Older People 55 and Up

[Darlene7]

Hello all

Oh my short story- I'm been a Nurse for over 40 years, and back in 2009 was trying for maybe my 10th time to quit smoking. I had stopped a couple years earlier and didn't smoke for more than a year. Then who knows something happen, stress, or just me saying I can have just one cig and it started over again. As with most people who start vaping I got started after 30yr+ of smoking with Npro that I saw at my local Costco. Then I started to do research and came across this forum and I haven't turned back since. I have been smoke free going on 3 years. I don't even want to tell you how many Ecigs/Mods/Cart/Atty I have but vaping has progressed quickly over the last couple of years so there has been a lot of experimenting. This forum has saved me from going back to cigarettes and I am happy I was able to find it early on during my vaping. OK thats enough will be checking back on and off and Thanks for letting me share.

Hi Andel11 - so glad you were able to quit, and I know what you mean about trying so many things - almost went back to regular cigs a few days ago and then remembered this forum and the people on this forum encouraged and helped me enough to order something I think I can handle for my non-cig issues - very happy for you and MYSELF!!!
Darlene

 

[Iffy]

"mature vapers" vs. the subject of hunting.. be avoided.

Sorry, does not compute!

Truly miss many of ya'll...

 

[Semiretired]

Hello all

Oh my short story- I'm been a Nurse for over 40 years, and back in 2009 was trying for maybe my 10th time to quit smoking. I had stopped a couple years earlier and didn't smoke for more than a year. Then who knows something happen, stress, or just me saying I can have just one cig and it started over again. As with most people who start Vaping I got started after 30yr+ of smoking with Npro that I saw at my local Costco. Then I started to do research and came across this forum and I haven't turned back since. I have been smoke free going on 3 years. I don't even want to tell you how many Ecigs/Mods/Cart/Atty I have but Vaping has progressed quickly over the last couple of years so there has been a lot of experimenting. This forum has saved me from going back to cigarettes and I am happy I was able to find it early on during my Vaping. OK thats enough will be checking back on and off and Thanks for letting me share.

Hey Andel - thanks for sharing. Pull up a chair and relax a while. Bunch of great folks to chat with and having a nurse as a backup may not be a bad idea (LOL)...

 

[MikeE3]

Hello all

Oh my short story- I'm been a Nurse for over 40 years, and back in 2009 was trying for maybe my 10th time to quit smoking. I had stopped a couple years earlier and didn't smoke for more than a year. Then who knows something happen, stress, or just me saying I can have just one cig and it started over again. As with most people who start Vaping I got started after 30yr+ of smoking with Npro that I saw at my local Costco. Then I started to do research and came across this forum and I haven't turned back since. I have been smoke free going on 3 years. I don't even want to tell you how many Ecigs/Mods/Cart/Atty I have but Vaping has progressed quickly over the last couple of years so there has been a lot of experimenting. This forum has saved me from going back to cigarettes and I am happy I was able to find it early on during my Vaping. OK thats enough will be checking back on and off and Thanks for letting me share.

A big thank you for dropping in and telling your story. And a bigger CONGRATS for being smoke free 3+ years. And please do stop back we'll be here talking about juice, PV's and whole bunch of other stuff.

 

[txtumbleweed]

Thanks for the story andel and welcome to our group. Hope you visit often and share some of your experiences with us. Congratulations on the three years I'm 2 1/2 years on the vaping trail myself. You are so right at all the great improvements over the last two years. It has been fun although a little expensive trying all the new products!

 

[MikeE3]

I know some that post here have visited this thread so for those that haven't kept up, there's some funny posts.

desire to segregate this community

That was a good read. Interesting to get an idea of potentially how many folks are dropping in here just to see what's going on. Likely more than I would guess.

But why not, we got it all - s3x, drugs (well meds are drugs), and rock&roll.

.... don't feed their wood and it is all dried out looking, ...

Ill show you mine if you show me yours.

....thought I'd post some pics of my Hoggie....

...Been med free for maybe a year...

...and got on the right meds, it got much better..

My deal to the tee .. got meds, refuse to take .. I.

...here's another ..

View attachment 94987

 

[Semiretired]

Cracking me up - Good One Mike...

 

[Tiny]

Hi Andell! Congrats on your first 3 years away from the smokes! With all that vaping experience I'm sure you have plenty of pointers for us "wet behind the ears" types. Don't be a stranger here and please share some of your experiences. Best of Luck and Pleased to Meet You.

 

[VapRon]

Hello all

Oh my short story- I'm been a Nurse for over 40 years, and back in 2009 was trying for maybe my 10th time to quit smoking. I had stopped a couple years earlier and didn't smoke for more than a year. Then who knows something happen, stress, or just me saying I can have just one cig and it started over again. As with most people who start Vaping I got started after 30yr+ of smoking with Npro that I saw at my local Costco. Then I started to do research and came across this forum and I haven't turned back since. I have been smoke free going on 3 years. I don't even want to tell you how many Ecigs/Mods/Cart/Atty I have but Vaping has progressed quickly over the last couple of years so there has been a lot of experimenting. This forum has saved me from going back to cigarettes and I am happy I was able to find it early on during my Vaping. OK thats enough will be checking back on and off and Thanks for letting me share.

Hi andel,
Wecome and you sure will like it here

 

[VapRon]

I know some that post here have visited this thread so for those that haven't kept up, there's some funny posts.

desire to segregate this community

Yes was some real funny stuff

 

[MikeE3]

"mature vapers"

Sorry, does not compute!

Truly miss many of ya'll...

What doesn’t compute for me is ‘mature’ vs: ‘your philosophy is different from mine’, ‘you are not allowed to talk about yours’, ‘I’m locking the door for everyone’. To me that wasn’t a mature response to a difference of opinion.

And I probably should have kept my mouth shut, but couldn’t. Sorry for bringing up old business

 

[MikeE3]

How do those work? Do the cartos not dry out because of the juice bottle?

sandy,

Some wood mods use a carto or tank just like any PV.

Others are what is call a 'bottom-feeder'. You use an atty screwed into the top connection of the mod. There's a bottle of juice inside the box mod connected by a short tube to the bottom of the atty. Through an opening in the box mod, you squeeze the bottle to send a couple drops of liquid into the atty. Then vape away, suqeeze again, vape some more.

 

[andel11]

Hi andel,
Wecome and you sure will like it here

Thanks VapRon, I like it here already.
Thanks to Tiny, Darlene, Semiretired, MikeE3, Tumbleweed and Mattiem for making me feel welcome.

 

[Semiretired]

Mike, I have seen those a lot and have always wondered how long it takes to get the pump action down to a normal action. Just seems to easy to flood. I drip on occasions, especially when trying a new mix and sometimes just because..., but I don't know it just seemed a little far out to understand the squeeze bottle motion. Have you used them?

 

[mattiem]

What doesn’t compute for me is ‘mature’ vs: ‘your philosophy is different from mine’, ‘you are not allowed to talk about yours’, ‘I’m locking the door for everyone’. To me that wasn’t a mature response to a difference of opinion.
And I probably should have kept my mouth shut, but couldn’t. Sorry for bringing up old business

I just felt like I had come to visit an old friend, the door was locked and I was no longer allowed to visit. It was hard for me to get involved here because I was afraid it would happen again and I though, why bother but I really like all the great folks so just couldn't stay away. Thank you Tx.

Now that I have confronted the elephant in the room I'll not say any more. Vape on friends.

 

[MikeE3]

Mike, I have seen those a lot and have always wondered how long it takes to get the pump action down to a normal action. Just seems to easy to flood. I drip on occasions, especially when trying a new mix and sometimes just because..., but I don't know it just seemed a little far out to understand the squeeze bottle motion. Have you used them?

No I haven't. Maybe one of old hippy's or jewels' Hogs is a bottom feeder and we'll hear from them. I drip mainly and it took a week or more before I felt comfortable. I guess it would be the same learning curve using a bottom feeder. As much as I admire the RSMs and Hogs - I went with the ProVari for the form factor. It's more convenient for me to put a tube in my pocket then a box. Plus I wasn't ready to tackle the learning curve of a bottom-feeder.

 

[Semiretired]

I have used pump carts with my atties - simulated dripping. Concept great - craftsmanship not so great. They are so basic they should last forever, but don't...

 

[VapRon]

I just felt like I had come to visit an old friend, the door was locked and I was no longer allowed to visit. It was hard for me to get involved here because I was afraid it would happen again and I though, why bother but I really like all the great folks so just couldn't stay away. Thank you Tx.

Now that I have confronted the elephant in the room I'll not say any more. Vape on friends.

That was excactly what I felt. So sorry the old one was closed but nothing one can do besides moving on.

And my Hockey team is just about to get eliminated and I have still got some honey do's to do.
Oh well tomorrow will be a better day

 

[my4jewels]

Oh boy, Jewels, now I get to ask you how to use those tanks :: ::

pm sent, my dear.

 

[daisygirlie]

Hi y'all - I've felt like there were a couple of things I could help with or clarify regarding site features, and I will be posting this in multiple threads Here are some step by step instructions on how to do time saving things that are easy to forget the way to do, and figured that it can't hurt to print and stash the following instructions somewhere in case you forget (I suffer from swiss cheese brain, otherwise known as CRS and wrote these steps down myself when I figured them out I figured if I could use them, anyone can so here are the directions for Quick Links, Disabling emails for subscribed threads, and multi-quoting posts. Enjoy!



Quick links! - Or - How to quickly find the point you left off reading in threads you've posted in or have subscribed to

(this method is easier than all the others I saw listed. If someone did post this, mea culpa, I missed it!)


This is quick, easy and painless!. Step by step (all 2 steps) along with the bonus easiness of how to find and keep up with new activity in threads you've posted in or subscribed to!"

1. Click the button at the top of the screen that says, "Quick Links." It is at the top of every page, including your messenger and your profile!
3. Once the menu drops down, select "Subscribed Threads." You'll find a list of every thread you've manually subscribed to or you're active in - which simply means you've posted in it at least once

• If you see a little blue dot before the group name, it means there are new messages since you were last there!
• Click the blue dot and it'll take you to the last post you read in that thread, and then you can continue on from that point!

Don't worry if you don't make it to the end of the posts. It'll still pick right up where you left off if you stop before the end of the new posts! The View attachment 95347 will also not disappear until you've caught up in the threads. If you can't read all subscribed threads immediately, they'll still show up as new until you get to them, it's not a "now you see it, now you don't." I like to keep one tab open on this page at all times - that way, no matter what I'm doing I can quickly hit refresh on the page and if there's new info in the threads I like, it's right there for me to see with the little blue dot! Quick links indeed!!

How to make the emails STOP!!

If you're getting bombarded with emails saying there's a new post and they're taking over your email, just follow the steps one by one. Make sure you know where If you can't go back and forth between tabs, you may want to print this (it's not hard, there are just more steps) This was the hardest thing for me to figure out when I first started! After doing this while/after you read this, you'll only need to repeat the process if you subscribe to a new thread - I wish there was a default, but there's not

1. Click "quick links" drop down menu button
3. Click "subscribed threads" from the options
5. Click "Subscribed Threads in Folder" at the top right of the threads
7. Click "Subscriptions"
9. Click "All"
11. Click the check box next to "Notification" inside the blue bar, right under the "all" you just selected. This will instantly check off all the boxes for you! If there are any threads you'd still like to get emailed about, simply click their boxes and they'll become empty again.
13. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page, at the point where the thread names end.
15. Click "Selected Threads"
17. Click "through my contol panel only"
19. Click "Go"

Next to all your threads (except any you unchecked) you'll now see the word "none." This means you will no longer get emails bombing your inbox all day long, you'll only receive emails from the threads you left the boxes unchecked for - and you can *always* change your settings - nothing is forever here except delete.

I do keep the emailing active on some smaller threads I follow for the Leo PV, mostly because almost no one ever posts anything new. I'd, of course, see any new posts by using the quick links, subscribed threads and they'll show up - but I'm not always logged in or paying attention here, so getting that email notification is handy - you need to catch 'em while they're posting on some threads or it can be days before you see someone again!

How to Multi-Quote Posts

This process is actually quite simple. Again I'll lay it out in steps for you, but this one can't really be bullet pointed, it'll be a tad different. One thing to be aware of is that there *is* a limit to how many quotes you can reply to at once, so I usually only multi-quote 5-7 posts at a time because I don't know the exact number.

As you're perusing the posts in a thread, you may see multiple things that you want to reply to, but will people be bothered by a flurry of single response posts? I don't see a problem with it, however, I find that I actually *prefer* to use multi-quote whenever possible because it takes less of the focus off the number of replies and re-directs it to the quality of the replies - even if they're goofy answers...humor is necessary and sometimes it's key to pulling off a fun multi-quote because you can group things!

As you're perusing a thread, if you see something you want to respond to there are three little buttons at the end of the post: reply, reply with quote, and a funny "+ in a bubble??? That, is the multiquote button!

When you find a post you want to add into your multi-quote, just click that button and a little check mark will appear over it.

You can continue to different pages and continue to add to your virtual reply pile. Be aware that they will appear in the order you ADD them, not in the order they were written. Sometimes it helps to clump together one user's posts because you can consolidate them into one post and answer it, and it won't count against you in the quote limit - getting a little ahead of myself here so back we go!

So you finally decide to do your replies. It's simple, you want to click the + Reply to Thread button right above the quick reply box.

Here you'll see a list of quotes that start with a user name and a number (it has to do with their post#) that looks like this [QUOTEdaisygirlie;5925287] and at the end of their quoted text, you'll see [/QUOTE] I fudged this one on purpose or it wouldn't have shown properly!

You'll type your reply after the end of their quote, and before the next quote. They're all laid out in this manner in the order in which you added them.

It's best to do this in advanced mode, because you can see if the quotes & replies are showing properly. It's so simple after you try it the first time you'll practically be a pro! It's simply read through (and edit out if you want) the post you're replying to, then reply. Then you move on to the next one...Lather, Rinse, Repeat

The Advanced advice for combining quotes from one user to circumvent the quote quota (*giggle* quote quota *giggle*)

To multiquote one user without using up your quote count, after their first post, but before the [/QUOTE] you can copy and paste from their other quotes into it. Like say I had 4 messages, you want to combine. You don't have to do anything to the first one. After that one, you'd cut out everything between the [QUOTEdaisygirlie;5925287] and the [/QUOTE] from each quote, adding the text from all my messages into the end first one I wrote - then you'd delete all the extra quote bits floating around like the front quote with my name, and the end [/QUOTE]. You do need to be sure that after you've added together all the quotes, that you *do* have 1 [/QUOTE] at the end. If you're not sure you got it, do a preview on the message and you'll find out!

It's something you can play around with, starting with multi-quoting 2 people's posts and working up to larger numbers, and then to the user quote combining.

If anyone needs help doing any of these three things, feel free to PM me and I'll be glad to help you out!

Enjoy your new skills!

daisy