What did you smoke ??

[BARENETTED]

What did you smoke before you started vaping???

I started with stealing anything I could from my Mother and older Brothers and Sister.

Then, when I started buying my own, I went to Winstons for a few years.

Later switched to Salem Lights for about 10 years.

Switched to Misty Menthol Lights for about 10 years.

Then went to Virginia Slims Menthol Lights then Ultra Lights.

Now here I am vaping chocolate and fruits!!! LOL

 

[Nette62]

I started out at 16 on Salem's, then in 20's went to Virginia Slims, 30's Doral Menthol Light 100's, 40's Doral Ultra Light 100's....and quit before the 50's!

And yes I'm also vaping chocolate and fruits and nuts, not a tobacco in the box.

Too funny.

 

[VA Slim]

35 yrs. of smoking w/ no health problems, but I don't want my luck to run out. Enter DSE 901...."The Beginning".
1st Cig.....Salem (Stole them from my Dad in High School)
2nd Cig.....Forgot, but it was menthol
3rd Cig.....Benson & Hedges Ultra LT Menthol
4th.....VA Slims Ultra LT Menthol (And I loved them) But Vaping Chocolate is soooo great!

As of 07/01 our cigs will be around $53 a carton here and that's at a wholesaler.

 

[Mary Kay]

I started with Doral Menthol lights and then Misty Menthol Ultra Lights. 37 years of 2 flavors and now I can't have enough flavors! Love it!

My son used to buy me packs now and then of novelty cigs, mint, clove, spearmint, strawberry, but I never wanted to buy them. Now I am making them..lol

 

[Bunni]

I started out on Salem's when I was 16, because I had always struggled with my weight and had heard that smoking helps..lol.

I then smoked Marlboro Red Box for too many years to count.

From there it was lights and then ultra light whatever i could afford. I had said I'd quit smoking if they ever got to $1 a pack! Nope..kept on...

I quit for 2 years in 1994.

I smoked Basic Ultra lights up until my last quit attempt three months ago. In that quit time I used patches, and I gained 30 pounds! UGH! Not good for my arthritis!

I ordered my first e-cig, a 510 just this week and I'm waiting very impatiently. I'm so impatient I'm smoking some ultra light generic analogs, but a pack has lasted me two days as opposed to smoking two packs in one day. And you know, in these two days...my eating is back under control.

I'm just hoping I made the right choice for my first ecig

 

[BARENETTED]

Interesting - for the most part, the women here and the ones in my local life seem to like the menthol lights. However, I do not have the slightest urge to vape menthol????

For you VA Slims ladies - did you save a gazillion upcs and send them in to get a small gift in return for inhaling the additives and carcinogens???
How sad is that concept??

VA SLIM - I don't know it for a fact - but I heard someone say (at lunch today) that they were going up to $10.00 a pack here!!! eeeyikes!
That just allows me more $$$$$$ for new toys!

 

[Mary Kay]

I do like mints, but not menthol. But I like Chocolate and fruits better. The only tobaccoish juices I vape is RY4 and 555. They are not like a regular tobacco, which I don't like!

 

[dawnlori]

I started at 12yrs. old with Marlboro, you know thats what all the 'cool' kids smoked. At 14yrs old I went to Kools for about a yr. I know it was sometime in 1975, I was 15, and a guy in the neighborhood smoked Old Golds and he was the "COOLEST" so thats what I switched to was the Old Golds. Up until last month, thats what I smoked. The thought of a menthol makes me queasy. I drank peppermint shcnapps when I was 14, got sicker then hell and since then I can't even stand a candycane! I have read somewhere on the forum that menthol gives a better throat hit. That would be the only reason that I would try it, but right now I'm sticking to tobacco and nut flavors. I don't think the tobacco tastes at all like an anolog but at 36mgs it's giving me a TH so thats what I'll vap. Love mixing it with RY4 or 555 too.

 

[Cori]

I smoked Marlboro Reds for about a year, then I switched to Kool's. Smoked that pretty much all my life. Now I vape fruist, nuts, chocolates. Started vaping menthol but didn't care for it.

 

[blackbug]

I used to have the odd cigarette here and then, usually when drinking and whatever I could borrow from friends.

Then at the age of about 25 I started smoking full time, mostly marlborough lights or golden virginia roll ups (depending on how close to pay day it was! )

I tried to give up at the age of 27 and tried gums, lozenges, patches and inhalers. All they served to do was turn me from a 10 a day smoker into a 20 a day. Yes, the constant nicoteen from them made me more addicted.

Then one day I decided to stop. Like that. And didn't smoke for 5 years. Didn't even want to. It was excellent, this isn't hard I thought to myself all smug.

Then about a year and a half a go my Dad died of lung cancer. We got no warning, he suddenly couldn't eat, went to hospital and died the day AFTER he was diagnosed with cancer. (Maybe Doctor House is right when he says smokers don't die from cancer, they die from guilt).

So with the shock of that and aware of the greatest irony I started smoking again, 5 a day to start building up to 20+ a day. Marlborough lights and then for the last few months of my smoking Silk Cult Silvers.

I've heard about e-cig, but after my experience with other nicoteen replacement products I didn't believe in it. But I randomly saw a site selling a starter kit for about £20 and thought "what have I to lose?".

I meant this to be a 1 line answer, sorry about that!

 

[Sarah in Texas]

Camel 100s, then Marlboro Reds, then Dorals (stuff got expensive), then roll-your-own tobacco (I got even poorer than I already was), then non-filtered Camels (because having to roll my own for so long made filters annoying), then non-filtered Camels, then non-filtered Echo cigarettes, then Seneca non-filter.

I tried a few other brands here and there. Basic (sucks). Skydancer (sucks). USA (not bad, but got expensive).

Hmm...all those changes in only thirteen years of smoking. Apparently, brand loyalty doesn't mean much to me.

 

[BARENETTED]

Hi Blackbug,

First off - Welcome!

Secondly - Sorry about your Dad. That was really different in that he went sooo quickly. Getting cancer is my biggest fear. I always said I would like to go quickly - like having a heart attack in my sleep. Cancer is
so painful and I don't want to go thru that. I know it is never easy but I hope that you can feel some gratitude in that he didn't suffer long like most do.

 

[VA Slim]

Hil....I still have a zillion upcs waiting for the next catalog to turn in for some more junk. Thought that I was getting back something for all the $$$ I spent w/ that company. They also sent me loads of coupons, but not lately. Too bad for them, I'm done. Agree w/ others, I don't care too much for menthol flavor, but love the chocolate mixed w/ the VA blend. Color me crazy.

Quick question to the ladies...this may need another thread if I have gone off topic. What is the absolute best Chocolate juice on the planet? I have only tried e-smokey treats, it's really good, but I want to try more...please share.

Thanks to all of you....I love this forum. Everyone is great!
Trilby

 

[Nette62]

VA Slim
Wet Your Stick has a good chocolate, not as thrilled with Nuvape's, want to try addictionjuice when they get stock. I can't wait to see what everyone else answers.

 

[blackbug]

Secondly - Sorry about your Dad. That was really different in that he went sooo quickly. Getting cancer is my biggest fear. I always said I would like to go quickly - like having a heart attack in my sleep. Cancer is
so painful and I don't want to go thru that. I know it is never easy but I hope that you can feel some gratitude in that he didn't suffer long like most do.

Thanks.

I suppose there is no easy way to lose someone, but we are greatful in a way that he didn't have to suffer the pain or suffering of the illness or the indignity of chemo/radiotherapy. And the family didn't have the trauma of watching him go.

He was a man's man, a farmer, we used to joke he could carry a sheep under each arm even in his 60's (he died at 65). So that memory is preserved.

My brother and his wife are smokers are were impressed with the Titan I showed them, so I'll be getting them a kit to see how it goes.

Anyway, sorry to take this off topic!

 

[Mary Kay]

Welcome to Sarah and Blackbug..This is the place to come when the world isn't playing nice. We are almost alway here!
Sarah, If the cig people stopped playing games with taste and price, maybe we would have been loyal..but seeing as how they are trying to kill us..Forget 'em!
Blackbug..please tell me you have a real name or at least something I can call you..I live in Florida, the land of bugs!
I am sorry about your Dad, it's hard to lose one you love, but he went so fast (like my dad 20 years ago..Heart) You don't even have time to ajust to the idea! It's like getting kicked hard in the heart.
This is the Women's Room, you don't need to worry about topic stuff in here. The rest of the board yes..here no! Oh and spelling doesn't count in here either.
Trilby..Start a Where to Find the Best Flavor thread. I am always interested in that.

 

[Sarah in Texas]

MaryKay: Yeah, messing with the taste bothered me. More than that, though, are all the taxes that my state, and the federal government, keep adding to smokes.

Here in Texas, we recently got fire-safe cigarettes shoved down our throats. Stores can no longer sell analogs that don't have the "FSC" label. My favorite brand pulled out of the market instead of modifying their cigs. I don't blame them for doing it (brand was Echo - one of many Indian-reservation brands - nice, cheap cig), but it certainly didn't make me happy.

Oh, and the fire-safe cigs? Don't always work. The last carton that Mom bought just a couple of weeks ago had a whole bunch that continued burning even though she left them in the ashtray. Yet another example of ideas that seem great in theory, but leave much to be desired in their execution.

 

[sheilalynn]

Wow, lots of Misty smokers! I went from Marlboros to Newports to Newport Lights to Virginia Slim Ultra Light Menthol to Misty Menthol Ultra Lights. Now I vape pretty much mint.

 

[Erised]

I smoked for over 30 years --
Marlboro Reds (I remember complaining when they went up to .50 cents a pack!)
Marlboro 100's
Basic Full Flavor 100's
And the latest before I quit was the most gawd-awful ... USA Gold. A rough cig to say the least, but the high prices on cigs here in Jersey were really ticking me off. Even with smoking a generic type like USA it was still costing me over 80 dollars a week smoking.

Now I vape tobacco flavors mostly. I really like the flue-cured, and I have found a coffee flavor that I just LOVE -- it tastes like it has just a hint of dark chocolate in it. I tried a chocolate flavor from one supplier thinking that I might like it, but sadly it is just disgusting me so far -- tastes kind of like it has perfume in it (it does smell just like chocolate though). I also got a cola flavor -- that flavor blew me away -- OMG, it REALLY tastes just like cola, I swear I think there were bubbles in it! That is more just a novelty flavor for me though. I am not much into sweet-tasting things.

Erised

 

[willsgirlie]

I smoked marlboro lights and camel no 9s ... and camel crushes and marlboro smooths, not picky, I liked to try different ones all the time. now I am happy with my fruity juices!