Journalist Looking to Get Acquainted with the Vaping Community
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Hi journalist person. I applaud your stated purpose here. I hope you enjoy your time with this assignment. It is quite a community we have here.
Here is my condensed tale.
vaping has been a very important thing in my life. I have ADHD, and I refuse to take Ritalin or any of that stuff. I find that will caffeine and nicotine I can manage my runaway energy and lack of focus quite well. Many people who have known me for years would never guess I am ADHD. So I had to keep using nicotine. Smoking was the only way I could have it that satisfied my need for nicotine "on demand" when I really needed to focus. The gums were BS and made me hiccup constantly and want to puke, as did the lozenges. The patches were not effective.
I started vaping in late May 2012. I weighed 268 pounds and was in terrible shape, couldn't breathe well, and had trouble sleeping.
Today, I weigh 222 pounds (not bad, at 6'2"), can run and play basketball with my teenage sons, and sleep like I always wished I could almost every night. When we play shirts VS. skins basketball, I don't cringe when I have take my shirt off, nor does anyone else. When I started vaping, my breathing improved right away. I was able to start being much more active. This led me to changes in my diet (no sugar, no starches, no processed food) that also improved my health. So, maybe vaping didn't save my life, but it has made it 10X better. Sure, I made good decisions on top of vaping, but I don't think I would have started down this path without that catalyst.
I am passionate about this issue. I want other smokers to see and enjoy the benefits of it. For this reason, I defend my (and others) opportunity to have access to vaping, and suitable places to vape in, with extreme prejudice. I want everyone to feel this good.
Here is my condensed tale.
vaping has been a very important thing in my life. I have ADHD, and I refuse to take Ritalin or any of that stuff. I find that will caffeine and nicotine I can manage my runaway energy and lack of focus quite well. Many people who have known me for years would never guess I am ADHD. So I had to keep using nicotine. Smoking was the only way I could have it that satisfied my need for nicotine "on demand" when I really needed to focus. The gums were BS and made me hiccup constantly and want to puke, as did the lozenges. The patches were not effective.
I started vaping in late May 2012. I weighed 268 pounds and was in terrible shape, couldn't breathe well, and had trouble sleeping.
Today, I weigh 222 pounds (not bad, at 6'2"), can run and play basketball with my teenage sons, and sleep like I always wished I could almost every night. When we play shirts VS. skins basketball, I don't cringe when I have take my shirt off, nor does anyone else. When I started vaping, my breathing improved right away. I was able to start being much more active. This led me to changes in my diet (no sugar, no starches, no processed food) that also improved my health. So, maybe vaping didn't save my life, but it has made it 10X better. Sure, I made good decisions on top of vaping, but I don't think I would have started down this path without that catalyst.
I am passionate about this issue. I want other smokers to see and enjoy the benefits of it. For this reason, I defend my (and others) opportunity to have access to vaping, and suitable places to vape in, with extreme prejudice. I want everyone to feel this good.
Hey Simon ... how about putting that book down and laying down a second post in this thread you started?
Good point. Not that I am following you for potential subversive Anti-ProVarinati activity or anything....
I am beginning to think the only headline that could possibly come out of this thread is:
"Vapers Divided on Y'all"
"Vapers Divided on Y'all"
rofl!!! I grew up in Turkey, so English is my second language. For me, "y'all" is perfectly acceptable. English is a playful language. For a discussion of "you," "thou," and any number of ways of expressing the second person in the history of the English language, see etymology - Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Language is constantly evolving, no use getting hung up on it.
I've only recently added "y'all" as a natural extension to my vocabulary, since my GF is from TX.
I've only recently added "y'all" as a natural extension to my vocabulary, since my GF is from TX.
yawl dunno sheet bout how dis here interwebz wurks. I wuz BORN into the net. I was playin on sesame street's prodigy page while yawl was out playin with ur beepers. I was inventing emoticons never SEEN before and helping to write code for font rainbower and chat enter masher & mod kicker programs in a figurative hot tub surrounded by girls that wanted to be my AIM online girlfriends in AOL kid's chat before yawl even knew u cud use a computer to do stuff other than andromeda pinball & solitaire. Hacking before hacking was called hacking. Dis here is our wild wild west. I can spell however I want on the internet. We all can. All u grammar nazis cud do is judge us, behind ur little unexpandable flashy white "I bought a phone with the battery sealed inside of it a year ago and now I'm mad that I have to pay someone to change the battery" i-thingy with ur itunes that u cant burn or share music with, that u got because u thought the stainless steel hinges would match your kitchen appliances. Round here, we'll kick ur ARS! & we will lawl about it, cuz we're l33t. On the netz, we can spell however we'd like. We are Onion. We are all Anonz if we so wish. & we r L3gion. Expect us.
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well lets not go too hard on Simon just yet, he did after all use the words "Aquainted with the Vaping Community" and Aquainted means meet once or only a few times, so he probably is a journalist.
but since Simon aint been back, I think I will write a short mythological story for him,,,,, ergo here goes,
As I entered into the vaping community, I was overwhelmed by the passion these people had for vaping. I said nothing listening too there responses. Suddenly a beautiful vapor girl came from no where, with billowing clouds of vape coming out of her mouth, she thrust a large stack of vape down my mouth. I was in shock. Then she said to me, it tastes like cinnimon, but that aint my name. I thought about what she said and did what a good journalist does and said nothing. But the taste was overwhelming, I liked it so much now I am on my way to the vaperman to buy my vaper ecigs and become a vaperjournalist. The moral of the story is don't judge vapor people until you met cinnimon.... oops
but since Simon aint been back, I think I will write a short mythological story for him,,,,, ergo here goes,
As I entered into the vaping community, I was overwhelmed by the passion these people had for vaping. I said nothing listening too there responses. Suddenly a beautiful vapor girl came from no where, with billowing clouds of vape coming out of her mouth, she thrust a large stack of vape down my mouth. I was in shock. Then she said to me, it tastes like cinnimon, but that aint my name. I thought about what she said and did what a good journalist does and said nothing. But the taste was overwhelming, I liked it so much now I am on my way to the vaperman to buy my vaper ecigs and become a vaperjournalist. The moral of the story is don't judge vapor people until you met cinnimon.... oops
Y'all crack me up! Seriously. I am born and raised, second generation in Phoenix. Trust me it's extremely rare. 99% of everybody here is from somewhere else. We have a lot of people from the upper mid west, Canada, California, the south, and needless to say Mexico. So my speech, dialect and accent is a mixture of all of that. Scary, eh? Wait until I break out my southern Texan Canadian spanglish. It's really a treat!
Anyways to the OP journalist. On the internet you can claim to be anyone you want to be. Until you break out with the official credentials I will consider you an amateur blogger, because that's likely who you are at most. Honestly your post was a little strange for a professional.
Anyways to the OP journalist. On the internet you can claim to be anyone you want to be. Until you break out with the official credentials I will consider you an amateur blogger, because that's likely who you are at most. Honestly your post was a little strange for a professional.
That's what I figured as well.
Doesn't really matter anyway. I never understood people's need to call others out like that. Do we get a cookie if we're right?
I like cookies.
Not calling him out per se, just my observation. Heck I wouldn't mind the honest open minded opinion of an amateur blogger but please represent yourself as who you are, if that is the case. That's my beef.
I think it's great that a Jounalist is a part of this community. It's about time someone gathered research from actual vapors instead of text books, publicized mistakes and stupidity, as well as getting on a personal level with vapors.
I think I can speak for most of us to say that vaping has saved and improved the quality of our lives. It isn't the enemy. The main problem is that people don't trust what the FDA doesn't approve or regulate. Which I fully understand. But I also know some products that are FDA approved that have toxic chemicals to eat and are widely available.
A good place to get into reach is to find some stories posted in the E-cigarette success stories subforum. There are some really heart-string-pulling stories out there that even I tear up at when I read some. It does make me feel a little bit closer to the community as we all just open up to one another to let each other not know that we're not alone. Oh, and that mods are badass. We let each other know that, too.
EDIT: Even if he's an amature blogger, this is still a chance to get positive information out there. Maybe one day he'll reach 1,000,000 views and the e-cigarette blog is on the featured page? I feel that anyone and everyone deserves to know true facts and information on a subject, regardless if they're a vapor, smoker, or anti-everything else.
I think I can speak for most of us to say that vaping has saved and improved the quality of our lives. It isn't the enemy. The main problem is that people don't trust what the FDA doesn't approve or regulate. Which I fully understand. But I also know some products that are FDA approved that have toxic chemicals to eat and are widely available.
A good place to get into reach is to find some stories posted in the E-cigarette success stories subforum. There are some really heart-string-pulling stories out there that even I tear up at when I read some. It does make me feel a little bit closer to the community as we all just open up to one another to let each other not know that we're not alone. Oh, and that mods are badass. We let each other know that, too.
EDIT: Even if he's an amature blogger, this is still a chance to get positive information out there. Maybe one day he'll reach 1,000,000 views and the e-cigarette blog is on the featured page? I feel that anyone and everyone deserves to know true facts and information on a subject, regardless if they're a vapor, smoker, or anti-everything else.
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There is nothing wrong with bloggers. Heck, I am one. A hack blogger, but a blogger nonetheless.
I equate the better bloggers I have read with any "top-end" journalist.
Sure, anyone with a domain can be a blogger, but that is kind of the beauty of it, is it not?
I equate the better bloggers I have read with any "top-end" journalist.
Sure, anyone with a domain can be a blogger, but that is kind of the beauty of it, is it not?
The majority of my post was directed at the thread in general, not just at you.
Prove you're not a 6 pack a day smoker or an alien!
My point is, it doesn't matter who any of us really are - what matters is what we decide to share in the face of that anonymity. Why call someone out who claims to be a journalist, and not someone who claims to be a grandfather?
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