Hi everyone! My name is Ben!
The reason I started vaping in the first place was to alleviate tension and stress. I began when I turned 18. I spend hundreds of dollars into this hobby back then. The tension that I felt was all due to an injury I had a few months before starting to vape. At the time, I worked in a tourist trap business in Colorado that sold candies and ice cream. One day I had a customer ask for help with the fudge display in the back. Not realizing that the trap door was wide open in the back I stepped behind the counter. The cash register was to the back of me, so I stepped backwards. That's all I remember until I woke up in a hospital with nurses and doctors surrounding me. The first thing they all said was that I was lucky to be alive. The police measured my fall, which ended up being 15 ft. I fractured my spine in 2 places, split my head open, and suffered slight brain damage.
Fast forward about 3.5 years to now. In the last year, I've been to 5 different psychiatric hospitals. The most recent was Johns Hopkins. Boy, was I glad to go there. My first stay at JH resulted in 2 months away from family. I was hospitalized twice after that too. After leaving the most recent stay, I was put in a psychiatric program for over 5 months. I finally graduated a few weeks ago, but I started to notice something strange. I wanted to start smoking cigarettes. I had a strange oral craving. The next SSI check I received, I spent it all on vape supplies. It has turned into a huge hobby of mine and stopped me from going forward with cigarettes. And I haven't had dark thoughts in over 2 months! I'm feeling like a new me!
My current setup is a smok G-Priv w/ 2 Alien Clapton wires on my favorite RDA: Dead Rabbit. I've made new friends from vaping since I frequent the store often, sometimes not buying anything.
Enough of my pity story! How are all you wonderful people doing?
The reason I started vaping in the first place was to alleviate tension and stress. I began when I turned 18. I spend hundreds of dollars into this hobby back then. The tension that I felt was all due to an injury I had a few months before starting to vape. At the time, I worked in a tourist trap business in Colorado that sold candies and ice cream. One day I had a customer ask for help with the fudge display in the back. Not realizing that the trap door was wide open in the back I stepped behind the counter. The cash register was to the back of me, so I stepped backwards. That's all I remember until I woke up in a hospital with nurses and doctors surrounding me. The first thing they all said was that I was lucky to be alive. The police measured my fall, which ended up being 15 ft. I fractured my spine in 2 places, split my head open, and suffered slight brain damage.
Fast forward about 3.5 years to now. In the last year, I've been to 5 different psychiatric hospitals. The most recent was Johns Hopkins. Boy, was I glad to go there. My first stay at JH resulted in 2 months away from family. I was hospitalized twice after that too. After leaving the most recent stay, I was put in a psychiatric program for over 5 months. I finally graduated a few weeks ago, but I started to notice something strange. I wanted to start smoking cigarettes. I had a strange oral craving. The next SSI check I received, I spent it all on vape supplies. It has turned into a huge hobby of mine and stopped me from going forward with cigarettes. And I haven't had dark thoughts in over 2 months! I'm feeling like a new me!
My current setup is a smok G-Priv w/ 2 Alien Clapton wires on my favorite RDA: Dead Rabbit. I've made new friends from vaping since I frequent the store often, sometimes not buying anything.
Enough of my pity story! How are all you wonderful people doing?
