my strange last few weeks-month vaping

[JC Okie]

We'll have to compare local vape shops.
Even though I can barely remember the last time I was in one, lol.

Vapor Kings down here has a couple of stores, and I know some of the folks who work in them. Back in 2011 when they opened their first B&M, I volunteered in their Mingo store for over a year. I didn’t want to be on the payroll, (I had a full-time job as a college professor,) so I volunteered and they accepted it. I worked about 25 hours a week for them....every afternoon from about 2:30 to closing. They gave me the run of the store and treated me like a valued employee. I wanted to “teach” new people about this miracle - it was as simple as that. After they staffed up and got things going big-time (expanded their space three times, then opened another store) I sort of backed off. This was back when it was all kinda new and people would come in sooooo very clueless. Took a lot of explaining back then to get someone going.

It may sound stupid. But I was so overwhelmed with my success (after 41 years of smoking and almost that many attempts to quit) that all I wanted to do was sing it’s praises and convert every smoker who wanted to try. It was a mission. LOL As I mentioned in another post, I don’t have much of a social life.

These days I wrap my own coils, repair my own mods, and make my own juice. I don’t go to any vape shops anymore. Not even to see what’s new. I’m so set. I could vape forever and never buy anything new.

 

[JC Okie]

You're about to hit year 8.........
Can I come pick through your mods?

hahaha. I have about 35 of them....I probably wouldn’t miss a few. LOL

Add: and I hit 8 years back in June....

 

[Rangertrix]

Vapor Kings down here has a couple of stores, and I know some of the folks who work in them. Back in 2011 when they opened their first B&M, I volunteered in their Mingo store for over a year. I didn’t want to be on the payroll, (I had a full-time job as a college professor,) so I volunteered and they accepted it. I worked about 25 hours a week for them....every afternoon from about 2:30 to closing. They gave me the run of the store and treated me like a valued employee. I wanted to “teach” new people about this miracle - it was as simple as that. After they staffed up and got things going big-time (expanded their space three times, then opened another store) I sort of backed off. This was back when it was all kinda new and people would come in sooooo very clueless. Took a lot of explaining back then to get someone going.

It may sound stupid. But I was so overwhelmed with my success (after 41 years of smoking and almost that many attempts to quit) that all I wanted to do was sing it’s praises and convert every smoker who wanted to try. It was a mission. LOL As I mentioned in another post, I don’t have much of a social life.

I bought a setup from them when they had just opened their first store on Mingo.
They were tiny then.
I always went in to get my Red&White and their VK branded low resistance (1.5 ohm, lol) dual coil carts.
I helped finance their newer locations, lol.
I shied away from them when they began to let the young 'uns take over.
Definitely a far cry from when it was a tiny shop owned/run by a pair of guys serving the community.

 

[JC Okie]

I bought a setup from them when they had just opened their first store on Mingo.
They were tiny then.
I always went in to get my Red&White and their VK branded low resistance (1.5 ohm, lol) dual coil carts.
I helped finance their newer locations, lol.
I shied away from them when they began to let the young 'uns take over.
Definitely a far cry from when it was a tiny shop owned/run by a pair of guys serving the community.

I’ll bet you’ve met me and just don’t know it. It was just Jeff (the Manager) and me for several months. Then we hired Corey, a younger guy, but good. Then they just grew and grew, and the kids took over. But at first it was awesome. I couldn’t even begin to count how many eGo starter kits I’ve set up for people. When I would walk in at 2:30 the line would be out the door....and several times as I walked in (to help the single employee) people in the line would cheer. LOL I, too, took my leave when they staffed-up with the young’uns. By that time vaping had definitely caught on, and I no longer felt indispensable.

An interesting note: they’ve taken the Mingo store back to the size it was before they got the space next door and knocked the wall out and set up the Vape Lounge part. Hmmm.

 

[Rangertrix]

I’ll bet you’ve met me and just don’t know it. It was just Jeff (the Manager) and me for several months. Then we hired Corey, a younger guy, but good. Then they just grew and grew, and the kids took over. But at first it was awesome. I couldn’t even begin to count how many eGo starter kits I’ve set up for people. When I would walk in at 2:30 the line would be out the door....and several times as I walked in (to help the single employee) people in the line would cheer. LOL I, too, took my leave when they staffed-up with the young’uns. By that time vaping had definitely caught on, and I no longer felt indispensable.

An interesting note: they’ve taken the Mingo store back to the size it was before they got the space next door and knocked the wall out and set up the Vape Lounge part. Hmmm.

Without selling liquid, and the internet sales taking off they probably found they didn't need it.
(and not being able to sell to the high school kids anymore)
I think the last time I bought anything there was my Russian 91%s and a Provari Mini in a color Provape was out of.

 

[Rangertrix]

Your thread may have been hi-jacked if...........

 

[Rangertrix]

An interesting note: they’ve taken the Mingo store back to the size it was before they got the space next door and knocked the wall out and set up the Vape Lounge part. Hmmm.

Maybe we should start one for Green Country Vapers. lol

 

[Frenchfry1942]

I found, for me, that when I got to a 2ish Nic level, my business just kinda got in the way. Even as I went down from one level to the next.

But, in the same sense, I like the Nic hit occasionally. I sit at 4% and if I need, I will vape for an extra 2 minutes.

Life still gets in the way.

 

[UrNsFace]

The hunger he’s talking about is just a metaphor. It sounds to me like you’re pretty done with the nic addiction. You might just go with zero nic for a few vaping sessions and see how it works. I’ve always known that the smoking was a two-fold problem for me: hand to mouth and nicotine. I’m way, way down on my nic, but I still enjoy vaping as much as ever just because I like having it to puff on. I CAN go for hours and hours without vaping if I need to without going crazy (unlike when I was smoking, for sure!). But when I’m in a position to vape, I like it.

Edit to add: after vaping for over 8 years, the psychological part of it - - the first cig of the morning, after meals, smoke breaks at work.....all of that went away sooooo long ago. I’m no longer on the “I need one every 20 minutes and I’m gonna be stewing over it (to some degree) until I get one” mindset anymore. I never have a craving for vaping these days, really, but I ALWAYS have my PV at hand, and vape whenever I want to....even if I have to be a little stealthy about it. After so long, vaping has taken on a life (with me) of its own which really has little connection to my past smoking. It totally replaced smoking, and for ME there’s no fear of going back to smoking. They are two completely different things.

since i posted this discussion

in the following days after i posted this i experienced some more cravings during the day for nicotine....
but i limited myself to one vaping session (like 10 - 15 puffs maybe) like 2-3 hours before i go to sleep and that was enough for me i guess, that was a bit hard but it was fine i guess
then i decided to cut my nicotine consumption to none and now im in my second day of vaping no nicotine
been using that 0mg disgusting taste e liquid but i feel like that helps even psychologically....
oh man that .... is hard, even from one session a day to none is a big deal
i dont remember how it was with analogs exactly but waow thats still not that easy....
one good thing in that whole mess though, even though im going through great pain (not all day, it comes and goes and when it goes i feel the best i have ever felt in the past few years) i have no actual cravings to cigarettes and have no intentions to even try that crap since i know for a fact that i wont stand another puff of the smelly harsh burning smoke coming out of the cigarette....

 

[vapdivrr]

So why does vaping make you hungry for food?