Older Folks and Vaping Front Porch - Part 5

[FlamingoTutu]

You might, though, periodically dream that you are smoking a cigarette. I have those occasional dreams as well as dreams that I've gone back to work carrying mail for the USPS. Usually, when I have such dreams, they combine both smoking and working. I haven't had a cigarette for 5.5 years, and I've been retired from work for 7 years, but the dreams are so real that instead of waking up and saying "whew, it was only a dream", I wake up wondering if I've got to restart counting my cigarette-free time, and if I've messed up my retirement benefits by going back to work for the same employer.

Soon after I finally got completely off cigs I had a dreamed that I smoked one. I woke up and promptly confessed to my husband. Took a while before he stopped laughing hysterically at me.

After that, all my cigarette dreams were about me walking through cities I'd never been to before looking for a store to buy some but never finding one. For the last four or five years, I haven't had a smoking dream at all. Not even one about new shinys (shinies? shineys?).


I'm sorry I haven't been around but it looks like we may have finally figured out what was making me so sick and are working to get that straightened out. Then I can come back and tell y'all how great ProVaris are.

 

[3mg Meniere]

You might, though, periodically dream that you are smoking a cigarette. I have those occasional dreams as well as dreams that I've gone back to work carrying mail for the USPS. Usually, when I have such dreams, they combine both smoking and working. I haven't had a cigarette for 5.5 years, and I've been retired from work for 7 years, but the dreams are so real that instead of waking up and saying "whew, it was only a dream", I wake up wondering if I've got to restart counting my cigarette-free time, and if I've messed up my retirement benefits by going back to work for the same employer.

I was active in AA for years. I was having dreams like that very regularly. I quit going to AA and had a drink or two (didn't like what it did to me and didn't like the taste), and the dreams quit.

 

[DancingHeretik]

After that, all my cigarette dreams were about me walking through cities I'd never been to before looking for a store to buy some but never finding one.

Like the dreams that make you wake up to go to the bathroom. Searching for a bathroom and not being able to find one that's not occupied and that's clean.

I'm sorry I haven't been around but it looks like we may have finally figured out what was making me so sick and are working to get that straightened out. Then I can come back and tell y'all how great ProVaris are.

Yes!!!!

ProVaris, the weather, anything! We'll take it!

 

[3mg Meniere]

I'm sorry I haven't been around but it looks like we may have finally figured out what was making me so sick and are working to get that straightened out. Then I can come back and tell y'all how great ProVaris are.

Happy to see you again. Was beginning to worry. Of course I do that all the time during fire season in California.

 

[MikeE3]

I'm sorry I haven't been around but it looks like we may have finally figured out what was making me so sick and are working to get that straightened out. Then I can come back and tell y'all how great ProVaris are.

So good to hear from you ... been thinking of you often. Best wishes they get your 'sickness' under control and you can join us regularly again.

 

[Iffy]

... looks like we may have finally figured out what was making me so sick and are working to get that straightened out.

 

[United States]

It's funny how the dream thing works sometimes. You don't dream about things until they are gone. Even things you don't know you still long for.... or at least you are left with the impression you long for it still.

I tend to think it's not necessarily a longing, but the psyche' just doing it's thing to shake off what was once normal. Reboot as it were. Case in point:

Years ago I was an avid skateboarder. Surgeries and other orthopedics were still in the stone age at that point. Open incision was still the norm and often months of wearing a cast. In my dreams I'd still be on crutches for months after I'd finally resumed life without them. Did I secretly miss an awful smelling cast and slipping on floors when entering buildings in the rain? Certainly not. Well, I don't think so....

Now regarding dreams of cigarettes, perhaps that stems from a fear of returning to a habit one hopes to never return to. For years after acheiving sobriety I'd dream of seeing an old friend, partaking in what we used to partake in and then failing a drug test the next day. My company doesn't even do that. I like to think that is my psyche' putting a certain fear in my subconscious as an insurance to never go back down that path... like the dream of walking around a city searching for cigarettes in vein. The psyche' is perhaps saying to the subconscious "I will never allow you to smoke again"....

Recently I realized that chain stealthing causes me to feel like I'm drowning. See, I was chain stealthing in a hotel room a few evenings last week and I was afraid to exhale any steam. So I held my breath a few seconds.... a puff here and a puff there was ok. But to stealth often enough to become cross eyed 3 nights in a row caused an issue with both my lungs and sinuses. I'm still learning how to vape. But I had cigarettes outside in my vehicle and did not feel up to fighting those little b-word those evenings. So I stayed indoors.

The weather was oppressively hot, the air was thick with steam. I had baked all day in it. I had smoked more than my allotment at work. So faced with the choice of vaping out there (some 50 feet from cigarettes) while feeding mosquitos or setting in a perfect climate with my feet propped up and a cool war movie on the flat screen while sipping on fruit juice and eating honey roasted peanuts.

The last night I stayed there I noticed the place has a rear entrance that leads to a parking deck with a view of the city so I hung out there and vaped. And Mother nature shined on me and provided a nice breeze as a reward for good behavior.

Oh, and last night I dreamed I was walking around a construction site with an Innokin Kroma kit receiving high fives from other vapors for choosing not to smoke that day. It was the white kit. Mine is red. Perhaps my psyche' is telling me to purchase a white one for backup?

 

[englishmick]

I just got back from a week in Charleston. Great place for a quick trip. The forecast said torrential rain every day but it didn't rain once.

Our hotel was a converted warehouse. It was first converted into condos. That failed and it became a hotel, so the rooms were the size of small condos, with 15' ceilings constructed from huge wooden joists, and brick walls. Bigger than some apartments I've lived in. Best hotel I've ever stayed in actually.

They had one smoke detector way up in the rafters. We vaped all week at one end as far as we could get from the smoke detector. Mostly went outside because we were next to an exit but when we felt lazy we just went ahead and vaped in the room.

I packed a bunch of Picos and Nautilus tanks. Works fine for me, easy to fill and they can be charged through the USB. Simple is good for trips. I've had a problem with overpacking vape gear for trips but I'm getting less paranoid these days. I did take enough juice to last us a couple of months but apart from that I was pretty good.

Did have one iffy experience. We stopped for the night on the way down at a motel near Spartanburg. Turned out to be one of those places where homeless folks stay. Lots of shady people hanging out outside drinking all night, and the room hadn't had much attention in the cleaning department. Guess you have to take what you get on road trips.

 

[Kenna]

Soon after I finally got completely off cigs I had a dreamed that I smoked one. I woke up and promptly confessed to my husband. Took a while before he stopped laughing hysterically at me.

After that, all my cigarette dreams were about me walking through cities I'd never been to before looking for a store to buy some but never finding one. For the last four or five years, I haven't had a smoking dream at all. Not even one about new shinys (shinies? shineys?).


I'm sorry I haven't been around but it looks like we may have finally figured out what was making me so sick and are working to get that straightened out. Then I can come back and tell y'all how great ProVaris are.

Dreaming up guilt? Stop that! Glad you figured out what was making you sick!

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[Kenna]

It's funny how the dream thing works sometimes. You don't dream about things until they are gone. Even things you don't know you still long for.... or at least you are left with the impression you long for it still.

I tend to think it's not necessarily a longing, but the psyche' just doing it's thing to shake off what was once normal. Reboot as it were. Case in point:

Years ago I was an avid skateboarder. Surgeries and other orthopedics were still in the stone age at that point. Open incision was still the norm and often months of wearing a cast. In my dreams I'd still be on crutches for months after I'd finally resumed life without them. Did I secretly miss an awful smelling cast and slipping on floors when entering buildings in the rain? Certainly not. Well, I don't think so....

Now regarding dreams of cigarettes, perhaps that stems from a fear of returning to a habit one hopes to never return to. For years after acheiving sobriety I'd dream of seeing an old friend, partaking in what we used to partake in and then failing a drug test the next day. My company doesn't even do that. I like to think that is my psyche' putting a certain fear in my subconscious as an insurance to never go back down that path... like the dream of walking around a city searching for cigarettes in vein. The psyche' is perhaps saying to the subconscious "I will never allow you to smoke again"....

Recently I realized that chain stealthing causes me to feel like I'm drowning. See, I was chain stealthing in a hotel room a few evenings last week and I was afraid to exhale any steam. So I held my breath a few seconds.... a puff here and a puff there was ok. But to stealth often enough to become cross eyed 3 nights in a row caused an issue with both my lungs and sinuses. I'm still learning how to vape. But I had cigarettes outside in my vehicle and did not feel up to fighting those little b-word those evenings. So I stayed indoors.

The weather was oppressively hot, the air was thick with steam. I had baked all day in it. I had smoked more than my allotment at work. So faced with the choice of vaping out there (some 50 feet from cigarettes) while feeding mosquitos or setting in a perfect climate with my feet propped up and a cool war movie on the flat screen while sipping on fruit juice and eating honey roasted peanuts.

The last night I stayed there I noticed the place has a rear entrance that leads to a parking deck with a view of the city so I hung out there and vaped. And Mother nature shined on me and provided a nice breeze as a reward for good behavior.

Oh, and last night I dreamed I was walking around a construction site with an Innokin Kroma kit receiving high fives from other vapors for choosing not to smoke that day. It was the white kit. Mine is red. Perhaps my psyche' is telling me to purchase a white one for backup?

Get the backup! And backups to infinity!

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[Kenna]

I just got back from a week in Charleston. Great place for a quick trip. The forecast said torrential rain every day but it didn't rain once.

Our hotel was a converted warehouse. It was first converted into condos. That failed and it became a hotel, so the rooms were the size of small condos, with 15' ceilings constructed from huge wooden joists, and brick walls. Bigger than some apartments I've lived in. Best hotel I've ever stayed in actually.

They had one smoke detector way up in the rafters. We vaped all week at one end as far as we could get from the smoke detector. Mostly went outside because we were next to an exit but when we felt lazy we just went ahead and vaped in the room.

I packed a bunch of Picos and Nautilus tanks. Works fine for me, easy to fill and they can be charged through the USB. Simple is good for trips. I've had a problem with overpacking vape gear for trips but I'm getting less paranoid these days. I did take enough juice to last us a couple of months but apart from that I was pretty good.

Did have one iffy experience. We stopped for the night on the way down at a motel near Spartanburg. Turned out to be one of those places where homeless folks stay. Lots of shady people hanging out outside drinking all night, and the room hadn't had much attention in the cleaning department. Guess you have to take what you get on road trips.

Over packing vape gear? Guilty here. When I first started I packed a small Vera Bradley backpack with ego batteries, & Nautilus tanks & coils. I was still flavor hopping like crazy & each tank had a different flavor in it. Needed juice to refill all of them all at 24mg. It took 3 years to finally settle down on just a couple of adv juices.

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[pwmeek]

OK; just exhale through a folded up towel. Unless you are set up for cloud-chasing, that will absorb all the exhaled vapor. It puts the stealth in stealth. I carry a small terry-cloth towel tucked into my belt at all times, and if I'm some place where I don't think vaping would be appreciated (or even where it is frankly banned) I am just discrete about putting the rig to my mouth and exhale through the towel. I've never been called out yet (nor set off a smoke detector). I confess I haven't tried an airplane restroom, but that is because I don't fly, not because I think that even a sensitive detector would be triggered by my method. My position is that if they don't prohibit nicotine patches or gum, then what I'm doing has no more effect on bystanders than those other NRTs.

 

[Diver9543]

Hi, my friends. First, I know I could ask my question in the DIY section and get loads of answers. However, I would rather hear from folks I trust to answer here. My question has to deal with the care of the syringes used for mixing my juice. What do you use on the rubber on the plunger? When I wash/clean the syringes the rubber portion dries out. Should I use VG or PG on the rubber after cleaning? Or is there something else I should use?

 

[DavidOck]

I just let mine dry, out of the barrel, so it dries as well. Maybe lube it with a drop or two of any PG/VG mix when you go to use them.

I've used PG in the past, but it seems to cause the rubber to swell, so it no longer fits. So, for me, just wash and dry, store disassembled, works.

 

[MikeE3]

I just let mine dry, out of the barrel, so it dries as well. Maybe lube it with a drop or two of any PG/VG mix when you go to use them.

I've used PG in the past, but it seems to cause the rubber to swell, so it no longer fits. So, for me, just wash and dry, store disassembled, works.

Janet's the 'mixer' in our house. I asked her what she does and it's pretty much like you do David. She takes them apart, cleans them, then air dried and left that way 'till next time. When next time comes she's lubes the rubber slightly and that's its.

 

[pwmeek]

<snip>What do you use on the rubber on the plunger?<snip>

I use nothing. I rinse (not wash; no soap) the disassembled syringe in warm water, air dry it for a day or so, reassemble it with a small gap at the bottom. I find that the rubber (likely neoprene or Buna-N (nitrile rubber)) can stick a bit in the cylinder and it is a LOT easier to unstick it by pushing than by pulling. If there's no gap, there is no room to push.

After many years of DIY, I'm still on my first syringes, all with their original rubber seals. I must be doing something right.

 

[gadgetkeith]

same here just do a good rinse in warm water no soap .

Then leave to dry disassembled .

Next use u just put a dab of VG on the plunger then go ahead and use and mix as normal .

nothing fancy and same as other's i have so real old ones still in use .

one quick tip i do for keeping info on outside is to do a single wrap of clear ducktape then the markings never fade or vanish .

also do same on bottle labels that i want to wash and keep label in place clear ducktape is great for that stuff and it does not disolve or fall apart like other stuff.

 

[United States]

First glow in the dark Batman duct tape, now clear?


Woohoo!!

 

[Diver9543]

I just let mine dry, out of the barrel, so it dries as well. Maybe lube it with a drop or two of any PG/VG mix when you go to use them.

I've used PG in the past, but it seems to cause the rubber to swell, so it no longer fits. So, for me, just wash and dry, store disassembled, works.

Janet's the 'mixer' in our house. I asked her what she does and it's pretty much like you do David. She takes them apart, cleans them, then air dried and left that way 'till next time. When next time comes she's lubes the rubber slightly and that's its.

I use nothing. I rinse (not wash; no soap) the disassembled syringe in warm water, air dry it for a day or so, reassemble it with a small gap at the bottom. I find that the rubber (likely neoprene or Buna-N (nitrile rubber)) can stick a bit in the cylinder and it is a LOT easier to unstick it by pushing than by pulling. If there's no gap, there is no room to push.

After many years of DIY, I'm still on my first syringes, all with their original rubber seals. I must be doing something right.

same here just do a good rinse in warm water no soap .

Then leave to dry disassembled .

Next use u just put a dab of VG on the plunger then go ahead and use and mix as normal .

nothing fancy and same as other's i have so real old ones still in use. one quick tip i do for keeping info on outside is to do a single wrap of clear ducktape then the markings never fade or vanish . also do same on bottle labels that i want to wash and keep label in place clear ducktape is great for that stuff and it does not disolve or fall apart like other stuff.

Thank you, everyone, for the input for the care of syringes. I have been doing everything right with the exception I have been coating the rubber tip with PG. I will switch over the VG in the future. I especially like the tip from @pwmeek to leave room to push the plunger after assembly of the cleaned syringe.

 

[DavidOck]

Either would work, since you'll be cleaning them after the mixing session anyway. Straight VG would be a little more slippery. I just use the jug of unfavored I mix from, so I guess I lube them with 20 ml/mg at 60% PG.

I keep mine as parts, in a clean box, so just lube as needed, keeping all potential solvents off the seals. Not all seals are Navy Seals. (I wasn't, cousin was.) But yes, excellent plan to not take the full plunge if storing that way!