What are your Vaping Pet Hates ;)

[steved5600]

I keep a clean fresh carty in a plastic bag so if a smoker asks about it I can offer a hit. One was like NOOOOO I'll smoke my cigarette.
Dropping my rig on the floor of the car and having to wait. Losing it all the time. Spilling juice.

 

[John D in CT]

As stated maybe it's a geographical oddity. Sorry for hijacking the pet hates thread.

Pet hate, not remembering if I've had five puffs, or only four, and getting a half dry atty puff. YUK!

Hey, no worries about hijacking anything IMO - that's a legitimate beef, and totally on-topic as far as I'm concerned. And I just wanted to say that I think you're sure as heck entitled to say that your own personal experience with the post office has sucked, and that I hope it gets better.

For anyone not familiar with your particular geographical problem, here's a very nice video with cool lines and arrows that demonstrate the problem as experienced by George Clooney in "O Brother Where Art Thou". The things a guy has to go through sometimes for a little Dapper Dan, or a simple Vivi Nova. It ain't right, I tell ya ..... it just ain't right.

Fop Vs. Dapper Dan - O Brother Kinetic Typography - YouTube

 

[WNCmotard]

Hey thanks John, and thanks for posting the link for those that miss the reference.

My latest pet hate, trying to find my all day juice. I have a bunch of samples, but none of them are quite it. I think I have one that should be here today that just might make the cut though.

 

[Underwhelmed]

On mine the + pin isolator broke in half. Out of the box it was way to far in the hole. Made me wonder so I put the DID on it and it would not fire at all. Had to pull the pin up. That was the end. Never took the DID off for a week and when I did it was over.

Sorry I wasn't more clear, I was talking about the Telescope from Smok. Also, it isn't a mechanical mod, it just looks like it is.

I never had "lava" type tube. I read too many bad things about them here.

Sorry to hear about your troubles. Hope things get better for you soon.

 

[vsummer1]

It has been said, but my pet peeve:
Adults using baby talk.

Stinkies: they are cigarettes. And while it isn't baby talk, "analog" doesn't work for me either. Why can't you just call a spade a spade?
Toot: it isn't a drug or a fart. I use a vaporizor to vape, I take a puff.

 

[meli.]

I just found out Provari's do not come boxed.
Just a bit of bubble wrap and a padded envelope?
And people are happy about this?
If I was to spend close to $300 for this device with all the bells and whistles, I would like it come in a beautiful presentation Box.
If the Chinese can do it, why can't Provape?

 

[rondasherrill]

I just found out Provari's do not come boxed.
Just a bit of bubble wrap and a padded envelope?
And people are happy about this?
If I was to spend close to $300 for this device with all the bells and whistles, I would like it come in a beautiful presentation Box.
If the Chinese can do it, why can't Provape?

The packaging costs money for materials and design, and 95% of customers throw it away. You can choose to pay more for something that's gonna go in the trash, or pay less, and get a great product, in completely sufficient packaging to keep it safe during the shipping process.

Honestly, my pet peeve is hearing people complain about packaging because it doesn't look like it was bought at wal-mart. (Sorry) I mean, what's the heat sealed plastic packaging going to do, that the 3 layers of bubble wrap, inside a padded envelope, that's wrapped around a solid stainless steel device, going to do?

An example... Look at the Mark-T Infinity Atomizer, or the Chalice. You think it costs anywhere near $150 to build one? But they have the pretty little metal boxes and stuff. If they could've knocked some cost off to just ship them to me in a plain padded envelope without the cute box and stuff, I'd have jumped on it.

 

[Jo.]

when i get a new juice and get all happy until the first puff tastes like .....

 

[rondasherrill]

when i get a new juice and get all happy until the first puff tastes like .....

Oh, this is one of mine too... and I've been burned a lot! Since I got my taste buds back, they have been very picky about what I expose them to.

 

[LongHaul]

Yorkies........freakin can't stand em and can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would want one for a pet


Of course I'm a right wing nut job.....I believe in personal responsibility, NOT government responsibility...

 

[LongHaul]

Oh, this is one of mine too... and I've been burned a lot! Since I got my taste buds back, they have been very picky about what I expose them to.

Go to wizzardlabs and get some juice and flavorings, get some 3ml bottles and mix away....you won't be disappointed a 3 mil bottle without flavoring cost me .12 cents


Of course I'm a right wing nut job.....I believe in personal responsibility, NOT government responsibility...

 

[rondasherrill]

Go to wizzardlabs and get some juice and flavorings, get some 3ml bottles and mix away....you won't be disappointed a 3 mil bottle without flavoring cost me .12 cents


Of course I'm a right wing nut job.....I believe in personal responsibility, NOT government responsibility...

Haha Oh I'm already learning DIY... I was referring to the torrent of crappy vendor juice I've tried. Granted... I've been burned by a few more than terrible DIY mixes too, but I've got a few winners already as well.

 

[John D in CT]

Go to wizzardlabs and get some juice and flavorings, get some 3ml bottles and mix away....you won't be disappointed a 3 mil bottle without flavoring cost me .12 cents


Of course I'm a right wing nut job.....I believe in personal responsibility, NOT government responsibility...

Small world .... I'm not a right-wing nut job, and I too firmly believe in personal responsibility.

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Longtime pet peeve: Health care professionals who are unwilling or unable to separate the findings of scientific studies of the effects of smoking from the findings of scientific studies of the effects of nicotine when delivered to the human body through vaping.

Why is this a pet peeve? Simple, really. Because the ignorance of these misguided and woefully intellectually uncurious individuals kills people.

My cardiologist is thrilled that I'm no longer smoking, and his only objection is what I already know; that nicotine slightly elevates blood pressure and heart rate. Last time my BP was measured it was 118/80 (I did vape lightly that morning), so I have determined for myself that the benefits outweigh the risks. I consider nicotine to be about as harmful as caffeine, and those are my two recreational drugs. And it seems to me that the many, many doctors who currently prescribe nicotine for a variety of beneficial purposes - memory improvement, management of ADHD and depression, and delaying the onset of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's among them - have also determined that the benefits can significantly outweigh the risks.

I just asked another health care professional if he would rather see a patient of his smoking cigarettes, or vaping. His answer was a very unsatisfactory "neither". He had managed to quit smoking, so evidently thought that everyone else should just do the same. I invited him to rejoin the real world at his leisure.

He then told me that nicotine permanently damages blood vessels because of nicotinic acid and nitric oxide. I researched both and found that nicotinic acid is niacin (Vitamin B3), which is commonly used to lower "bad" cholesterol and raise "good" cholesterol, and that nitric oxide results from the acetlyaldehyde in tobacco smoke, not from nicotine.

Ignorance kills. Vaping doesn't.

 

[WNCmotard]

Small world .... I'm not a right-wing nut job, and I too firmly believe in personal responsibility.

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Realtively new pet peeve: Health care professionals who are unwilling or unable to separate the findings of scientific studies of the effects of smoking from the findings of scientific studies of the effects of nicotine when delivered to the human body through vaping.

Why is this a pet peeve? Simple, really. Because the ignorance of these misguided and woefully intellectually uncurious individuals kills people.

My cardiologist is thrilled that I'm no longer smoking, and his only objection is what I already know; that nicotine slightly elevates blood pressure and heart rate. Last time my BP was measured it was 118/80 (I did vape lightly that morning), so I have determined for myself that the benefits outweigh the risks. I consider nicotine to be about as harmful as caffeine, and those are my two recreational drugs. And it seems to me that the many, many doctors who currently prescribe nicotine for a variety of beneficial purposes - memory improvement, management of ADHD and depression, and delaying the onset of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's among them - have also determined that the benefits can significantly outweigh the risks.

I just asked another health care professional if he would rather see a patient of his smoking cigarettes, or vaping. His answer was a very unsatisfactory "neither". He had managed to quit smoking, so evidently thought that everyone else should just do the same. I invited him to rejoin the real world at his leisure.

He then told me that nicotine permanently damages blood vessels because of nicotinic acid and nitric oxide. I researched both and found that nicotinic acid is niacin (Vitamin B3), which is commonly used to lower "bad" cholesterol and raise "good" cholesterol, and that nitric oxide results from the acetlyaldehyde in tobacco smoke, not from nicotine.

Ignorance kills. Vaping doesn't.

Outstanding post sir, if I were in CT, I'd buy you a beer, or a vape!

My latest pet hate, ordering a small truck load of vape supplies, and forgetting a luer lock syringe and needle to fill my new iHybrid with. LOL

 

[Underwhelmed]

Outstanding post sir, if I were in CT, I'd buy you a beer, or a vape!

My latest pet hate, ordering a small truck load of vape supplies, and forgetting a luer lock syringe and needle to fill my new iHybrid with. LOL

Tractor Supply or just about any farm supply/feed store should have both in stock.

 

[Wolf308]

I'm late on the USPS conversation because I was out of town, but I want to add my two cents anyway. I won't stick up for any of them, nor will I knock any of them. They all have good days and bad days. Around here, our USPS mail carrier is lazy, so when she comes through all the neighbors meet outside to swap mail because half your mail isn't yours, and half of what you should have gotten was delivered to the right house number but wrong street, and it is a mile down the road. On the other side... I used to do shipping for a gun store and we shipped a very expensive rifle to another store about three states away, using UPS. A few days later the dealer calls me to ask me if the rifle had been in one piece when we shipped it. I said it had been. He sent me pictures. The box had tire tracks on it and the rifle was in half. If that isn't bad enough, the rifle was also a historic "curio and relic" rifle that isn't exactly easy to replace because they're super rare.

Long and short, if you deal with any of them for long enough, something horrible is going to happen. The only one I will never use is FedEx, and I won't get into that story because I don't want hijack the thread any worse than I already have.

 

[KuroCz]

Ok, here's a few so far.

The smug notion that someone getting into vaping has to go through some rite of passage and spend money on 'starter' kits. I personally thank the provari owners for thier comments and insights that saved me several hundreds of dollars, and made my switch to vaping effortless and enjoyable. People asking for advice should be presented with options and information, not a 'generic' canned "get this".

Elitists that think people new to vaping must 'learn' with entry level inexpensive kit, because the more advanced kit is beyond thier comprehension, then recommend they also get the latest new rebuildable tank for thier ego.... However, I will acknowlege that sometimes people seem to have an IQ only slightly higher than a carrot.

Contract mail carriers.

Yeah, I got the 'so when are you going to quit?' question. Although it went more like this. Saw my father, and told him I had stopped smoking. A glare at my pv, "How many cigars do you still have?" So I told him a box left. "When are you going to throw them out?". A snort "that's my SHTF stash now". "Well then you're not really serious are you?". orz Upside, in a subsiquent conversation after explaining I had no intention to quit "smoking", that vaping was a way to enjoy "smoking" without the tobacco consiquences; I ended up giving him names for provape and innokin which he's going to look into (child pestering when I was 8yrs old got him to quit smoking, I suppose he still misses it like most ex-smokers).

Vapers quoting mystery science as fact. That's as bad as the anti-vapers...

Reviewers that say "this (4day old) juice doesn't compare to my month old juice".

"Heavy" pack-a-day smokers. W (<--that's a LOL in Japanese)

Learning first hand what a dry hit tastes like

 

[PEneoark]

Learning first hand what a dry hit tastes like

Regular dry hit, or SS mesh genesis dry hit? Lol


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[dragonbone]

I just found out Provari's do not come boxed.
Just a bit of bubble wrap and a padded envelope?
And people are happy about this?
If I was to spend close to $300 for this device with all the bells and whistles, I would like it come in a beautiful presentation Box.
If the Chinese can do it, why can't Provape?

Totally, totally agree! My (non smoking, non vaping) hubby bought me my Provari, as a special thank you gift to celebrate finally quitting smoking, (after several false starts). Boy were we amazed and very disappointed in the cheapest packaging money can buy - that it came in! A brown paper envelope and bubble wrap! He was completely let down, since for Japanese, presentation is very important. We also spent $300. I was also quite embarrassed since I had assured him that the Provari was the BEST of the best lol....

 

[Qcaj]

Canada being in this limbo of legality regarding vaping.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm super happy that there's enough legal grey area that I can vape unmolested for the most part - but the weird clandestine secret "vendor lists" kept me away from ecigs for almost a year, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. As it stands, for most of the country we're dependant on getting things by mail and, for some stuff, crossing our fingers hoping it doesn't get seized on a custom official's whim.

Not to mention the $10 minimum shipping cost no matter what I buy, end of story. It really adds up, since there seems to be a huge division between the best hardware suppliers and the best juice.

Twice this week, people have approached me about my ecig. Both of them said they tried it but it wasn't working for them (because, duh, no nic). I feel frustration, because that's so subtly detrimental to have the only products on the market being crippled. Like only selling dogs with three legs or poutine without gravy or cars without stereos.