I'm a convert - Initial reaction

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PansSiren

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Sounds great!

I started about 3 months ago. When I got my first ecig I had one cigarette left. I still have it and have never even considered lighting it.

Good luck and keep it up!

You just gave me more motivation and an idea! 3 months ago I had a really nice goatee (hehe, I know some others hated it, but it was my pride and joy!). It had to go for a new job (which I'm in absolute LOVE with! dreams do come true! ... with some hard work, of course). It was no "oh, it'll grow back" kind of goatee, it was 6+ years in the making! I'm talking down to my nips, lmao - so yeah, I was very attached to it. Well, now it's sitting in it's new home, it's coffin, if you will: a mini guitar case! I will go ahead right now and place my 3 nasties in along with it. They may rot in hell, but rest in peace. I will kick that habit!
 

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hahaha thats an awesome story. I have my 1st mustache ever. I'm totally going to try to save it. lmao.

hell yeah. then when I'm famous, a mustache will be floating around the web for 200k XD

lmao, hell yeah is right! You should go handle-bar status on it and when it's time (if it ever comes to that), attach each end to the handlebars of a small model bicycle! That would be EPIC! I'm rockin a 'neatly trimmed' goat and stache combo now. I'm allowed to have facial hair, just not that monstrosity I had before... which I found EXTREMELY odd given what sort of work it is (ahhh, screw the anonymity (please never bite me in the buttocks!), running sound at a comedy club... in a state where facial hair is beyond common...). I could have trimmed it right away, but it had to go in style - so I went to the barber to have a sexy lady straight-razor it off the old-school way. Hands down the best shave I ever had! I just don't think there will be many more of them... clean shaven just ain't my style! At least they didn't make me cut my hair (I'm the first long hair they allowed!), I'd still be out of a job if they asked me to do that! Gotta maintain my heavy metal guitarist image somehow!

EDIT: I had FOUR cigarettes left! Just had to clarify incase it became a dispute if/when my precious things are sold at auction when I die, lolololol!
 
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haha you'll find that most of us have facial hair. theres a thread called "post a picture of yourself" floating around here and literally almost every single guy thats posted their picture has had either a goatee or a huge beard. We like our beards apparently. :p unfortunately my face is weird. it doesn't grow hair between my beard and my mustache lol. like, not at all. So I can't connect them. its weird. haha.
 
...The at home carto was harsh and choking me and all messed up. Between me and the juice vender we figured out I DID NOT SHAKE IT UP first. Well,I never even knew I was supposed to!...

Holy cow, I learn something new every day here. I never even thought of that, but it makes complete sense. Thanks for letting us fellow beginners in on that. Now if I can just get these ego-c batteries to last longer....
 

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oh yeah. well, mistchance, you should honestly steep your liquids. thats shaking them up a few times each day and leaving the cap off for a couple hours each day, every day for a week, or.. up to two weeks. Its called steeping and it allows the flavors, the propylene glycol, and the vegetable glycerine, to mix together properly. otherwise you'll buy a tobacco juice (which is actually usually not just a tobacco base.. most tobacco juices have food flavorings to achieve the tobacco taste) and out of the mailbox, it will taste like caramel, coffee rinds, and bourbon. And you'll be like "what the heck is this? I ordered tobacco! this is nasty!" and then in 2 weeks you'll try it and you'll be all like "hot dog, i'll be damned if this don't taste just like a fine tobacker yumyum." So you should steep the more complex flavored juices, and you should always shake before dripping ;) Steeping is great for tobacco, or any juices with more than 1 flavoring in the bottle.
 
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And thanks Macro - you might be happy to know my avatar photo was taken a few months ago beneath the surface off Cozumel, Mexico! I LOVE visiting that region of your country!! SCUBA was always a motivator for me to quit the stinkys, but man is it hard to give up - especially when sitting in paradise with your feet in the sand and a beer in the hand! I know this will be far safer than a stinky in regards to diving, but I do wonder about the technical details of water vapor in the lungs and micro-bubble formation in regards to diving and pressure. If I find other divers in this forum, maybe I'll start a thread about it someday. I am VERY curious about this.


Great you like my country.... Cozumel is beautiful and scuba is great in the caribean sea....

I don't know about vape and diving, but sand and beer is totally safe.... :toast:

Hope to see that divers thread here.... I'm curious too...
 

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PansSiren

10 months since i had an analog , about a 30%-40% increase in "bottomtime" ( that might be confusing for the non divers ?)

I didnt actually consider this until i stopped smoking ,(and at this point feel very guilty) my dive buddies have missed out on going that little bit deeper , or longer or seeing that bit of shipwreck because they have had to surface early because i could empty a dive tank in half the time they could.
 

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PansSiren

10 months since i had an analog , about a 30%-40% increase in "bottomtime" ( that might be confusing for the non divers ?)

I didnt actually consider this until i stopped smoking ,(and at this point feel very guilty) my dive buddies have missed out on going that little bit deeper , or longer or seeing that bit of shipwreck because they have had to surface early because i could empty a dive tank in half the time they could.

hm, interesting,,,,,,,,I'm not a diver, but that sure seems to illustrate the improvements in health when you quit smoking, doesn't it??

I've had to apologize to a few non-smoking friends since I quit smoking for one thing or another LOL,,,don't sweat it,,,,,,,but won't your friends be pleasantly surprised when you're not surfacing so quickly??? :)
 
but won't your friends be pleasantly surprised when you're not surfacing so quickly??? :)

Is this the time for a 'that's what she said joke'?

Anyway, glad things have been going well. I've also noticed a big difference in how much longer it takes to get winded from exercise. It's a nice change :D
 

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the harsh hit I find at first is just my body getting used to it..I only hit it on the weekends so every Friday it's the same thing for me..1st hit is harsh then as the night goes on it's really really nice..it does it to me every weekend lol..

all the smokers I show it to say it's really harsh then after a few drags it's much better for them also...
 

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Very Hazy answer Cheif Packabowl. Idk if 555 or Desert Joe would Smoke other juices out or not but they seem to get good reviews online. I wouldn't want to be a Pot calling the kettle black so I'll refrain from my juice experiences compared to SI's juices. Takes a lot of Green to figure out what your all day vape will be, but its worth it. Th Claim that 1 juice is the best juice is irrelevant. I like to have a Rotation of juices. I think we can all agree that a lot of juices are gross and Dank, and some are just plain Dope. Its a true journey, a very long Trip to find the 1 juice you'll always need to have.

I definitely recommend you check out the Pif threads, they have some great juices in there. :)
 
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