We're freaks!!!

[MissKitty47]

Freaky-Deeky! I love it! Maybe it will take a well-respected famous person to get them mainstream? All I know is that they work, I'm done done DONE with smoking after 34 years of loving it...had to quit because my lungs were tired of taking the abuse and tried to crawl out of my body. That was a hellavuh wake-up call. Rather be a freak with two lungs! A two-lunged freak, dat be me!

 

[Carless]

I'm no Shel Silversteen, but I think a little Doctor Hook type music is appropriate here.....

Well there's gonna be a freakers ball
tonight at the freakers hall
and you know your invited.....
one and all!

Come on babies grease your lips
Grab your hats and swing your hips
Don't forget to bring your drips
We're going to the freakers ball

Blow your whistle and bang your gong
Bottle up something to bring along
It feels so good it must be wrong
We're freakin at the freakers ball

Where all the moders and their fans they're vapin' together
The ego freaks are dressed for all kinds of weather
The loudest and the proudest and the lurkers too
Screaming "Don't need a lighter for my backwoods brew"

The FDA are dancing with ex smokers
All the vapers, are laughing at the tokers
Across the floor and up the wall
We're freakin at the freakers ball
Yall, we're freakin at the freakers ball

Every body's swappin' juices with each other
Brother with sister, son with mother
Fill my carto up with peanut butter
Take me to the freakers ball

Pass that juice please it tastes so fine
I'll try yours if you'll try mine
I'm gonna vape if you don't mind
We're freakin at the freakers ball

White ones, black ones, yellow ones, red ones
Battery experts looking for dead ones
The loudest and the proudest and the lurkers too
Screaming "Don't need a lighter for my backwoods brew"

Every body's fallin' in batches
Pyromaniacs striking matches
I'm gonna itch me where it scratches
Freaking at the freakers ball

Y'all

Freaking at the freakers ball

 

[cracker75]

I think its crazy that I've spent less in a month than I would have on chantix and I have enough vape goodies to last 6 months and no nasty cravings.

And you don't want to spontaneously walk in front of a bus. What a bonus.

 

[Shmoo]

Let your freak flag fly

 

[Rosa]

@ carless:

I'm speechless! That was freakin' off the hook!!

 

[MissKitty47]

Awesome, carless! You've missed your true calling. Now someone out there just needs to add music and put it on Youtube. It could be the Vaper's Theme Song!

 

[Secti0n31]

I'm no psychologist, nor do I play one on TV, but I believe the reason that vaping has succeeded where the "quit" products has failed is because MOST PEOPLE LIKE TO SMOKE!

Having the ability to blow smoke out of your mouth at will is actually kinda fun, plus it keeps you busy if you're bored, and also is a great method of keeping track of time. If I had to wait for something that took under 10 minutes the cig was always my egg timer. It's also a means of socializing, most smokers have to smoke with other smokers, or in a location where other smokers are smoking. Plus the nicotine itself has some properties that actually make you feel better.

Vaping allows people to experience the exhaling of something that looks like smoke, the same mental effects as the nicotine in a cig, it's a sure-fire conversation starter if you want it to be. All without the crap smell, carcinogen concentration, and "ew" response. In order for the bull.... FDA to consider these dangerous, they'd have to make nicotine a perscription drug. Which would mean that cigs would be perscription, as would be the patch, the gum, the lozenge, and the nicotrol inhaler.

There are two reasons the FDA is jumping up the ... of the e-cig industry. First, they really don't know it's effect on the body and the lungs. Noone does. People haven't been vaping for 50 years and dying from it like smokers have, so there's no reference point. Second, They make a TON OF MONEY from testing products and drugs. The pharm companies PAY THEM to do their testing, the e-cig companies didn't. So the FDA is having a cow because the e-cig industry didn't pay them +/-a billion dollars to test their products for 20 years before releasing them to the public (that was a deliberate exaggeration).

The world needs a technological revolution to cut down on the use of consumables, and guess what? E-cigs are actually a predecessor! That's one less resource that we have to BURN to reach a desired outcome.

That's what I think.

 

[Rosa]

I'm no psychologist, nor do I play one on TV, but I believe the reason that vaping has succeeded where the "quit" products has failed is because MOST PEOPLE LIKE TO SMOKE!

Agree! The best thing about e-cigs IMO is that there's no quitting involved. No quit date. No "LAST vape" on the horizon. The pressure is off.

 

[Craig645]

+1 Rosa. The pressure is off. Maybe, (just maybe) given the environment today the FDA could get 'defunded'. I also agree with an earlier post that smokers are simply hated. I think people still see vaping as smoking and the hate continues. Yes, we are freaks...but a nicer bunch you'll never find!

 

[cookiebun]

Yep I am a freak!


How come this way I was able to quit without it all? I really think FDA and health Canada wants us to suffer for our sins.

I totally agree.

 

[mwa102464]

it's all about the Money for the FDA, Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, and I really think this whole ecig thing is the proof in the pudding on this.

 

[Levitas]

You want my ego? You can take it out of my cold dead hands!!!

Let's settle this like men Mr.FDA

The freaks here and I VS. You and a crowd of smokers in a relay race.
1st place wins the FREEDOM to do as they please (as long as it doesn't harm others)

Oh wait, second hand smoke kills others? What's that? Vaping harms who? No one? Hm, it would appear you lose by default.

 

[Slothy]

A freak you say??

Hell yeah!

And may I never be smitten by orthodoxy!

 

[1949katie]

I, too, smoked the FDA approved way as did we all. Much prefer taking my tobacco in the non-stinky form. Ever wonder what the FDA's position would be if personal vaporizers were the standard and burning down an analog was the "freak" approach to enjoying nic? Let's make sure we hold onto our anthem. Going to need it as all the globe revolts against tyranny.

 

[Secti0n31]

You want my ego? You can take it out of my cold dead hands!!!

WOOHOO!! Welcome to the club, Touch my eGo and you'll lose that hand! Well, unless I say it's ok...

 

[LastoftheBreed]

Try being the guy in a group of horseman/cattlemen, (all of whom are either smoking cigs and cigars, or dipping snuff), who whips out his shiny black Inferno Tank...

...to say I'm not the "norm" for the group is putting it mildly.

Hmmm...maybe I should buy a battery/atty combo and trick it out in cigar brown...

 

[jbblack]

I think I can empathize there....was playing poker with friends last night, all with cigars or cowboy killers. Then there's me off to the side with my blue-tipped chrome KR8. Talk about getting some glares.

 

[ctourtelot]

I'm no Shel Silversteen, but I think a little Doctor Hook type music is appropriate here.....

Well there's gonna be a freakers ball
tonight at the freakers hall
and you know your invited.....
one and all!

Come on babies grease your lips
Grab your hats and swing your hips
Don't forget to bring your drips
We're going to the freakers ball

Blow your whistle and bang your gong
Bottle up something to bring along
It feels so good it must be wrong
We're freakin at the freakers ball

Where all the moders and their fans they're vapin' together
The ego freaks are dressed for all kinds of weather
The loudest and the proudest and the lurkers too
Screaming "Don't need a lighter for my backwoods brew"

The FDA are dancing with ex smokers
All the vapers, are laughing at the tokers
Across the floor and up the wall
We're freakin at the freakers ball
Yall, we're freakin at the freakers ball

Every body's swappin' juices with each other
Brother with sister, son with mother
Fill my carto up with peanut butter
Take me to the freakers ball

Pass that juice please it tastes so fine
I'll try yours if you'll try mine
I'm gonna vape if you don't mind
We're freakin at the freakers ball

White ones, black ones, yellow ones, red ones
Battery experts looking for dead ones
The loudest and the proudest and the lurkers too
Screaming "Don't need a lighter for my backwoods brew"

Every body's fallin' in batches
Pyromaniacs striking matches
I'm gonna itch me where it scratches
Freaking at the freakers ball

Y'all

Freaking at the freakers ball

LOL ok..that was awesome!

 

[Stosh]

Try being the guy in a group of horseman/cattlemen, (all of whom are either smoking cigs and cigars, or dipping snuff), who whips out his shiny black Inferno Tank...

...to say I'm not the "norm" for the group is putting it mildly.

Hmmm...maybe I should buy a battery/atty combo and trick it out in cigar brown...

Well a brown Leo might work, or go the other direction, a large boxmod with blinking leds.

"This is a dead-man switch, don't anyone make any sudden moves"

can't help myself, I'm a freak......

 

[pianoguy]

To be honest I sort of thought that might be true when I first visited ECF. I thought, "look at all those dim-bulbs patting each other on the back! Pff... sure, junk like that always works if you really, really, really want to quit... same kind of people who could probably quit cold turkey if they wanted too.... right, but how long until they go back to smoking again?"

Then I stumbled across the ECF success stories... Wow. There are some really powerful stories there and you can tell from reading them that they were written by actual humans.

That's what really made me whip out the ol' credit card.

Indeed - the fact that everyone here is on the same journey, and reading so many success stories makes for quite a support system. Either that or it's 1984 and we're all practicing doubleplus ungood badspeak as far as the FDA is concerned.