Hello Folks,
I'm new to vaping and have only been aware of ECF for a few weeks as well.
When I decided that vaping might be a viable option (after 45 years of analogs), I found a small kit that wouldn't break the bank and had my own personal banker (i.e. sweet wife) place an order for me. Thinking that as I was out of smokes and delivery would probably take a week, I went out and bought what I hoped would be my last carton of way over-priced (soon to be price-increased) cophin nails. Then I prepared to sit back, study up on vaping and wait. Three days later, long before I'd even begun the ritual mail stalking routine, my kit arrived. After the initial shock, I tried it out.
Well, it tasted rather odd but I let that pass having long ago gotten used to having taste buds that could tell the difference between sweet and sour but not much else. The next day, I noticed that I'd only had 4 smokes. The day after that was the same. I realized, in a flash of insight and inspiration that my cigarettes were still sitting beside my laptop where they've always been and sometimes I'd finish vaping and just automatically reach for a smoke - the same way I always did after successfully completing a task. I put the pack in a drawer - about two inches lower than where it had been - hopefully, out of sight, out of mind. Over the next two days, I'd have one first thing in the morning. Then I didn't have any, all day, every day, at my desk, down in the bowels of the basement, where I've smoked safely for years, I was smoke free.
I'd like to say that I was finished with stinking up the place but I just couldn't bring myself to take one of my new toys with me in the car (for fear of absently flicking it out the window dontcha know) so every time I went somewhere I'd end up having two more analogs. Eventually, the pack in the car ran out so I stopped smoking there. So now I'm really smoke free - yes free at last.
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Of course, over the initial period of my studies, I realized that even when I had something possibly worthwhile to contribute, I wasn't able to because of the lack of posting I'd ever done. I just can't seem to bring myself to just say "Hi, Welcome" and be done with it primarily as I have no business welcoming anyone to a place that's in fact foreign to me. So that manner of posting was out. And I'm really not very outgoing at all (parties have always been less than comfortable). I don't really see the point of telling a room full of strangers "a bit about myself" because I'll probably never see them again so I'm just wasting everyone's time. Nope, posting just isn't my cup of tea. So there you have it - why I'm not posting this at all and I'll never reach my five posts and I'll never be able to comment on or contribute to anyone else's concepts and ideas and I'll keep what questions I have to myself.
well.... maybe.... just this once.....
I'm new to vaping and have only been aware of ECF for a few weeks as well.
When I decided that vaping might be a viable option (after 45 years of analogs), I found a small kit that wouldn't break the bank and had my own personal banker (i.e. sweet wife) place an order for me. Thinking that as I was out of smokes and delivery would probably take a week, I went out and bought what I hoped would be my last carton of way over-priced (soon to be price-increased) cophin nails. Then I prepared to sit back, study up on vaping and wait. Three days later, long before I'd even begun the ritual mail stalking routine, my kit arrived. After the initial shock, I tried it out.
Well, it tasted rather odd but I let that pass having long ago gotten used to having taste buds that could tell the difference between sweet and sour but not much else. The next day, I noticed that I'd only had 4 smokes. The day after that was the same. I realized, in a flash of insight and inspiration that my cigarettes were still sitting beside my laptop where they've always been and sometimes I'd finish vaping and just automatically reach for a smoke - the same way I always did after successfully completing a task. I put the pack in a drawer - about two inches lower than where it had been - hopefully, out of sight, out of mind. Over the next two days, I'd have one first thing in the morning. Then I didn't have any, all day, every day, at my desk, down in the bowels of the basement, where I've smoked safely for years, I was smoke free.
I'd like to say that I was finished with stinking up the place but I just couldn't bring myself to take one of my new toys with me in the car (for fear of absently flicking it out the window dontcha know) so every time I went somewhere I'd end up having two more analogs. Eventually, the pack in the car ran out so I stopped smoking there. So now I'm really smoke free - yes free at last.
---------
Of course, over the initial period of my studies, I realized that even when I had something possibly worthwhile to contribute, I wasn't able to because of the lack of posting I'd ever done. I just can't seem to bring myself to just say "Hi, Welcome" and be done with it primarily as I have no business welcoming anyone to a place that's in fact foreign to me. So that manner of posting was out. And I'm really not very outgoing at all (parties have always been less than comfortable). I don't really see the point of telling a room full of strangers "a bit about myself" because I'll probably never see them again so I'm just wasting everyone's time. Nope, posting just isn't my cup of tea. So there you have it - why I'm not posting this at all and I'll never reach my five posts and I'll never be able to comment on or contribute to anyone else's concepts and ideas and I'll keep what questions I have to myself.
well.... maybe.... just this once.....
