Hi everyone!
As the name implies, I'm a commission-only sales associate who has been 18 years in the highly competitive, nerve-shredding world of retail appliance sales.
After two and a half years of smoking (a by-product of layer upon layer of increasing stress and economic turmoil), I'd decided that enough was enough after the news about the new and deadlier additives now being put in our cigs to promote fire safety.
I did a little research to determine the best, most economical alternative in the E-Cig world and ended up ordering a Blu-Cig starter kit, and a carton of "full flavor" cartridges in Magnificent Menthol.
It all seemed great in theory with the charging pack, full-flavor nicotine option, cool blue light, and groovy sounding flavors.
They arrived December 31st.
Let me give you a slight background on my personality. As a non-smoker, I tend to be irritable, fatalistic, pessimistic, and easily depressed. I become easily angered, defeats, even minor, are crushing, and my mind tends to fog over and bog down. A true candidate for anti-depressants if ever there was one (tried effexor once with horrifying results! Never again!) Smoke-free, I squeak or croak a greeting to a customer, fearing rejection, but with nicotine, I approach them with a confident walk, a wide grin, and a throaty "Howdy folks! How ya doin'!", knowing, KNOWING that I'm going to close this deal. And I generally do close it with that attitude.
Smoking seems to be the thing that evens me out, eliminating all that emotional baggage and giving me focus, enthusiasm, drive, and an overall feeling of normalcy. I didn't smoke a whole lot, only about 2 and a half packs of True Menthol 100s a week, but what I DID smoke did the trick.
But for health considerations it had to stop. I saw my Grandfather die of cancer, and it was not easy seeing a robust man bristling with attitude whither away into a dessicated skeleton. (Plus the wife, who is all into that natural healing and raw foods stuff goes on and on about my smoking, lol.)
At first, the Blu-Cigs were interesting. I had the whole hand-to-mouth thing going, the hit to the back of the throat was there, and the satisfying puff of vapor to blow out was there too. The flavors tasted nice. And admittedly, it's cool to smoke INDOORS rather than freezing outside in these Michigan winters! However, something was missing. As the days progressed between then and now, a scant few weeks later, my personality had begun to unravel. I wasn't getting the relaxed, yet alert state that analogs always got me from the first puff. As time went on, my nerves began to fray, and no matter how much I chain-vaped these supposedly "full flavored" cartridges, I kept getting the feeling that I might as well be sucking steam from the kettle for all the good it was doing me. I felt like crap, like I was actually going into major quitting withdrawl, all my unattractive personality quirks resurfacing like zombies from the grave.
As a result, I recently started bumming analogs at work again just to function properly. My living depends on me being sharp, entertaining to my customers, alert, and upbeat. I've lost that since starting Blu-Cigs.
Now, I'm faced with a choice. Send these damn things back, or try doctoring the cartridges with higher strength aftermarket E-juices. The question is, will that help? Can an E-Cig ever have the same effect as a traditional smoke or is something lost in the translation? I sure don't wanna go back to analogs, even home-rolled, but at the same time quitting nicotine is NOT an option. It seems to have become intertwined with my making a living anymore.
Sorry about the highly verbose thread, but is anyone else having this problem transitioning from analog to vape? It has been a nightmare! 8-o
As the name implies, I'm a commission-only sales associate who has been 18 years in the highly competitive, nerve-shredding world of retail appliance sales.
After two and a half years of smoking (a by-product of layer upon layer of increasing stress and economic turmoil), I'd decided that enough was enough after the news about the new and deadlier additives now being put in our cigs to promote fire safety.
I did a little research to determine the best, most economical alternative in the E-Cig world and ended up ordering a Blu-Cig starter kit, and a carton of "full flavor" cartridges in Magnificent Menthol.
It all seemed great in theory with the charging pack, full-flavor nicotine option, cool blue light, and groovy sounding flavors.
They arrived December 31st.
Let me give you a slight background on my personality. As a non-smoker, I tend to be irritable, fatalistic, pessimistic, and easily depressed. I become easily angered, defeats, even minor, are crushing, and my mind tends to fog over and bog down. A true candidate for anti-depressants if ever there was one (tried effexor once with horrifying results! Never again!) Smoke-free, I squeak or croak a greeting to a customer, fearing rejection, but with nicotine, I approach them with a confident walk, a wide grin, and a throaty "Howdy folks! How ya doin'!", knowing, KNOWING that I'm going to close this deal. And I generally do close it with that attitude.
Smoking seems to be the thing that evens me out, eliminating all that emotional baggage and giving me focus, enthusiasm, drive, and an overall feeling of normalcy. I didn't smoke a whole lot, only about 2 and a half packs of True Menthol 100s a week, but what I DID smoke did the trick.
But for health considerations it had to stop. I saw my Grandfather die of cancer, and it was not easy seeing a robust man bristling with attitude whither away into a dessicated skeleton. (Plus the wife, who is all into that natural healing and raw foods stuff goes on and on about my smoking, lol.)
At first, the Blu-Cigs were interesting. I had the whole hand-to-mouth thing going, the hit to the back of the throat was there, and the satisfying puff of vapor to blow out was there too. The flavors tasted nice. And admittedly, it's cool to smoke INDOORS rather than freezing outside in these Michigan winters! However, something was missing. As the days progressed between then and now, a scant few weeks later, my personality had begun to unravel. I wasn't getting the relaxed, yet alert state that analogs always got me from the first puff. As time went on, my nerves began to fray, and no matter how much I chain-vaped these supposedly "full flavored" cartridges, I kept getting the feeling that I might as well be sucking steam from the kettle for all the good it was doing me. I felt like crap, like I was actually going into major quitting withdrawl, all my unattractive personality quirks resurfacing like zombies from the grave.
As a result, I recently started bumming analogs at work again just to function properly. My living depends on me being sharp, entertaining to my customers, alert, and upbeat. I've lost that since starting Blu-Cigs.
Now, I'm faced with a choice. Send these damn things back, or try doctoring the cartridges with higher strength aftermarket E-juices. The question is, will that help? Can an E-Cig ever have the same effect as a traditional smoke or is something lost in the translation? I sure don't wanna go back to analogs, even home-rolled, but at the same time quitting nicotine is NOT an option. It seems to have become intertwined with my making a living anymore.
Sorry about the highly verbose thread, but is anyone else having this problem transitioning from analog to vape? It has been a nightmare! 8-o
But yeah, all jobs have their stresses. 
