Tootle Puffers, Redux (The Sequel)

[DPLongo22]

just think Lord Cromwell -- if you invest several of those $7 chunks then you can put it into a single high powered mod.

Hey Ax - just curious. Y'OK? It looks like you were having a bit of an identity crisis today, and I just want to make sure you're settled now.

Rule #{whatever number you prefer}: Don't ever take me too seriously.

 

[AXIOM_1]

Just going to make a nice Cherry wood mod and I want VV so I can tootle puff on it if I want. For a long time on 2 18650 batteries.
I could have ordered a 30 Amp chipset but I figured 20 was plenty. Don't want to blow my face off or anything Also mine will have a fuse 25 amps will blow the fuse on the battery output. I have also found an itty bitty DVM that I will likely put in it, making it cooler than the Hexohm.
I also ordered the resin to make stabilized wood. I have the needed equipment to do it. Vac tank and vac pump and old toaster oven.

awesome brother! You ought to really be able to hit off that thing for a very long time for sure. You will have to put a pic up here whenever you get it finished and spruced up. I would love to see it.

 

[Belhade]

So today, in about 3 hours actually, will be one week without cigarettes. Late last night my daughter arrived with her husband and four children, ranging in age from three weeks to six years, to just sleep here for a night on their way further north. This morning I get up to make breakfast for the crew. I'm cooking, the kids are running around like crack monkeys, the dog is getting into the action, and the adults are busy trying to get organized to get the car packed up again. The stress was just about visible, there was so much in the house. I grabbed one of my leftover American Spirits and stepped out onto the porch. I lit it, took a drag, and almost puked into the bushes. I got rid of that nasty thing! I guess I'm done with cigarettes.

I applaud the use of the term "crack monkeys". Nobody else I know uses it besides me!
I sing this to my boys: crack monkey, that funky monkey!

 

[AXIOM_1]

Hey Ax - just curious. Y'OK? It looks like you were having a bit of an identity crisis today, and I just want to make sure you're settled now.

Rule #{whatever number you prefer}: Don't ever take me too seriously.

yeah I had a bit of a spell this morning but I am fine now
I was playing around on here trying to tease people on another thread --- I am all better now

 

[AndriaD]

I'm in a Facebook group for those of us with a related condition (Transverse Myelitis) and a lot of the discussion is about the problems with having an "invisible" illness, and how to explain to people. You (both) might want to look up "Spoon Theory." It's a good and simple way of trying to explain to other people what having a chronic illness is like. It doesn't always get through, but sometimes it does.

I just looked that up, and it really resonates with me, in my apparently neverending battle with depression, anxiety, and stress -- when it was at its worst, just taking a shower required my husband's assistance, because I wasn't sure I could concentrate and remain standing for long enough to get the job done safely.

Thank god, that period is far behind me now, but there are still days... sometimes just getting out of bed takes everything I have -- if it weren't for the insistence of my bladder, some days I might not get up at all!

Thx for the tip!

Andria

 

[Robert Cromwell]

I just looked that up, and it really resonates with me, in my apparently neverending battle with depression, anxiety, and stress -- when it was at its worst, just taking a shower required my husband's assistance, because I wasn't sure I could concentrate and remain standing for long enough to get the job done safely.

Thank god, that period is far behind me now, but there are still days... sometimes just getting out of bed takes everything I have -- if it weren't for the insistence of my bladder, some days I might not get up at all!

Thx for the tip!

Andria

sounds like me Andria....

A childhood friend has suffered with MS for seems like forever. Good days and bad days but it is finally dragging him down bad....

 

[DPLongo22]

yeah I had a bit of a spell this morning but I am fine now
I was playing around on here trying to tease people on another thread --- I am all better now

Nice!

 

[DPLongo22]

I applaud the use of the term "crack monkeys". Nobody else I know uses it besides me!
I sing this to my boys: crack monkey, that funky monkey!

Anyone who paraphrases the Beastie Boys gets a like from me.

 

[DingerCPA]

I'm not sure of the details, but my sister-in-law got what are essentially bifocal lenses put in, so she doesn't even need reading glasses. She is very, very happy with them

I'm in a Facebook group for those of us with a related condition (Transverse Myelitis) and a lot of the discussion is about the problems with having an "invisible" illness, and how to explain to people. You (both) might want to look up "Spoon Theory." It's a good and simple way of trying to explain to other people what having a chronic illness is like. It doesn't always get through, but sometimes it does.

She was diagnosed with Transverse Myelitis about 3-4 yrs prior to the MS. Will have to look up "spoon theory". Most of the family doesn't seem interested in any form of education. Went through a bout of breast cancer too. Just feeling frustrated right now....

 

[DingerCPA]

@amoret.... Wow. That's a great read. Thank you

 

[TrollDragon]

@TrollDragon Dat's it!!! Yes indeed, an(other) insult to everyone's intelligence.

You are a Nova Scotian? Beautiful province.

Cheers

I was born here in NS then we moved to Lynn Lake MB for a few years while I was a toddler. We left MB and moved to the Center of the Universe, good old T-Dot. I spent 27 years in Toronto and finally moved back home here to Nova Scotia when my daughter was born.

It is indeed a beautiful province, even if central Canada thinks that there is nothing east of Montreal.
So where are you located out west?

 

[dodari]

She was diagnosed with Transverse Myelitis about 3-4 yrs prior to the MS. Will have to look up "spoon theory". Most of the family doesn't seem interested in any form of education. Went through a bout of breast cancer too. Just feeling frustrated right now....

Wow!! Do I ever understand what this is about. I first heard this term 2 weeks ago at my Leukemia Society meeting. I started going recently as I have been fighting MDS for a year and a half. The fatigue one has with this, and other autoimmune disease, is utterly overwhelming. Everything costs an amount of energy and sometimes a sleep will partly recharge and sometimes not so hot. The first 2 weeks after a transfusion go fairly well, the third week right before the next infusion is a blur and the pain level is ever increasing, so they hand out hydrocodone. I could be the local opiate drug dealer I've got so much of that stuff. Iuse a pill splitter and try to use only enough to take the spikes of the pain away. Stuff is dangerous.

My wife tries to help some but she feels I just need to push harder.

Doc is going to shoot for bone marrow transfusion when they get more metal fragments dug out of my gut. We'll see.

Back to tootle puffing. I have gone back to Evods and PT2s at about 9-11 watts, 80%VG, 3 mg/ml and about 3.5% 555 Hangsen flavor. Very simple. Tried the Kanger Suntank cloud machines, not my thing, awful waste of money. Just today started adding some WTA, like Andria has done, seems to be helping my mania for analogues. Still trying to get totally off the damned things. Down to 6-8/day. Doc supports vaping, hates cigs loudly. They oughtta lock me up.

 

[Krisma]

The thing I love about the whole vaping experience is "there are no rules" No one that I know (had to say that bit) judges how much you vape or what you vape with. Noone here (that I know) will tell you that you must stop smoking in favour of vaping. I was a chronic 50 a day smoker and the switch to vaping was easy because I was desperately afraid of dual use and vaping made me feel I could have my cake (nicotine) and eat it as well.

Vaping has its own attraction that weaves its magic on people but some need more and WTA's help. If you need some pointers Andria can help. Personally I found that a higher PG and a strong menthol gave me the instaneous kick in the pants I needed to get over the cravings. What ever works and good luck with everything

 

[DingerCPA]

Hey there @dodari . Wow, "push harder???". I imagine you would if you could.

Don't waste the subtanks. I just learned that I can use evod/pt heads in those buggars!!!!! I just loaded up my STM and completely filled it (stuffed a qtip in the chimney.). It's vaping quite nicely at 1.7 ohms!

Don't overstress about the few cigs you're still having. They'll go away one at a time

 

[amoret]

She was diagnosed with Transverse Myelitis about 3-4 yrs prior to the MS. Will have to look up "spoon theory". Most of the family doesn't seem interested in any form of education. Went through a bout of breast cancer too. Just feeling frustrated right now....

Quite a few people diagnosed with TM end up being diagnosed with MS. The key word being "multiple" sclerosis. Sometimes TM is just a first step, sometimes it just stays TM, or as some of us say, mono-sclerosis.

 

[AndriaD]

Just today started adding some WTA, like Andria has done, seems to be helping my mania for analogues. Still trying to get totally off the damned things. Down to 6-8/day. Doc supports vaping, hates cigs loudly. They oughtta lock me up.

When I started with WTA, I added it as 10% of the vape, to everything I vaped. After I used it for about 5 months, I started gradually weaning down -- first of January of this year, I went to 9% of everything I vape, and each month, dropped it another point -- until I got below 4%, and realized that dropping it a full point meant a 25% reduction, which is pretty drastic. So I went to 3.5%, then 3%, and once I got below 3%, I started dropping by .2% increments (weekly rather than monthly). I'm now at 2%, but I may stay there for a another week, as I'm slightly lowering my nicotine, from 9mg to 8mg, to help with the insomnia I've started battling because of increasing the steroid component of my asthma meds.

Y'know, one damned thing after another.

Andria

 

[Krisma]

In eager anticipation of my magic blue (cyan) Egrip arriving in the next week or so

This weeks collection

 

[dodari]

The thing I love about the whole vaping experience is "there are no rules" No one that I know (had to say that bit) judges how much you vape or what you vape with. Noone here (that I know) will tell you that you must stop smoking in favour of vaping. I was a chronic 50 a day smoker and the switch to vaping was easy because I was desperately afraid of dual use and vaping made me feel I could have my cake (nicotine) and eat it as well.

Vaping has its own attraction that weaves its magic on people but some need more and WTA's help. If you need some pointers Andria can help. Personally I found that a higher PG and a strong menthol gave me the instaneous kick in the pants I needed to get over the cravings. What ever works and good luck with everything

Yep, this seems to let folks find their own pathway, not rigid thing, thank goodness. "Different strokes...........".
Thanks for your reply.

 

[Krisma]

Yep, this seems to let folks find their own pathway, not rigid thing, thank goodness. "Different strokes...........".
Thanks for your reply.

No problems. Caught me on a good day

Seriously the folks that post here care about you not just your experience and with the wealth of info available.....you only need to ask.

 

[dodari]

Hey there @dodari . Wow, "push harder???". I imagine you would if you could.

Don't waste the subtanks. I just learned that I can use evod/pt heads in those buggars!!!!! I just loaded up my STM and completely filled it (stuffed a qtip in the chimney.). It's vaping quite nicely at 1.7 ohms!

Don't overstress about the few cigs you're still having. They'll go away one at a time

Dinger,

Thanks for the encouragement. I will have to try the Evod/PT heads in my 2 SubT Mini. Turn a loss into a gain. That'd be cool.