The word "vape"

[Starik]

I don't wan't this to be taken the wrong way (I'm a vaping vaper myself) but does anyone else here think the word "vape", or any variation thereof, sounds a little... corny or something?

It reminds me of TV dramas where teenagers are doing some new fictional street drug and they have some silly "hip" slag term for it.

 

[LucentShadow]

Yeah, it seemed a bit dorky to me at first. You get used to it...

 

[gthompson]

Smoke, smoking, smoker. Vapor, vaping, vaper. Makes perfect sense to me. *shrug*

 

[Starik]

It absolutely makes sense. Replace smoke with vapor. It sounds different to me though.

 

[bbarron78]

Smoke, smoking, smoker. Vapor, vaping, vaper. Makes perfect sense to me. *shrug*

I'll second that

 

[Jarski44]

I thought it was hokey myself at first, but haven't been able to come with a better term. Have any suggestions?

 

[SilentScreams]

Smoke, smoking, smoker. Vapor, vaping, vaper. Makes perfect sense to me. *shrug*

Agreed . .

 

[Starik]

No, I don't think there is reasonable alternative. Vaping makes the most sense.

 

[Butters78]

Considering all the fda crap looming we may have to think of a new term or be locked up. Instead of vaping we could say we are going to "wash the toilet" or "get that rash checked out".

 

[Starik]

Let me put it this way. I think it is the most obvious and logical term to use...

...but I'm going to feel like a dork telling somebody who's never heard of e-cigs that I'm "vaping."

 

[Saintly1]

I think it makes sense but my girlfriend rolls her eyes when I use the word vaping around her. She even told me not to use the term "stealth vaping" in public. I believe it will catch on as people become more aware. I used to feel the same way about the word meme but now it's common place on Facebook.

 

[DPLongo22]

Dorky? Yes. Better options? None to date.

 

[KraKsX]

An eCig is a personal vaporizer, it's as simple as its really just vaporizing the liquid it's holding. So saying I'm a vaper for using a vaporizer makes sense and sounds fine to me.

 

[eeevilyn.]

I see what you're saying OP. I'm vaping is a funny thing to say.

I like to say "I'm vaporizing with my device" because its funny.

 

[Doglips]

I have a issue with the term E-cigarette. It is not a cigarette and I'm not e-mailing it I'm puffing on it...I'm too old to be hip, but vapeing seems to be what I'm doing. But ill admit it a vaporizer to me is some kind of science fiction ray gun....,or one of the water and Vicks vapor rub plug in the wall mist machines my mom put in my room when I had a cold as a child

 

[patsfan1130]

Smoke, smoking, smoker. Vapor, vaping, vaper. Makes perfect sense to me. *shrug*

Agree 100%

 

[Saintly1]

Younger members won't understand this but we could say we're "unsmoking". Anyone remember Uncola (7-UP) from the 70s?

http://www.ambassadoradvertising.com/static/uploads/news_blog_images/peggy/7-up-uncola.jpg

 

[jerseyrob]

Let me put it this way. I think it is the most obvious and logical term to use...

...but I'm going to feel like a dork telling somebody who's never heard of e-cigs that I'm "vaping."

I think the word vaping ,or in old english "To Vape" is Bad ... . I think telling people that your atomizing, or cartomizeing ,now that sounds Dorky. What about juicing ...Na to much like shooting roids ...What about tanking ...Na sounds like a couple of drunks... What about Vaping ...Dam skippy that is what we are....

 

[Leatherneck]

I don't wan't this to be taken the wrong way (I'm a vaping vaper myself) but does anyone else here think the word "vape", or any variation thereof, sounds a little... corny or something?

It reminds me of TV dramas where teenagers are doing some new fictional street drug and they have some silly "hip" slag term for it.

I feel exactly the same way, but since I haven't come up with something better, I'll use it. It's better than something like e-smoking.

On the other hand, I absolutely refuse to refer to them as e-cigarettes or e-cigs unless they have the standard cigarette form-factor.

 

[Chiku]

Let me put it this way. I think it is the most obvious and logical term to use...

...but I'm going to feel like a dork telling somebody who's never heard of e-cigs that I'm "vaping."

Yep, I agree. But soon I am sure it will feel as normal as saying that I am a smoker. I can't wait for that, or for vaping to be more of a normal thing where I live. So far everyone I talk to has never heard of it.