Struggling lately...

[gopher_byrd]

Am I the only one who has days where vaping just seems to be a PITA. I just don't feel like dry burning my coils and getting prepaid cards to go and surf the web then make a juice order. It butts in to my time that would be better spent doing "life" things, yet I am so reliant on this that at times I feel like I am more addicted to this than smoking. I know this is only once in a while that I get this way, but when these feelings hit I get ...... off! I don't like tinkering. AT ALL! I am a simple man. Now I carry around bags of juice and coils and batteries...... Anyways. I made my first 18mg nic order today. Been at 24 since I started and I think it is time to start dropping.

Anyone else ever get these feels? I know this will pass just venting...

I hear ya dude. I travel for work a LOT (80K miles this year)!!! I just started vaping and have not traveled since I gave up the stinkies. Next week I'm in Hawaii (I know you don't feel sorry for me) then I'm home for 2 day's then off to New York. So do I drag all my stuff with me or fill up a bunch of tanks and clean when I get home. Lather, rinse, repeat... But I will make it through it. NO MORE STINKIES for me!!!

 

[Bravesfan]

Btw...I hope im not discouraging anyone else out there. I will probably wake up tomorrow the exact opposite of how I felt today. Finding out my 3 week old nephew passed away yesterday was tough. I feel sooo bad for my sister and her husband. Thanks for the encouragement guys. I do appreciate it.

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I can't say how sorry I am for your loss!

Wow, it is so hard to understand why the Good Lord would see fit to take a precious little one from their family.

I prefer to think that he loves them so much, he just has to have them with him.

One day we will be given that understanding but being here on earth it is darn hard to imagine.

Before I go to bed tonight I will say a prayer for you and your family.

No wonder you are having a hard time.

Again, I am so sorry.

Cindy

 

[gopher_byrd]

Btw...I hope im not discouraging anyone else out there. I will probably wake up tomorrow the exact opposite of how I felt today. Finding out my 3 week old nephew passed away yesterday was tough. I feel sooo bad for my sister and her husband. Thanks for the encouragement guys. I do appreciate it.

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I am so sorry to hear this! My prayers go out to your family.

 

[MorpheusPA]

Ugh, that's awful, no wonder you're having a hard time of it right now. Take care of yourself and your family, choose the easiest path wherever you can right now, and go easy on yourself regardless. Even if you slip up and smoke, don't beat yourself up. Sometimes life just kicks you in the pants.

 

[AmandaD]

Oh no - that's very sad - awful awful news. Just use the throw away method until you feel bettter - as everyone has already said it's cheaper than smoking.

 

[Bravesfan]

I almost lost my son in a terrible car accident a year ago.

It was a rollover in a small pickup truck and he and his friend were ejected.

When my son's friend got to him, he wasn't breathing so the friend did CPR until the EMT's got on site.

One of the EMT's told me that if he had not done so, my son wouldn't be here today.

He broke his collarbone, bruised both lungs, broke ribs front and back, lots of cuts and bruises but was very lucky.

The ortho doctor told me that he thought the truck actually went over him when he was ejected because to break ribs in the back like he did takes an extreme amount of force that they don't often see.

I remember how I felt when the hospital called me and one of the first things I was told is that at one point his heart had stopped and he wasn't breathing.

Not sure I heard much of anything else they told me.

Went into a state of shock and couldn't stop myself from shaking uncontrollably.

Never has that happened to me before.

That is an experience I will never forget and I feel so blessed to still have him.

It's an awful feeling.

I just feel sick when I hear about parents losing their precious children.

And he was in another state at the time.

I couldn't calm down til I could get there and actually see that he was going to be OK.

Cindy

 

[Evie Luv]

Btw...I hope im not discouraging anyone else out there. I will probably wake up tomorrow the exact opposite of how I felt today. Finding out my 3 week old nephew passed away yesterday was tough. I feel sooo bad for my sister and her husband. Thanks for the encouragement guys. I do appreciate it.

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TCO76 you should have told us this first no wonder your struggling, you need a shoulder and a hug, wish I could give you one.

I know what your going through my brother had a son that only lived for 12 weeks. He was born with Trisomy 18 and we had to feed him through a tube in his nose every 2 hours.

I am very sorry for your loss and for what your sister and her husband are going through. If you need anything please PM me. I always have time for a friend and I'll keep your family in my prayers.

 

[Bravesfan]

Well said Evieluv, you are such a sweetheart!

Cindy

 

[Evie Luv]

Well said Evieluv, you are such a sweetheart!

Cindy

That is sweet of you to say but I know what they are going through. When we lost my nephew that was the first death I had ever experienced. It was in 2001 and to date that was the hardest thing I have ever experienced. You get angry with God, alot of emotions, you need to blame someone or something and sadly to say most marriages don't survive through that kind of grief of the loss of a baby.

 

[chesty]

wow, heavy stuff. lean on your friends and family, and let them lean on you.
as joe cocker says, i get by with a little help from my friends

 

[DaveOno]

I'm saddened also by your loss, TC. You have friends here.

I'm at a loss for something to write... But as you said, tomorrow will come.

I'll just say a prayer for your family.

 

[Seapup]

Am I the only one who has days where vaping just seems to be a PITA. I just don't feel like dry burning my coils and getting prepaid cards to go and surf the web then make a juice order. It butts in to my time that would be better spent doing "life" things, yet I am so reliant on this that at times I feel like I am more addicted to this than smoking. I know this is only once in a while that I get this way, but when these feelings hit I get ...... off! I don't like tinkering. AT ALL! I am a simple man. Now I carry around bags of juice and coils and batteries...... Anyways. I made my first 18mg nic order today. Been at 24 since I started and I think it is time to start dropping.


Anyone else ever get these feels? I know this will pass just venting...

Funny you say this because this is exactly what I am gonna do. Stick to two juices that I know and love and no more dry burning. Im just gonna stock up on coils. Its easier for me to just throw them away after they get a burnt taste.

Thanks for the support guys. I think without ecf I would have given up weeks ago.

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Yep, I get that way every month or so. Fortunately, I've horded a year's worth commercial juice, a year's worth of DIY juice components and stockpiled enough vaping hardware to last years. I normally love tinkering, but when I get into my "funk", I just load up 2 Tritons with my ADV, stick 'em in my leather pouch and go about my business.

When the Triton coils go bad or get gunked up, I just toss the coils in a cup and stick a new one in. Sometimes I don't even bother charging the batteries... I just put them in the box with the other drained batteries. When my funk has passed and I'm feeling more inspired, I charge everything up and clean the pile of tanks. Then I look at my stockpile of new Triton coils and toss the cup-o-fizzled-coils while laughing at myself for thinking I'd rebuild them later.

 

[Seapup]

Btw...I hope im not discouraging anyone else out there. I will probably wake up tomorrow the exact opposite of how I felt today. Finding out my 3 week old nephew passed away yesterday was tough. I feel sooo bad for my sister and her husband. Thanks for the encouragement guys. I do appreciate it.

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Wow. I need to start reading these threads backwards. I'm so sorry for your loss of your nephew. I got a lump in my throat and I don't even know what to say. Prayers out to you and yours TCO.

And to Cindy and Evie... I can't even imagine what's it's like and pray that I never have to endure the same with my own child. Hugs to you all.

I feel a funk coming on and need to take my Wheezal's Joy upstairs and veg.

 

[CafeDigitalDiva]

Btw...I hope im not discouraging anyone else out there. I will probably wake up tomorrow the exact opposite of how I felt today. Finding out my 3 week old nephew passed away yesterday was tough. I feel sooo bad for my sister and her husband. Thanks for the encouragement guys. I do appreciate it.

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Oh my God TCO76. I am SO sorry for your loss. Your sister and brother in law ..and you, are all in my prayers. There are no words.....We are here for you, I hope you know that. Rant, rave, punch a wall, do whatever you have to do. We will be here. We will listen. We are Halon.

 

[wheezal]

ow...my natural jovial wit

 

[TCO76]

Thanks for all the warm wishes and prayers. I have a strong faith and I know that things aren't always understood at first. And like I said earlier, I just hurt for my little sister and her husband. She is my bud and I have a really good friend in her husband. I am like you DaveOno, I am just at a loss for words.... I am not good at these types of things, myself.

But hey..... it happened and we will move forward.

 

[DaveOno]

That we will, my friend, that we will.

 

[AngiBe]

Prayers to u and ur family. We're all here for you and its good to talk about stuff versus bottling it up. Men seem to be good at that (bottling up).

And regarding PITA with vape stuff, ya. I get like that too. Over Thanksgiving, it was so easy for the fam to grab their cigs, lighter and smoke away. I have to constantly change tanks cuz I lose taste super quick. But, they were all coughing, stunk like crap and overall had that "smokers look". You know what I mean. Smoking drains the color on the skin and just looks dry/wrinkled to me. The winter seems worse cuz of no tan.

I just gotta remind myself that another day w/out cigs is a good day and then all my gear, tanks, juices, cleaning it all and everything else that goes with it seems worth while again.

 

[Requiem33]

Well I won't stop buying stuff until I have a 14 - 20 day supply of batteries and tanks. Preferably the VV batteries. LOL If I can't charge for 14 days again......I'm gonna be prepared this time.

I know to y'all that may sound like over kill but to me I'm not going to get 5 months into vaping going through all the changes you go through to have it taken out of my hands again. Trust me.....it is so much harder than you think. You have to start over completely!!

Sounds like where I'm at. Back in 2011 I had completely quit and was a pure vaper. Then out of town on business no juice... AHHHHH lapsed back to smoking and have been since. Now I'm on the road again to vaping but it's being a tough transition. However this time I'm making sure to be prepared. Lots of batteries and lots and lots of juice.

 

[Bravesfan]

You know I even think if I spend a little more at times on juice and equipment than I did on analogs:

1. At some point it will even out.
2. There are the health advantages.
3. I'm supporting great companies like Halo.
4. Making wonderful new friends.
5. My whole family has followed suit and are now vaping.
6. My doctor couldn't be happier.

I know there are tons more but that's all I can think of at the moment.

You know one thing I have noticed is I sleep better at night (when my meds allow me to sleep) because I breathe better.

Just wish I had found out sooner how great vaping really is.

Thanks to you guys for keeping me motivated thru those first few weeks.

And here's an awesome story.

The clerk that used to sell hubby my analogs (used to have them on the counter before he even got up there) asked about me the first time hubby told her he wouldn't be buying the analogs anymore and she is now vaping too!

We encourage others sometimes with just our actions.

Cindy