Vapors anonymous

[krazie_Kid]

I figured I would make this because I am bored and wanted to see who would agree with me that we do need a vapors anonymous.

This is for the people like me who can not go like 2 minutes without vaping, literally!

I want to hear your vaping story's/vaping sessions, I will start off with mine.

Hello,
My name is Krazie kid and when I am bored I can not stop vaping. I vape when I have nothing to do, and my vaping sessions go for hours on end when I am off work. When I am working, it is usually 10 minute sessions at a half hour intervals.

Anyone else want to share your stories?

 

[WOW]

How many cartos are you going through in a day vs how heavy a smoker you were? (1carto=1pk of analogs)

I was at 2 & 1/2 pks of analogs/day and go through just over 2 cartos/day but switch the flavs so it feels like more. Less w/ my fav @ a higher mg.
It does take up a lot my thinking("does this have to refilled yet?", is my batt charged enough? etc.) but, nothing like analogs did. ("I better get a carton to save $ and head to the store b4 rush hour", "sheesh, this place stinks", "I have to go buy more perfume to cover this up", etc., etc., etc. + ashes everywhere, burning my hair, clothes, car seat.)

You having a bad day kk?

I figured I would make this because I am bored and wanted to see who would agree with me that we do need a vapors anonymous.

This is for the people like me who can not go like 2 minutes without vaping, literally!

I want to hear your vaping story's/vaping sessions, I will start off with mine.

Hello,
My name is Krazie kid and when I am bored I can not stop vaping. I vape when I have nothing to do, and my vaping sessions go for hours on end when I am off work. When I am working, it is usually 10 minute sessions at a half hour intervals.

Anyone else want to share your stories?

 

[wader2k]

Why the half hour break? I just continuously vape!

 

[krazie_Kid]

How many cartos are you going through in a day vs how heavy a smoker you were? (1carto=1pk of analogs)

I was at 2 & 1/2 pks of analogs/day and go through just over 2 cartos/day but switch the flavs so it feels like more. Less w/ my fav @ a higher mg.
It does take up a lot my thinking("does this have to refilled yet?", is my batt charged enough? etc.) but, nothing like analogs did. ("I better get a carton to save $ and head to the store b4 rush hour", "sheesh, this place stinks", "I have to go buy more perfume to cover this up", etc., etc., etc. + ashes everywhere, burning my hair, clothes, car seat.)

You having a bad day kk?

Your math is very wrong, I can vape 36mg and use 1 carto a day, Or I can get 8mg and vape 5 cartos a day, so to say the 1 carto=1 pack is not true, you got to remember people smoke light cigs also, that plays into the factor. A lights smoker will use 1/2 cartos even if they smoked 2 packs a day. I kill about 3 cartos a day and I was a camel menthol wide smoker. Very heavy cigs and I only smoked like I said 2 packs.

No not having a bad day WOW lol, how are you?

 

[krazie_Kid]

Why the half hour break? I just continuously vape!

Lol I can not do that at work, I would not want to get oil on it.

 

[WOW]

I'm very well, thanks kk!

I'm saying the same thing. One of my flavs is 36 mgs. If I didn't switch flavs during the day I can't go through a full carto @ that mg. My lowest is 11mg, which I vape at night so I can sleep and my others are between 18-24mgs. If I don't use my 36mg I vape more of the 11mg and other mgs.

I don't know exactly that a carto = 1 pk. I didn't personally measure it but, V4L says it's so and I believe them. For me, the math works out and I was chain smoking. 2 packs is a lot of junk in your lungs!

Light analogs are a myth. They'll still kill ya and aren't much lighter in that sense.

On a really stressful day I can vape more than 2-3 cartos and just try to avoid my 36mg. I think MaryKay got it it right. It's the hand-mouth addiction.
And, that is true with analogs or vaping, though it's harder w/ vaping on a manual.

I've been reading a lot verifying that analog addiction is harder to break than ANY illicit drug out there. We don't need to be anonymous, imho. We need to keep others informed there's a choice, y'know? It took years for anyone to get through to me then I found V4L and not looking back. (I handed out over 20 business cards yesterday. Will anyone be convinced it's worth the investment or keep killing themselves? I don't know. I know 3/4 for sure one of my friends really wants to get two kits as gifts & it's catching on. It's also a hard choice if you get the wrong product as your 1st PV so it's hard to explain to the $-math evens out when you're talking to someone who's destroying their health w/ analogs, unless they've been thinking about quitting.)

Maybe I misunderstood your post. "Vapor's Anonymous" makes it sound like vaping is a negative. I'd disagree with you if that's what you're saying. That hand mouth addiction is tough to break but, I think it's more likely vaping not to mention safer than w/ analogs. The nic addiction is easier to break with vaping more than patches, etc.. It just sounded like you're not having fun today, that's all.

Your lungs are healing. Have fun with it and if you decide to put the vaping aside, you'll be healthier when you do.

Your math is very wrong, I can vape 36mg and use 1 carto a day, Or I can get 8mg and vape 5 cartos a day, so to say the 1 carto=1 pack is not true, you got to remember people smoke light cigs also, that plays into the factor. A lights smoker will use 1/2 cartos even if they smoked 2 packs a day. I kill about 3 cartos a day and I was a camel menthol wide smoker. Very heavy cigs and I only smoked like I said 2 packs.

No not having a bad day WOW lol, how are you?

 

[jude8753]

I think the FDA would like Vapors Anonymous, but certainly not me. No more cigs, but now that I've found vaping I don't need them and certainly not a VA association.

 

[Sallyem]

Back when I started vaping, it was pretty well understood by most people I spoke with, that one carto = between 10 and 14 cigarettes, depending on how you vape. One carto does NOT equal 1 pack.

 

[Sallyem]

Why the half hour break? I just continuously vape!

Me too, Wade. I am retired, and sit at my computer playing games and reading the V4L forum all day.....constantly vaping

 

[leeshor]

Back when I started vaping, it was pretty well understood by most people I spoke with, that one carto = between 10 and 14 cigarettes, depending on how you vape. One carto does NOT equal 1 pack.

I could do 2 pages on why both of those statements are not correct. But I'll try to keep it short.

There are vast differences in the amounts of nicotine in various analogs even if they ultimately would all kill you. But it's not the nicotine doing the dirty.

If the juice you are using is roughly the same strength as the analogs, (let's say a pack), or a little more, due to a difference in absorption rates of the nicotine, (higher absorption for analogs). And if your original reason for using analogs was primarily nicotine adiction. One carto of that strength of nicotibe would be roughly a pack to 1.5 packs of analogs.

Use less nic, use more cartos, use more nic use fewer cartos until you built up some tolerance then you might use more. Same with analogs.

In my case the cartos are twice the strength of the analogs I used and I'm using exactly the same number of cartos as packs I smoked.

After tons of discussion last year it was determined that 1ml of NIC juise, (1 carto) did in fact average out to 1 pack of analogs. But that's the same as the rule of thumb that said 20 drops = 1ml. It doesn't always work that way. But that's why it's only a rule of thumb.

BUT, everyone's use is going to be different as will be their reasons for using that strength or flavor so YMMV.

 

[dale1962]

Only time not vaping is when I'm sleeping or eating or a few other things it is my big boy pacifier...

 

[sooperdrave]

Only time not vaping is when I'm sleeping or eating or a few other things it is my big boy pacifier...

+1. i never put mine down.

 

[jeffree]

I only vape when I'm not vaping.

And that turns out consistently to be close to 2 cartos a day. Sallyem, I think you have it right for me. I used to smoke a pack a day of MLs, slightly less, which translates well to 10 cigs=1 carto. But that's totally off the record since this is The Anonymous Thread. Right, KK?

 

[WOW]

I only vape when I'm not vaping.

That's too funny!


8-o

 

[leeshor]

I only vape when I'm not vaping.

I think the ladies used to refer to that as the vapors! I'm sure someone out there knows what I mean.

 

[gsc4077]

I just never put mine down. I prefer 18mg, 24 is fine too, 36 a bit much and 11 just didn't quite cut it for me with the TH. But regardless of which strength I'm using, I go through about 2 - 2 1/2 cartos a day.

I used to smoke ML's, about 2 packs a day. For me personally it seems as long as I get a decent TH, I'm happy. I'm not saying the amount of nicotine doesn't matter but with my highly-addictive ways (unfortunately analogs haven't been my only addiction in the past), I guess I just feel the need to constantly produce plumes of vapor lol.

 

[krazie_Kid]

I only vape when I'm not vaping.

And that turns out consistently to be close to 2 cartos a day. Sallyem, I think you have it right for me. I used to smoke a pack a day of MLs, slightly less, which translates well to 10 cigs=1 carto. But that's totally off the record since this is The Anonymous Thread. Right, KK?

That is very right lol.

 

[jude8753]

I think the ladies used to refer to that as the vapors! I'm sure someone out there knows what I mean.

I would never feign being faint as vaping. Wikepedia:Female hysteria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Having the vapors: "The vapors" was a catch-all name for many different "female conditions" during the Victorian Era. These included hysteria, mania, clinical depression, fainting, mood swings, and what we refer to now as PMS and bipolar disorder. The vapors were attributed to the practice of wearing corsets, the poor diet of wealthy Victorian socialites (anemia was common).

 

[jeffree]

Jeez, I learn all kinds of really cool stuff at this forum. Probably forget it tomorrow, but it seems cool now... while I sit here vaping!

 

[krazie_Kid]

Jeez, I learn all kinds of really cool stuff at this forum. Probably forget it tomorrow, but it seems cool now... while I sit here vaping!

I was thinking of the same thing!