I smoked my last tobacco cigarette on November 13th, 2011 at 8:00pm. That was 2,073 days ago (not that anyone’s counting).
The next day, I picked up a Blu Disposable at Walgreens, and that began my journey in vapeland.
A few months later, I got my very first variable voltage device. It was a Lavatube. It was great. I set the voltage, and the vape changed. There was a problem though. At a point, I was raising the voltage but the vape wasn’t changing. Huh????
I learned that it had an amp limit (
“amp limit???”) , and that amp limit was kicking in, keeping my vape just short of where I wanted it to be.
So I ordered a Provari, v2.
Whoa!!!! NIRVANA!!!!!!!!! It listened to me. Just like my preference of manual shift cars, it did what I wanted, when I wanted.
The only small issue I had is that I had to adjust the voltage as my resistance changed. Not a big deal, and I still use the same technology today, via Provari v2.5s.
But VW came around, and I incorporated that too (as have many/most everyone by now). Perfection in that it maintained MY vape, MY way, exactly as I had determined what I needed to no longer smoke.
{Fast forward}
Now I’m watching people change their vape because a vendor told them they must. Basically, they’re setting back to my old Lavatube, and talking about “safe zones” and what-not.
Seriously? NO chance. I’m not changing my vape just because a vendor developed some technology that they’re trying to sell. Technology that, like the amp limit on my old Lavatube, decides that I don’t really want what I’m telling it, but instead it knows better than I.
If the world wants to see me in a Danger Zone, then call me f’n Maverick (or Goose, or whatever).
“I feel the need, the need for SPEED!”
Seriously - I’ve been sitting on my hands for months, and I’m going to explode if I don’t say this now. I’m watching people feeling guilty - about VAPING - and watching others literally shaming them into making them feel guilty.
I’m sorry, folks, but please - get a grip. We’re not smoking any more!
Just because some still very questionable tests showed SOMETHING (we’re not even sure exactly WHAT it means yet, just by the way), doesn’t mean I need to change my vape. Before I’d ever consider doing that, I’d need a LOT more information.
400 degrees, eh? Well, stick it. I’m not smoking, and I know exactly what I need to continue not smoking. NOT my mod, ME.
11 watts is what I want, and 11 watts is what I’ll get. Temperature be dayumed, and I’ll eat a burnt burger too, so there.
There’s a question, actually -
How much in carcinogens were consumed over the 4th of July weekend? Like it or not, that one weekend may (I said, “may!”) dwarf three years worth of vaping at 500 degrees, 600 degrees, or whatever.
I vape at 11 watts. I know this - I need this, and I don’t need anyone telling me that it’s wrong. I won’t judge you, and you shouldn’t judge me.
If you want to vape TC, please do! But if you don’t want to, don’t let anyone shame you into it. As
@Katdarling says,
“Pass the Kool-Aid?”
Hold mine, please (Kool-Aid). I’m not thirsting for it yet.
Soapbox done. I’m going back to sleep now. Keep it down, will ya’s?
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Ps: I didn’t freak out at The Great Diacetyl Ruse either. Popcorn Lung, my fat
. Puh-LEASE (smh).
As Kat also once said,
“How many of us went to the movies and ordered the GIANT sized buttered popcorn, and ate every last kernel? We should have been dead by the credits rolling!”
Exit, stage right.
