New Member from Conroe, Texas

[shgilman]

Greetings Fellow Members,
I am now smokeless for 2.5 years after smoking 1.5 to 2 packs a day for over 40 years. The Doc says I already have COPD and I use a daily inhaler. The vaping community has improved my quality of life. No more coughing, spitting, wheezing and just feeling crumby. I can now mow my own lawn again and working on my hot rods no longer leaves me breathless. I ran through the usual evolution of e cigs starting out with e go and cartos. Upgraded to bigger e go C and started using carto tanks. I am now using an Itaste VTR with a kanger aerotank and I love it. Juices still seem to remain in the tobacco arena of flavors with HBT and some cherry pipe, keeping the nicotine at 10mg. I'm looking forward to mixing in the next couple of weeks.
But my thanks to the vaping community. If it wasn't for you people, I'd probably be on a tank, (of oxygen) by now.
Sincerest Regards,
shgilman

 

[Susan~S]

Hello and welcome to the forum. Glad to have you here!

Congratulations on 2.5 years smoke free!

 

[keonee]

Welcome shgilman to ECF. Congrats on being a non-smoker. It's great that you are now able to do more as a vaper.

Good Luck to You...Happy Vaping!!!

 

[Blckphoenix]

Congratulations on being smoke free, and welcome to the rabbit hole.

 

[oplholik]

Welcome to ECF. So glad you are feeling and doing so much better.

 

[Harlen]

Hello and welcome
It feels good to be smoke free.
Mixing is fun and yummy

 

[issy]

Hello from Houston . Congrats on your years of success, and I'm glad you've been feeling better! Welcome to ecf, relax and enjoy.

 

[WickedBad]

Texas Select Vapor is in your backyard. I love their juices

 

[shgilman]

Thanks Susan-S!!

 

[shgilman]

Thanks for the Head's-Up. I'll have to look them up and what they have cooking. Wanna try some DIY stuff real soon. Right now I'm working on converting all of my kanger dual coils to Micro singles.

 

[Kaezziel]

Welcome, neighbor! I'm in the north side of Houston... Spring/Woodlands area! If ya got any questions, lemme know!

 

[shgilman]

Thanks Keonee. And another thanks for the warm welcome.

 

[shgilman]

Thanks for the welcome Blkphoenix. I love this place. Soooo much information that I spend hours mulling around.

 

[eratikmind]

Welcome to the ECF boards, shgilman.

A tank of oxygen? Pleased to read that you avoided that.

 

[shgilman]

Thanks Kaezziel,
I know your area. My wife works in the Memorial Herman complex. Love this site. Already starting to rebuild my atomizers and looking forward to some DIY juices.

 

[shgilman]

Yep, a tank of Oxygen. My lungs were getting messed up to the point that it was getting hard doing normal activities. My pumpers have improved quite a bit since I quit smoking and starting vaping. I use an inhaler also. I watched my Mom die from COPD. It's the hardest thing for me to do was to put down the butts. Nowadays I can smell it from the house next door to me.

 

[Kaezziel]

I know exactly where that is... Check out Spring Vapor sometime, they've got a decent setup and pretty good product last time I was in there... haven't been to their new location off of 45 yet though...

I did DIY for years... kinda over it for now, will probably get back into it at some point... I'm spending a crapload of money on juice right now, so probably sooner than later...

 

[shgilman]

Hey Oplholik,
I know your backyard. I was raised in Menifee and used to work at General Dynamics in SB beside a few others in Fontana. Sorry that you have to deal with all that smog there. Did SB ever get out of bankruptcy? I remember reading something about it. Used to love the skiing up at Big Bear.

 

[shgilman]

Thanks for the welcome Harlen. I do forward to the DIY juices.