What do you miss?
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There's lots to miss (and love) about smoking.
It's unmistakably pleasurable and decadent. Recklessly indulgent, if you consider how it harms you.
But I think there's clearly some chemistry from cigs that's missing in e-cigs. I'm trying to find a tobacco extract liquid (not just nicotine) and see if that does the trick. Anyone know where to buy some?
It's unmistakably pleasurable and decadent. Recklessly indulgent, if you consider how it harms you.
But I think there's clearly some chemistry from cigs that's missing in e-cigs. I'm trying to find a tobacco extract liquid (not just nicotine) and see if that does the trick. Anyone know where to buy some?
I miss the morning buzz. It wasn't always prevalent after years of smoking but somedays.... it was nice to have. And I have to agree with others about the dark side of smoking. It is an expression in many ways.
HOWEVER... smoking was no bug repellent, I smoked outside and while camping but the mosquitos love Carbon Dioxide so much that cig smoke just brought them to me. I was a walking bug bite. I don't think the bugs understood the difference between Carbon Monoxide and Dioxide. But I do think analogs were much better annoying-people-repellents.
I miss the convenience. Go to the store if you're out. Pick up a lighter or a match and presto you're smoking. With vaping there's a lot mroe responsibility; keeping track of how much juice is left, are the atomizers wearing out, charging the batteries, filling the carts or cartomizers, hiding and locking away the juice so kids don't eat it (not many children eat packs of analogs) Worrying if the cop that just passed me on the highway thinks the blue light on my e-cig is some sort of illegal paraphenalia.
I still wouldn't trade the e-cigs for analogs.
HOWEVER... smoking was no bug repellent, I smoked outside and while camping but the mosquitos love Carbon Dioxide so much that cig smoke just brought them to me. I was a walking bug bite. I don't think the bugs understood the difference between Carbon Monoxide and Dioxide. But I do think analogs were much better annoying-people-repellents.
I miss the convenience. Go to the store if you're out. Pick up a lighter or a match and presto you're smoking. With vaping there's a lot mroe responsibility; keeping track of how much juice is left, are the atomizers wearing out, charging the batteries, filling the carts or cartomizers, hiding and locking away the juice so kids don't eat it (not many children eat packs of analogs) Worrying if the cop that just passed me on the highway thinks the blue light on my e-cig is some sort of illegal paraphenalia.
I still wouldn't trade the e-cigs for analogs.
I get the timer thing. I had a hard time adjusting to not needing an ashtray so I started using one with my ecig. Gave me a way to put it down they way I would an analog.
I find that the whole vaping experience with it's research and ordering and collecting has very quickly taken the place of analogs. Since I've found what works for me, I don't miss a thing about them.
I am missing nothing. I still go outside to vape with the smokers. I always went to a smoking bar to socialize and now I have all kinds of people asking me about vaping. I vape at my desk at work when I have no customers. I like the no smell factor. I am never smoking another analog.
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I miss the social aspect of it, the "smoke breaks" and the alone time while I was out on said smoke breaks (my wife doesn't smoke).
but i DON'T miss smoke breaks in 20 degree weather.
but i DON'T miss smoke breaks in 20 degree weather.
There was a study done a few years back that suggested that smokers relate to their cigarettes in the same way that they relate to a person. To have a cigarette, and your thought's and that's all you need. It's a constant comfortable and consistant thing, that's something to miss. For me vaping has been alot of hit and miss, haven't quite figured out my set up yet, almost there. I started smoking to relate to my Mom in a weird way, she's getting an Ego for christmas lol. Yea, there's things i miss but at least i'll have a longer life to miss it with. My guy certainly doesn't miss the smell and neither do i. My vaping habit is here to stay.
I suppose if someone were twisting my arm then I might be induced to confess that I miss the sheer convenience of the analogs.
OTOH - e-cigs have spared me the indignity of constant economic exploitation by Big Tobacco and Big Pharma, and gotten me out from under the oppressive and rapacious thumb of Big Government (well -at least for the time being).
Getting even with those .......s is the sweetest revenge.
OTOH - e-cigs have spared me the indignity of constant economic exploitation by Big Tobacco and Big Pharma, and gotten me out from under the oppressive and rapacious thumb of Big Government (well -at least for the time being).
Getting even with those .......s is the sweetest revenge.
Part of the reason vaping is awesome is because it can be done pretty much anywhere at anytime.
One of the reasons smoking is awesome is because it can't. Or more specifically, you're sitting at a table in a restaurant/bar with a group of friends. Some of your really CLOSE friends are with you at the table and someone you know, but don't really like, wander over and mingles. That person doesn't know when to shut the hell up. Smokers look up, lock eyes and say in unison "smoke?"
Bam! "Sorry, It's an addictive drug and I need to go... you know... away from you... to take care of that."
Vaping doesn't provide that social out and it doesn't provide that rigid distinction. That sharp contrast between a smoker and a non-smoker means you can walk up to a smoker in any country in the world and make a flicking motion and be offered a light. That same "Crap, I've been there" when you just ran out of smokes, or toss one of yours to the guy who just had HIS last.
Smoking was a meta-culture and a community. Vaping doesn't yet have that.
One of the reasons smoking is awesome is because it can't. Or more specifically, you're sitting at a table in a restaurant/bar with a group of friends. Some of your really CLOSE friends are with you at the table and someone you know, but don't really like, wander over and mingles. That person doesn't know when to shut the hell up. Smokers look up, lock eyes and say in unison "smoke?"
Bam! "Sorry, It's an addictive drug and I need to go... you know... away from you... to take care of that."
Vaping doesn't provide that social out and it doesn't provide that rigid distinction. That sharp contrast between a smoker and a non-smoker means you can walk up to a smoker in any country in the world and make a flicking motion and be offered a light. That same "Crap, I've been there" when you just ran out of smokes, or toss one of yours to the guy who just had HIS last.
Smoking was a meta-culture and a community. Vaping doesn't yet have that.
agreed, definitely haven't had anyone try to bum a few drops of juice yet
Wow, me too. I thought I would snack more but now I just vape. Then I wonder why I have the shakes and relize I haven't ate all day.
I miss the entire ritual of smoking. The packing of the smokes, the flicker of light and heat on your hand and nose when lighting a ciggy, that first golden drag, and the exhale which signalled that relaxation could begin. I love the smell of cig smoke. I love the taste of it. The feeling of it. The look of the blue gray smoke floating on the air in shaft of sunshine. It always looked like a dancer to me. I am unrepentant in my adoration of the feeling of smoking.
As much as I like and miss all of that, I suspect I'd hate a heart attack, emphysema, or cancer worse.
This week has been expensive, troublesome and completely unsatisfying in the world of Newbz vaping. I switched atomizer brand and flavors and it hasn't worked out.
I got ...... for a bit because I'd wasted all of this money on something that tastes horrible to me.
But then I remembered how expensive chemo is.
It'll work out just fine. I'll find my balance.
As much as I like and miss all of that, I suspect I'd hate a heart attack, emphysema, or cancer worse.
This week has been expensive, troublesome and completely unsatisfying in the world of Newbz vaping. I switched atomizer brand and flavors and it hasn't worked out.
I got ...... for a bit because I'd wasted all of this money on something that tastes horrible to me.
But then I remembered how expensive chemo is.
It'll work out just fine. I'll find my balance.
Lots of things I don't miss... But, I agree with the bug repellant comments, the lighter as a tool (especially a bottle opener), the cig as a timer, and the cig as a "reward" for work done etc.
Although it was nice to go outside for a break, I'll gladly trade that for being able to take just one or two puffs and keep on going without having to go outside, hide, smoke that whole cig, try to air out, come back in, wash etc...
I've passed the hanging out with friends who smoke test and the while drinking test. I think my final test will be the Las Vegas test.
Although it was nice to go outside for a break, I'll gladly trade that for being able to take just one or two puffs and keep on going without having to go outside, hide, smoke that whole cig, try to air out, come back in, wash etc...
I've passed the hanging out with friends who smoke test and the while drinking test. I think my final test will be the Las Vegas test.
Trufax!
Although, when this happened with my friends, even the non smokers would bail with me to the great outdoors.
I still intend on using this method to dodge people I don't want to hang out with.
The only thing I miss is being able to hold the analog in my mouth with no hands. I can not do that with my V3, lol.
Its called being young.
It goes away when you get older.
If it doesn't, you live a short life... trust me.
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