Stealth vaping is so fun

[Dana A]

Now that I am a full time chain vapor I have discovered just how fun it is to feel naughty while vaping in wal mart, gordmans, sears, kohls, theisens and any other place I can think of. I am still thinking about how its going to go during my kids soccer and football games next season but I know I wont be missing anything on a smoke break now. vaping rules

 

[dotma]

It is fun but im not very good at it! my VG juice makes plumes wayyy too thick!

 

[Off Topic]

There's no need to stealth in my neck of the woods so I don't. Tough to stealth with a provari and a DCT anyway.

 

[Darkstarncw]

What's that guy doing with that giant metal rod in his mouth?

 

[EvenOdd]

How visible of vapor is an all PG liquid? I'd like to learn the art of stealthing.

 

[Darkstarncw]

Even with all pg, you're still going to have to hold everything in for a few seconds before you breathe again. I have yet to manage a stealth vape, thankfully I don't really need to.

 

[MrSheen]

Sometimes have a quick stealth at work, usual use an Ego 650mah battery and a 510 attie, nice and compact.....and discreet!

 

[V8PN_MAMA]

Love to vape in Wal-Mart, my bank, at the post office but most of all in my own dang house!

 

[wv2win]

Why stealth vape. Vape openly, proudly but respectfully. It does more for the vaping community to show (and educate when possible) the uninformed that vaping is not harmful to others.

 

[StealthyTX]

For some reason I can't bring myself to do it in public (vape, that is).

 

[mekks]

I vape at work openly in the office i work in, everyone is really good with it even the hard core non-smokers(these ones are happier then heck i'm off the stinkies). Have a few that get a chuckle out of my DCT's that make it look like something naughty, and one guy in the office laughs says i look like a dragon with vapor coming out of my nose.

Other day one co-worker did a double take cause she can see the vapor and not smell anything. So she started asking about it as she knows someone trying to quit smoking. So hopefully the person she tells about it comes to the forums, as anyone who asks I direct them here for even more information

 

[StealthyTX]

My boss is OK with me vaping at my desk, but I'm kind of skeered of vaping in a store, bank, etc...

 

[Geiseric]

I'll stealth vape in one of the stairways at work once in a while, but I kind of like having an excuse to go stand outside for a bit. I'm paid hourly and don't get breaks, so its the closest thing to one I can get in a given 8-9 hour span. I think that's why most of my coworkers smoke. I work at a treatment center, so vaping in my office would be asking for a giant reaming from a supervisor.

 

[sailorman]

I used to stealth vape but I don't bother anymore. Most people who ask about it are interested and it's a good conversation starter. Random strangers who feel the need to remind me there's no-smoking allowed are simply told I'm not smoking. If they insist I am, I tell them it's a medical device. That's the advantage to vaping with a mod that looks nothing like an analog. Where I live, vapers aren't treated like smokers just yet, so unless they own the joint, they can go pound salt if they insist on being the smoking police. If they DO own the joint, I'll either just stop or, if they're reasonable and interested, I'll attempt to explain what it is I'm doing. This has always worked in bars and some restaurants. If some braindead waitress wants to play smoke nazi with me and refuses to let me speak to her boss about it, then fine. It's her tip and I won't darken their door again. If I haven't ordered yet, I'll just get up and leave.

 

[J**2]

I set off my office fire alarm vaping VG furiously while reading at my desk ;-)

Now stealth vape ;-(

J


GG stealth, Provari, iatty2, DIY chef

 

[ki77en]

I set off my office fire alarm vaping VG furiously while reading at my desk ;-)

Now stealth vape ;-(

J

OMG That cracked me up.

I wouldn't necessarily say I "stealth it", but since I'm a graveyard shift worker and usually go to the store after work, there's really no one around to notice. At work, there's maybe 7 of us here on nights and they don't pay attention to my vapors unless they're curious although on the rotating night shift, there used to be another guy who did it and his supervisor told him that he needed to take it outside. All I can say is that this company is still full of a bunch of narrow-minded "good ole boys" who wouldn't even understand the difference between vapor and smoke if their life depended on it AND they willingly choose not to learn.

I don't want to give our community (fellow vapers) a bad rap b/c there are still plenty that don't accept or even want to know about the differences, so I'm usually rather discreet in public. I'm still uncomfortable vaping in my car around a cop b/c I think he's going to pull me over thinking that I'm smoking herb - the illegal kind.

I will say this - if my sup told me to go outside to vape, I'd go sit in our lunchroom, watch some tv and vape to my heart's content.

 

[Ladypixel]

I don't stealth-vape at my desk at work, but I also don't flaunt it. My PVs are sitting openly on my desk. My boss follows my Facebook, so he can see that I quit smoking... but he also hasn't said a word when I go outside to take a vaping break instead of a smoking break (hey, that was a sanity measure to keep me from going nutty from working a desk job), nor has he said anything to me about vaping... but I'm also not the only one who vapes at my work.

I do tend to be slightly more stealthy about vaping during bright daylight hours elsewhere than at night (I'm wide open about it at night, probably because by that point, I'm tired enough to not care anymore). However, I recently did the whole 24-hours-at-Disneyland leap-day thing, and was anything BUT stealthy while vaping all over the park, and to be honest, nobody really noticed.

If you're worried about blowing out a plume of vapor where someone will object, just hold it in for a couple-few extra seconds (for me, it's about 7 seconds), and voila, no vapor emerges when you exhale.

 

[ResinBalls]

I used to work at a grocery store. And I would sit in the eating area which is right next to the check out lanes and vape away. Huge clouds of vapor, too. I used to get a lot of looks from people, but no one ever said anything. I was never trying to be stealthy about it either.

One time, though, I was on break talking to one of the cashiers who didn't have anybody at their lane, then a customer walks up ready to check out, right as I took a huge hit and blew the vapor directly at my coworker...I looked at the lady, and she gave me the dirtiest look ever. I immediately turned and walked outside to finish my break. Later on I heard from that coworker that the lady got real huffy and puffy about the situation and complained to the cashier. Apparently she said it was the last time she was coming into that store to shop...

I kind of felt bad, but at the same time I wish I could have been there to explain my non-smoking situation and that there is no second-hand harm with e-cigs...I wish people weren't so ignorant to e-cigs.

 

[Victorian]

I wish I could be that comfortable! It has only been two weeks so maybe at some point...

I am still rolling down the window in the car!

 

[sailorman]

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I kind of felt bad, but at the same time I wish I could have been there to explain my non-smoking situation and that there is no second-hand harm with e-cigs...I wish people weren't so ignorant to e-cigs.

That's part of the reason I quit hiding it. The more vapers act like they're smoking, the more the ignorant public will equate vaping and smoking. I love it when people ask me what I'm doing. CASAA has some cards that explain what vaping is and isn't. Those are handy if you don't want to get into public education mode. If they want to revel in their ignorance, I say to heck with them. I'm not obliged to modify my behavior just because someone else is ignorant. If they want to learn, I'm more than happy to enlighten them. If they think I'm going to adapt to their preconceptions and misconceptions and prejudices, they've got another think coming.

The way I see it, if I was a diabetic, I wouldn't refrain from drinking Diet Coke in front of my doctor just because he was too stupid to know there was such a thing and it LOOKS TO HIM like I'm drinking a regular Coke. I didn't refrain smoking RYO cigarettes when I had to just because some idiot might think it wasn't tobacco. I guess I just don't suffer fools gladly. So sue me.