Just leave me alone and let me vape!!

[lgboogie19]

Does anyone else get bothered when every time theyre using a pv in public someone always has to be all nosey and all up in your business? I dont know about the rest of you but Im done explaining to people every single day what it is and how it works. If someone truly is interested in quitting smoking and needs help and advice thats a different story, but just some random getting in my business is so old. Were in a free country, its not illegal and i just wanna vape in peace and not be questioned every time about how im using {SOMETHING BAD}. I realize people need to be educated about them but sometimes it gets really old, i just wanna vape and if im explaining to someone the ins and outs of an e cig, i cant vape. End rant.

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[Huckleberried]

Get some CASAA cards, hand them out to them. ?

 

[Worzel]

Ahh the questions! They sure do get annoying! I have been at this for over two years, it is nothing new to me, I see people smoking the coffin nails and wonder "are people STILL doing that?" I am the only vaper at my new job, so you can imagine my first day at work when everybody steps out for a stinky, and I whip out my vape

 

[devauto]

Not to get up in anyone's business, but continued drug references in this thread will get it deleted with prejudice by the moderators.

 

[Caridwen]

Sort of. I usually use a mini or something small in public.

I have to say that 90% of the time it's smokers or family members of smokers that ask me about it because they want to know if it works. If that's the case, it's worth it. I don't was my time with the haters.

 

[vaperature]

Ah, people are just curious. If you're going to vape in public just accept that you're part of the public. How are you going to stop people's curiosity? You can always tell them, "none of your business" or "I don't want to talk about it" but that certainly would raise suspicion.

 

[Caridwen]

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ation/255864-why-we-dont-allow-drug-talk.html

 

[WillyZee]

get some headphones ... and crank up the music

 

[Worzel]

Ah, people are just curious. If you're going to vape in public just accept that you're part of the public. How are you going to stop people's curiosity? You can always tell them, "none of your business" or "I don't want to talk about it" but that certainly would raise suspicion.

Heh heh, then the cops would be called, and a million questions to be answered for them. My favorite reply for people who ask questions about "ahem!" I tell them if that were the case, why would I be out here in public puffing away, answering all kinds of nonsense questions?

 

[Steamix]

Depends on the tone of the questions:
Genuine interest - no problems with it. Patience is a virtue and I still find a smile in situations where even a Tibetan monk would go berserk...
But if they ask me because they just seek to confirm their prejudices without really listening, I politely direct them to www.gtfomf.org to read all about it...

 

[D. Waterhouse]

I've been vaping for over 4 years and never had a problem with people asking about it. Truth be told with all the false negative press that's out there I enjoy proving the doubters wrong.

 

[catlady60]

One time I vaped in a restaurant, I got a reaction that I never expected. A couple of waiters wanted to know what it was and where they could get one. These two waiters wanted to try vaping!

 

[always9988]

The most annoying to me... "Isn't that the thing I keep hearing about that are blowing up in people's faces? Why would you do something that dangerous?"

 

[Worzel]

One time I vaped in a restaurant, I got a reaction that I never expected. A couple of waiters wanted to know what it was and where they could get one. These two waiters wanted to try vaping!

I love when the conversation goes in that direction! My boss, I guess, just started smoking again. His wife saw me outside vaping, and was asking me all kinds of questions, kind of like she wanted to get him one. I know he thinks vaping is goofy, so I had to warn him. Uggggh. Ethics. I always advise against gifting e cigs. Especially non smokers gifting e cigs to smokers. They don't know about flavors, nic levels, or equipment. They just get what's cheap, or handy. Then their feelings get hurt if it doesn't stick.

 

[kenbu]

That is just bizzare that someone would approach you with such questions. I don't get overhear others or get approached often but when I do, it's usually from a smoker who knows about electronic cigarettes or knows someone who has switched and is curious. If I have the time to chat (which I usually do since I'm... well vaping), I'm more than willing to. Then again I'm a recent convert and I can see that getting old after a while.

 

[wonner]

Does anyone else get bothered when every time theyre using a pv in public someone always has to be all nosey and all up in your business? I dont know about the rest of you but Im done explaining to people every single day what it is and how it works. If someone truly is interested in quitting smoking and needs help and advice thats a different story, but just some random getting in my business is so old. Were in a free country, its not illegal and i just wanna vape in peace and not be questioned every time about how im using heroine out of it or getting high. I realize people need to be educated about them but sometimes it gets really old, i just wanna vape and if im explaining to someone the ins and outs of an e cig, i cant vape. End rant.

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You need to hang with a lower class of people.

Around here, you could be smoking just about anything in any type of device and nobody would give a second glance.

 

[mavric]

I don't find it annoying. I like that people see me as an approachable person. You never know what might come of it.

 

[lgboogie19]

Maybe im just not as personable as others but if im on a smoke/vape break, id just like to enjoy the five or ten minutes to myself. As much as i love vaping, it seems to open up a can of worms with randoms and people who would otherwise never talk to you. I kinda liked when i smoked and people just left me alone.

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[Baldr]

A lot of people aren't familiar with it at all, and others have "sort of heard about it" but have no real experience. Of course some of them are going to ask questions. That isn't going to change until it's much better known, which probably means a lot more people vaping in public.

If you can't stand it that someone says "what is what" or "does that really work", then you need to vape in private.

I vape in public all the time. I get the same questions and such. Nobody is ever complaining about it. Mostly it's people who are curious what it is, or "does it really work". Lately, I've been running into more vapers who are asking "where do you buy your stuff" and "what flavor are you using" and "what kind of tank is that" and similar.

I carry business cards for several of the local vape shops. Depending on what else I'm doing and their interest level, I can give them a very short spiel, or take more time, and I hand them a couple of business cards. I've actually considered having special cards made up, with a short description of vaping on one side, and links to ECF and several local vape shops on the other, so that handing them one card will take care of all the basics.

IMO, if you can't stand people asking about it, then you can't vape in public, because people are going to be curious, and there isn't any way for you to vape in public without some of them asking questions.

 

[Baldr]

I love when the conversation goes in that direction! My boss, I guess, just started smoking again. His wife saw me outside vaping, and was asking me all kinds of questions, kind of like she wanted to get him one. I know he thinks vaping is goofy, so I had to warn him. Uggggh. Ethics. I always advise against gifting e cigs. Especially non smokers gifting e cigs to smokers. They don't know about flavors, nic levels, or equipment. They just get what's cheap, or handy. Then their feelings get hurt if it doesn't stick.

I'm with you on the "don't gift e-cigs or vape stuff". I'd make an exception, and that's if the person receiving the gift asked for it - and in that case, they should be specific. Not "some kind of e-cig" but "an ego twist 1000 with two batteries, a charger, and a Kanger Protank II", for instance. Or "I've been dying for a Provari" or "I'd kill for a Reo VV woody". Specific, not generic.

I have gifted stuff to several people. Some of it was my old hand-me-down equipment, and some of it, I took them to the local vape shop, helped them pick stuff out, paid for it myself.

In every case where I gave them equipment/juice to get going, they tried it, said "Oh, yeah, this is helping, I'm cutting down on my smoking, I like it". And in every case, within a month or two, they had quit vaping and were still smoking. One of them tells me she still vapes some, at work, but when she's around me, she still smokes and I haven't seen her with a PV for several months.

People that want to make the switch need to come up with their own money. And they can. After all, they can afford cigs. I spent around $120 on "day 1" when I started vaping, but I spent more than that on cigs every two weeks. I didn't quit smoking on day 1 - but it cut my cigs down to roughly half right away, so it didn't take long to "save" that $120, and it acted as incentive to try and make it work.

If they really want to quit, they'll come up with the money. And if they don't really want to quit, vaping isn't going to make them.

It's not the same as smoking. There is an adjustment period, and there is a learning curve, and you need to find the right flavor and nic level, etc. And if you simply were given a gift and try it out, then chances are, it's not going to work.