I'm strangely addicted to 0% peppermint!

[nneptune]

I was never a big smoker.
In fact, for the most part, I've always found it dirty and a bit disgusting.
My father smoked unfiltered Pall Malls all through the late '60s until the '90s. Then he thought he was doing himself a favor by switching to lighter analogs with a filter.

40 years of his smoking lead to quadruple bypass heart surgery.
I'll never forget the "drain" they had hooked up to hios lungs in the hospital... thick brown liquid being pumped out of his lungs.

However, I always had the urge to smoke... mostly because I probably became addicted as a child. But instead of cigarettes, I went on to smoke "something else"..ahem.. for years. There would be a few times a year when I'd just smoke when I was a going through stressful times... and I won't even start with everything that's happened to me in the lasr couple of years... that'll take forever to talk about!

Now, since my divorce, I've been with a woman who describes herself as a closet smoker. She doesn't like to do it, but she's SO hooked on the damned things she can't stop. That's why I got her an e-cig last year.
Unfortunately, there wasn't a whole lot to choose from, and I ended up with the over=priced stuff from "Smoking Everywhere" (I HATE that company!).

But, now with the research done on this board, I ordered some manual and automatic Joye 510 models from several sellers. When she's here with me, she vapes, and I do too. However, I found that it's not the nicotine that I need, but the feeling of smoke in my lungs, and a good throat hit. So, I ordered peppermint and sprearmint from Vap4life in 0% nicotine concentrations, while I still order high-level tobacco for my gf.

But I mix the peppermint and spearmint together, and DAMN it's good!
In fact, I'm almost addicted to it. What a cool thing to "smoke" (vape) and end up smelling fresh and clean! ...and it helps my craving for something to inhale!

The e-cig is a great product! I wish everyone luck with it. Truly.
...and I start a new job tomorrow (after being laid off for over a year), so the peppermint is my nervous vape of the night!
At least I smell good.

sorry for the long post. I've been sick for days, and guess I need to get some words out! But, Vap4life has a ton of flavors for $2.95. I'm trying the 'red hot candy' next! Can't wait!

thanks for reading this manifesto!

 

[Connman]

Best of luck on that new job. And it`s great you are satisfied with the 0 nic. I think it`s good hearing you got one for the GirlFriend even the overpriced ones. How about your Dad? Hope he is still around to try one of these.
My dad had a triple bypass as well and isn`t doing so good but that can`t be due to smoking I wouldn`t think since he stopped when I seemed to have started 30 some years ago.

Once again Good luck with that new job.

 

[nneptune]

Best of luck on that new job. And it`s great you are satisfied with the 0 nic. I think it`s good hearing you got one for the GirlFriend even the overpriced ones. How about your Dad? Hope he is still around to try one of these.
My dad had a triple bypass as well and isn`t doing so good but that can`t be due to smoking I wouldn`t think since he stopped when I seemed to have started 30 some years ago.

Once again Good luck with that new job.

Thanks! I'm so nervous about it that I can't sleep. It'll be a great job, though.

My dad is doing great! He can still name the time and time when he had his last cig... it was in 2002, but he knows the exact minute that he put an analog out.
There's no reason to get him started with this, though. He's been completely smoke-free for 8 years. He doesn't want any nicotine in his system, and it's just best for him not to even know about it, since he's been doing so well!
Good luck to your father. Family support is so important. They messed up his surgery and nicked his colon during the operation. They had to put him back into surgery just a day or 2 after the open-heart to repait their mistake. He had a 5% chance of living. But, I showed up every day, and brought him a picture of my son, who was 5 at the time.
He wrote "Get better, Grandpa" and drew a heart. My dad just fixated on the picture and letter and fought himself back to complete health. An amazing man.
I wish your dad the same luck.

Congrats on your success at being smoke-free for so long! Look at that money you've saved!

On a lighter note, yeah I got burned getting her the bad model last year, but she's happily vaping with a Joye 510 now. It hasn't made her completely stop, but she's determined to.

Thanks for wishing me luck. I suppose I out to try to get some sleep....

 

[BHedge]

If she likes to vape but hasn't stopped smoking, it may be because her nictoine level isn't high enough. I was smoking 6mg, cause I was a light smoker. But it wasn't high enough. I could vape all day long and not feel anything. But I tried 18mg, and I definitely felt something....a little too much. I had to mix it to get it a little less than 18. I think my level is somewhere around 15. It makes me feel like I've had a cigarette, and I can put down the PV, but it doesn't burn my mouth. 11 or 12 is still too light, I can vape a long time on it.

So maybe if you discuss her feelings of wanting a cigarette, it may be that she feels that she has to constantly vape and she's not getting satisfaction like with cigarettes.

 

[nneptune]

If she likes to vape but hasn't stopped smoking, it may be because her nictoine level isn't high enough. I was smoking 6mg, cause I was a light smoker. But it wasn't high enough. I could vape all day long and not feel anything. But I tried 18mg, and I definitely felt something....a little too much. I had to mix it to get it a little less than 18. I think my level is somewhere around 15. It makes me feel like I've had a cigarette, and I can put down the PV, but it doesn't burn my mouth. 11 or 12 is still too light, I can vape a long time on it.

So maybe if you discuss her feelings of wanting a cigarette, it may be that she feels that she has to constantly vape and she's not getting satisfaction like with cigarettes.

Thanks.
Yes. For her I use '555' tobacco in the high strength.
We really should play with the level a bit.

Sometimes i feel like she goes back to analog because it's what she's used to, it's easier than putting juice in a cartridge, and whatever reason one could think of.

At least when she's here, it comes in handy. At home, it been so cold outside, that I can just hope she tries it as much as possible.
Thaks for the suggestion!

 

[BHedge]

Well, some suppliers, high strength is in the 50s, some caps out at 24, and some is 36. But you are right, there is an adjustment to getting into a groove with filling the carts and not feeling like it's a job. I think maybe if you went to myfreedomsmokes and tried some of their small size in several of the flavors....maybe some of the fruity ones too, she might want to smoke something other than tobacco flavor....and that's something you can't get in a cigarette. But good luck!

 

[jersey_emt]

Good luck to your father. Family support is so important. They messed up his surgery and nicked his colon during the operation. They had to put him back into surgery just a day or 2 after the open-heart to repait their mistake. He had a 5% chance of living. But, I showed up every day, and brought him a picture of my son, who was 5 at the time.
He wrote "Get better, Grandpa" and drew a heart. My dad just fixated on the picture and letter and fought himself back to complete health. An amazing man.

Family support, and especially a young grandchild, can most definitely be an amazingly effective part of treating a serious illness. My mother was diagnosed with stage IV (extremely advanced) esophageal cancer in early November of 2007. It had already metastasized to other organs and distant lymph nodes, and she was told she had less than a month. But at the time, my sister was 5 months pregnant, and it was my parents' first grandchild. My mom told herself that she would live to see him born. He was born 4 months later in March 2008 on my mom's 59th birthday, and she held on until the end of July before passing. She was given 3-4 weeks but kept on going for 9 months, because she simply refused to die before the birth of her first grandchild. She even lived through a very dangerous and extensive surgery (two months after being diagnosed) that basically rearranged her entire GI tract, with only about a 5% chance of survival too.

 

[sixstring2slim]

Excellent, My name is Carson... I will introduce myself where it is appropriate very soon... I just felt compelled to address this Post. I too am hoping for a 0% but flavored Vap... (I gonna see if I can find a cappaccino flavor and then might be able to stop my $4.95 coffee addiction as well.. ~ with time of course. Thanx for the interesting post. Carson