What's under your lip/in your nose right now? - Part 2

[rothenbj]

Yeah Burnie, that's the stuff and I read the warnings, including to wear gloves. There's no UV exposure as it's under the deck. I'm just looking for an excuse to wait until the weather warms up a bit as I'll probably fill from both the cellar and outside. At least that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

 

[rothenbj]

Good, now I don't have to do the job until I get steel wool. lol

 

[hittman]

Congratulations on your procrastination. My current excuse is that the olympics are on.

 

[rothenbj]

It was a nice quick internment for my uncle today. He wasn't a religious man so there was no minister, just a military squad of 4- a colonel two NCOs and a bugler who played taps. He earned his purple heart in Korea after he got hit with artillery shrapnel. It was kind of strange being there as two of the people that worked with me are buried in the same cemetery. I tried to find the grave of the gal who died about 18 years ago, soon after she turned 40, but no luck. I'm running out of family to bury so I'm getting to the top of the list.

It was pretty weird also since my uncle's stepson's (my cousin through marriage) son has brain cancer and was next to me at lunch. Having just dealt with a brain cancer death and finding out his wife's sister died two years ago of brain cancer, you start to wonder what's going on. Hopefully he'll do better than the other two. Enough morbidity.

 

[Burnie]

It was a nice quick internment for my uncle today. He wasn't a religious man so there was no minister, just a military squad of 4- a colonel two NCOs and a bugler who played taps. He earned his purple heart in Korea after he got hit with artillery shrapnel. It was kind of strange being there as two of the people that worked with me are buried in the same cemetery. I tried to find the grave of the gal who died about 18 years ago, soon after she turned 40, but no luck. I'm running out of family to bury so I'm getting to the top of the list.

It was pretty weird also since my uncle's stepson's (my cousin through marriage) son has brain cancer and was next to me at lunch. Having just dealt with a brain cancer death and finding out his wife's sister died two years ago of brain cancer, you start to wonder what's going on. Hopefully he'll do better than the other two. Enough morbidity.

Sorry For Your Loss.

 

[hittman]

Sorry for your loss. Roth, you’ve had more than your fair share of deaths to deal with in your lifetime.

 

[rothenbj]

Eight Years since my last drag on a cigarette!

Thank you E Cigs and Snus!

 

[Burnie]

Eight Years since my last drag on a cigarette!

Thank you E Cigs and Snus!

Congrats on 8 Years Roth.

 

[The Rebel]

That's awesome Roth, congrats on your success! Coming up on five years for me next month. I can't believe it's been that long already. Five more years and I get new lungs! Yea me!

 

[hittman]

Congrats Roth! I don't know that I'll ever go that long but am past the point where I worry about it.

 

[Waho]

Congrats Roth!

5 years next month for me also.

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[rothenbj]

Hitt, for as little as you smoke, it really doesn't matter. Coming from the 2 1/2 PAD that I left, probably 3+ had I continued, every year is a landmark.

 

[hittman]

The most I got up to was 1.5 packs a day. I could still really feel it though. My mom and dad both had copd and now my older brother has it. I’m sure I would be well on my way if it hadn’t been for snus and vaping.

 

[Burnie]

The most I got up to was 1.5 packs a day. I could still really feel it though. My mom and dad both had copd and now my older brother has it. I’m sure I would be well on my way if it hadn’t been for snus and vaping.

I do have COPD, I have to take breathing medication daily, sucks, but it helps. I went to Snus to keep from inhaling anything I didn't need to. I still like vaping, but I am doing it a Lot less now that I use Snus.

 

[rothenbj]

I've probably said before that I really didn't feel the effects of smoking until they put the fire suppressant in the paper and then I was hacking up a storm. However, a lot of that might have been how active I was well into my 50s. Between, softball, volleyball, biking, skiing and such, I kept pretty fit.

 

[hittman]

Burnie, I’ve heard some people say that vg is hard for some people to use with breathing problems. Do you use much vg?

 

[Burnie]

Burnie, I’ve heard some people say that vg is hard for some people to use with breathing problems. Do you use much vg?

I found that out several years ago. I was even having trouble with 50/50. I mix my own now and go no higher than 30% VG, normally 70/30, but some at 75/25. VG is not good if you have COPD, from my experience. One advantage of higher PG is more flavor.

 

[hittman]

I used to use mostly pg but as it got more popular I have been using 70-80 percent vg in my mixes. I’ve been thinking about going the other direction and going with mostly pg.

 

[Waho]

The fire suppressant was awful. I used to smoke Camel menthol, but with the fire suppressant my throat constantly felt raw and I'd occasionally cough little flecks of blood. I had to switch to Camel blues afterwards.

I'm the unlucky guy who has a PG sensitivity. I can tolerate around 5% PG, anything over I get little irritated bumps on my tongue/throat. I've been making my own juice so long that it's not really an issue now with alcohol/VG based flavorings, but most times I'm just using unflavored 100% VG with a 1-2mg nic.

 

[rothenbj]

I was lucky when the FSC showed up, for a couple reasons. First, I owned a house in VA so I'd go down there and "smuggle" months of supply back home that were FSC free for almost a year. Then they adopted the fire suppressant which convinced me to try e cigs. I was coughing badly, it went away with those VA smokes and came back when they changed and it got me finally to the point that I wanted to get off cigarettes. So as much as I disliked FSC, it actually turned out to be a benefit. Even those first 6 months when I was dual using, within two weeks of only the occasional cigarette, about 6 a day, the coughing had disappeared which was very encouraging.