Obsessed?

[keepsmiling]

For those of you with multiple vaping gear~
Does this ever end? The feeling that you have to keep buying all the new stuff, keep trying different flavors, different styles of mods, attys, ways to build them.....
This one gives more airflow!
This one hits harder!!
This one gives more vapor!!!
This one gives more flavor!!!!
Sometimes I feel kind of weird grabbing five or six mods to go and vape. I think my husband sitting across from me with a lighter and a cigarette doesn't get it, and thinks I have gone off the deep end....
Am I alone?

 

[PaulBHC]

Nope. Obsessive and Compulsive go hand in hand with Addictive. And Paranoid. I carry enough to work each day to probably last a couple of days. I have been able to resist spending on hardware for a month or so. Too much latest and greatest that hasn't been proven yet.

 

[JimmyDB]

This sounds perfectly normal behavior for any new found hobby/enjoyment.

This has been the case with me, but I have started reaching the point where I am no longer interested in 'everything', I figure that part of the journey is quite unique to each person though.

 

[Vicshalls]

It has taken we a while but I think I have finally found what works best for me and now I am just getting a few rta's that I really like so I have them. I would like to get a p3 or a vs rdna because I like my provari and vs DNA. But I think I am going to wait on that for now. Lol

 

[keepsmiling]

It has taken we a while but I think I have finally found what works best for me and now I am just getting a few rta's that I really like so I have them. I would like to get a p3 or a vs rdna because I like my provari and vs DNA. But I think I am going to wait on that for now. Lol

You are just in denial....

 

[Frenchfry1942]

No, seems normal for myself and I believe those around here. There are categories, to me, that I want/have explored in tying for find better flavor or clouds, or both. I cll them"

- eGo beginners
- Low end Mods
- Store bought coils
- Mid range MODs
- High end MODs
- High-end rebuilding coils
- Mechanicals
- Bottom Feeders

- RTAs
- RDAs

- Shopping for best price/qualities
- Accessories

- DIY

It seems that I have tried a lot, but not thoroughly. Cigs don't give so many options

Hope helps

 

[choochoogranny]

Keepsmiling, I think that's why I buy tips! Got my battery boxes and tubes I'm very happy with; and with the advent of Shark Skins can change just one box into 10 different colors. Got all the colored glasses for my ProTanks and Davides that I can mix and match with battery holders to get so many different looks!

Bedazzle's colorful replacement tubes for the Nautilus and Molehill Mountains handmade tips keeps me excited about getting something in the mail and curb any desire for more complicated, super duper stuff.

I think it's kind of like rearranging the room with your old furniture. Get a new look and feel AND decide NOT to buy NEW furniture......but you have to have furniture to begin with!

 

[GinnyTx]

you're asking us who are dedicated enough to this vaping thing to seek out an internet forum dedicated to it..along with our shinyitis ..if we're obsessed? *lol*

you go girl!!

 

[philoshop]

Obsessed... or just having fun?

 

[GinnyTx]

^^there's a difference?

 

[dc99]

Welcome to the crowd. In the end whoever has the most toys wins. Haha

 

[rawr]

No you are not alone. Just try to buy selective, after reading the reviews and so on. Better to get one good more expensive atomizer than two mediocre and cheaper ones imo.

Its really interesting tought that you are the one who got the new ecig stuff insted of husband who is still on prehistoric rolling tobacco path and obviously not really interested in vaping "technology".

If you are happy with vaping, then you are doing it right!

 

[englishmick]

My wife knits. She has a fridge magnet that says "there's a fine line between hobby and mental illness".

She also has a bumper sticker "I knit so nobody has to die". We could do that. "we vape so nobody has to die".

 

[roxynoodle]

I have 10 setups in use atm Of course you already knew that

 

[rhelton]

Well look at it this way. If your like me or anyone else that addicted to this stuff, at least your energy is being spent on something thats not harmful to yourself and others.

I can get into Lotta trouble when I get bored im just fine being a vapor.

 

[Steven G]

Only a couple of months in and know now this is a hobby now spend as much time on this web site and looking and buying just the same as my kayak fishing hobby and web sites. I am the first admit I have it no complaints....................

 

[xena222]

I have really cut down on my buying for a bit (I promised I would until after Christmas...LOL)....I guess if being obsessed with vaping keeps me from smoking...then I am okay with obsessed...I REALLY want a bumper sticker that says "I vape so that nobody has to die" Hehe!!!

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

I think it's 'just' an extension of the reward mechanism.

We smoked (at least, the vast majority of us did) and it was rewarding in its own way. We switched to vaping, which gives us that same (and more) physical rewards plus the reward of doing 'the right thing'. Now, there's a learning curve to vaping, and mastering that provides another reward on top of all that - a sense of prowess and ability.

Smoking never made me feel capable or knowledgeable.

It also never made me feel a part of a movement or particular culture, which of course, being in here promulgates, so there's even more reward involved.

It's a compulsion loop (and we former smokers are, if anything, susceptible to compulsion): learning/experimentation --> physical reward --> sense of accomplishment --> discussion --> learning/experimentation, and so on.

People not in the loop don't get it any more than I don't get my friend who runs obsessively.

 

[Rat2chat2]

I had started a very good vaping collection but honestly, after I used the reo, I never cared to look any further or use what I had again for that matter. I found exactly what I was looking for and quite content (with vaping anyway)

Vaping is a wonderful addiction/obsession no matter how many you use or want. Just enjoy.

 

[edyle]

For those of you with multiple vaping gear~
Does this ever end? The feeling that you have to keep buying all the new stuff, keep trying different flavors, different styles of mods, attys, ways to build them.....
This one gives more airflow!
This one hits harder!!
This one gives more vapor!!!
This one gives more flavor!!!!
Sometimes I feel kind of weird grabbing five or six mods to go and vape. I think my husband sitting across from me with a lighter and a cigarette doesn't get it, and thinks I have gone off the deep end....
Am I alone?

It certainly can end; it certainly can reduce; and I expect sometime next year I would no longer need to make significant purchases.
(until the bluetooth 'kick module' type dropin devices start coming out).