Vaping @ the office

[RubenX]

This kind of story has probably been posted many times before but I wanna share mine to add a +1.

I work in a computer department, on a production support position. This means I'm supposed to be glued to my monitors/phones most of the time. Not really a place for a heavy smoker. Like most places, I get a lunch break and 2 small breaks (one before lunch, one after). But.... the shift is 12.5h long. That means that if I go by the book, I would be having a smoke break like every 3 to 4 hours average. Heavy smokers could imagine the torture... ohh the cravings.

The main reason for getting into vaping was to have something I could use in the cubicle, and avoid getting into trouble for taking too many smoke breaks. I've tried everything... pills, patches, gums, you name it... nothing worked.

Well, I started vaping 5 days ago. I'm @ work, vaping in my cube. Been here for 12 hours and 15 minutes... no smoke breaks. I don't need them. I'm happy vaping right here. This thing is AWESOME!!!!!

I was an outcast. Always outside for a smoke. At work, at home, when with friends. Always missing the action, missing the good jokes because I was outside smoking. I tell you, this technology has given me my life back!

And among other things:

1. For the first time in years I noticed how the air fresheners in my home smells like. They do smell pretty.

2. My car stinks... a lot.

3. I can smell out smokers 3 cubicles away.

4. I can run following my daugther @ the park for longer distances. She still outruns me tho, but it takes a real effort.

5. I have money in my pocket.

With the money I've saved in just a few days, I'm taking out my fiance tonight. It use to be that I was too broke from spending all my money on analogs.

 

[methic2345]

congrats, as long as your boss is ok with it lol, i wrote up an associate for vaping at work when i was still working in retail....most supervisers i believe frown upon vaping at work......i bet ur fiance is happy assuming shes a non smoker, no more ashtray kisses

 

[Valentine Michael Smith]

RubenX,

Awesome story and thanks for sharing.

I havnt mustered the courage to ask one of my professors permission to smoke in class yet, but maybe soon. I just don;t want it to be a distraction.

Again thanks for sharing and I second all the things you noticed.

Well done.

VMS

 

[toddos]

Congrats! I'm in the software industry and thus am glued to a computer all day (and then compound that by gluing myself to a computer at home most nights as well!). Luckily we have offices rather than cubes, so I just shut my door and vape away on my PT all day long. It's great they let you vape at work. So many places can be awful about policies like that.

 

[Throat hit]

Excellent this site has lots of good storys about quitting the fags and going digital I wonder how many people can vape at work as my girfriend is Interested to know as she has started vaping. I told her just to ask the boss but in the U.k vaping is not mainstream and is just about to break into public life in a big way. I really do think the answer woud be no and think it is great your boss has an understanding or blind eyes at least.

 

[RubenX]

congrats, as long as your boss is ok with it lol, i wrote up an associate for vaping at work when i was still working in retail....most supervisers i believe frown upon vaping at work......i bet ur fiance is happy assuming shes a non smoker, no more ashtray kisses

I already told my supervisor, who is also a smoker. He was supportive and he will probably try it out too. As for the higher ups, they went to some meeting once and came back with some decorative desk fountains with the company logo... they look like this:

So my guess they will be OK with my vapor. Plus we don't see clients here.

But thanks for the heads up. I won't do it in front of the higher ups just in case they want to take my newfound freedom away.

 

[methic2345]

im glad to hear they were ok with it, when i started vaping we already had gotten a store policy update saying electronic cigarettes were't allowed to be used on the premises, as well as snus, and other chewing tobacco, with a long winded explanation

 

[Liv2Ski]

I have been vaping at work for over six months. Never asked just did it and figured it is easier to beg for forgiveness then to ask permission. Now there are 8 of us and nobody says a word. I should note I work for a very large multinational company.

 

[Rachus]

Very similar story here RubenX, IT Support Desk, 14 hour shift, but on 3rd shift, at night, with one other very-recent-analogue quitter, who's using Wellbutrin. He says he could kick himself for not trying vaping, but then he'd be hooked.

Anyhow, I just started vaping last night too AND found the same thing...didn't take break 1 to "go outside", nice and warm, vaping away, and was not even craving stepping outdoors. Have gone analogue free for 16 hrs now, from a pack a day.

However...my colleague, the dude on Wellbutrin, told me another worker had gotten called out for vaping-up during the day, and was told to stop. Haven't got the details yet...but grats to you on your boss arrangement!

 

[RubenX]

Imho, workplaces against vaping are shooting themselves in the foot... they are the ones paying the bulk of our medical insurance. They wanna pay for cancer treatment? is their choice.

If I had a company of my own, I would hand out free e-cigs to all my smoking employees... heck I would even put a e-juice bar in the coffee room.... gotta get those insurance payments down!

 

[Sassyonemeis]

I also vape at my desk all day. My boss' do not discourage it at all, nor have they put any restrictions on it. They'd much rather see me at my desk being productive than outside smoking NOT WORKING. Our front desk dude, nonsmoker, comes back to my corner of the office and says... it smells like toasted marshmallows!

The unintended side effect? I have converted 2 smokers in my office to vaping. When they saw that I was not stepping out for smokes, not going thru withdrawals, not going thru the emotional rollercoasters of quitting smoking, they started to get really curious and wondered if it might work for them too. I gave my boss one to try for a day, he will convert. I gave my coworker one to borrow for the day and he ordered his the very same day, and purchased my first 510 kit (I have since upgraded to eGo-T) for his wife. The big boss in the office has quit for almost a year now, but he still chews like 10 pieces of nicotine gum a day and has commented about the negative side effects. Me thinks it wont be long before he also is at my desk inquiring about the e-cigarette.

I am 3 weeks into it and have not had one analog. No desire to either. When I am out and about at work and walk by the smoking areas, it about knocks me over. The stench is awful. One of the ladies in my office is still smoking and when she comes back from smoke break, I can smell her wafting thru the office, so I know what you mean about smelling the smokers 3 cubes away. I am so thankful I dont smell like that anymore and never will again. As I said on another thread, it's embarrassing after the fact. However there is also a certain amount of satisfaction knowing NOW.

 

[breaktru]

I think more companies should encourage vaping. They are getting more productivity out of an employee vaping at his desk while still working than an employee running out for a smoke every half hour or so.

 

[Rudy33]

I vape at work but don't do it alot. I take a hit when I feel I need it and no one really notices...

 

[BiffRocko]

Software engineer here. I stealth vape at work all day. I still go outside at least 2 times a day to see the sun though. My desk is buried inside the building in a room with no windows.

 

[breaktru]

As a matter of fact, I think employers should buy PV's for their employees. The cost of the PV is nothing compared to the gained productivity.

 

[rlandis67]

I believe that employers that don't alow vapeing at work are like a majority of the general population wereas they don't understand what e-cigs are, or how they work. I was very lucky, my boss tried them before i did. i made it he did not (oops).
i now have been happily vapeing away at my desk for a year, it is awesomw how that worked out.

 

[Phreaker]

Congrats RubenX!! I work at a software development company. Four of us smoked, three of us now vape. We can vape at our desks, but all three of us do it somewhat discreetly. We are not blowing huge clouds of vapor over our cubes. If we really want to vape-it-up we go out to the stairwell. There were a couple of co-workers who were a bit concerned, but they were ignorant about e-cigs. I provided them information and while they probably would still prefer us not do it they are not causing problems. Most are just happy we quit smoking and that we no longer smell like cigarettes.

 

[o4_srt]

have been vaping at work for 7 months now.

while i'm at my bench, I try to keep it low key, until first shift (including management) leaves.

I still take "vape breaks," but now myself, and two others I converted, sit in the old lobby and vape, as all the smokers file by on their way outside to smoke.

At first, several (first shift) people complained that we were smoking in the lobby to HR before the start of our shift, and after HR came to discipline us, and we educated her, she was ecstatic about it. Now, no one even bats an eye. In fact, we usually get asked what the flavor of the day is when someone walks in.


Additionally, I work for a mil-spec electronics manufacturer. We constantly have low humidity alarms going off (low humidity increases static discharge, extremely bad for electronics), so by vaping at my bench, I feel like I am creating a better work environment, although, not sure how management would feel about that logic, but it makes sense to me.

 

[Orion Marra]

Congrats! I smoke in the office also. The boss for a few days had to do a double take that I was still in my office. (usually out having a smoke). My Production is higher, my office doesn't stink from the smell on me and my jacket. And like you I can smell smokers (even the closet smokers I missed before) heh.

Orion

 

[scinsc]

I believe that employers that don't alow vapeing at work are like a majority of the general population wereas they don't understand what e-cigs are, or how they work.
I agree.

I was very lucky, my boss tried them before i did. i made it he did not (oops).
i now have been happily vapeing away at my desk for a year, it is awesomw how that worked out.

I'll bet your boss got the wrong equipment. I think one of the biggest keys to the transition is to make vaping as close to a cigarette feel as possible. Do yourself a favor and invest $20 for a 5v passthrough for your boss. If that works tell him there are $100 variable voltage PV's that will give him that same feel. You might get a promotion.