The Better Half
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My girlfriend lives in Ontario and I'm in Alabama. She just rolls her eyes when I tell her about something new on Skype haha.
She vaped when she was down here, but she doesn't smoke, so it was just being curious with 0mg I bought when she wanted it.
She vaped when she was down here, but she doesn't smoke, so it was just being curious with 0mg I bought when she wanted it.
My other half (I'm the better one!) is generally resigned and supportive. He's figured out that I'm not likely to give up vaping soon (18 mos and counting) so he's resigned to it but, more importantly, he's supportive of me not smoking. I may treat myself to a nice rda, RTA, or mod if one really suits me and tell him its his present to me for my birthday, anniversary, Valentine's Day or whatever. Then he's happy that he doesn't have to figure out what to get me so it's a win-win situation!
Very simple I dont gripe about 10,000 paires of shoes and 5000 purses and she dose not gripe about vape equipment or guns 
My wife has been totally supportive of my vaping, as it helped me break a 42-year addiction to smoking. She is all in favor of the house and everything in it not reeking of cigarette smoke anymore, even though I confined my smoking to one room - as you know, it gets everywhere. I have a very simple PV and can't chase clouds with it, and I don't buy more new equipment, although if I did, she would be OK with that, too. She likes the smell of the vapor that I make. It's all right to vape next to her in the car. So, no resistance here.
My wife still smokes. When I first got started, she thought it was just another hobby. She's had questions and I've answered them. But I don't nag her or try to force her to switch. She's tried hits off mine and likes some of the flavors. At about 6 months into it (for me) she asked me if I thought I'd ever smoke again. I let her know that I wouldn't because I don't like the taste anymore. Then I told her that I added up everything I'd spent. When she found out that with all I've spent, I had still spent about $400 less than I would have on cigarettes, she finally decided that maybe it was a good thing. A few weeks ago she asked me to prep a menthol and a spearmint tank for her so I put them on some of my old equipment and she keeps them around. I don't know if she's used them, but she has them. When she decides it is time to switch, she will.
This...
Along with the mutual understanding that she touches nothing in the garage while I touch nothing in the bathroom....
My wife is happy that I am not smoking but she is well versed and practiced in matters of health and nutrition and would prefer that I limit my respiration to plain ol' air.
How boring is THAT?
Jay
Along with the mutual understanding that she touches nothing in the garage while I touch nothing in the bathroom....
My wife is happy that I am not smoking but she is well versed and practiced in matters of health and nutrition and would prefer that I limit my respiration to plain ol' air.
How boring is THAT?
Jay
I asked my main GF if she would like to try my vape once and she said, "No thank you. I am a non smoker." That was it. Never mentioned again. Doesn't bother her, but smoking doesn't bother her, either. She's from a land of smokers, so knows more smokers and now vapers than non-smokers and non-vapers...
My SO won my first device in a contest at a conference in Vegas...(she got a hole in one playing mini golf) this enabled me to quit smoking AND hold her responsible for any subsequent purchases...
My wife went through a massively supportive phase where she was sitting with me helping me rebuild atomizers and testing e-liquids. Then she went into an indifferent stage, then a slightly anti-vaping few weeks, and now she is firmly in her accepting stage where she doesn't bat an eyelid when I tell her about my new recipe for marshmallow creamsicle, show her my new build or bust out the credit card for some new piece of equipment.
I am pretty sure she doesn't particularly like me vaping, but she infinitely prefers it to me smoking.
She also likes the fact that we both have free cash now where she can buy whatever she wants with the equivalent of my vaping budget.
I am pretty sure she doesn't particularly like me vaping, but she infinitely prefers it to me smoking.
She also likes the fact that we both have free cash now where she can buy whatever she wants with the equivalent of my vaping budget.
Mine just wrinkles her nose and says that I "smell like gum" and am I "going out to fake-smoke [my] fake cigarette now?" (I go outside to vape when she is home, even though the landlord allows it inside the unit and I do it all the time when she's not here, because apparently "gum" is an offensive smell to her -- when she's not chewing it to cover up her cigarette-breath, anyway.) When I first started, apparently I was "too" excited about it because she asked "if there was {slang term for any highly-addictive substance or activity} in there" and if she was "going to have to take it away from me." So I don't talk to her about it anymore, I just keep my mouth shut and go outside for "smoke breaks" like I used to do.
She is not a heavy smoker (nor was I, before I switched, and she smokes even less than I did), but she is still very much a smoker, and firmly not on board the vaping train. All the flavors "taste like gum" to her, even the unflavored (very slightly sweet from the VG content) DIY I mixed up for her to try. I mean, I guess deep down, on some level, she probably appreciates that I'm saving $80 bucks a month and far less likely to die a horribly painful death from devastating lung disease, but outwardly, all I get are the wrinkled nose, and condescending remarks about gum-smell and the legitimacy of my "smoking" implement.
She is not a heavy smoker (nor was I, before I switched, and she smokes even less than I did), but she is still very much a smoker, and firmly not on board the vaping train. All the flavors "taste like gum" to her, even the unflavored (very slightly sweet from the VG content) DIY I mixed up for her to try. I mean, I guess deep down, on some level, she probably appreciates that I'm saving $80 bucks a month and far less likely to die a horribly painful death from devastating lung disease, but outwardly, all I get are the wrinkled nose, and condescending remarks about gum-smell and the legitimacy of my "smoking" implement.
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My first purchase in e-cigs was a Love Birds kit from Green Smoke - bought with the intention of roping my husband into the vaping project - we were both inveterate smokers of many years and many smokes. He did try it a couple of times but it seems it didn't quite cut it for him. So he never got into it while I went on. He doesn't remark about it although he knows I'm spending quite a lot of money on gear and DIY liquids and stuff. I sometimes offer him a vape on my mvp when I have a new flavour (always in the hope that he will like it) but he just doesn't seem to be interested - doesn't even know how vaping is done. He is supportive though. If he smokes at all in the house now he will do it in his den with the door closed.
I'm in complete agreement with this one. Only one small change I'll add: My wife can't figure out why we (vapors') need so may flavors. She says, "You only smoked one type of cigarette, why do you need so many flavors of juice?" In a way,I guess I agree. But since I haven't smoked a .... since Dec 11th, she doesn't really complain.
Tell her that you didn't have a choice in flavors when you smoked. They all tasted like tobacco. Now you Do have a choice and it helps to keep you away from wanting that tobacco.
Because, nvadasz, we had only two flavors of tobacco to choose from, menthol and tobacco. The FDA made sure of that!
Non smoking hubby totally supports my vaping and takes me to all meets, conventions and "juice runs". Matter of fact, will make the juice run without me and visit with B&M owners if they're not busy. He does vape 0 nic because he enjoys the flavors; however, might slip in a bit of nic because we're of the older generation and it's suppose to help the mental acuity and memory.
For the last 20 mos. all gifts for any celebration I can think up have been vape related. It does make him happy that I do this for him as well as rebuild his coils and in general care for his setups. Also, if I want something in between those celebratory days, he gets a new power tool. We're both very satisfied and happy how this "vaping thing" turned out.
Non smoking hubby totally supports my vaping and takes me to all meets, conventions and "juice runs". Matter of fact, will make the juice run without me and visit with B&M owners if they're not busy. He does vape 0 nic because he enjoys the flavors; however, might slip in a bit of nic because we're of the older generation and it's suppose to help the mental acuity and memory.
For the last 20 mos. all gifts for any celebration I can think up have been vape related. It does make him happy that I do this for him as well as rebuild his coils and in general care for his setups. Also, if I want something in between those celebratory days, he gets a new power tool. We're both very satisfied and happy how this "vaping thing" turned out.
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Same here with the support and I am pretty frugal on the equipment as well. She actually bought me a way overpriced starter kit as a surprise to get me off cigs.
Sorry to say that my Mr. Chili is not very supportive. He quit 8 years ago and doesn't understand why I couldn't suck it up and quit like a man! He does constantly comment on what I spend but then I mention all his firearms and his charised and pampered Harleys! I do love the man, 36 years together should be proof of that, but I know that look of confusion will be there again when I buy another mod!
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