Older Folks and Vaping Front Porch - Part 5
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Hi all! Just stopping in to let y'all know that Debadoo just called me with news that she talked to Johnny (Iffy) today. He called her & talked almost 10 minutes. He is still in the Home & getting his rehab. She said he was a little hard to understand, would lose a word here & there, but overall is doing well. He's been able to video call with his Bride so that eases his mind. Said he hasn't had his phone or anything because of Covid restrictions, but has it now. Says he does better remembering who is who if he has a picture to go with the names, so if anyone calls or sends a message please include a pic of yourself. He still gets tired easily h symptoms will get more pronounced with fatigue.
So lots of good news. We still have our Iffy & he's making progress! Wooohoooo!
Hope you are all doing well!
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So lots of good news. We still have our Iffy & he's making progress! Wooohoooo!
Hope you are all doing well!
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I just realized I had my 7 year Vaperversary on the 1st of this month! First time I've forgotten!
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If I can hold out (Ha; I have ten or twenty years of nicotine stashed) my 9-year vapiversary will arrive at the end of September. (I've missed the past half dozen, so since I was reminded by Kenna's post, I will pre-celebrate it now.)
Quitting certainly was. I was trying to quit, off and on, for 35 or 40 of the 45+ years that I smoked.
OTOH, quitting via vaping was painless and instant (if pricey and complicated). On the advice of a friend and after trying a few puffs on her rig (V4L stick battery and carto), I ordered nine batteries, five or six carto five-packs in different flavors and strengths, and three stick battery chargers. I got all the batteries charged up and chose a day to start vaping. I had my last smoke (and snus packet) before I went to bed, and started vaping in the morning. I have never needed or wanted a cigarette (or snus) since then.
Seeing how fast I was using things up, I immediately ordered another twenty batteries and six more chargers as well as about 40 or 50 five-packs of cartos - no more tobacco flavors (horrible), no more strengths below 36 mg/ml (the strongest you could get). I eventually settled on Sour Cherry, Sour Green Apple, and Menthol.
I had to keep one rig of each flavor running at all times because even at 36 mg/ml I had to chain vape, and I do mean chain vape - about every other breath was a puff. Even rotating between the three rigs, they would get so hot that they burned my lips and fingers. If I left the house to run a few errands, I would typically take 6 or 9 extra batteries, a few car chargers, and 15 or more cartos. Cartos lasted an hour or so, and batteries for a few hours (if they didn't completely fail without warning). A couple dozen recharges and those stick batteries were shot anyways. I eventually had a shoebox full of dud stick batteries (not many places to recycle lithium batteries back then).
Eventually, I learned about refilling cartos, about tanks, and about better batteries and mods. And eventually I learned about DIY e-juice mixing and began to experiment with stronger e-juice. Finally I was able to cut down from chain vaping and because of that, was able to actually reduce my daily e-juice consumption and even (counter-intuitively) reduce my daily nicotine consumption. I finally upped the strength of my e-juice (to 65 mg/ml) to where I began to get a bit of a nicotine rush, which allowed me to wait for a while between series of puffs. (I also discovered that I preferred flavorless, which made DIY e-juice mixing a lot less complicated.)
I suspect that most of us went through some similar progression from some kind of starter kit that didn't quite do the job to whatever is working for us now. Even if it seemed like we were buying something every week, the total cost was a LOT less than we were spending on the smokies (about $12,000 a year less in my case).
Both my dentist and my doctor agree that switching to vaping probably saved my life. My dentist (who had seen a mouth full of leukoplakias when I was still smoking) said after five years, my mouth looked "like a "never-smoker". My doctor says I should keep getting a CT scan once a year because that 180+ pack-year history (over 45 pack-years is considered extreme exposure) will be with me forever.
Hi All, wow I can't believe how far down I had to scroll to find this thread. Oh well, it is what it is.
I got vape mail, today. A couple of months ago I joined an Innokin giveaway on another forum and finally received the ARES-2 and the ARES-2 LE. I am excited about trying these out and I will give a brief opinion on their build and functionality at a later time.
I got vape mail, today. A couple of months ago I joined an Innokin giveaway on another forum and finally received the ARES-2 and the ARES-2 LE. I am excited about trying these out and I will give a brief opinion on their build and functionality at a later time.
Can't wait for your opinion/review - I'm not sure about them yet, still trying to learn how to make coils . . . 
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