Haha, that's to funny about the round 2 draws all being you as well!
This is very cool, I never win anything! I've entered MANY draws for various items across hundreds of forums, and I just joined this forum not long ago, and actually just got started into looking to vaping so I could stop with analogs.
What a welcomed change! It's a awesome community here, and I've actually won something here too, I'm sure I'll continue to love this forum even if I do eventually get to stop smoking. I do hope to stop vaping as well once I get away from analogs, but I'm sure that will take a much longer process as I plan to walk myself down the nic level ladder.
Congrats to all the other winners, and HUGE thanks to everyone @ MaddCatt Vapors * PolkaDotPenny for hosting this contest!!
, but you sound very honest so I thought I'd ask. I was looking into vaping to cut back on $$ initially, and then someday hopefully eventually quit everything. Nicotine itself is still not healthy for us right, but WAY better than analogs. And so, even though vaping is so much healthier than analogs, so shouldn't I also try to quit it as well eventually? 
Thanks for taking the time to share your extended thoughts! Electronic discussions are often becoming shorter and shorter these days, and I often even feel bad when replying or emailing to someone and right before I post or send I look and it seems like a huge amount to read so I often worry if they'll feel overwhelmed. I usually write a whole schpeel about my thoughts or questions to people, then get a sentence reply and often wonder if they maybe thought I wrote way to much to read. So it's great to see when others take the time to write out a nice long reply, most appreciated!
And, of course, thank you so much for sharing those personal details! It's always nice to know where things started and how! Very sorry to hear about your daughters father passing! Never forget, always remember the love, and always try to move forward! Otherwise the pain can bring you down, and our loved ones who've moved on wouldn't want that for us at all!
It's great to hear your daughter is now in a better place! Sounds like that all worked out for the best too, now she's home and you guys have your own business, and she still gets to finish her school too!
I wish you both all the best, and hope your pains and struggles lessen each day! Thank you again for taking the time to share so much!
As for your initial thoughts, do you really think I shouldn't want to be quitting altogether? I know you own a shop, so it's counterintuitive to say yes
at times, so I can see myself continuing to vape no matter what!
They might find out tomorrow some horrid thing about vaping but I just can't see how I am worse off than when I was smoking....soooo...I'll vape on. If the day ever comes when I want to quit vaping I will....until then it's no worries and where the heck is my drip atty?
Last year, at tax time, I had a little bit of disposable income -mad money if you like to call it that- and was eyeing the latest RPG Video game. Then I tought about my cousin, she's my vaping mentor, and how she had started vaping. I looked around, on my own, a bit, on line and like all noobs was overwhelmed. I gave her a call and she steered me to ECF. I was then, as I had for many prior years, a 2.5 PAD smoker of Mar**oro 100s. I thought I'd give it a try since it looked so much like smoking.
My analog use immiediately decreased by 90%; 10 analogs a day. I visted my cousing and she gave my another PV, a bag full of e-liquid that she wouldn't vape any more because of the Nic level, and mixed for me, on the spot some Pear and Watermelon e-liquid. I was intrigued and started the learning curve with DIY.
It was about a month after I started vaping, and still smoked, I decided one day, "I think I'll try to go today without an analog. I want the flavor a vanilla latte more than the flavor of an analog." The first day was the hardest. I smoked a lot while driving and my commute home from work was a bit nervous as I hadn't considered how to transport or use my PV while driving.
It's been easier ever since. I did have a severe craving for a cigar....so I went to a "fancy-shmancy" e-liquid vendor, known for their cigar flavor, ordered some high Nic leve cigar e-liquid and managed to hold out until I got it. I direct dripped some and haven't looked back since.
Plans for the future re: vaping? No. Plans for the present? Yes!
But Congrats to ALL of the Winners!!