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Lonely Raven

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Greets all!

I've already posted a couple times here; even helped someone with a battery question that I answered for myself recently, so I figured I'd stop lurking and introduce myself.

My name's Eric, from Chicago's Western Suburbs.

I'm not really a smoker - I enjoyed cigars with friends while camping, or while sitting around the firepit in the yard, but not really a regular smoker. I got into vaping because several of my friends vape to get off cigarettes (or supplement them unfortunately), and I enjoy sitting around with friends vaping during card games and whatnot. Plus I'm a tech geek - so the technology involved in this really interests me. I'm also a person that loves to learn something about everything...I call it my James Bond Education - Have you ever noticed he knows how to drive, ride, or pilot everything, knows a good scotch and nice clothes ect? Yeah, so this is just another *something* for me to learn, play with, and enjoy with friends.

I'd love to meet and learn from some advanced vapers in the area (do we have meets around here?), and I'd also like to visit and high-end vape shops if there are such a thing around Chicago. So far all I've found is shops with the common Chinese and Korean stuff - I'd really like to get my hands on some high end PV and juices! :)

Anywho, sorry to be long winded, just wanted to say HI!
 

murphyramone

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Welcome to the forum Eric. Lots of great people on here and they will be able to answer any questions you may have. If you get a chance take a ride ot to cigtechs, a great bunch of guys who are really knowlegable & plenty of cool things to check out while you are there.
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Welcome, Mr. Bond. Sounds like vaping is perfect for you. Others will wonder why you started vaping as they vaped to quit smoking. Personally, I get it. It's a pretty cool habit for a lot of reasons and you don't have to use nicotine at all, but even if you do, I think that's ok as well. Now I'll get flamed. Anyway, congrats on getting here and good luck. Vape On!
 

Lonely Raven

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Welcome to the forum Eric. Lots of great people on here and they will be able to answer any questions you may have. If you get a chance take a ride ot to cigtechs, a great bunch of guys who are really knowlegable & plenty of cool things to check out while you are there.
Welcome to Cigtechs - Quality electronic cigarettes

Thanks! That's exactly the kind of shop I'm looking for! It's a bit of a drive for me, but I'm betting it's worth it!

I forsee Vaping growing very quickly in the next few years. Assuming we don't see any laws squashing it that is. I'm hoping we'll have some Boutique vape shops all around Chicagoland like they have on the West Coast.
 

Lonely Raven

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Welcome, Mr. Bond. Sounds like vaping is perfect for you. Others will wonder why you started vaping as they vaped to quit smoking. Personally, I get it. It's a pretty cool habit for a lot of reasons and you don't have to use nicotine at all, but even if you do, I think that's ok as well. Now I'll get flamed. Anyway, congrats on getting here and good luck. Vape On!

Thanks! I'm glad some people understand. I've already had some people give me some disparaging words when they found out I vape, even though I'm vaping 0mg.

That said, it's for my own personal experience and education, so screw 'em!

I do have one or two juices that I got qot 6mg, only because it was the only way it was available. So far the PG seems to have more of an effect on me than the nicotine.

This is an interesting "hobby", and I hope to promote it to those of my friends who still smoke, get them off the analogs.
 

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Welcome to the forum Eric. Lots of great people on here and they will be able to answer any questions you may have. If you get a chance take a ride ot to cigtechs, a great bunch of guys who are really knowlegable & plenty of cool things to check out while you are there.
Welcome to Cigtechs - Quality electronic cigarettes

I seriously second this. I love going to CigTechs. All the guys there know exactly what they're talking about.
 
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