POLL: Ecig or PV

[lunaras]

E-cig. I agree, if it looks like a duck ...
Unless it doesn't look like a duck and more like a roll of quarters.

If your rolls of quarters com in $20 rolls, are metallic green, and look like a third of a mechanical pencil is is glued to the top, then yeah, mine looks like a roll of quarters.

But seriously, I think e-cig is just more immediately understandable to the uninitiated and takes less initial explanation for them to wrap their heads around the concept.

 

[sherid]

The fact is I will never call it a personal vaporizer.
The sound of those words makes me want to puke.

It is an electronic cigarette, and that is what I call it.
I don't care if the general public can't handle it.
I don't care if it gives people the willies.
I don't care if it hurts our cause.

It is up to me to make the people I talk to understand.
it is up to me to ease their mind.
It is my responsibility.

But I won't call it something I don't want to call it in order to appease the ignorant.

Sometimes, I think I am the only person who feels as I do, but then I read something like you just said; and I realize that I am not the only one. Thanks

 

[MHR7331]

ecig... and i call cigarettes "cigarettes", "cigs", "smokes"... "analog" sounds corny and ......ed to me...

 

[ZambucaLu]

Originally Posted by DC2
The fact is I will never call it a personal vaporizer.
The sound of those words makes me want to puke.

It is an electronic cigarette, and that is what I call it.
I don't care if the general public can't handle it.
I don't care if it gives people the willies.
I don't care if it hurts our cause.

It is up to me to make the people I talk to understand.
it is up to me to ease their mind.
It is my responsibility.

But I won't call it something I don't want to call it in order to appease the ignorant.

Sometimes, I think I am the only person who feels as I do, but then I read something like you just said; and I realize that I am not the only one. Thanks

Same here. I remember when the poll on this was first going around and I thought.....PV? What kind of dumb name is that? lol

When I first told my (adult) children about it, I said it was an electronic cigarette....and then I explained how it worked. And that's what I've done with others who've asked. If I would have said Personal Vaporizer, they would have thought I surely was off my rocker this time....lol

I remember suggesting an inhaler type name but someone commented that you don't exhale vapor with an inhaler. Then I suggested something like 'electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS....lol), but not all contain nicotine.

So I'll just stick with electronic cigarette. Makes my life a lot easier

Lu

 

[Lightgeoduck]

I call it by many names......hehe, but seriously
when I talk about it with people I really just explain what it does for me and how it works. I don't really say what it is, of course I really don't call anybody directly by name I just wait for eye contact and start talking hehehe


they actually end up calling it something and if it is in the ballpark I say yes. If they are interested I am forced to imply that I call it e-cigarette because I direct them to this forum

 

[NJDrew]

But it's not though is it. It's an alternative to tobacco cigarettes ( the fact that it actually works as a cessation devise is an added bonus)

Its strange that every time I say "it’s a safer alternative to smoking" I get the most absent looks. Like I just sucked their brains out with a straw. People can’t comprehend why some people don’t want to quit smoking/use of nicotine. Like its a fact every smoker wants to quit and you didn't get the memo. I chose, e-cigs because I wanted a safer way to enjoy my habit, not to quit.

 

[ceo51378]

Its strange that every time I say "it’s a safer alternative to smoking" I get the most absent looks. Like I just sucked their brains out with a straw. People can’t comprehend why some people don’t want to quit smoking/use of nicotine. Like its a fact every smoker wants to quit and you didn't get the memo. I chose, e-cigs because I wanted a safer way to enjoy my habit, not to quit.

Exactly!

 

[Sludge Van Diesel]

. I chose, e-cigs because I wanted a safer way to enjoy my habit, not to quit.

Same here.

I had somebody come up to me & say "you'll never quit with one of them"

After I explained that actually I had quit what I wanted to quit (tobacco & all the assorted crap that goes with it), but kept what I wanted, I gave the usual how it works etc speech & by then end of it they were actually quite impressed.

I've always enjoyed blowing smoke. That part of the habit hasn't gone away, I've just changed what I inhale / exhale.

 

[DinosaurVapor]

I call mine Shannon

 

[jj2]

PV

DH likes PV better too.

 

[yknotagain]

mine are all PVs

 

[Moonstruck]

When I was looking for information and searching Google, I searched on the term "electronic cigarette." At the time I certainly did not know that these devices were also called PVs, ENIs, etc.

When I'm explaining it to a stranger, I call it an electronic cigarette. I just explain what it is, how I use it, and how I was able to quit smoking after only 2 days with it (that usually gets their attention). Around my family I still say "smoking" because of all the dumb looks I get from them if I say "vaping."

So yea, I still call it an e-cig with non-users, but I do call it a PV here on the forum. And no, I do not imply that this is a medical device from my doctor by calling it my nebulizer or inhaler. But my doctor does approve of it, BTW.

 

[frogbmth]

I call mine a vaporizer. But it came back to bite me once. I was on the bank and put my Dura on the counter to sign a document. The teller asked what it was and I told her it was a vaporizer. She had a panic attack, she thought it was a weapon and I was going to vaporize her. She watched too much Star Trek or something

 

[Silence]

PV / Doug. I like to keep it simple.

 

[Anchova]

Frankly I think "electronic cigarette" isn't a very marketable name. I'm going to be selling at the flea market, and I'm thinking possibly "digital cigarette" in place of it.

 

[panderson01]

For the most part these days, it's a "Personal Vaporizer", especially to strangers in public.

Around the family, it's my "Smoke", i.e., have you seen my smoke?, let me get my smoke and I'll be right there, I need to change the battery in my smoke, etc.

I too, believe that using the term "cigarette" to strangers in public does not shed a good light, considering people think in differences and similarities, and they would lean more to the similarity to regular cigarettes.

I do like the idea of answering the question with the model, "This is a Prodigy".

 

[MaxUT]

I was on the bank and put my Dura on the counter to sign a document. The teller asked what it was and I told her it was a vaporizer. She had a panic attack, she thought it was a weapon and I was going to vaporize her.

Find another bank...you have a space cadet handling your account!

 

[MaxUT]

Personally, I prefer the term "little fogger," as in:

"Hey, check out this li'l fogger!"

 

[ricklovesnic]

I use the term "electronic cigarette" under only one circumstance: the person asking me has a lit cigarette (or I know that they are a smoker)

Otherwise, it's "Personal Nicotine Inhaler". Yeah, I know it's a quibble, but I don't want my new habit strongly associated with smoking analogs. There is no smoke. There is no fire. Also, the term has many strong points:

Personal: It's mine. No homeless dude, I only have one, and I am *NOT* going to give it to you.
Nicotine: I'll cop right to it... I'm addicted to nicotine. Hey, at least it's not crack, right?
Inhaler: Explains the "fog" that I inhale, and if the person is a smoker, they're pretty likely to guess the reasons behind that and "get it". If not, the term is neutral enough to warrant follow up questions. To a non-smoker, this sounds rather clinical and doesn't seem to draw as much ire as something more closely related to smoking.

I'm going to skate the thin edge of the "no drug talk" rule here, so please let me know if I'm out of bounds on this.... I don't like to use the term "vaporizer" if I can avoid it. Yes, it's an accurate term that describes the device... BUT there are also vaporizer devices that are not used for nicotine. With the exception of a "nebulizer", most of the people I know and run into immediately think of a "vaporizer" as something used to consume illicit substances. I sidestep this issue by calling it an inhaler.

Interestingly enough, one of the first times I used this phrase, I was unknowingly speaking to a doctor. He said "Inhaler? What was it prescribed for?" I told him it was not a medical device prescribed to me, but after using it for three days I had reduced my tobacco consumption by 95% (at the time) and could easily see myself stopping the use of tobacco altogether once I was completely used to the device. He seemed very impressed.

-rick

 

[Randyrtx]

It's amusingly ironic that we are on the "e-cigarette-forum" debating on whether we should call them e-cigs or something more politically correct like personal vaporisers.

I prefer e-cig.