Hi Everyone,
Steven from the UK.
I thought it might be helpful to highlight what has happened since I gave up smoking, and started vaping 6 months ago.
Myself and my wife started vaping at the same time, after smoking 30 a day between us for 20+years.
Like most, we read the newspaper adverts for the 'small-similar-size-to-real-cig' ecigs, and gave them a try. They were not bad for a few days, until the batteries started running on empty every two hours, which was seriously annoying.
We tried a few other ecigs of the same size, all the same, batteries are totally, and absolutely useless for longterm usage.
Even though the small ecigs started to serious annoy us, the batteries, we could see how the concept could work, so we set about looking for a really viable, longterm option, and came across the VGO vapers, which we easily get a full day out of a charge, with 500 mm cartridges, and this changed the whole deal for us.
What we did then, was thought about how many cartridges we would need, batteries, and juices to last us a whole year. Why a year? Well, I don't do things by halves ;-) Although we estimated that we would need to change cartridges every 3 days, based on how often we changed them on the 'smaller' ecigs. We got this wrong. We probably have to change them weekly instead, and could easily go 2 weeks with the same cartridge, so we now have probably 3 years worth of cartridges, haha.
No matter really, because even though we have only been vaping for 6 months, we have EASILY recouped our cost, and are now saving £300 a month easily ($468 approx).
We have just come back from a two week skiing holiday, where we also took the ecigs, and it was great. No problems getting them through customs, and even used them in the airport, and bars at night - fantastic.
Health-wise?
Well, me and the wife have definitely put on weight since giving up cigarettes, which is natural, because your taste buds recover, and you get a taste for food again. And hey, I would prefer a few pounds being put on, rather than knowing my lungs are still getting bunged up with life-ending sh&te.
Makes sense, right?
Actually though, my lungs feel as clear as they did when I was a kid, honestly, if I breathe right the way in, filling my lungs, that 'rattling' that all the smokers have is completely gone, and I do feel healthy.
Fingers not yellow anymore. Teeth returning to normal colour (UK spelling) - excellent.
Any negatives?
Hmmm. Strange one this, because the ONLY slight negative I do have, and I have no idea how it happened is this:
OK, so we started vaping, trying all the available juice flavours (UK spelling), as you do. You pick what flavours you like, etc. etc. and then you experiment, right?
Of course you do.
But here's what happened..
As the weeks went by, and as your taste buds change, and are recovering from all the years of smoking, I found that the initial vapour flavours I liked 2/3 weeks earlier, I could not stand anymore, which meant I had purchased bottles of them, and cannot stand the flavours now.
Also, now, I find that nearly all flavours other than 2 (Red mix USA, and menthol) just taste rank (horrid), which is weird. I cannot understand why I can hardly even taste earlier flavours properly anymore, only the 2 I now use all the time (as above). A bit weird, and this leads me to believe that my body seems to have adapted, and accepted 2 flavours, because I now use them all the time, and will not tolerate any other flavours (they just taste disgusting, even though 2 months ago they tasted fine?!).
This leads me to believe, that the vaping IS doing something to create a permanent lasting effect on my body, and if that is the case, then it got me to thinking that this is not just 'breathing in flavoured steam', etc. because it is having a permanent effect on my taste, which could be a concern.
I suppose what I am trying to say, is that I definitely cannot taste the vaped flavours like I used to be able to when I first started, so this makes me think that the vaping has already started 'doing something', good or bad to my body/taste buds, which is the ONLY concern I have about all this.
To use an analogy, let's say you started eating different flavour chocolate: Mint-choc, Orange-choc, and Dark-choc, if say after 2 weeks you suddenly stopped eating the Mint-choc, for say, 2 months, and continued with the other 2, then started eating the Mint-choc again, you would still be able to taste it as if you had always been eating it. The taste and flavour would still be there, right?
Well, I have found that the vaped juices are no longer tasting as they did, even after a few weeks of not using them. In fact, they make my stomach turn, even though they were once a favoured flavour. So this is what I am saying, something 'could be' happening that is permanent, and is in the back of my mind.
Everything else? Great. I feel healthy, saving money, smelling great, etc. etc. But something is definitely happening, which puts a tiny doubt in the back of my mind, as to... well, you know.
Anyway, this could go on for ever, so I hope this helps anyone looking at starting vaping.
Take it easy, do your homework, and be safe.
Steven
Steven from the UK.
I thought it might be helpful to highlight what has happened since I gave up smoking, and started vaping 6 months ago.
Myself and my wife started vaping at the same time, after smoking 30 a day between us for 20+years.
Like most, we read the newspaper adverts for the 'small-similar-size-to-real-cig' ecigs, and gave them a try. They were not bad for a few days, until the batteries started running on empty every two hours, which was seriously annoying.
We tried a few other ecigs of the same size, all the same, batteries are totally, and absolutely useless for longterm usage.
Even though the small ecigs started to serious annoy us, the batteries, we could see how the concept could work, so we set about looking for a really viable, longterm option, and came across the VGO vapers, which we easily get a full day out of a charge, with 500 mm cartridges, and this changed the whole deal for us.
What we did then, was thought about how many cartridges we would need, batteries, and juices to last us a whole year. Why a year? Well, I don't do things by halves ;-) Although we estimated that we would need to change cartridges every 3 days, based on how often we changed them on the 'smaller' ecigs. We got this wrong. We probably have to change them weekly instead, and could easily go 2 weeks with the same cartridge, so we now have probably 3 years worth of cartridges, haha.
No matter really, because even though we have only been vaping for 6 months, we have EASILY recouped our cost, and are now saving £300 a month easily ($468 approx).
We have just come back from a two week skiing holiday, where we also took the ecigs, and it was great. No problems getting them through customs, and even used them in the airport, and bars at night - fantastic.
Health-wise?
Well, me and the wife have definitely put on weight since giving up cigarettes, which is natural, because your taste buds recover, and you get a taste for food again. And hey, I would prefer a few pounds being put on, rather than knowing my lungs are still getting bunged up with life-ending sh&te.
Makes sense, right?
Actually though, my lungs feel as clear as they did when I was a kid, honestly, if I breathe right the way in, filling my lungs, that 'rattling' that all the smokers have is completely gone, and I do feel healthy.
Fingers not yellow anymore. Teeth returning to normal colour (UK spelling) - excellent.
Any negatives?
Hmmm. Strange one this, because the ONLY slight negative I do have, and I have no idea how it happened is this:
OK, so we started vaping, trying all the available juice flavours (UK spelling), as you do. You pick what flavours you like, etc. etc. and then you experiment, right?
Of course you do.
But here's what happened..
As the weeks went by, and as your taste buds change, and are recovering from all the years of smoking, I found that the initial vapour flavours I liked 2/3 weeks earlier, I could not stand anymore, which meant I had purchased bottles of them, and cannot stand the flavours now.
Also, now, I find that nearly all flavours other than 2 (Red mix USA, and menthol) just taste rank (horrid), which is weird. I cannot understand why I can hardly even taste earlier flavours properly anymore, only the 2 I now use all the time (as above). A bit weird, and this leads me to believe that my body seems to have adapted, and accepted 2 flavours, because I now use them all the time, and will not tolerate any other flavours (they just taste disgusting, even though 2 months ago they tasted fine?!).
This leads me to believe, that the vaping IS doing something to create a permanent lasting effect on my body, and if that is the case, then it got me to thinking that this is not just 'breathing in flavoured steam', etc. because it is having a permanent effect on my taste, which could be a concern.
I suppose what I am trying to say, is that I definitely cannot taste the vaped flavours like I used to be able to when I first started, so this makes me think that the vaping has already started 'doing something', good or bad to my body/taste buds, which is the ONLY concern I have about all this.
To use an analogy, let's say you started eating different flavour chocolate: Mint-choc, Orange-choc, and Dark-choc, if say after 2 weeks you suddenly stopped eating the Mint-choc, for say, 2 months, and continued with the other 2, then started eating the Mint-choc again, you would still be able to taste it as if you had always been eating it. The taste and flavour would still be there, right?
Well, I have found that the vaped juices are no longer tasting as they did, even after a few weeks of not using them. In fact, they make my stomach turn, even though they were once a favoured flavour. So this is what I am saying, something 'could be' happening that is permanent, and is in the back of my mind.
Everything else? Great. I feel healthy, saving money, smelling great, etc. etc. But something is definitely happening, which puts a tiny doubt in the back of my mind, as to... well, you know.
Anyway, this could go on for ever, so I hope this helps anyone looking at starting vaping.
Take it easy, do your homework, and be safe.
Steven
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