The gear: Black with copper vein VV Reo Grand, 306 atty with big bootiful amber glass drip tip.
The setup: Seeing a new MD today.
I've never been self conscious about my gear or vaping in public. Just do it, always done it, and if you aren't an assclown about it it's never been a problem.
So I was at the MD's this morning, just plonked my Reo on the credenza not thinking about it - that's me. We were chatting away about... me, and at some point the Doctor gestures at my Reo and asks "Is that your asthma inhaler?"
Well, I never need much of an excuse to educate an MD about vaping.
When I told her it was an e-cigarette (have to get it in context somehow...) her eyes kinda bugged out. When I told her it had been over three years since I had my last cigarette her eyes bugged out even more. Have a feeling she has seen a lot of quit smoking fails.
Love playing show and tell with a Reo, because it's so 'not a cigarette' appearance actually makes it easier to explain what's going on when you need to do a show-and-tell. It has stuff people can actually relate to: batteries that look like batteries. A bottle that when I tell the MD "that holds 6 ml's of liquid" - they get that bottle, get the capacity, and what that means for intake when you talk about your liquids usage and nic level. "..and it goes from here up to there and gets heated by that and..." Everything is self evident.
We chatted about the whole mg's/ml issue, nic absorption method and intake, the flexibility of changing or lowering nic intake - you know the 'teach an MD' drill.
I know she was impressed by the Reo. But to be honest I think she was more more impressed by the fact that she met someone who hasn't had a single relapse in over three years. Gonna drop off some printouts for her from the CASAA library in a couple days.
Get them "asthma inhalers" out there my fellow Reonuts and maybe strike up a conversation!
Of course if that had been my old Tesla APV with a... well with anything mounted out it I bet she probably would have been asking a different question.
The setup: Seeing a new MD today.
I've never been self conscious about my gear or vaping in public. Just do it, always done it, and if you aren't an assclown about it it's never been a problem.
So I was at the MD's this morning, just plonked my Reo on the credenza not thinking about it - that's me. We were chatting away about... me, and at some point the Doctor gestures at my Reo and asks "Is that your asthma inhaler?"
Well, I never need much of an excuse to educate an MD about vaping.
When I told her it was an e-cigarette (have to get it in context somehow...) her eyes kinda bugged out. When I told her it had been over three years since I had my last cigarette her eyes bugged out even more. Have a feeling she has seen a lot of quit smoking fails.Love playing show and tell with a Reo, because it's so 'not a cigarette' appearance actually makes it easier to explain what's going on when you need to do a show-and-tell. It has stuff people can actually relate to: batteries that look like batteries. A bottle that when I tell the MD "that holds 6 ml's of liquid" - they get that bottle, get the capacity, and what that means for intake when you talk about your liquids usage and nic level. "..and it goes from here up to there and gets heated by that and..." Everything is self evident.
We chatted about the whole mg's/ml issue, nic absorption method and intake, the flexibility of changing or lowering nic intake - you know the 'teach an MD' drill.
I know she was impressed by the Reo. But to be honest I think she was more more impressed by the fact that she met someone who hasn't had a single relapse in over three years. Gonna drop off some printouts for her from the CASAA library in a couple days.
Get them "asthma inhalers" out there my fellow Reonuts and maybe strike up a conversation!
Of course if that had been my old Tesla APV with a... well with anything mounted out it I bet she probably would have been asking a different question.
