette in over a year!" But, everything since then is kind of blurry.

That is almost exactly my story..except, by the time I found ecf and got some good gear, I'd spent a couple hundred bucks replenishing my supply of those tiny prefilled cartridges from Smoking Everywhere

 

[sidetrack]

I remember being #100 to post in the "We Vape Global Money Saved/Cigarettes Avoided Calculator"




We Vape - Global Money Saved/Cigarettes Avoided Calculator

 

[basylica]

I actually was shopping for ecigs 10 years ago, before my son was born.... The only option was joy tech stick batts and sketchy sounding weird fruit flavours and a kit cost like 200. I was living hand to mouth and from what I was reading not many people were able to quit.
I had babies and a messy divorce to contend with and I never did look back into it until February 2013.... I quit almost immediately.

Do I regret not jumping on board 10 years ago? A bit....
But I may have become frustrated and less apt to try again.

 

[Pokeygizmo]

I remember being #100 to post in the "We Vape Global Money Saved/Cigarettes Avoided Calculator"




We Vape - Global Money Saved/Cigarettes Avoided Calculator

I'm there, I'm there at #356! And no, I didn't remember...I had to scroll

So very cool to see all the numbers AND so many names of friends, acquaintances and mentors who helped me along the way :thumbsup:

Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk

 

[Poeia]

I'm there, I'm there at #356! And no, I didn't remember...I had to scroll

So very cool to see all the numbers AND so many names of friends, acquaintances and mentors who helped me along the way :thumbsup:

Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk

Never saw that before. I added my data but had to fudge the $. New York increased prices by 15% 7 months after I quit smoking. They had a billion dollar budget shortfall and where else to get most of it from but from smokers. But I'm going to have avoided 100,000 cigarettes around the end of January.

 

[CES]

I'm #383.

vaping more than 1450 days and avoided more than 43,500 smokes.... not bad at all.

(of course I've spent 50% of my "savings" on vape gear )

It's fun to scroll through the list and see all the names

 

[PoliticallyIncorrect]

(of course I've spent 50% of my "savings" on vape gear )

If I only had 50% of all the 3ml juice samples that I've bought, then wiped out of my Buzz's spill cup with a Kleenex before pledging never, never to buy any of that again, I'd float an aircraft carrier—should I so decide. I could otherwise PIF out enough swill to fill Lake Superior.

 

[Krazirob]

i remember rebuilding those BLU cartridges with foam from the fish tanks.....the blue foam mod is what we called it......then dripping became the better way to get a good vape on those.......then the 510s came along

 

[PoliticallyIncorrect]

So very cool to see all the numbers AND so many names of friends, acquaintances and mentors who helped me along the way :thumbsup:

Cool beyond very cool that individuals of the sort of quality Pokey releases with every punch at her keyboard are still among us.

If only she'd Poke out both of the good Doctor Glantz's eyes...

Or, for that matter, get the coding for right

 

[airframer]

Copper tube mods
I remember being excited to find the Roughstack, as it was actually in my budget!

 

[punkkin]

I remember signing up here in May and finding all the questions I had as a new user answered within the day. Ordered my setup and was happy as can be once my ego and mini vivi novas came in. I've moved on from that setup but still find all the info I need here. This place rocks.

 

[Pokeygizmo]

Or, for that matter, get the coding for right

I didn't have time to learn the particular coding for this forum...I was too busy topping off cartridges every 5 minutes and switching out my M401 batteries every hour.

And, later, rinsing 808 cartos followed by power flushing them, boiling them, taryn spinning off the excess water before standing all of them on end to slow dry overnight in a low temp oven.

Oh wait!

I did somehow manage to learn these codes though—

 

[tearose50]

I just have to bump this thread into 2014.

I remember the day when this thread was a must see daily with all the fond (and not so fond) memories.

 

[Ohms Lawbreaker]

I remember burning my long hippie hair with a lighter. I also remember hair.

 

[Burnie]

Ok, WHO remembers this?

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/cartridge-mods/58690-b-f-d-cart-mod.html

Vape On
Burnie