just wanted to say hello and be random

[WolfeReign]

Greetings and Salutations from up here in Canada! First off i want to say that if anyone has a great Canada joke, i would love to hear it!
Second i am amazed at how irc is starting to take off again from where it seemed to die down in what i think was 2000 i could be wrong though.
Ok, so with the small talk out of the way, i wanted to say that i before my wife bought me the Fumma starter pack and shipped it up to me i was up to two packs a day (and when we are paying $10 for a 25 pack and those are the "cheap smokes") it was getting expensive, not to mention when you have a suborn goat....erm i mean guy like me, you are not going to let something like a asthma get in the way of that smoke, same as going out side in bone chilling cold, or trenchant rain fall.....or so i thought.
Anyway as i was saying, my wife bought me the Fumma starter pack, and yes i was skeptical it was going to work, and sure i snickered at the thought of "analogue" cigarette's as being the funniest term ever for the pack i had as i charged it up. When the battery was fully charged, i screwed the canter on thinking "not going to work for me, but to humor my wife....." I tried the gum, the patch, the inhaler, the dancing with a Tu-Tu under a full moon to the great tobacco gods, nothing was going to work....
ok....so i was wrong....so VERY wrong....i love it. I have found something odd though, and i thought i would maybe toss it out there as a general inquiry. The last few days have been.....less then favorable, and loosing faith my e-cigarette was going to help me through it, i put it away and relied on my analog smokes. But then i started to feel rather run down, almost borderline depressed (even after the situation had cleared up). After building up the courage to take the e-cigarette out of the temporary storage i had it in today, i took the plastic cap off it that i put on it, took a few hits and......well it is hard to describe, but i am feeling way better....about myself, my outlook etc...
So here is my question
Has anyone else noticed that if they go a few days without their e-cigarette (in this case fumma as i have no experience with others) there is this feeling of feeling blah not so much depressed just blah? Or even if you are like me, and borderline on giving up the pack's of analog's for good you just feel worse when you light them up?

Hrmm, now if i have not confused anyone too bad i will say Hi there y'all!

 

[mooreted]

Welcome, glad you are getting off the cigarettes. As to your question: nicotine is a stimulant that improves mood and cognitive ability. Depression and difficulty concentrating are a couple of the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. Other symptoms include:

Flu-like symptoms
Irritability
Fatigue
Loss of appetite
Drowsiness or trouble sleeping, as well as bad dreams and nightmares

 

[lilac7779]

Welcome, Hunting Wolf. Like I tell my Mister...husbands should listen to their wives more.

I think smoking in general just takes a lot out of you. When addicted, we don't notice (or try hard to ignore it). When we find something better, like vaping, we start to realize just how bad it was to be a cig addict. Those things taste really foul after you have been off them for a while.

 

[WolfeReign]

Welcome, glad you are getting off the cigarettes. As to your question: nicotine is a stimulant that improves mood and cognitive ability. Depression and difficulty concentrating are a couple of the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. Other symptoms include:

Flu-like symptoms
Irritability
Fatigue
Loss of appetite
Drowsiness or trouble sleeping, as well as bad dreams and nightmares

I know about the Irritability, but not the rest of the list for nicotine withdraw that is very interesting, also i love the smoking Tux Avatar that is awesome I guess what i should do thought is state my question another way? which is Has anyone else noticed that if they set aside their e-cigarette and smoke just the analogue ones, they feel the symptoms listed above? Unless perhaps you mean that switching to just the e-cigarette gives you more nicotine? I am not sure if it is against TOS if i say the brands of analogue's, so i will say that this is usually the Contents listed on the side of my packs:
Toxic Emissions(Tar):14-34mg Nicotine:1.3-2.7 Carbon Monoxide:17-32mgFormaldehyde0.07-0.19mgHydrogen cyanide0.13-0.32mgBenzene0.046-0.091mg I have not been able to find the list for fumma so it is hard to make a comparison for starters...and second, i just realized there is nothing like being vague for my pack of smokes eh?!....lastly i did get a email back from Fumma when i noticed they said they where International but could not send to Canada.....something about our DOC (same as Food and Health for USA) will not allow them in here....how odd...

 

[WolfeReign]

Welcome, Hunting Wolf. Like I tell my Mister...husbands should listen to their wives more.

I think smoking in general just takes a lot out of you. When addicted, we don't notice (or try hard to ignore it). When we find something better, like vaping, we start to realize just how bad it was to be a cig addict. Those things taste really foul after you have been off them for a while.

LMAO lilac thanks for the laugh and the greetings...my sweet wife who is ever so pretty and i think i should give a massage too says the same thing that is us husbands need to listen to the wives more as us men will not palm face as much =))
I did notice that being off my brand of smokes even for a few hours, and thought i would cheat and sneak one in, and it just tasted horrid......i am thank for the forums are here to offer a great laugh, information and support even for husbands like me that never listen to their wives the first time around LOL.

 

[canap]

Howdy neighbor! I have been lurking for a couple months as well. I had the same issue when I tried quiting analogs before getting a ecig. I think the nicotine withdrawl does cause that but I think it also includes some of the nasty chemicals we are also withdrawling from.

 

[Dieseler]

A warm welcome to the forum Hunting.
Many years ago when i quit the analogs for about a year my wife told me to go back because i was very crabby and there were no vaping devices back then.
Now a days for past six months analog free not crabby at all and 1 would could not take my device from me unless i was sitting on Mr Porcelain and they better run fast !

 

[dormouse]

You need to have a decent compatible ecig with multiple ways to vape it. If you are using atomizers, they degrade and start to loose flavor and make less vapor. With cartomizers, you need to keep them damp with eliquid and replace them when they degrade (I can get 7-10 days use out of one, or about 20ml run through it). And within the first month most upgrade to a better ecig or at least buy a different one to try.

BTW - once you have 5 non-spammed posts or replies in New members then a 1 hour wait, you'll be able to post in the canada section and elsewhere. The Canada forum is in National forums, and in Buying & Selling are Canada vendor and Canada Classifieds sections

 

[WolfeReign]

*waves a hello and smiles* yes literally neighbors in this case LOL. If you don't mind me asking, but what of e-cigarette's do you have there? When i was in Calgary there was a shop downtown that was offering that "smoke anywhere" that was last year i was looking into them, and the guy was trying to do a high pressure sale, such as you got the battery and 1 single canter, for $100.00, the Charger and 3 extra Canters were going to be a total of $190.00 but because he liked me it was only $150. In his case there is a old saying that comes to mind with is never let them see you sweat never went back, and reading the forum i am glad i didn't. I am curious where (if possible) one can look for them in Canada or are we restricted to web site only? just curious, as if i can get the refills for Fumma here that would be excellent, but i really do not like dealing with web sites

 

[WolfeReign]

thank you for the greets Dieseler and the laugh about Mr. Porcelian though my wife and i have a joke about where one can smoke now and at what times....that is all i am going to say. Amazingly enough my wife who is a non smoker said right up front that she fully supported my smoking (and coffee drinking and mars bar eating) now i think she was right all along in this e-cigarette thing!

 

[WolfeReign]

thank you dormouse for the information even for the Canada section, that is awesome i did not know there was such a part of the site. Though i am a little confused on the "non spam"

 

[dormouse]

There are a lot of BS "NAME" vendors in the US. We mostly buy from multibrand shops like Liberty-Flights.com and LiteCigUSA.net, Cignot, and others. Or we buy reputable good-price "name" models that we know are certain good compatible models like the following are all KR808D-1 models: V4L, SmokelessImage, Bloogplanet, Halocigs G6. Or we buy mods - a lot buy mods that are 3.7v, high voltage or variable voltage and these use removable standard industrial protected or safe chemistry batteries.

 

[canap]

Hunting I don't know about Manitoba but in Sask there isn't even a web supplier. It is so much safer to order on line than it used to be and I think any of the suppliers on here would be fine. Since my Credit Union has hyper wallet not email transfer and alot of site don't have it as an option I have contacted a couple of sites and asked if they would send COD and it was no problem. With the email transfers or hyper wallet none of your finacial information goes to the supplier. a few weeks after I got the ego pass through I bought a ego torch 650 mah kit and use mostly use cartos with it. You can get ego kits for 39.95 now. Have you checked out the canada suppliers great sales on right now. Some are haveing orders from our neighbors to the south stopped at customs and they don't get them so I only order from Canadian sites.

 

[dormouse]

Don't post sequential replies. A mod might delete them. You are already past 5 assuming none get deleted. Now you need to wait an hour before you can post elsewhere on the forum.

And re big battery models and mods 450mah+ - those can also use the hotter low resistance atomizer and cartomizers for a hotter vape.

 

[WolfeReign]

Hunting I don't know about Manitoba but in Sask there isn't even a web supplier. It is so much safer to order on line than it used to be and I think any of the suppliers on here would be fine. Since my Credit Union has hyper wallet not email transfer and a lot of site don't have it as an option I have contacted a couple of sites and asked if they would send COD and it was no problem. With the email transfers or hyper wallet none of your financial information goes to the supplier. a few weeks after I got the ego pass through I bought a ego torch 650 mah kit and use mostly use cartos with it. You can get ego kits for 39.95 now. Have you checked out the Canada suppliers great sales on right now. Some are having orders from our neighbors to the south stopped at customs and they don't get them so I only order from Canadian sites.

Hrmm, i will have to check around here then to see if i can find anything. Not sure i fully understand the wattage on the e-cigarette now, but again i am still in my infancy right now, and trying to gather as much information right now as i can, and then go from there. The only reason why i was able to get the fumma was because my wife had done the research and presented it to me as a most awesome Christmas gift as i was always doing the teeter tooter effect on the idea...I have read about a lot of the shipments being stopped or sent back to the supplier, but after i got the email direct from Fumma, it would seem that (and this has me scratching my head) they are contraband the only thing i can see as to why customs would ever (and i do mean EVER) say something like that is it has to tie in the Government here is not getting a slice of the tax pie, or they cannot compensate for the failing so called "free" health care we have here (which is a whole other topic far beyond this site to discuss) In Honesty the whole reason i ever got into the idea about a year or so back was i was looking at you tube for videos and came across the electric blu instruction's.....then about a month later seen the complete set in a pawn shop (have to love Calgary LOL) but due to a lot of things there i moved over to Winnipeg....(go me). I will be sure to look up the distributors.....research and ask questions here

 

[WolfeReign]

ohhh ok, now i get it, thanks like i was just saying to canap not sure about the whole hotter vaping stuff, but again i am just in my infancy with this all....but a lot of reading and asking intelligent questions and i should be on my way in no time

 

[Traver]

Not sure i fully understand the wattage on the e-cigarette.....

This is the way it works
The more power battery sends to the coil the more juice that can be vaporized.
power = watts
More volts = more watts = more hit and smoke.
Lower ohms = more watts = more hit and smoke.

Using more watts will also drain your battery faster.
Small batteries will drain quicker and may not be able to provide enough power for lower ohm cartos.

 

[cactusgirl]

Hi Hunting, greetings from the east coast!

There is a lot of information here and I'm sure that it can be overwhelming but you'll be a pro in no time!

The Canadian forum is here - stop by and introduce yourself! Unfortunately, here in Canada, we don't have many 'brick and mortar' storefronts run by reputable vendors. At best, they're looking to make a quick buck at the expense of the ill-informed 'smoker'. Your best bet is to peruse the Canadian suppliers forum and take a look at their individual websites to see what they have. You can also request a more detailed list here via PM. Any questions, ask away. We're a great community here to help one another out.

PS-Most wives are more than just a pretty face....we know a thing or two about a thing or two too!!! LOL

 

[WolfeReign]

Hi Hunting, greetings from the east coast!

There is a lot of information here and I'm sure that it can be overwhelming but you'll be a pro in no time!

The Canadian forum is here - stop by and introduce yourself! Unfortunately, here in Canada, we don't have many 'brick and mortar' storefronts run by reputable vendors. At best, they're looking to make a quick buck at the expense of the ill-informed 'smoker'. Your best bet is to peruse the Canadian suppliers forum and take a look at their individual websites to see what they have. You can also request a more detailed list here via PM. Any questions, ask away. We're a great community here to help one another out.

PS-Most wives are more than just a pretty face....we know a thing or two about a thing or two too!!! LOL

LOL and greetings back......*snickers* oh how true....my wife knows by far way more then me....in fact she knows how to give me the face when i did something wrong LOL, but all seriousness she is awesome! I thank you for the info you gave, i have been sifting through it...not sure on being a pro thing...i will leave that for people smarter then myself =))