the little things in life that change when you vape instead of smoke

[rise2it]

Was driving back home earlier today, and DROPPED my ecig.

Out of habit from dropping cigs in a car in yeas past, the panic immediately set in and I started feeling around trying to find it:

"Oh god, where do it go?"
"D@#, I'm going to have to pull over to find it."
"Is it burning a hole in the carpet?"
"Did the cherry fall off and go between the seats?"

After about 2 seconds, I remembered it was an E-Cig....whew.

 

[Jonnysocko]

Being a country boy, I really love this one:
"i dont have to worry about catching a bail of hay on fire in the back of my truck"

 

[ProjectVIN]

My fingers aren't yellow anymore. Seriously that was getting to me big-time. In fact I still sometimes think they are, and have to hold them up and smell them to remind myself that there's nothing on them anymore. I used to have a rag I'd soap up and scrub my index/middle fingers and the rag would have yellow spots in it. Sheesh.

 

[Hrtbrkr1965]

This isn't as funny as some responses ive seen but having more quality time with my 6 year old! I can now walk through the park with her on the hiking trails that run along the creek there! She Loves that!
I can also pick her up and throw her across my shoulder like a sack of potatoes and carry her the length of my house and put her to bed "the fun way" she calls it LOL
My 18 year old is happy I quit and my 28 year old and 3 grandchildren are happy about it also!
Yes my 3 daughters are 12 years apart in age! You forget alot of stuff in between there! I guess I am old but I can breath now LOL

 

[Blueberry]

I'm glad vaping has helped me discontinue the treatment I had been taking for the past 2 years because of a severe pneumonia.

But the best advantage is to not to be scared anymore to leave my child alone too early because of a nasty lung disease.

 

[dagnagan]

All this gloating -- doesn't anybody feel even a little bit bad that you're not paying into the Master Settlement anymore, and your state legislature is going to have less of that ill-gotten gain to spend? What about the 60-cent per pack federal tax to buy health insurance for not-quite-poor kids (SCHIP)? And the tobacco companies that raised prices way above the tax increase because, well, because they could? Did you even bother to let any of those greedy bullies know that none of your money was ever coming their way again?

There are other, more intangible things, too. What about the righteous self-satisfaction of people who could lecture you about your personal choices and imply that you were not only going to get lung cancer but you deserved to get lung cancer? Maybe we should just pause and consider how we're damaging the self-regard of people who need some outcast group to be contemptuous of.

I'm just sayin'...

 

[achtungbaby]

No more walking past the kids playing and hearing the "barbies" talk about stepping outside for a smoke.
Talk about the major guilt trip that made you want another.
Now people only avoid me for being a "little insane" and not for reeking of smoke.

My daughter told me one of the girls had a chunk of mulch in her mouth "smoking" at the school playground, all I could think was if it was my daughters idea? Hate that.
How about scrubbing up to do the play dates- eventually I just stayed away.

 

[Starshell]

My rosacea seems to be clearing up. My clothes don't stink. My hair feels better, healthier. I got my teeth cleaned 2 weeks ago and they're still sparkly! My car doesn't reek. I had company on Saturday (smokers) and had to hunt up ashtrays...that's a first. Oh, btw, they think my e-cig is "cute." I'm trying to recruit them.

 

[XDoctor]

With improved lung function, I can run. I've been overweight all my life, cracked 300lbs last summer. I hired a personal trainer and have been running and I'm down to within the "normal" body fat percentage.

I could never have done that and smoked two packs a day.

 

[Shinypaladin]

Now I feel I may live to watch my Daughter grow up.
But seriously your only glorifying the good parts? What about the draw backs?

My post man may get a restraining order on me.
I can't get past reading about a different flavor and rush onto a web site to buy it.
I had to convert my spare bedroom into a Laboratory to mix my own flavors.
I have to spend 30 minutes trying to convert every smoker that asks me "wtf is that???"
A couple hours per night is no where near enough to catch up on all the posts on ECF its fricken impossible!
Oddly when running out of the house sometimes when I am late I stop to look for my lighter out of habit.
I now notice everyone disappearing for 10 minutes at a time when I am at work. every time I need something I am all like "where the hell did everyone go?" only to find them outside smoking.
There are foods I used to like but now not so much because I am starting to actually taste them.

there is soo much more! Wouldn't swap it for the world though.

 

[Shinypaladin]

oh one more important one but keep it to yourselves.
I now detect a odor when I ummm pass wind.. Its not always pleasant.

 

[Shadoza]

My wife spent about 20 hours in the car over the weekend. Last night when she got home I went into her car to get something and I noticed that I smelled her "Almond Pleasure" from FSUSA. Then I realized how nice it was compared to what 20 hours in the car with analogs would have been like. Same goes for my office (I shouldn't smoke in my office, but I do after hours -- the next day I can see on people's ((non smokers)) faces that they smell the tobacco smoke leftover from the night before.), my bedroom smells good. Best thing is, I am not breaking away from my kids every 45 minutes to have my cigarette!

 

[starrynight]

I now go to 7-11 around 6 or 7 when I want something yummy, not 11:30 at night in a panic because there is only 2 cigs left in the pack.

 

[Seventh]

I am extremely glad that I don't smell like an ashtray when I come back into the office from having a smoke.

That, and being able to vape in the house during the winter is pretty great!

 

[Cowboysmommy]

I just have to say this for those trying to be more green........ instead of paper towels...I use old washclothes.......u know the kind with the holes in them that u don't want to use for washing your face anymore.....but still have absorbency that's what I use to take care of leaks etc

I do the same. I have what we call "unpaper towels". We are a pretty green family.

The best for me so far is not hereing my 2 yr old scream because I am going outside with out him every 30 min or so.

 

[SugarFoot Sue]

Now I feel I may live to watch my Daughter grow up.
But seriously your only glorifying the good parts? What about the draw backs?

My post man may get a restraining order on me.
I can't get past reading about a different flavor and rush onto a web site to buy it.
I had to convert my spare bedroom into a Laboratory to mix my own flavors.
I have to spend 30 minutes trying to convert every smoker that asks me "wtf is that???"
A couple hours per night is no where near enough to catch up on all the posts on ECF its fricken impossible!
Oddly when running out of the house sometimes when I am late I stop to look for my lighter out of habit.
I now notice everyone disappearing for 10 minutes at a time when I am at work. every time I need something I am all like "where the hell did everyone go?" only to find them outside smoking.
There are foods I used to like but now not so much because I am starting to actually taste them.

there is soo much more! Wouldn't swap it for the world though.

Hilarious! I can relate....

 

[joegti240]

ecigs are the invention of the century for me i think...im almost 33, smoked butts 12 of those years. havent had an analog in 2 months, nor do i care to. being 'somewhat young' the ecig may have stopped whatever complications that could happen down the road from the cancer sticks.

plus, it opens up more doors in the dating world being a 'non-smoker'. a win-win situation.

 

[Phydeau]

**i can "date" a nonsmoker, and a nonsmoker might be interested in me!

*DING DING DING DING DING*

That's a big one for me, frankly, I was getting real tired of being treated like a leper because I have a nicotine addiction. In the dating community, to disapprove of someone because of their food addiction gets you labeled as "shallow" but being disapproved because of being a smoker, well, that's the "in thing" these days.

 

[sned]

after smoking for 15 years I can now say that my blood pressure went back to nomal, I can taste food better, no more breathing difficulties and whiter teeth.

 

[Rosa]

*DING DING DING DING DING*

That's a big one for me, frankly, I was getting real tired of being treated like a leper because I have a nicotine addiction. In the dating community, to disapprove of someone because of their food addiction gets you labeled as "shallow" but being disapproved because of being a smoker, well, that's the "in thing" these days.

When I was still in the dating arena this one EXTREMELY handsome man said to me, "your very attractive, too bad you smoke." AArgh...

I didn't hold it against him (though I wanted to hold everything else against him, lol) I wouldn't have dated a smoker if I was a non-smoker - I know what that smells like.

Oddly, I ended up marrying a non-smoker a couple of years later.