Hi - Figured I'd share my experiences, too. Been "noking" ("not smoking") for 12 months. First 2 months a little rocky but then only 1/2 a cig 2wice in Dec '09. ("1/2 a cig" because I couldn't hack it - tasted/felt like crap). Previously 2+ packs per day. Went from spending $60-$80 per week to approx. $15-$20 on average including all new batts and atty's. "Vaporette" (my word for them) of choice - m401 series. Smoked real heavy for 35 years, so health benies were not the reason - too much irreparable damage done after all this time - but saving a good bit of $$ rocks!
Anyhow, I was in the hospital for an operation in Jan. to repair damage from years of being a gym rat and not only was it ok for me to "noke" in my room, the nurse even went and dug up an extension cord for my chargers! how cool is THAT? I would have never made it if they hadn't let me noke away normally.
I noke at my doctor's office and the optometrists. I have noked in every store and restaurant I've gone to and had no trouble at all. They did come by at Texas Roadhouse and verify I was indeed using a vaporette and after that, no probs at all. I live in Florida.
I was noking with a pass-thru in the lab I work in (I work at a major defense electronics company) for 4 months. HR had asked for some info at first, I sent a ton of links to data and studies, and they had no problem with it after that. All was cool until this pasty-faced drama queen weenie of an engineer decided he didn't like it and so complained that "he got a taste like cardboard in his mouth and his left lung hurt" whenever I noked in the lab. Of course, HR being as spineless here as anywhere else, they nicely asked me to stop. Couldn't reason with this guy and would have "settled the matter in the parking lot" if this wasn't a "serious" job! Turned out, after some asking around, the dude had made it all up and was just bugged that it "looked like smoking". What a freaken dweeb! (We all know the allergic reaction to PG is the hives!) The guy was back in the lab for 5 days last week. I sneak-noke nowadays. I noked away for those 5 days without him seeing and he never noticed a thing - as I expected!
So, it looks like the only real problem we have - other than state and fed govt bummin' about the shortfall in tax collection on tarsticks and trying to find any reason they can gin up to stop us - is perception and education of anyone and everyone we come into contact with. Most folks are amazed by my vaporette when I show it to them and explain clearly what it is, how it works, what it's done for me, and that there is absolutely no reason for alarm or fear...
One other thing if you want to noke in public - Try to always use a vaprette batt that is any color other than white and/or with an LED that is blue or green. The red LED looks too much like the fire of a real cig and the white with fake furfiral(sp?) stripes batts also look too much like a cigarette from a distance. My usual vaporette when I go out is black with a blue LED. No doubt whatsoever that what's hanging out of my mouth is NOT a cigarette.
C-ya!
Rick
Anyhow, I was in the hospital for an operation in Jan. to repair damage from years of being a gym rat and not only was it ok for me to "noke" in my room, the nurse even went and dug up an extension cord for my chargers! how cool is THAT? I would have never made it if they hadn't let me noke away normally.
I noke at my doctor's office and the optometrists. I have noked in every store and restaurant I've gone to and had no trouble at all. They did come by at Texas Roadhouse and verify I was indeed using a vaporette and after that, no probs at all. I live in Florida.
I was noking with a pass-thru in the lab I work in (I work at a major defense electronics company) for 4 months. HR had asked for some info at first, I sent a ton of links to data and studies, and they had no problem with it after that. All was cool until this pasty-faced drama queen weenie of an engineer decided he didn't like it and so complained that "he got a taste like cardboard in his mouth and his left lung hurt" whenever I noked in the lab. Of course, HR being as spineless here as anywhere else, they nicely asked me to stop. Couldn't reason with this guy and would have "settled the matter in the parking lot" if this wasn't a "serious" job! Turned out, after some asking around, the dude had made it all up and was just bugged that it "looked like smoking". What a freaken dweeb! (We all know the allergic reaction to PG is the hives!) The guy was back in the lab for 5 days last week. I sneak-noke nowadays. I noked away for those 5 days without him seeing and he never noticed a thing - as I expected!
So, it looks like the only real problem we have - other than state and fed govt bummin' about the shortfall in tax collection on tarsticks and trying to find any reason they can gin up to stop us - is perception and education of anyone and everyone we come into contact with. Most folks are amazed by my vaporette when I show it to them and explain clearly what it is, how it works, what it's done for me, and that there is absolutely no reason for alarm or fear...
One other thing if you want to noke in public - Try to always use a vaprette batt that is any color other than white and/or with an LED that is blue or green. The red LED looks too much like the fire of a real cig and the white with fake furfiral(sp?) stripes batts also look too much like a cigarette from a distance. My usual vaporette when I go out is black with a blue LED. No doubt whatsoever that what's hanging out of my mouth is NOT a cigarette.
C-ya!
Rick
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